Jordan Peeples
@JordanPeeples4
Ph.D. Economist from @Penn. I work on topics I think are important.
Marriage now belongs to the educated. 👩🎓 People without a college degree in the U.S., especially women, saw a rise in divorce rates from 1980 until 2005. Now, we have a "divorce divide." 📈📉 And no, the main reason doesn't really concern unemployment. #EconTwitter
This is why I think it's important to advertise economic research. It's why I started a Substack and am working on another project. Condescension isn't helpful. Distrust in scientific fields doubles down when the scientists (economists here) themselves are condescending.
I clicked on the article; it is as silly as you'd expect
If only there were some sort of mechanism to signal to people which skills are relatively scarce...
Mike Rowe: “We’ve been telling kids for 15 years to learn to code.” “Well, AI is coming for the coders.” “It’s not coming for the welders, the plumbers, the steamfitters, the pipefitters, the HVAC, or the electricians.” “In Aspen, I sat and listened to Larry Fink say we need…
The academic job market is bad and will likely get worse. Research job openings have dropped sharply, just as economists laid off from government roles are flooding the market. Current PhD students should have candid conversations with their advisors about their prospects. If…
Only 0.6% of US workers make the federal minimum wage. It’s a non-issue.
WDYM $7.25 IS THE MINIMUM WAGE FOR THE USA??? how do y'all survive
Low fertility is the result of shifting adult priorities, likely driven by changing norms, evolving opportunities and constraints, and broader social forces, from @kearney_melissa and @phil_wellesley nber.org/papers/w33989
Yes, continuing unemployment claims have edged up, but the US labor market remains remarkably stable across most indicators in 2025. Context matters: this is a slight softening, not a crisis. My analysis in @Forbes explains why the full picture is more nuanced #EconTwitter 🧵
Well, *this* economist says: 1/ It isn’t just college grads. It’s high school grads in their late teens too. 2/ AI’s role in this is massively overblown relative to… the boring old business cycle
Unemployment among new college grads is on the rise. Economists say businesses are increasingly replacing entry-level jobs with artificial intelligence.
Recent college grads haven't necessarily been replaced by AI adoption -- that's going to happen slower than we would expect if at all. The recent grad talk seems to be driven by relatively increasing unemployment spells since ~2017, especially for men with bachelor's degrees.
Unemployment among new college grads is on the rise. Economists say businesses are increasingly replacing entry-level jobs with artificial intelligence.
Bills in Congress should be as long as an introduction to a research paper -- an absolute maximum of 5 pages. We need a bill to shorten bills if you will.
A lot of people have been talking about the weakening demand of tech jobs (particularly software development and software engineering). However, the increase in computer-science related majors over the years potentially overcompensated initial demand.
