Travis Roach

As a former music major who took and quite enjoyed music history (ancient-1750), this is cool as hell.

Palestrina would’ve loved it.

Hi! I’m Mary and I’m on the #EconJobMarket this year.

Extreme heat doesn’t just affect students, it affects the people teaching them.

JMP 🧵:

Lots of great work out there on how students don't learn as well when it's hot out -- but guess what! Teachers don't teach as well, either!

Read on for a great paper on how heat and learning is as much a *labor* question as it is a *kids* question.

Adjusting to the energy transition: Training and transfers in coal country Between 2011 and 2016, coal mining employment declined by over 50 percent in Appalachia, producing sharp earnings and employment losses in coal-depend…

New paper 🚨!

Big thanks to the @jeem-econ.bsky.social editor, reviewers, & my advisors for letting me see a null result paper through to completion. #econsky #energytransition

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Lawmakers, AG Challenge Insurance Commissioner's Competitive Market Claims - Oklahoma Watch As officials bicker over Oklahoma’s homeowners insurance market and lawmakers contemplate new legislation, Oklahoma Watch investigates measures of market concentration and digs into legal history to u...

Lawmakers, AG Challenge Insurance Commissioner's Competitive Market Claims - Oklahoma Watch
oklahomawatch.org/2025/11/20/l...

#Oklahoma

I'm on the #EconJobMarket! I study how policies and childhood environments shape outcomes of low-income & vulnerable kids.

In my JMP, I study the effects of allowing youth who would have aged out of foster care at 18 to stay until 21—offering support their peers not in foster care get from parents.

Poor Oklahoma

(double entendre intended)

For my entire life I've heard that if you visit Mexico "don't drink the water."

I'd now give the same advice to anyone visiting the US. Especially in the states that produce oil and gas.

We call on other institutions in the economics profession to take these revelations seriously, to open an independent investigation into Summers’ conduct, and to reconsider his access to the platforms and networks that he has been afforded for too long.

Women in economics have unfortunately become accustomed to dealing with sexism and harassment in the workplace. This reduces women’s productivity and limits their success and should never be tolerated.

CSWEP strongly condemns Larry Summers’ behavior as revealed in the email correspondence with the late Jeffrey Epstein. While abuse of power in the economics profession is not new, rarely has the intent behind such abuse been so clearly stated.

If an attractive young woman a third my age didn't want to date me, then why did she ask me for feedback on an economics paper?

by Larry Summers

Firearm Homicide in Pregnant Women and State-Level Firearm Ownership This cross-sectional study examines firearm homicide rates in pregnant compared with nonpregnant women and whether estimated state-level firearm ownership is associated with homicide deaths among preg...

New paper reminds us yet again: HOMICIDE is the leading cause of death for pregnant women.

Gun violence & partner violence are related.

All-cause homicide & firearm homicide of pregnant women are higher, in states w/ higher calculated firearm ownership (1/x 🧵

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

What’s More Dangerous Than India’s Frequent Heat Waves? Heat Stress.

"Women who face long-term heat exposure in workplaces and homes are finding it takes a heavy toll on their health and income." 🎁🔗

Adam Scott meets the Chicago Pope

'Four cones wins, but in order to get a cone you have to build a civilization. Which is where the spirit cards come in'

I’m on the #EconJobMarket! I study labor, extreme weather adaptation, and inequality.

My JMP addresses an under-studied aspect of the labor market: schedule unpredictability among hourly workers in the service sector.

🧵👇

The lipstick index 💄 is flashing red. Is a recession coming? My latest for @businessweektr.bsky.social @bloomberg.com part of their excellent beauty issue #recession #economy #spending

Photo shows the title page for an academic paper titled "Driving Inclusion: The Effect of Improved Transportation for People with Disabilities" by Melissa Gentry. The abstract is as follows: People with disabilities face substantial barriers to economic and social participation. I explore the extent to which these barriers are overcome by the availability of reliable and flexible transportation, which may serve as ``reliability insurance'' in case other modes of transit fail. Leveraging the roll-out of Uber, I use a stacked difference-in-differences approach to show that the availability of reliable and flexible transportation leads to improvements in social and economic participation through increased marriage rates and labor force participation, and reduced reliance on public assistance. The reduction in public assistance outweighs expected rideshare costs, lending support to the recent push towards public-private partnerships in the transportation space.

I am excited to announce I am on the #EconJobMarket this year! 🎉 My research explores economic barriers for people with disabilities at the intersection of labor, public, and health economics.

My #EconJMP examines how reliable transportation transforms outcomes for this population. 🧵1/6

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1g0MKAJeczm5NYjduWR-gRAi2phErgDcG/view?usp=drive_link

I'm on the #EconJobMarket!🥳 My research examines how childhood trauma from violence shapes household violence in adulthood. My #EconJMP asks: How do trauma histories interact with their partners' experiences to shape intimate partner violence and violence against children? 🧵

For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:

splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app

Not Sure How They Deal With Criminals In Your Town, But ’Round Here We Use A Restorative Justice Process Well, well, well. What have we got here? Another city slicker who thinks he can waltz into my town and start causin’ all sorts of trouble. I’d be careful if I was you, fella. Because however they do t...

"Mark my words, one wrong step in this town’ll land you in a whole heap of social services."

The two most expensive inputs into most beer for home consumption are hops and aluminum (cans). So, yeah...

👋 I'm Danielle, and I'm on the #econjobmarket this year!

Let's start with a student describing her segregated school:

"The school felt temporary. Built like a warehouse with aluminum siding . . . I had a slipshod education"

The twist? The student is white, and her school is private.

A JMP 🧵 -->

Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct

Seems like a particularly bad day to go fishing in South America. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...

Joe Winkelmann & I have released a new @wheelockpolicybu.bsky.social working paper:

"Labor Market Strength and Declining Community College Enrollment"

We show stronger labor markets since 2009 explain most of the decline in community college enrollments.

wheelockpolicycenter.org/high-quality...

🚀 I'm on the #EconSky Job Market!

My JMP asks a classic question:
Do large, dominant firms foster or hinder innovation?

To study this, I turn to the Great Merger Wave (1895–1904), when >2,600 U.S. firms combined into corporate giants like U.S. Steel and DuPont.

A JMP 🧵👇 (1/13)

Definitely a real picture of the northern lights and not at all a squiggly lines pretending to be northern lights.

I was jealous of all y’all’s northern lights pictures and tried to take my own. Here they are in OKC

Energy Policy Volume 206, November 2025, 114747 Accounting for methane from natural gas infrastructure in United States greenhouse gas emission estimates Kevin J. Kircher E

"Accounting for these increased methane emissions removes over two-thirds of the apparent post-2005 decline in United States net greenhouse gas emissions."

Essential paper by @kevinjkircher.com.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Screenshot of working paper: The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct

📣 New NBER Working Paper out today 📣

"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu

🦶New version of our WP “Nobody Wants to Work Anymore”🦶w/ @danielavidart.bsky.social

Headline: a major contributor to the 50-year decline in U.S. male labor force participation is changes in men's beliefs about returns to work, shaped by lifetime experiences of aggregate male labor markets.