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[NBER @nberpubs]

Schools shape skills like cooperation, trust, and perseverance beyond cognition. Evidence suggests school interventions can build social capital and support cohesive societies, from @sulealan_econ https://t.co/VXapHNewt6

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

BREAKING NYT:

Trump's FBI just raided the office state Sen. L. Louise Lucas, the president pro tempore of the Virginia Senate and one of the most powerful Democrats in the state.

Lucas played a key role in the congressional redistricting fight that Democrats won.

[The Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat) @restatjournal]

Firms give lower scores to candidates following a white man, a new form of indirect bias. In the March issue, by Judd B. Kessler @juddkessler Corinne Low @femonomics.bsky.social and Xiaoyue Shan @_XiaoyueShan_ https://t.co/wGHnGzAYcq

[Felix Weinhardt @FelixWeinhardt]

10/
Note that writes all this up formally, with simulations and examples: Heterogeneous Effects and the Interpretation of OLS Coefficient Movements
Happy to hear thoughts / feedback! https://t.co/uqp70eyJd6

[Alessandra Libutti 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 @a_libutti]

@gloquenzi Si è anche formata l’internazionale del “gas russo first”, in una riedizione strepitosa del governo giallo-verde, con Salvini e Conte che recitano battute di Lavrov a tutta rete.

[Nikos Aletras @nikaletras]

3. And a "blasphemous/radical" take: randomly select projects from the top-N%! @ERC_Research

[Olivier Minazzoli @OMinazzoli]

Project-based funding burdens the whole ecosystem: applicants, administrators, and referees. The time (and money) lost is beyond acceptable. If we are to keep it, a modified lottery would likely be less biased, fairer, and more efficient: https://t.co/hxCMbeIgzH

[Nicola Giocoli @ngiocoli]

@valfromrome In realtà no.
Poteva prevedersi al limite il sorpasso economico, per meri motivi dimensionali, ma quello politico no. La centralità politica la crei anche, e forse soprattutto, con reputazione, rule of law, credibilità, stabilità.

[Ben Ansell @benwansell]

Loss upon loss upon loss for MAGA. And when you’re losing so much you lose one other thing- the fear you had instilled in other politicians, the media, universities and business.

[Lorenzo Ruffino @Ruffino_Lorenzo]

Sembra che il gerrymandering di Orban gli si sia ritorto contro. Aveva disegnato i collegi uninominali per vincere di poco, ma con l'opposizione così forte li sta perdendo sostanzialmente tutti.

[David Carretta @davcarretta]

The EU right now.

[Chiara Degli Esposti 🚐🍔🦊 @chiadegli]

Ma dormite @ellyesse? Stanno affossando l’industria strategica militare europea

[Mattia Ferraresi @mattiaferraresi]

Let's be fair here. @JDVance initially doesn't recognize the Cardinal's name, but once told he was the Vatican's ambassador to the US, he says he knows him and they've met. Of course they've met, he lived across the street.

[Chuck Schumer @SenSchumer]

You know everything’s going great when you start lecturing the Pope.

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

I’m sorry - the Pentagon threatened the Catholic Church, currently led by the first American pope??

[toomas hendrik ilves @IlvesToomas]

"Under Secretary of War for Policy Elbridge Colby summoned the Holy See’s then-ambassador to the U.S., Cardinal Christophe Pierre, to the Pentagon. The meeting may be unprecedented in the history of relations between the two countries—there is no public evidence of any Vatican official ever taking a meeting at the Pentagon.

According to both Vatican and U.S. officials briefed on the meeting, Pentagon brass picked apart the pontiff’s January speech, reading it as a hostile message directed at Trump’s policies. What particularly enraged the Pentagon, one Vatican official said, was the passage in which Leo appeared to challenge the Donroe Doctrine—Trump’s update of the Monroe Doctrine, which asserts unchallenged American dominion over the Western Hemisphere." (2/2)

[Donald Tusk @donaldtusk]

Victor Orbán’s minister offered Sergey Lavrov to send him EU documents through the Hungarian embassy in Moscow. It’s really beyond shocking.

[Donald Tusk @donaldtusk]

The threat of NATO’s break-up, easing sanctions on Russia, a massive energy crisis in Europe, halting aid for Ukraine and blocking the loan for Kyiv by Orbán - it all looks like Putin’s dream plan.

[libero petrucci @LiberoPetrucci]

La segnalazione di un paese europeo impone la misura mentre il mandato d’arresto della corte penale internazionale no.

Questo governo sta passando dal ridicolo al pericoloso.

[Jeff Denning @JeffDenning]

Today we released our new NBER working paper: "Easy A's, Less Pay: The Long-Term Effects of Grade Inflation."

Joint work with Rachel Nesbit, Nolan Pope, and Merrill Warnick.

Grades in U.S. high schools have risen steadily over the past several decades, but the effect is unknown