Associate Professor of Economics at Boston University | Economic History, Labor, Inequality
https://jamesfeigenbaum.github.io/
James Feigenbaum
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More honest representation than decade old faculty headshots
A really cool thing would be if the Boston University expense report system didn't default to BOSTON, ENGLAND when typing in the city of purchase.
Maybe we could LLM up a fix?
Not the most important thing, but the inconsistent caps-locking is also annoying. Though I guess if I ended up in Boston, Texas, I might be yelling too
In this paper we are studying witch hunts. Our algorithm is eight times more efficient at finding witches compared to a standardized water dunking test.
Seriously, what is this shit?
New addiction just dropped
www.82-0.com/share?id=Un1...
Hazards of walking the toddler near the high school on graduation day. Caused several parents to cry and remind me how fast the next 16 years might go
Wake up baby, new smartphones and fertility evidence just dropped. 🙈
www.nber.org/papers/w35310
Many "what's up with kids these days?" dinner table conversations turned into a co-authored NBER WP with my stepson that was covered in the New York Times this morning. Didn't have that on my life bingo card.
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/u...
After the Civil War, wives and daughters of disabled Union veterans entered wage work at higher rates, helping enable women-led Temperance Crusade activism, from Madison K. Arnsbarger, @andyferrara.bsky.social, and Paige Montrose www.nber.org/papers/w35287
