We have a contender for the wrongest thing written on the internet this week. Economists will tell you *the exact opposite* of this.

FOOTBALL & RACE 🧵 1/ Four years ago, Brian Flores sued the NFL alleging that the "Rooney Rule" requiring teams to interview minority candidates for head coaching vacancies is a sham. Today, the judge ruled that ALL claims must be litigated, not arbitrated. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Why do these stories persist? Megaevents have been well-studied by economists and determined that the economic impacts are tiny. And any increase will barely ripple out to Cobb. Yet, this is the banner headline in today's MDJ.

We've got to start electing better people. There is zero legitimate policy justification for this. Oregon voters probably don't like this either. Vote these incompetent jerks out.

Physician–patient SES match improves low-SES health, reducing socio-economic health inequality. Just Accepted new paper by Ida Lykke Kristiansen @idalykkekr.bsky.social and Sophie Yanying Sheng zurl.co/R7Sx8

My article (with @bradhumphreys.bsky.social ) "Yes, There is an Economic Consensus That Professional Sports Facilities are Inadvisable Public Investments" is now published in Economic Development Quarterly. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

📣Hi #EconSky! I am on the job market! 📣 My JMP builds a 20-year panel showing an after-school care reform increased university grad. rates. 🎓 The key: moving children from home 🏠 to care centers 🧑‍🧒‍🧒, where peer interactions shaped preferences and beliefs — not skills🧮. For more: sevinkaytan.com

Happy to finally have this paper out now in JUE. It's open access. Cell phone location data can reflect what's happening in illicit markets and well targeted narcotics enforcement efforts can reverberate regionally. Anyways here's the link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Your reminder that local elections matter, and we need to elect better people. This is *indefensible* public policy. There's no reasonable expectation that spending $250 million of taxpayer money to upgrade an NHL arena might promote community welfare. None.

3rd UMBC Sports Economics Conference June 9th through June 11th, 2026 at University of Maryland, Baltimore County Any topic in sports economics and sports management. Submit paper titles and a 200-word abstract to Dennis Coates [email protected]. Submissions should arrive by March 1st.

Why are many U.S. cities building less? Why have they insisted on a "thicket" of regulations that make housing hard to build? In a new #EconJMP with Beau Bressler (beaubressler.github.io), we study how much of the answer lies with a forgotten federal program that taught cities to restrict growth

please let us have this one

If that link does not work please try this one: ideas.repec.org/p/feb/natura...

Proud to announce that I've joined the editorial board at the International Journal of Sports Marketing and Sponsorship. Though known for sport marketing, they also do work related to consumer behavior, event analysis, & risk management. www.emerald.com/ijsms

A nice paper that shows a positive causal impact of college. By comparing outcomes on barley accepted students to otherwise identical barley rejected students, those that went to college earn 8% more than their counterparts with internal rates of return of 26%. academic.oup.com/qje/advance-...

Proud to announce that my coauthor @ivycollins.bsky.social just presented our paper “Thrown or Thriving: Modeling Buckoff Risk in Professional Bull Riding” at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.

Gender Equality Through Turnover: Quasi-experimental Evidence from Term Limit Reforms in Italy: Kansikas, Carolina; Bagues, Manuel

A little late on the announcement, but I’m proud to announce my paper “Emotional Cues, Election Outcomes, and Intimate Partner Violence” has been published in the Eastern Economic Journal. Link below: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Did China's anti-corruption campaign work? Research using housing discounts as a proxy for bribes to government officials says yes. Officials' discounts on new homes shrank significantly after the campaign started. Non-monetary benefits also diminished. tinyurl.com/49evhfry #economics #china

The Hot Hand fallacy is expensive. This new study tracked live betting on 1,224 matches. A team that scores a 1-1 equalizer attracts 60% more bets in their favor. However, always betting on the team with momentum leads to substantial negative returns. Read more: tinyurl.com/45pv4tv5 #EconSky

Forthcoming in JBEF: “CEOs, Parenthood, and Corporate Misconduct” by H. Donker, J. Nofsinger, and C. A. Shank. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Recently accepted by #QJE, “Who’s Afraid of the Minimum Wage? Measuring the Impacts on Independent Businesses Using Matched U.S. Tax Returns,” by Rao (@nirupama.bsky.social) and Risch: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

When temporary foreign workers in Canada obtain permanent residency it leads to increased job mobility, earnings, and sorting into high-wage firms, from Kory Kroft, Isaac Norwich, Matthew J. Notowidigdo, and Stephen Tino www.nber.org/papers/w34630

Ole Miss coach Joe Judge when asked about how hectic this week has been: “My next door neighbor was Aaron Hernandez. I know this is more chaotic.”

