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PhD students working on topics related to crime & the criminal justice system in the US:

Join us for a research workshop this October! We're bringing y'all together so that you can meet each other, and (selfishly) so the Arnold Ventures CJ team can meet you.

Sign up by August 11! bit.ly/3GUT0De

Agricultural technology adoption and deforestation: Evidence from a randomized control trial We study the effect of the adoption of improved agricultural inputs on deforestation using a randomized control trial in Nigeria which introduced a mo…

Really excited to have this paper published in the JDE! Available online today, blog post and more coming soon…

“Agricultural technology adoption and deforestation: Evidence from a randomized control trial” co-authored with Clark Lundberg

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📃 IEB #WorkingPaper 2025/9 on #PublicPolicies: “Understanding the link between heat and intimate partner #violence”

By ✍️ @adriansantonja.bsky.social, Laura Schmitz, and @juditvall.bsky.social.

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W3 Professorship in “Political Science with a Focus on International Sustainability”

We're hiring @ifpolms.bsky.social @uni-muenster.de!

🟢 W3 Professorship in “Political Science with a Focus on International Sustainability” 🟢

📅 Deadline: 26 September 2025

🌐 stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/c...

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#AcademicJobs #PoliticalScience #Sustainability #GlobalGovernance

You'd think swimming would help you cool off when it's 105° plus, but it's like the sun is trying to kill you even in the water.

The comments at the bottom of the article are... Yikes.

The Bull Market for Economists Is Over. It’s an Ominous Sign for the Economy.

For those without access, here is a gift link to the NYTimes article on the sad state of the economics job market www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/b...

Local homicides increase suicide in US counties Suicide remains a leading cause of death in the United States, with rates rising over the past two decades. While research suggests an association bet…

New paper out today in Social Science & Medicine:

Higher homicide rates → higher suicide rates the next year, especially with firearms.

50 years of U.S. county data + quasi experimental design.
Biggest impacts in rural & White communities.

🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The Surprising Reason Your Groceries Are More Expensive A new study shows how extreme weather events are correlated to specific food price spikes in the immediate aftermath.

Extreme weather is driving up food prices. I spoke with TIME about how climate extremes are disrupting agriculture and supply chains, feeding into higher prices. I highlight how cuts to funding and climate change science will only make things worse.

time.com/7304646/clim...

I got to preview this course, and it's very insightful!

AI summaries kill search traffic. This has been an obvious consequence of Google's AI summary strategy since its inception.

Apparently the training data is so valuable that Google is willing to risk the neck of the goose that lays golden eggs.

Screenshot: thebullshitmachines.com/lesson-9-blu...

Abstract for NBER WP 34040, “The Impact of Unconditional Cash Transfers on Parenting and Children”

1000 low income adults were randomly selected to receive $1000/month for 3 years, with a control group receiving $50/month over that same period. Many of them had children in the household. How did it affect how they parented and their kids’ outcomes? www.nber.org/papers/w34040

Cool paper with an great title.

Across the world, boys are much more likely to overestimate their math ability than girls.

People from high SES backgrounds do the same

www.iza.org/publications...

Call for Applications: Editor-in-Chief of The Econometrics Journal - Royal Economic Society The Royal Economic Society is currently seeking applications for the position of Editor-in-Chief of The Econometrics Journal.

The @resmedia.bsky.social is now inviting applications for the next Editor-in-Chief of The Econometrics Journal.

Details here: res.org.uk/call-for-app...

#Econometrics #Editor #Applications #RES

Health economists: The Annual Washington Health Economics Symposium has a call for papers. Conference is October 5-7 in Washington DC.

Submission deadline: August 15
Submit papers to: WHES@thehealnetwork.org

drive.google.com/file/d/1J5p3...

To brighten your Monday, here is a little horny toad that I found while hiking this weekend.

Graph showing that the median felony bail amount is $10,000, yet the median annual pre-incarceration income for men & women aged 23-39 in local jails who were detained pretrial and unable to post a bail bond was $15,598 and $11,071, respectively (2015)

70% of all people in jails are legally innocent. Many of them are held behind bars simply because they cannot afford bail.

Money bail perpetuates an endless cycle of poverty and jail time.

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To brighten your Monday, here is a little horny toad that I found while hiking this weekend.

Economists claiming to be the first to study a topic be like

LAST CALL: Nominations for the $5,000 Greenwald Award for Excellence in Firearm Violence Prevention Research close in less than two weeks.

🔥 How is wildfire smoke reshaping California’s agricultural labor markets?
📱 New research using smartphone location data shows that wildfire smoke leads to fewer local farm hires and disrupts seasonal migration patterns.
#JaereFigureFriday
#EconSky

Opinion | When Novels Mattered

This is simply wrong. I've been running a book club all year focused on reading commercial fiction & have had to deliberately ignore the many lit fic books that have been on the charts all year. Brooks also misses the real story... (1/8)

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/o...

Good, just procrastinating going to bed, which I'll regret in the morning. And you?

Hello 👋🏾

@robmickey.bsky.social & @dziblatt.bsky.social let me post the working paper

Why doesn't police reform work? Because police depts can't credibly commit to their end of the bargain (doing more/better/riskier work in exchange for more $)

www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/35o94...

This is Taco. He is the most relaxed little guy in the world. Mostly because he does not know about emails or the economy, but shoulder rubs help too. 13/10 (IG: tacofoxyhuahua)

Freakonomics The hidden side of everything

Nice 20-min podcast episode explaining how police sketch artists work (in the US). Might make good reading for students learning about suspect identification, eyewitness evidence, etc. – students like being assigned alternatives to papers/chapters.

freakonomics.com/podcast/poli...

Federal Census policy breaks Wyoming’s democracy — state lawmakers can fix it Wyoming’s redistricting data was once again skewed after the 2020 Census; the state needs to take action to fix the issue for 2030

🚨NEW: Everyone in Wyoming is supposed to have an equal voice, but an outdated Census Bureau policy counts incarcerated people in the wrong place, giving a few residents a megaphone – aka prison gerrymandering

The state can fix this. Here's how👇
www.prisonersofthecensus.org/news/2025/07...