Luca Fumarco
Asst Prof, @econmuni.bsky.social; @iza.org, GLO, @j-pal.bsky.social. Before @tulaneu.bsky.social, and @statec-luxembourg.bsky.social.
Studies (mostly) on discrimination w/ RCTs and age at school entry.
sites.google.com/site/lucafumarco
- The Green Book Project is dedicated to documenting the businesses and safe places that sustained Black travel in the Jim Crow era. Share your story and contribute to our community map! Help us preserve Black History! Spread the word! greenbookproject.osu.edu #GreenBookProject #CommunityMap #EconSky
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- I started reading up on the whole "loneliness pandemic" narrative because this seems like a literature where the age-period-cohort problem may be relevant (or maybe it isn't?). Here's data from Australia (HILDA), average agreement with the statement "I often feel very lonely" (SD of ca. 1.8).>
- **Please repost** If you're enjoying Paper Skygest -- our personalized feed of academic content on Bluesky -- we'd appreciate you reposting this! We’ve found that the most effective way for us to reach new users and communities is through users sharing it with their network
- Excited to present a new preprint with @nkgarg.bsky.social: presenting usage statistics and observational findings from Paper Skygest in the first six months of deployment! 🎉📜 arxiv.org/abs/2601.04253
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- These authors wanted to know whether people with physical disabilities face discrimination in hiring: even when they are equally qualified. So they ran an experiment.
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- I reckon you can learn a lot about the atmosphere in various Oxford colleges by looking at what they choose to name their cats (courtesy of @oxfordclarion.bsky.social ). We should all aspire to the energy of a Teabag, Isambard Kitten Brunel, or an Admiral Flapjack oxfordclarion.uk/college-cats...
- I don't remember the exact details of St Hugh's getting AF/PB, but IIRC the rescue centre promoted Biscuit to full Professor when they found he was moving to Oxford, prompting a college wide competition to decide on an appropriate rank for Flapjack.
- They're also responsible for one of the best emails I've ever received, when the college office sent out a plea for sightings of Professor Biscuit while conveniently forgetting to mention that he was a cat...(I won't comment on how often a similar email might have gone out about human Professors...)
- We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com. We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans. washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
- Elsevier has a 38% profit margin, and the other journal publishers aren't far behind.
- Economics and economists should be in a favourable position (understanding markets and so forth) and drive the change, but, again, ours is a sort of sectarian discipline under many respects...so, here we go, paying submission fees, publication fees, OA fees, journals subscriptions, etc...
- Theoretical Economics and JAERE are both journals that were formed to displace specific for-profit journals and they largely succeeded. It takes a huge coordination effort to displace an incumbent journal though
- Profits from scientific publishing are eye-watering, costing us billions. In ‘The Drain of Scientific Publishing’ (arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820), (building on ‘The Strain of Scientific Publishing’ doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00327) we show how it is harmful – and unnecessary.
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- Getting implementation right: 12 experiments to refine tutoring at scale www.wwhge.org/wp-content/u... Evidence from Botswana by @noamangrist.bsky.social, Cullen, & Magat
- Dropping a beta version of this page while everyone is up and processing baseball! This tool lets you search the full text of papers from the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal series, and over 30,000 NBER working papers. paulgp.com/econlit-pipe...
- Season's greetings from Berlin (from www.instagram.com/p/BppaR-zhMJG/)
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- IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.
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- On the same day in the Telegraph:
- not at all surprising: arstechnica.com/science/2025...
- ❗️Our next workshop will be on June 20th, 6 pm CEST, on Building fully reproducible DS env for R and #Python with Nix, rix, rixpress by @brodriguesco.bsky.social! Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine! Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S Please share! #AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats
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