Davon Norris

A profile of @danielagabor.bsky.social, including her time at the Institute for Advanced Study, captures a defining insight about our time: markets aren't free or deregulated, but shaped by the entangled power of private capital and state planning + intervention. www.newstatesman.com/business/eco...

I know we're all distracted by AI and tariffs, but Trump is also a private equity presidency.

Federal place-based policy and the geography of inequality in the United States, 1990–2019 Abstract. This paper assesses the growth and spatial distribution of federal place-based policies in the United States. Using a novel dataset of federal pl

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We document tremendous growth in U.S. federal place-based funding, show it has disproportionately gone to areas with more nonprofits & stronger housing markets, and find a pattern of cumulative advantage in funding among high-poverty neighborhoods.

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The Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor in the field of demography of health and aging beginning in August 2026
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Image of the south concourse of Michigan central station in Detroit, MI

Let the energy of this building power me to submitting this paper today

I gotta say I find a lot of AI discourse around higher ed very confusing. "if ChatGPT can write your essays is college even worth it?" did people think math teachers were assigning problem sets because *they* couldn't figure out the answers?

Yeah it is that & how that process is tied to a lenders ability to sell a foreclosed property. But I imagine some of these effects will be somewhat delayed by the securitization chain. I would suspect lenders underwriting in climate risky areas likely have an incentive to sell loans to GSEs

With FEMA withdrawing, states will have to fill in the gaps, but how? State bond banks could be part of the answer

As FEMA prepares to withdraw, states will have to fully fund climate adaptation. Can state bond banks step up? Today's piece looks at barriers and opportunities, focusing on VT. It won't be easy. susanpcrawford.substack.com/p/with-fema-...

I have seen a lot of discussion on the increasing cost of home insurance and insurance companies pulling out of states. I have seen relatively less discussion on banks not writing mortgages in these areas.

That is the correct instinct

Me! I’ll bring the carrot cake!

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You’re probably richer than you think because of the safety net – but you’d have more of that hidden wealth if you lived in Norway The typical worker on the verge of retirement is due roughly $412,000 in this under-the-radar wealth.

I'm in @theconversation.com today writing about my recent paper on augmented wealth!

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From my perspective, one of the most important discrimination cases involving Cleveland Water's use of tax liens and assorted other policies and practices for water bills is allowed to move forward.

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How DOGE's push to amass data could hurt the reliability of future U.S. statistics DOGE's murky push to amass data at federal agencies could hurt the U.S. government's ability to produce reliable census results, economic indicators and other statistics in the future, experts warn.

U.S. Census Bureau's decades long with falling public participation in surveys and trust in government is now compounded by DOGE's handling of data. Distrust in how government uses data is higher among people of color, which can lead to selection bias and skewed data. myumi.ch/jJVMG

Florida Board of Governors rejects Santa Ono as University of Florida president The selection of the former UM president faced backlash from GOP leaders over his handling of pro-Palestine encampments and his past support of DEI.

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There is one place, however, where Musk, with the help of his minions, achieved his goals. He did indeed shred U.S.A.I.D. Though a rump operation is now operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of U.S.A.I.D. grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.

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Debtor-creditor relationships are everywhere, including and especially in health care.

Glad to see new journalistic coverage of these medical credit products and their implications in the @prospect.org
@mirya.bsky.social

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Thank you! The long and arduous process of moving conference paper to publication

Check out the latest from me in ASQ! I draw on theorizing by Du Bois and Fanon to provide insight into how reactivity to being scored differs across racial groups.

You can also find replication files here: www.openicpsr.org/openicpsr/pr...

California's 2nd-largest reservoir hits record milestone after brutal dry spell The reservoir hit full capacity for the third year in a row Thursday, marking a historic comeback.

Some good California #water news. Lake Oroville, one of the largest reservoirs, is full.

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In case folks were wondering, this was very delicious!!! @spencerallen.bsky.social went off with this one!

State Department Designates WNBA As Terrorist Organization WASHINGTON—Promising to stamp out the extremist movement as well as its sympathizers, the U.S. State Department announced Thursday that the WNBA had been designated as a terrorist organization. According to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the organization has as many as 156 terrorists spread across 13 known cells in the United States, and several of […]

“Their radical anti-American ideology is centered on the empowerment of girls and women,” said Secretary of State Marco Rubio
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@maddow.msnbc.com is cooking tonight!

Looking to join one of the dopest research centers?? Then apply for this postdoc at the @umichstonecid.bsky.social to work with my colleague Pablo Mitnik!