Great wrap up of sports facility subsidies in 2025 by @fieldofschemes.bsky.social. What a year it was ☹️ www.fieldofschemes.com/2026/01/02/2...

It's good to see editorial boards coming out against stadium subsidies. More this, please. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

In today's JMP, @sanjanagh1.bsky.social looks at how changes in who is in power shapes regulatory discretion over pollution enforcement in the sugar industry. The same regulatory capacity leads to very different outcomes depending on who is in power. blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...?

Things from humanity that I want artifacts of to survive forever: 1. The Pop Tarts Bowl 2. Everything else

Opportunity costs exist

To pay off $3B in STAR bonds, all increased future sales and liquor tax proceeds across much of two counties will be siphoned off to pay the Chiefs stadium bill; Kansans across the whole state will bear the cost of replacing that money in the state budget.

The stadium tax district would cannibalize sales and liquor taxes from an enormous chunk of the NE corner of Kansas, puttiing the lie to Gov. Kelly's claim that the Chiefs deal "requires no new funds from the current state budget."

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 🧵:

Studying whether gender differences in university major choices result from anticipated labor market discrimination, from Louis-Pierre Lepage, Xiaomeng Li, and Basit Zafar https://www.nber.org/papers/w33680

If you're a journalist who reports on "economic impact studies," call up your local university's economics department and ask which course you should audit to learn how IMPLAN works. You'll find that no such course exists, because that's not how economists study economic effects.

Ouch. Current est of public resources to the Chiefs is $6.3b (nom) and $4.1b (real). I assume the $2.775b "cap" is all debt financed. Cost comes down if state uses cash. Cap is not what is owed to bond holders but what the state commits to project. $6.3b is rivaled by DC deal for the Commanders.

Devoting $1.8 BILLION of public money to an NFL stadium (60% of $3 billion) is indefensible public policy.

Want a nutshell summary of how bad this Kansas deal is for taxpayers? So bad that the state couldn't even get the team to comp food for its suite. Even after agreeing to give the team $2.775b.

Do people still get holiday bonuses? Watching Christmas Vacation this year made me curious, so I looked at the data. Who gets bonuses today, what kinds of bonuses still exist, and why firms are cautious about offering them. www.mondayeconomist.com/p/christmas-...

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

👋 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 🧵 -->

I'm John Fallon, a labor economist on the job market. My JMP uncovers something wild: when chiropractors got licensed in the early 1900s, medical boards responded by making it HARDER to become a doctor. Why would competition lead to stricter regulations? 🧵 john-fallon-econ.com (1/9)

Why aren't families having more babies? This brand new paper argues that part of the reason is because childcare is so expensive. "A 10% increase in the price of childcare leads to a 5.7% decrease in the birth rate" abigaildow.com/assets/docs/...

Hi #EconSky, I'm on the #EconJobMarket! My JMP provides the first evidence on how teacher labor market shocks affect long-run student outcomes. I study one of the largest teacher supply shocks in US history, larger even than Covid or the Great Recession. Let’s talk about WWII… 🧵

Very pleased to see this paper published

During Prohibition when many men lost their jobs, daughters increased their labor supply and delayed marriage and childbearing likely in an effort to compensate for lost wages, from Anna Aizer, Gabrielle Grafton, and Santiago Pérez https://www.nber.org/papers/w33346

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.

Oh yeah, building a venue that will be vacant for 2/3 of the year, and highly disruptive to the surrounding area when it's open, sounds like just what downtown needs.

Today's JMP features @akhila-kovvuri.bsky.social's work which shows how the extension of the metro system in Delhi generated new jobs around transit stations. Using staggered DiD, she shows consumer-focused firms move in, with new jobs. Large gain for women. blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...?

Bradbury's Iron Law of Stadium Finance: The public cost of a stadium always goes up.

New paper up with Steve Salaga and Katie Brown at JSE: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...