Davon Norris

ISR researcher @jeremylevine.bsky.social studies why victim compensation laws often fail survivors.

His new project evaluates a New York policy change removing the police report requirement to see if it improves access for victims and informs reforms nationwide.

Squad!!!

We also gotta shoutout the baller women up and down the ISR org chart like the trinity running our @umichstonecid.bsky.social: our fearless leader Sasha Killewald @sashakillewald.bsky.social , Melissa Bora keeping everything humming, and Nicole Bonomini broadcasting us to the world!

For the first time, we now know how many Black-owned bookstores exist in the U.S. The National Association of Black Bookstores has released the “first comprehensive national report” on the state of America’s Black-owned bookstores.

There has never been an official, comprehensive record of Black-owned bookstores across the United States — until now

We. Love. To. See. It.

We are pumped to have this paper finally out in these streets!

Hot of the presses research on high-cost alternative credit instruments and the welfare state by Rhodes, Berger, and @umichstonecid.bsky.social associate @davonnorris.bsky.social 👇

Had a conversation about this a few days ago. I am on the side of them being called “boneless wings”!

Great opportunity for folks in these debt streets!

in the 1960s, two species of fish were documented in a university Cuyahoga River water quality survey.

as of today, we've collected more than 70 different species of fish since we started Cuyahoga River survey work in 1990.

This tracks closely with the argument I’ve made about the U.S.: scarcity is litigated, not regulated.

Civil law countries have much more regulation but far fewer lawsuits. The housing crisis isn’t about too many rules; it’s about who can afford to sue over them.

The rule of law can’t survive this

It was just so wonderful.

The set design for this is awesome

Our paper “Inferring fine-grained migration patterns across the United States” is now out in @natcomms.nature.com! We released a new, highly granular migration dataset. 1/9

Consumer Credit and the Incidence of Tariffs: Evidence from the Auto Industry (February 2026) - Captive finance subsidiaries create a channel for trade policy to affect consumer credit. Examining the impact of the Trump administration's metal tariffs on captive automobile lende...

Came across this dope piece by @kwhankins.bsky.social and co-authors. It made me stop packing for vacation. Really interesting stuff that pairs nicely with sociological insights on financialization. I will have to work this into my credit and debt class next year.

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Keeping our work going at the UMich Stone Center!!

This is so good.

Huge!

Screenshot of a data visualization titled “The Cost of American Exceptionalism,” subtitled “What would change if the U.S. matched the OECD average?” The page explains that each card shows how outcomes would change if the U.S. matched the average of 31 peer democracies. Below, a section labeled “Economy & Inequality” displays eight cards comparing U.S. figures to OECD averages. Highlights include: +$19K per household per year in redistributed income and +$96K in redistributed wealth if the top 1% matched OECD shares; a 71% lower CEO-to-worker pay ratio (from 354× to 101×); 50 million more workers with union coverage; 26 million more people with health insurance; $2.1 trillion saved annually in healthcare spending; $691 less per person per year in prescription drug costs; and intergenerational economic mobility being twice as high. Each card shows the U.S. value alongside the OECD average.

If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this:

America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.

What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵

Jerome’s in the house!! I said Jerome’s in the house oo ow oo ow!!!

Why Wealth Inequality Matters: A Symposium - Massachusetts Institute of Technology Join us for a series of interdisciplinary discussions on wealth inequality – its origins and political philosophy, its national and global contexts, and its connections…

On 27 January, MIT's new Stone Center will host a symposium (hybrid) on Why Wealth Inequality Matters. See the agenda and register: shapingwork.mit.edu/events/why-w...

An agent of the state murders an American, and government leaders rush to media to call the victim a "domestic terrorist" before any pretense of an investigation. We are so far down the fascist hole.

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

I still don't understand when exactly Trump decided Venezuela was the enemy or why.

“I would engage you in a battle of wits but you are clearly unarmed.”

How Did DOGE Disrupt So Much While Saving So Little?

On DOGE’s watch, federal spending did not go down at all. It went up. But is still led to cuts that closed offices, canceled programs and deprived people of food, medicine and other aid.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

I swear!!!

Ohio State mascot uses snow to mark an “X” over the Block M in the Michigan end zone with a script Ohio on the background

A necessary analysis of polycrisis and its consequences must account for the industries, technologies, and policies that govern risks-and, crucially, how they engage in socio-technical processes of defining, predicting, and valuing risks. By synthesising the following objectives into a cohesive research program, this Future Fellowship aims to create essential empirical knowledge about urgent problems of insurability, which will inform new policy solutions and critical theories, all for the purpose of understanding and tackling the complex polycrisis at the nexus of insurance markets, risk technologies, and climate governance regimes. • Objective 1: Examine the design and construction of climate risk models by insurance industry and risk analytics firms to identify the assumptions, trade-offs, values, and goals built into these systems. • Objective 2: Engage directly with governments and communities at the frontlines of risk vulnerability to understand how abstract computational models and simulations connect to lived experiences and ground truth. • Objective 3: Develop new policies and frameworks for climate risk justice, which are informed by original empirical work and contribute to greater equity and security in risk governance. • Objective 4: Generate critical theoretical contributions that guide analytical and applied work about the techno-politics of risk governance in an age of global polycrisis. This fellowship advances our understanding of climate risk governance across three Workstreams. Workstream 1 will conduct ethnography at insurance industry conferences and with companies building climate risk models. Workstream 2 will engage in research with governments and communities who are managing the risks and realities of uninsurability from natural disasters. Workstream 3 will collaborate with a climate policy think tank to develop innovative policies grounded in original empirical research and conceptual analysis-that advance climate justice.

Call for PhD Student!

I'm recruiting a PhD student to work with me on a project related to my Future Fellowship at Monash University on the political economy of insurance, risk technology, climate governance, and the crisis of uninsurability. Here's the overview of my fellowship.