Gabriel Kreindler

For econ JM candidates:

@princetondevo.bsky.social is hiring for a 1-year postdoc with a start date in summer 2026. The only responsibility is to be an active participant in our Princeton development econ seminars and to continue pursuing your great independent research.

Apply by Nov 24.

It is scandalous that speed cameras are currently illegal in Massachusetts. Thankfully, the 2026 budget tries to change this
budget.digital.mass.gov/govbudget/fy...

The Image of the City - Wikipedia

Thank you for the talk invitation! Really enjoyed the discussion and great questions from everyone. 🙏
And wanted to plug the book Lynch (1960) The Image of the City
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ima...

YouTube video by touscoprod Sound of Noise - Music for One Apartment and Six Drummers (long version)

I needed to hear this today
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVPV...

@pengzell.bsky.social asks about the social sciences, which I haven't looked at in a while. Indexing these against 2008 rather than peak, and struck that economics has been on a downslope for 6 years now, while psychology, the worst discipline, continues to rise rapidly.
bsky.app/profile/peng...

It took me 2 minutes to write about how this proposed rule would eliminate all foreign PhD students, who are a critical part of US science and technology, and drive US innovation and economic growth

The H1-B visa thing is, like everything else in the Trump administration, set up to carve up exceptions for friends and punish enemies. It’s the authoritarian thru-line that stitches everything together.

Program Evaluation with Remotely Sensed Outcomes Economists often estimate treatment effects in experiments using remotely sensed variables (RSVs), e.g. satellite images or mobile phone activity, in place of directly measured economic outcomes. A co...

Very cool! I wonder if this is a good application for this method.
arxiv.org/abs/2411.10959

Out today in JAERE! We measure water pollution released at India's industrial clusters. Does it hurt agriculture? Surprisingly: Not by much

Come for how we published a paper of null results & with no regression tables

Stay for new ways to proxy for crop yields & map hydrological relationships

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A Beautiful Day for Saying Nothing That chill in the air isn’t Jimmy Kimmel’s show being suspended. It’s just autumn!

It’s not a chilling effect. It would only be chilling if you had something horrid to say, and you don’t, do you? Certainly nothing critical of the regime, and absolutely no paraphrasing, not of anyone, not at this time!

Trump floats pulling licenses if networks are 'against' him after Jimmy Kimmel suspended President Donald Trump has applauded the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show over comments he made about the man accused of murdering Charlie Kirk.

We don't need to worry about stealth authoritarianism anymore. It's pretty clearly out in the open.
www.cnbc.com/2025/09/18/t...

Excited to see the new Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics (Volume 6), edited jointly with Dave Donaldson come out: www.sciencedirect.com/handbook/han.... Fantastic set of chapters on recent advances and pointing the way to exciting further research @treballen.bsky.social @siepr.bsky.social

Today's cool young researcher #econtwitter #econsky is @dunc_webb @NovaSBE
@duncanwebb.bsky.social who works on topics related to discrimination + human capital

There is no good place that this leads. It is inconsistent with democracy and must be condemned loudly and forcefully.

Opinion | Brazil Just Succeeded Where the U.S. Failed

My opinion about the historic verdict coming out of Brazil, with @stevelevitsky.bsky.social, is in the @nytimes.com today.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/o...

We (development econ faculty at Princeton) are hiring predocs, to start in summer 2026. Please share the application with folks who might be interested: rpde.princeton.edu/rpde-%E2%80%93-predoctoral-fellows-research-specialists-start-summer-2026
We'll review apps starting on 9/15. Thanks!

I will wake up *really* early and do just a bit more work.

Charger data transparency: Curing range anxiety, powering EV adoption | Brookings Proposal for states to require fast chargers to report real-time status accessible by any EV mapping app, so drivers can reliably navigate to chargers.

Elaine Buckberg: To address "range anxiety," states should enact laws that require fast chargers to report real-time status that any EV mapping app can access via @brookings.edu Hutchins Center. www.brookings.edu/articles/cha...

Moreover, as for stops of those individuals who are legally in the country, the questioning in those circumstances is typically brief, and those individuals may promptly go free after making clear to the immigration officers that they are U.S. citizens or otherwise legally in the United States.

This is a paragraph Brett Kavanaugh wrote on his little computer and then sent out into the world:

Truly excellent throughout.

Many interventions “work” in small trials but fail at scale

Also, EdTech often promises much, but delivers little

In a new paper (bit.ly/3JKLgVn)
@karthik-econ.bsky.social
& I show how personalized adaptive learning (PAL) software can sharply improve learning outcomes at scale🧵1/16

this is eye opening. I've often wondered about the terrible leaders of the opposition part.

‘I told my family, I’ll probably die’: US immigration sends Russian asylum seekers back to Moscow Russian national who applied for asylum on political grounds describes inhumane treatment while in US custody

Yet another instance of the staggering human costs of US deportation practices.

‘I told my family, I’ll probably die’: US immigration sends Russian asylum seekers back to Moscow www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Open letter Click here to add your signature. An Open Letter from Economists in Support of Governor Lisa Cook and Federal Reserve Independence To the President, Members of Congress, and the American public: We wr...

I signed an open letter from economists supporting Fed independence & Governor Lisa Cook

Letter: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Add your name by Monday: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

dear academics, about that "my [dot] name [at] school [dot] edu" email address on your website. I'm going out on a limb here, but I really don't think this format is a huge defense against spam. But it makes it a bit tedious to put together a conference invite mailing list!

Tour de force review on “Economics of Attention” by Loewenstein just published in J Econ Lit
@aeajournals.bsky.social

#behavioraleconomics

A 4-year limit on student visa length would upend PhD programs.