Patrick Munro Emerson

Economist, Oregon State University Professor, Oregonian. Done with this platform. Find me here: @patrickemerson.bsky.social

[Patrick Munro Emerson @OregonEconomics]

My Intermediate Microeconomics textbook is comprehensive, open access, and free to all. https://t.co/VeaiUToULf

[Patrick Munro Emerson @OregonEconomics]

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[Patrick Munro Emerson @OregonEconomics]

@Beervana The Front Range

[Patrick Munro Emerson @OregonEconomics]

I'm done. No more posting on this platform in its current form. Yuk. 🤮

Peace and love to all.

[Caio Piza @piza_caio]

Paper out! Big tks to @amorimfvivian, ⁦@OregonEconomics⁩ and Andre Portela Souza ⁦@fgv_clear⁩ & ⁦@EconFGVSP⁩ Short- and Longer-Term Effects of a Child Labor Ban | The World Bank Economic Review | Oxford Academic https://t.co/TfPC1qobBZ

[Patrick Munro Emerson @OregonEconomics]

This is what happens when you have so much belief in the efficiency of markets. So grateful that the Dir. of Grad Admissions at Cornell Econ was a bit skeptical and was willing to look a bit deeper. He called it 'playing the variance.' I am a beneficiary. Thanks Rob.

[Anna Stansbury @annastansbury]

One thing that particularly surprised me when researching this was seeing Econ PhD's disproportionate draw from (socioeconomically) elite undergrads:

15% of all US-born economics PhDs did their undergrad at one of 12 "Ivy Plus" schools.

In the top 6 econ PhD programs, 45% did

[Patrick Munro Emerson @OregonEconomics]

This is what we call a ‘contestable market.’

[Andrew Keh @andrewkeh]

I wrote about how fuchka, a Bengali snack, took over a busy corner of NYC, with eight vendors selling it there now. (The CliffsNotes: A guy opened a cart, then his employees kept leaving to open their own identical carts, hilariously, right next to his.) https://t.co/cjb8exMjH8

[Patrick Munro Emerson @OregonEconomics]

Stunning how much the SAT reflects income inequality in the US. If schools used household income instead of SAT & admitted the highest income kids, they would get similar results. We OK with that?: New SAT Data Highlights the Deep Inequality in Higher Ed https://t.co/xLZp9aZ6F1

[Patrick Munro Emerson @OregonEconomics]

Damn, I'll miss @Dame_Lillard here in Portland, but he deserves a shot at a title and him going to my Milwaukee Bucks is dope. The second coming of Sidney Moncrief! (or Oscar Robertson for that matter, but before my time) This gonna be fun...

[Patrick Munro Emerson @OregonEconomics]

I wish they would actually talk to teachers themselves. Don't you think they might have an interesting perspective - not subject to admin or political bias? Maybe give it a try?? https://t.co/WPoMCNKjwK

[Patrick Munro Emerson @OregonEconomics]

A @TimbersFC season ticket holder since the start, I finally decided to give them up. Insular org, scandals, org took members for granted or even treated us with distain. But #1 was that 13 years later we are still playing on plastic. Such a disrespect for game itself and fans.

[Patrick Munro Emerson @OregonEconomics]

Interesting idea but respondents self-selected, so these data are likely biased. What I would like to see is schools host more debate-style panels than individual speakers to model what respectful debate can and should look like.

[John Horvick @horvick]

Your mileage may vary with this, but @TheFIREorg's "College Free Speech" rankings are out. It includes surveys of 50k+ students at 254 colleges and universities. Here are Oregon's rankings.

Oregon State University: 4
University of Oregon: 143
Portland State University: 232

[Patrick Munro Emerson @OregonEconomics]

Can you really just lose an $80 million dollar jet? Has the pentagon heard of AirTags?

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Teams of civilian and military personnel were searching the area around two man-made lakes north of a South Carolina military base for the wreckage of a Marine Corps F-35B jet fighter that went missing Sunday https://t.co/E5RtbAYamt

[Josh Lehner @lehnerjw]

Oregons poverty rate is also below the US, although up from the pandemic lows. The racial poverty gap is the smallest on record.

[Josh Lehner @lehnerjw]

While the migration story gets the headlines, there is good news in the ACS data. Household incomes are keeping up with inflation. Oregon still above the US. And unlike last decade, gains aren’t about getting people back to work but rather workers seeing faster wage growth.

[Patrick Munro Emerson @OregonEconomics]

Oh and about 90% of U Florida undergrads are in-state, close to 50% of U Oregon are out-of-state. So Florida is not funding higher ed through out-of-state tuition dollars like Oregon.

[Patrick Munro Emerson @OregonEconomics]

Reminder that Oregon does such a terrible job educating its own children that without the robust flow of well educated young people we are kind of screwed. Luckily, as Josh says, the inflow of young (18-24) is still net positive. Phew!

[Josh Lehner @lehnerjw]

Damn. Here it is. Sometimes even when you know it’s coming, once you see it, it still hits you. It’s not that people stopped moving to Oregon. It’s that many more packed up and left. First time in 2 generations. (Fwiw I’m writing up income and poverty first, migration second)

[Patrick Munro Emerson @OregonEconomics]

Florida has 180 school days, Oregon has 165.

[Josh Lehner @lehnerjw]

Welp, at least it’s an equal opportunity change in migration. Roughly, it’s half kids, half adults; it’s every income bracket; it’s nearly half white non Hispanic, half BIPOC; it’s married and unmarried.

Now, positive net migration among 18-24 year olds. That’s a key demographic

[Josh Lehner @lehnerjw]

Damn. Here it is. Sometimes even when you know it’s coming, once you see it, it still hits you. It’s not that people stopped moving to Oregon. It’s that many more packed up and left. First time in 2 generations. (Fwiw I’m writing up income and poverty first, migration second)