Steve Berry

Re: Slater’s departure from ATR. Look at this Ticketmaster stock chart

Person who was fired here - you should still trust BLS data. The agency is being run by the same dedicated career staff who were running it while I was awaiting confirmation from the Senate. And the staff have made it clear that they are blowing a loud whistle if there is interference.

My co-author Charles Hodgson (Yale) is hiring a full-time pre-doc to work on projects focusing on the role of information externalities.

The hired researcher will meet regularly with faculty and receive dedicated research training & career development skills.

Application👇

“Higher caffeinated coffee intake was associated with more favorable cognitive outcomes. "
#econsky #academicsky #medicine
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Good explanation of why the MTA’s already very high 2nd Ave. costs keep rising with each new phase, despite what Alon generously describes as quarter-measures to cut them

Hospital Mergers Gain Momentum As Trump’s ‘Beautiful Bill’ Cuts Loom Hospital merger and acquisition activity ended 2025 with momentum expected to continue as drastic cuts to Medicaid spending under Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act loom.

Hospital Mergers Gain Momentum As Trump’s ‘Beautiful Bill’ Cuts Loom www.forbes.com/sites/brucej...

Did Profits Cause Inflation? A popular narrative has attributed the post-COVID rise in inflation to a rise in corporate profits. The literature in industrial organization offers t…

1/2 Did market power drive post-Covid inflation? There have been strong public claims that it has. Neat new paper by Christopher Conlon examines what coherent analysis has to say about distinguishing between market power (softer competition) vs increased demand www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Opinion | This Is Why Our Rivers Are Turning Into Sewers

If you’ve called me a shill for factory farms (and even if you haven’t) you might be interested in my new @nytimes.com column about how factory farms get away with disgusting pollution. They shouldn’t be banned. They should be regulated like factories!

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/o...

George Will: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

I was curious about the state of labor *supply* on the job market. I pulled the stock of New First Year PhDs, ABDs and PhDs granted at Graduate Depts from the CSWEP reports. The left plot is the Flow of economics PhDs, and the right is the stock of ABDs.

Devastating news. Kate was a great economist and a generous person.

Whenever you try to unbundle education, you need to explain why your approach is going to work when *books* did not.

What innovation are you bringing to the table that exceeds the development of the printing press?

Goal for the next six months: dive into the debate on identification of demand elasticities in finance. Feels like asset pricing is rehashing debates from IO twenty years ago? But that’s good because it’s an important debate! @steveberry.bsky.social

Opinion | $27,000 a Year for Health Insurance. How Can We Afford That?

We are having the wrong debate, says Zack Cooper of @yalesph.bsky.social

We need to talk about not *just* subsidies, but more importantly WHY & HOW American healthcare is so expensive.

And he has a list of things we could do today …

Gift link:
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🚨 Predoc Opportunity at Yale! 🚨

Care about research that changes policy?

My research team works within state government to advance evidence and learning for a smarter safety net!

And our predocs have excellent PhD placements. Apply here!

#EconSky #EconTwitter #Predoc #ResearchJobs #HealthPolicy

California Now Allows More Ethanol in Gasoline — Is This Going to Save Drivers Money? Drivers will be disappointed. First, it is likely that very little E15 will be sold in the state. Second, if E15 were widely adopted, it would not cause large drops in gas prices. Californians pay …

Traveling last week and way behind on posts. Start with Aaron Smith's excellent EI blog explaining why California raising allowed ethanol content in gas from 10% to 15% won't save drivers money, despite study funded by Renewable Fuels Association study.
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The Yale crew is awesome and doing incredibly innovative things in the Medicaid and SNAP space.

If you're interested in health policy and a predoc, run, do not walk, to apply for this!

New paper!

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The Federal Trade Commission is hiring PhD Economists (very late, because shutdown)!

Please repost/quote so JMCs can see.

- no experience: www.usajobs.gov/job/851497400
- some experience: www.usajobs.gov/job/851497300
- much experience: www.usajobs.gov/job/851496000

#Economics #EconSky

Core Economics institution bans Larry Summers for violating code of conduct standards. www.aeaweb.org/news/aea-sta...

Every IO economist's favorite weekend of the year!

"The high-income admissions advantage at Ivy-Plus colleges is driven by....(1) preferences for children of alumni, (2) weight placed on non-academic credentials, and (3) athletic recruitment" which are "uncorrelated or negatively correlated with post-college outcomes" unlike SAT/ACT scores

Yale launches new program to serve as a hub for policy-relevant health economics research Co-directed by Janet Currie and Zack Cooper, the Tobin-Cowles Health Economics & Policy Program will catalyze rigorous economic scholarship that can directly inform policy.

We're launching the Tobin-Cowles Health Economics & Policy Program, a hub for policy-relevant health economics research at Yale.

Co-directed by Janet Currie & Zack Cooper, the Program will catalyze rigorous economic scholarship to directly inform policy: tobin.yale.edu/news/251117/...

The first Bush WH tried to gut wetland protections, but failed because of a major backlash (sparked by the main character of my new book) that included the head of Bush’s EPA. Now Trump’s EPA is trying to gut wetland protections and it’s barely news.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/c...

Update on California's Mystery Gasoline Surcharge: holding steady around $0.50 per gallon. In last 6 weeks, however, mostly due to higher spot prices, not downstream margins. Worrisome given one recent and one impending refinery closure. For context: energyathaas.wordpress.com/2025/08/18/c...

Yale’s Institute for Foundations of Data Science (FDS) @yaledatascience.bsky.social is seeking applications for postdoctoral positions. These are cool, generously supported, competitive positions, expected to last 2-3 years, for independent scholars working on the foundations of data science.

This paper shows how exposure to the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) during childhood affects women’s health outcomes in early-adulthood, as well as the health of their infants.

NEW in @nber.org by Janet Currie and Jessica Van Parys: nber.org/papers/w34464

Update your syllabus and stay on the frontier - it will increase your students’ wages. Epic work by my colleagues @barbarabiasi.com and @profsongma.bsky.social #linkoftheday

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If you missed the webinar last Friday on wood burning/harvesting, forest management, and carbon implications, the RSVP link below now has the slides and the recording. Feel free to download the papers at the link below as well.

🧵Words matter. We are experiencing a flood of unrestrained antisemitism and hate speech. As a survivor of the Pittsburgh synagogue attack, I know where this leads. We have to stop tolerating and normalizing antisemitism and all forms of bigotry.