James Vickery

The Eagles' all-time record is .500 for the first time since 1933.

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

#behavioraleconomics

Can conditional expectation of a non-constant function not depend on a conditioning variable under a completeness condition? my coauthors and I have been struggling with the following question: Let $(X,Y,Z,W)$ be random variables with support on $\mathbb{R}^{4}$ such that the conditional expectation operator with respect...

Trying my luck here: @jiafengkevinchen.bsky.social, @instrumenthull.bsky.social, and I just posted a question about conditional expectations under a nonparametric completeness condition. Any thoughts & suggestions much appreciated!

stats.stackexchange.com/questions/66...

Are any of my papers on your syllabus? Undergrad, PhD, econ history, or (preparing myself for crickets) a non-econ history class are all great. DMs are open and huge thanks in advance

(I guess @barbarabiasi.com is a month ahead of me on tenure packet paperwork)

Hello #econtwitter community: if any of you has been teaching any of my papers, would you mind shooting me a DM? I would hugely appreciate that 🙏 and thanks in advance!

Image of black Kia crashed onto sidewalk with lamp post and bike share rack hit

Another crash and injury on Spruce St. This one taking out a streetlight, an Indego bike corral, and sending another person to the hospital.

Our city cannot prevent all reckless driving, but our city can provide for the safety of our most vulnerable. It’s time for concrete protection.

so if we're keeping track. last week a drive recklessly sped down spruce, flipped their car. earlier this week a driver drove their SUV into an Indego station. and, just today, a driver flipped their car over in a bike lane on 22nd.

From the phillycycling community on Reddit: Intentionally Hit Explore this post and more from the phillycycling community

A woman from Philly posted a video of a driver intentionally hitting her in the South Street bike lane: www.reddit.com/r/phillycycl...

The South Street bridge area needs safer bike infrastructure and this driver needs to be charged.

*Another* crashed car in the bike lane I rode to work in this morning. Please, for the love of god #concretenow

The Cost of Financing U.S. Government Debt | Econofact The relatively short maturity structure of US government debt means that increases in interest rates translate rapidly into higher interest costs.

Interest payments on the national debt are now bigger than spending on national defense. @dbergstresser.bsky.social in @econofact.bsky.social explains the sources of the increase in the interest burden of the debt & its maturity structure (and why that matters) econofact.org/the-cost-of-...

Flipped car in the bike lane I rode to work in this morning #concretenow

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-...

Inclusionary zoning is a tax on housing Sometimes, policies have unintended consequences or unforeseen downsides

Inclusionary zoning is a targeted tax on the construction of new housing — the absolute worst way you could think of to raise money for investments in social housing projects.

www.slowboring.com/p/inclusiona...

I'm hiring a Director of Housing!! Come help us develop creative approaches to increase housing supply. In my completely unbiased opinion, we're doing really exciting & impactful work on one of the most critical policy issues of our time. Join our team!
www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...

Ben Jann’s #coefplot has made its way into countless figures in applied economics papers. It’s a staple in many Stata workflows—but the corresponding paper has fewer than 400 citations.

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Tools like #coefplot and #reghdfe have quietly powered a huge share of empirical research. Citing them helps give credit where it’s due.

What are some other packages or tools you think are widely used but might be undercited?

journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

As best as I can tell, there isn't yet a "Philly Cycling" feed or starter pack on Bluesky. I don't have the coding skillz to make a feed, but I made a starter pack: go.bsky.app/Jq4fb6v LMK what accounts should be added!

Housing, Climate Risk, and Insurance

An accessible summary of my recent research on housing, climate risk, and insurance:

www.nber.org/reporter/202...

Four years ago today, Denis & Tim & Mike & Stefan & Janneken went on a bike ride, the first WNR. A lot's changed but WNR is still mainly about the same thing: going for a bike ride with friends. And trying to stay dry! We meant to go to Parks on Tap that night, ended up at Love City bc of T-storms

The Supreme Court’s Green Double Standard The Court is encouraging deference to the executive branch—when it likes the results.

Fun fact: "By 2020, the average NEPA environmental-impact statement (EIS) was 661 pages long and took four and a half years to complete."

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The cover art of Madden 26 — Saquon’s hurdle.

Vital City | Congestion Pricing Across America New York City’s traffic reduction innovation should spread to Chicago, San Francisco and other U.S. metro areas.

Congestion pricing has been a success in New York City, so more cities should adopt it across the country!

A new piece from me at Vital City:

www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/con...

I tried out the online comment submission process for Econometrica. It works. Here's my first comment on "A Quest for Knowledge" www.econometricsociety.org/publications...

Families' wealth in 1427 predicts their wealth in 2011.

Cobweb-Covered Skeleton Gripping Senate Desk Expected To Seek 15th Term

Academic Culture and Fraud With the latest fraudulent AI-econ paper, a number of colleagues from MIT, Brown, Princeton, Univ.

New post!
goodscience.substack.com/p/academic-c...

BREAKING: #Chicago finished this past month with the fewest #murders of any April since 1962, a @WBEZ analysis has found. The month’s 19 murders make 115 so far this year, the lowest January-through-April tally since 2014.

www.wbez.org/cpd/2025/05/...

The Virtual Municipal Finance Workshop meets this Wednesday, 3/5, at 11am EST!

Our presentations will be by Casey Dougal (FSU) and Bingkuan (Bryan) Cao (UNL) covering topics in stakeholder relationships in municipal finance.

Papers and Zoom link: www.muni-workshop.com

🚨 Nominate your students, your peers, or yourself for the 2025 SIOE awards!

Dissertation, lifetime achievement, conference paper — something for everyone. Please repost!

www.sioe.org/news/2025-si...