Michael Clemens

How we used a government-run visa lottery to measure the effect of foreign hiring on US firms and workers: Thank you to @aeajournals.bsky.social for highlighting my paper with @ethan-lewis.bsky.social —>

This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

This is the official spokesperson for the White House, stating that the President hopes to deploy the United States military to occupy every city controlled by the political party that opposes him. Explicitly.

Hi US citizens. You are now subject to sudden seizure at your workplace and lengthy detention, at any time, by a blitz of heavily federal armed troops—despite having committed no crime and not even being charged with any crime. Not my opinion. This is what HSI *says* that it did.

Our US Constitution guarantees our freedom of speech, and our press, against the impotent rants of any senescent man, Democrat or Republican.

It would be helpful if he read a book. Like one, ever.

I think of Republican public servants who commanded respect, among Conservatives and many Liberals. Howard Baker. Dwight Eisenhower. Margaret Chase Smith. Everett Dirksen. Teddy Roosevelt. People of honor, above filth and corruption, with whom one could disagree, but leaders with values & dignity.

US tariffs are taxes on Americans. They’re not taxes “on China” or “on Canada”. They’re taxes on Americans who buy anything with any ingredient made abroad, or sell anything to people who do—that is, taxes on all Americans.

A sobering, clear assessment in @pnas.org of the current US policy of international student exclusion. "The damage would not end with academic careers. A discovery becomes a vaccine, a company, and an industry only when someone commercializes it, and that work runs on the same imported talent."

The American people do not want racist nationalism, and the only ‘question’ is why drooling supremacists like him do not experience ‘expulsion’ from institutions that deserve respect.

"It takes a lot of effort to make immigration look zero-sum" A forceful piece by the brilliant @jerusalem.bsky.social on what it might take for populist politicians to take their migration-skeptical supporters' concerns seriously—>

The US Administration will announce later this week its new $100,000 tax on international students who stay to work ('Optional Practical Training') This is not the H-1B visa tax. It's separate and additional. I analyze some likely effects of the new OPT tax here—> www.iza.org/publications...

"The Long-Term Effects of Cash Assistance" by David J. Price and Jae Song Just out in @aeajournals.bsky.social —> doi.org/10.1257/app....

"How to Build a Policy School" Santi Ruiz of @ifp.bsky.social interviews our powerhouse dean, a nice summary of what we're building here at @jhu.edu —> www.statecraft.pub/p/how-to-bui...