Carolina Arteaga

YouTube video by The Argument Did the Opioid Epidemic Help Republicans Win? | The Argument

Have yet to listen to this, but am very excited! @caroartc.bsky.social is great and @jerusalem.bsky.social is doing a fantastic job interviewing all the right people (especially me 😜) to understand the rise of the populist right!
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Thanks for the shout out 🤩🙏🏽

For absolutely no reason, let me remind people of this banger of a paper by @caroartc.bsky.social

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Republican Support and Economic Hardship: The Enduring Effects of the Opioid Epidemic* Abstract. In this article, we establish a causal connection between two of the most salient social developments in the United States over the past decades:

#QJE Feb 2026, #9, “Republican Support and Economic Hardship: The Enduring Effects of the Opioid Epidemic,” by Arteaga (@caroartc.bsky.social) and Barone (@vickybarone.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

Thank you!

Incredible social science & data use here.

The immediate story is about how the opioid epidemic (pushed by pharma in high cancer areas), resulted in major opioid death & economic hardship which - through various media/political channels - resulted in a sustained rise in support for the Republicans

This is a very cool paper with a clever identification strategy to test the causal impact of the opioid epidemic on various political outcomes.

A key point that’s not in the abstract —causal mechanism is voters agreed with GOP tough on crime rhetoric and policy.

Entirely consistent with what we have experienced, but it still confounds me that people needing and receiving MORE public support increased their votes for Republicans. The people/party that, for the last 45 years++, has wanted to take that support away

Thank you :)

Thank you Chloe!

Thank you 🫶🏽

Incredibly proud of this 🤩🥹! So much work and determination behind this publication. What a journey this was! Honored to have done it with you @vickybarone.bsky.social 🚀❤️

The president of Harvard could literally belittle and harass women pursuing degrees in economics, and most economists will still argue that gender bias doesn't explain why there are so few women pursuing degrees in economics!

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Workshop flyer

A great honor to be part of the
XI Workshop for Young Economists organized by the Lima School of Economics and @UDEP.
📅 Save the date: August 10–11, 2026
🗓️ Deadline: March 13
🇵🇪 See you in Lima!

Thank you!

This is really nice, but is it common for authors to reply to rejections? 🙈 asking for a friend

Thank you Joshua 🙏🙏 I’m very grateful for your support 🙌🏽

NBER Appoints 63 New Affiliates

This happened 😱 !! Extremely honored to become an #NBER Faculty Research Fellow
@nberpubs ! Thanks to those who nominated to the #EconomicsofHealth Program !!!

Very happy to be appointed alongside many great colleagues and friends www.nber.org/news/nber-ap...

Let’s make it happen!

Rockstar

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Matthias 😡

In honor of long COVID awareness day, I wanted to speak about what my experience is like, 25 months in.

I am much better but still only leave the house a couple times a week.

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Aghhhhh this sucks I’m sorry

Did the Opioid Epidemic Fuel Donald Trump’s Return to the White House? New research suggests that the Democrats’ struggles in communities battling fentanyl addiction had little to do with economic theory or messaging—it was, more simply, a failure of political attention.

Benjamin Wallace-Wells writes about the fentanyl crisis and the Democrats’ failure to respond to it. The Party was “a little too ready to dismiss the hubbub over opioids as partisan hysteria, and a little too slow to notice that people were actually troubled.”

Worth reading. No idea how much weight to give the thesis that Dems lost these regions because Republicans gave the fentanyl crisis much more political and media attention, along with purported trade and border-focused solutions.

Perhaps the single most disturbing post-election statistic/correlation I have read this month.