Allison Shertzer

Even this definitive effort to define regions on the United States didn't dare to take a stand on Pittsburgh (the city is on a border). Pittsburgh is just in a category all its own!

101 things we now know about US housing markets (Part IV) World War I and the Roaring Twenties

Ronan is dropping more facts about the U.S. housing market over time and space using the HHP dataset:

ronanlyons.substack.com/p/101-things...

The big story here is of an agency of dedicated statisticians and public servants working tirelessly to improve economic data in a climate of budgetary cuts to data collection. They have been very innovative in meeting that mandate. But we should also just fund our economic infrastructure.

Help my colleague find all the ways in which his work is reaching your students!

Yes! We talk about this a lot in the updated working paper (on my website).

Yes, the indices were revised. We collected additional data and improved the specification as part of the peer review process. So you should use the V2 version from now on. Thank you for asking.

No way he got stuck in an airport and had to present from there??

Examining the effects of public debt on municipal services and real outcomes during financial crises using data on US cities from 1924 to 1943, from Pawel Janas https://www.nber.org/papers/w34011

Historical Housing Prices Project The Historical Housing Prices (HHP) Project at the Philadelphia Fed provides new data on the price of housing for sale and for rent over the 20th century using the real estate sections of historical n...

New release for the HHP project. We now have rent and sales price indexes for 30 cities along with rental yields, capital gains, and housing returns for the years 1890-2006. Online data viz tools and download here:

www.philadelphiafed.org/surveys-and-...

One of the most surprising details in the latest CPI: an increasing share of price data was estimated, not observed.

In June, over 1/3 of #CPI imputations came from other items or locations likely due to budget cuts and staffing shortages at BLS.

We can’t fight #inflation without reliable data.

I've been teaching her myself for the past few years!

I'm so glad this post made its way to the music theorists 🤣

Center for the Restoration of Economic Data (CREED) Welcome to CREED (Center for the REstoration of Economic Data). CREED advances research in many fields, including topics in regional economics and consumer finance, by converting information in books,...

For more info on what we do, see www.philadelphiafed.org/consumer-fin...

My personal website is linked in my bio.

Research Assistant/Sr. Research Assistant Company Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Job Description Summary Research assistants (RAs) at the Philadelphia Fed play a key role in the Economic Research Department. Whether they are helping eco...

I am looking for a research assistant to work with me on the development of U.S. housing markets. Experience with ArcGIS, Stata useful. We build datasets that allow us to understand housing affordability, the impacts of transit and zoning, and more:
rb.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/FRS/jo...

It actually works, with a musical question and answer. ❤️❤️❤️

My 9 yo composed a song about me. 🥹

How was this in the bargain bin??

Notice of CPI collection reductions Notice of CPI collection reductions

This isn't good: "BLS is reducing sample in areas across the country. In April, BLS suspended CPI data collection entirely in Lincoln, NE, and Provo, UT. In June, BLS suspended collection entirely in Buffalo, NY." #EconSky
www.bls.gov/cpi/notices/...

Economic historians take note - big methodological advances in digitizing data from old, irregularly formatted tables. But they are easy to use.

Also enjoyed the sanitation infrastructure

In Dublin to meet with @ronanlyons.bsky.social and present to @cephie.bsky.social. Enjoying the sunshine, eating all the pub food, and doing research in together in person. Highly recommend getting an Irish coauthor.

Pulitzer Prizes Public Service Winner: ProPublica. Image (right) displays headline that reads: Their States Banned Abortion. Doctors Now Say They Can't Give Women Potentially Lifesaving Care.

JUST IN: ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, which exposes the fatal consequences of abortion bans, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.

This is the second consecutive year we’ve been awarded this distinction and our eighth Pulitzer: www.propublica.org/series/life-...

The next OSUS seminar is tomorrow at 11:30am ET. osus.info

Marco Gonzalez-Navarro (UC Berkeley) presents “Immigration and Slums”.

Sebastian Galiani and Aradhya Sood will be our panelists.

Petting zoo inexplicably set up by the federal building next door today. If anyone is trying to think of a present for me, I'd like one of these tiny pigs.

As I was walking home, all the neighbors and kids were wishing me a happy birthday and I couldn't figure out how everyone knew 🥲

📢Heavily revised working paper on AI + Zoning —

with @alexbartik.bsky.social and Dan Milo, we have a new draft of our paper which expands on our method to understand housing regulations with AI.

Incudes a new public data release with more housing regulation data:

The bricks were awful. We love exposed brick but these couldn't be saved. It was a sad decision though.

Hmmm.... I may have posted the before and a "partway" photo on the old site, like after he refinished the floor and ceiling but before he did the woodwork.

To switch up everyone's feed, an example of progress. My husband is fixing up this house we bought in Philadelphia. May I present living room before and after:

Super congrats to my amazing collaborator Ronan Lyons (@ronanlyons.bsky.social) for his promotion!