📢 Call for papers!
We are organizing the 6th Early Career Workshop in Quantitative Political Economy on 14-15 May 2026 at King’s College London!
Keynote: Shanker Satyanath (NYU)
No fee, travel grants might become available!
Submit at: tinyurl.com/qpe2026
a modicum of good news
03.03.2026 22:46 — 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
My favorite paper of 2019 has just been conditionally accepted at AER (lmao)
The Voting Rights Act rapidly increased Black wages in the South via public employment & redistribution
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The collapse of the US National Science Foundation
02.03.2026 04:45 — 👍 104 🔁 41 💬 5 📌 1
four stick figures on sleds, one is sliding face first, face down, marked "skeleton", diagonally opposite to it is one sliding feet first, face up, marked "luge". The other two combinations are drawn and labeled with question marks
given the existence of skeleton and luge, i postulate the existence of two other, yet to be discovered, winter olympic sports
16.02.2026 19:08 — 👍 1105 🔁 251 💬 48 📌 22
devastating news
12.02.2026 20:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Postdoc posting: Economics of education at Tufts with my colleague Elizabeth Setren.
main.hercjobs.org/jobs/2203818...
In today’s NZ Herald
10.02.2026 18:37 — 👍 100 🔁 38 💬 5 📌 3
Today in the worlds least surprising news www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
10.02.2026 04:36 — 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 5 📌 0fwiw, famously, many cap and trade systems feature a phased/gradual introduction to ease this kind of adjustment...
07.02.2026 00:04 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
chart
coming soon to @chicagocityscape.com: this chart showing new construction homes permitted per ward per year
the * asterisk indicates that the ward saw fewer than 100 homes in the 8-year period shown
If you’re not using Claude Code, now’s the time to jump in!
06.02.2026 01:00 — 👍 56 🔁 6 💬 8 📌 3
Are female economists treated differently than males in academic seminars?
These authors wanted to know whether gender shapes how scholars are treated when presenting research.
So they built a massive dataset of 2,000+ economics seminars, job talks, and conference presentations from 2019–2023...
Woah this NYC isometric map (looks just like Simcity 2000) is blowing my mind! cannoneyed.com/isometric-nyc/
28.01.2026 18:25 — 👍 129 🔁 34 💬 4 📌 15
Hey JMCs, I know the waiting can be stressful.
Good news: @billingsecon.bsky.social, @schnepel.bsky.social, & I are hiring a postdoc on our project funded by Arnold VentureS
📢 Apply here: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDetail…
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they don't make AER titles like they used to
26.01.2026 19:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Investigating whether economic hardship undermines preferences for honesty in Kenya, from Livia Alfonsi, Michal Bauer, Julie Chytilová, and Edward Miguel www.nber.org/papers/w34695
22.01.2026 18:03 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
every day the Financial Times asks me questions i am frankly unqualified to answer
19.01.2026 21:15 — 👍 224 🔁 42 💬 9 📌 3
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This. Will. Go. Fast.
Everyone talks about the "credibility revolution", but I think one of the most valuable shifts in econ over the last decade has been the rise of rigorous descriptive historical work like this in top journals:
18.01.2026 11:45 — 👍 74 🔁 14 💬 3 📌 0
"Big 3 Not So Big"
15.01.2026 13:49 — 👍 99 🔁 14 💬 3 📌 21
Q: There’s a regression with three coefficients: b1, b2, b3
A theory says b1 > b2 > b3
What statistical test should I perform to test this joint prediction?
The point estimates are such that b3 > b1 > b2, if that matters
The EPA will stop considering lives saved when setting pollution limits and instead calculate only the cost to businesses. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...
12.01.2026 19:31 — 👍 338 🔁 165 💬 62 📌 61
Finished teaching a new course on energy markets and the clean energy transition last month. Was a blast and have lots of thoughts for next year.
One takeaway is the value of going beyond academic journals/textbooks and incorporating media articles, podcasts, and video. Here's a few we covered... 🧵
Working in open science or meta-research? Present at the BITSS Annual Meeting in Berkeley! One of the leading conferences in this space.
06.01.2026 00:39 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
I'd agree if all PM was from traffic! But a lot of US estimates (e.g., EPA's inventories) suggest that even in cities, transport's share of PM is less than 25%
So even if transport's share of PM were to decrease by, say, 50%, then that would only be ~12.5% or total, or about 1 µg/m³ in NYC
We love to see NYC implementing congestion pricing, but this kind of policy isn't going to eliminate urban PM2.5
09.12.2025 23:31 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Cook et al., on the other hand, use data from other cities in a synthetic control approach. They don't detect a change, but their confidence intervals allow for +/- 5%, which squares much better with changes in traffic...
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www.cody-cook.com/papers/nyc_c...
Yes, cars matter for pollution. But much of PM these days is industry/electricity/wildfires. Eliminating all cars would only do so much for PM...
... a 4.9 µg/m³ drop doesn't seem feasible when NYC's average is 6 to 8 µg/m³, and traffic only fell ~10-30%
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a816-dohbesp.nyc.gov/IndicatorPub...
I'm super skeptical of the result/magnitude here:
• gradual change doesn't match traffic responses, which were sharp
• confidence intervals are tiny (PM has high variance!)
• This is not a standard DiD
• Cook et al. use synthetic control + more monitors and find no change
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