NYT: “.. high insurance costs are cascading into the broader real estate market, suppressing home values by an average of $44,000 in the top 10 percent of U.S. ZIP codes most vulnerable to hurricanes and wildfires ..”
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
20.11.2025 20:06 — 👍 218 🔁 64 💬 14 📌 7
“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
NEW:
In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant.
She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency.
Then she died.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
19.11.2025 11:08 — 👍 2428 🔁 1254 💬 56 📌 122
🚀 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)
11.11.2025 19:55 — 👍 75 🔁 32 💬 2 📌 8
I feel like there are very few econ vanity plates in circulation (we're not funny as a field) so it would be a small meet up but yes!
08.11.2025 15:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
After 15 years together, it was time to refresh DRECON.
08.11.2025 14:24 — 👍 24 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0
Rick, you dropped this. 👑
Seriously what an incredible data project!
06.11.2025 22:24 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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This Day in Labor History: October 26, 1825. The Erie Canal opened, eight years after construction commenced. This engineering marvel would have enormous impacts on the future of American work, including spurring ever-greater industrialization. It also killed over 1,000 workers building it!
26.10.2025 12:55 — 👍 204 🔁 66 💬 3 📌 6
Hahahaha so few cases these days
24.10.2025 20:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A chart showing measured and corrected total factor productivity growth in various sectors of US manufacturing.
Manufacturing is a locus of innovation, yet standard industry data show manufacturing productivity stagnating in the US. This column argues that standard measurements understate true productivity growth in the sector, especially in industries where it is difficult to track changes in quality growth. Comparing producer and consumer price indexes, the authors show that ‘missing’ quality growth in standard industry output deflators is substantial in manufacturing and results in total factor productivity growth being understated. This is heavily driven by the Computer and Electronic Products industry, which is highly innovative and produces goods that have rapid turnover in product characteristics.
@enghin-atalay.bsky.social, Ali Hortacsu, Nicole Kimmel, & Chad Syverson argue that standard measurements understate true #productivity growth in the US #manufacturing sector, especially in industries were it is difficult to track changes in quality growth.
cepr.org/voxeu/column...
#EconSky
14.10.2025 07:37 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Mokyr's work could not have been done today in most economics departments, but the irony is that his work would not fit in history departments today, either. Methodologically he seems more 'history' than 'economics' to economists, but the content and reasoning are too 'economics' for most historians
13.10.2025 13:55 — 👍 68 🔁 18 💬 6 📌 1
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...
15.09.2025 17:53 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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.
09.09.2025 16:27 — 👍 121 🔁 30 💬 2 📌 0
Help my colleague find all the ways in which his work is reaching your students!
12.08.2025 15:13 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
Yes! We talk about this a lot in the updated working paper (on my website).
17.07.2025 19:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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.
17.07.2025 19:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
No way he got stuck in an airport and had to present from there??
16.07.2025 20:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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
16.07.2025 17:00 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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.
15.07.2025 16:34 — 👍 65 🔁 30 💬 3 📌 7
I've been teaching her myself for the past few years!
08.07.2025 02:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I'm so glad this post made its way to the music theorists 🤣
08.07.2025 00:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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...
07.07.2025 18:29 — 👍 27 🔁 18 💬 3 📌 1
It actually works, with a musical question and answer. ❤️❤️❤️
07.07.2025 17:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My 9 yo composed a song about me. 🥹
06.07.2025 21:37 — 👍 385 🔁 15 💬 25 📌 1
How was this in the bargain bin??
01.07.2025 20:52 — 👍 79 🔁 4 💬 3 📌 1
Executive Director, Blue Missouri. Grassroots organizer. Writer. Former State House nominee. Rural mom fighting for rural schools. Dirt Road Democrat.
Bloomberg reporter covering Warren Buffett and US insurance.
Views are my own, reposts are not endorsements.
Navy combat veteran and retired NASA astronaut. Husband to @GabbyGiffords.bsky.social. United States Senator for the great state of Arizona.
Independent journalist focusing on economics and global economy
Our website: en.econreporter.com
Associate Professor of Financial Regulation, Wharton; Nonresident Fellow, Brookings. Banking, central banking, financial history. Petercontibrown.substack.com
Freelance writer and editor. Formerly of The Atlantic, Boston Review. Copy chief at Columbia Magazine.
Labor and environmental historian. Writer of books, teacher of American horrors, talker on labor movement. Beer, country music, and football are not just for the right wingers. Cats. The West. Music. Graves. Writes at https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/
Migration policy past & present. Public policy prof @dukesanford.bsky.social.
Previously: Stanford, Princeton, CGD, & Middlebury.
Spice fanatic 🌶️ cat mom 😻 she/her.
www.hannahpostel.com
Assistant professor at Georgia State University, formerly at BYU. 6 kids. Study NGOs, human rights, #PublicPolicy, #Nonprofits, #Dataviz, #CausalInference.
#rstats forever.
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New Yorker staff writer and Houston Rockets fan.
Water economist at University of Rhode Island. Water, history, cooperation, and institutions. Interests include running, basketball, celtics, and cycling.
Director, National Housing Crisis Task Force. Senior Research Fellow, Nowak Metro Finance Lab at Drexel University. Landlords, urban networks, and wealth inequality. Formerly MIT DUSP and Tufts University. he/him
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economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
https://enghinatalay.github.io
views are my own.
Canadian writer-reporter and floofy dog owner.
Assistant Professor at LSE, Visiting Yale. Political Economy, Gender, Culture and Narrative, and Early Modern and Modern China.
SNAP/WIC/Child Nutrition at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Come for the corgi pictures, stay for the food assistance policy.
The Atlanta Fed serves the Sixth Federal Reserve District: AL, FL, GA and parts of LA, MS and TN. We foster a healthy economy and financial stability. We’re apolitical and decentralized to conduct monetary policy that’s in the best interest of the economy.
Sociologist UF & economist
US DOL 🤷♂️. Discrimination, inequality, labor, stratification. One foot in heterodox econ. Dad of 4. Personal account.
