Analyzing intergenerational mobility of wealth and income across US counties, highlighting spatial differences due to factors such as house prices and the Great Recession shock, from Ariel J. Binder, Max Risch, and John L. Voorheis www.nber.org/papers/w35219

1/ New paper 🚨! (Ok, not quite new...) I'm very pleased to share that — after a long journey — my job market paper is finally out in the world. It asks: Why do regions decline?

Please Share! The Environmental Inequality Lab is hosting it's second undergraduate research training program in environmental and energy economics this summer & it's open to all (with current U.S. work authorization)! Full-time, funded, in-person, 10-weeks. More details here tinyurl.com/EEE-URTP

Amidst real tragedies, I'm so glad to have been able to send some folks good news this week -- announcing $450k in funding for 6 projects researching transition in fossil fuel host communities through the Resilient Energy Economies Initiative. I'm so excited about this work to make transition better

Human health benefits are by far the largest benefit from most environmental regulations. By not monetizing these benefits moving forward, the Trump EPA is essentially saying there are no human health benefits to reducing air/toxic/climate pollution, improving drinking water quality, etc. 1/

📢 Call for Papers! The 9th Annual LSE/Imperial Workshop on Environmental Econ. will be held in London June 8-9 ✅ Submissions by Feb 1 📄 Full papers only (no abstracts) 🎤 Keynote: Prof. @rmetcalfe.bsky.social 🔗 more details here: www.lse.ac.uk/geography-an...

New paper 🚨! Big thanks to the @jeem-econ.bsky.social editor, reviewers, & my advisors for letting me see a null result paper through to completion. #econsky #energytransition www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Very excited to announce our* $450k RFP for ~$25-100k proposals on research for economic resilience in fossil fuel-dependent communities in the United States as they transition. Hit us with your preproposals, due 31 October 👻 *Resilient Energy Economies Initiative! This one sponsored by Sloan

Economists argue for an American industrial policy to counter a China Shock 2.0. From @davidautor.bsky.social and Gordon Hanson. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/o...

Updated draft coming soon! In the meantime, a blog: (tldr: Coal's collapse has been bad for coal workers)

🌎 PhD students: apply to 2025 Berkeley/Sloan Summer School in Environmental/Energy Economics! 🔗 Info + application: www.auffhammer.com/summer-school 📅 Deadline: May 14 | Program: Aug 18–22 at Berkeley w @auffhammer.bsky.social @severinborenstein.bsky.social, TCarleton, MFowlie, KJack...

The lesson of the "China shock" isn't actually about trade. It's about how hard it is for workers and communities to adapt to rapid economic changes. Now Trump is trying to reshape the global economy overnight, with potentially devastating consequences. #EconSky www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/b...

What jobs offer the best "skills match" for fossil fuel workers? Come learn about a new analysis & interactive web tool from @jacobgreenspon.bsky.social and @rff.org's @danielraimi.bsky.social on Wednesday at 2pm! #econsky www.rff.org/events/webin...

Today we announced the initial research portfolio for Resilient Energy Economies, 22 policy-focused projects that will contribute to the economic strategies of fossil fuel-reliant communities across the USA. Please check them out! www.resilientenergyeconomies.org/grants

This seems sensible 🫠 www.kentucky.com/news/politic...

Forthcoming in the AER: "The Role of People vs. Places in Individual Carbon Emissions" by Eva Lyubich. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Recently accepted by #QJE, “The Impact of Being Denied a Wanted Abortion on Women and their Children,” by Londoño-Vélez (@jlondonovelez.bsky.social) and Saravia: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

1/🚨New chapter in Handbook of Regional & Urban Economics: Spatial Environmental Economics 🌍 How do spatial forces affect the environment? How does enviro shape spatial outcomes? Thread, chapter explore this nascent subfield via stylized acts, models, building blocks for rsrch. w Clare Balboni.

Friday! Join the first monthly Resilient Energy Economies "brownbag." This month will feature @eleanorkrause.bsky.social sharing her work on the labor market impacts of energy transition (cc @noahqkaufman.bsky.social @gruberte.bsky.social @juliahaggarty.bsky.social) us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Imagine that delivered in classic Yellen deadpan. Another great line: "I have witnessed the profound impact that comes from pairing intellectual rigor with moral purpose." #econsky

Hey folks! Excited to join the first-ever @reeconomies.bsky.social virtual brownbag on Friday, Jan 17. I'll be chatting w/ @danielraimi.bsky.social about how the decline in coal has impacted workers. Register here ⬇️ #econsky #energytransition us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Tariffs are neither a Swiss Army knife for domestic problems nor an effective stick to discipline other nations (as Trump believes). But they can be useful as a shield allowing other (social, environmental, industrial) policies to do their work. My latest www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/t...

We're investing in the advancement of early career scholars who are conducting policy-relevant research on economic mobility, the labor market, and more. Apply for our Early Career RFP by Jan. 21, 2025 for the chance to help shape the future of economic policy. #EGgrantee

Two days of no power in Eastern Kentucky and counting = Natural experiment on worker productivity inside of a refrigerator. Conclusion: bad.

Submit your interesting paper to the Spring @nberpubs.bsky.social EEE meetings. The great #PaulinaOliva and @stevecicala.bsky.social ky.social are sure to pick an amazing set of papers. DEADLINE IS IN 9 DAYS!! March 27-28, 2025 conference.nber.org/confsubmit/b...

This slowly dawned on me during my PhD - it was by being at seminars or conferences where I could see the true debate behind a paper and what people thought its contribution and flaws were, not by reading the published version. Science would be better served if everyone could see these debates

Reality bats last www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

A smaller % of Americans moved in 2023 than ever (at least since 1948) via Jed Kolko and Census

From our AEA cttee on the job market, here's the December update on the status of the job mkt for PhD economists of the 2024-25 cycle. A thread with graphs follows... #EconJobMarket #EconSky @aeainformation.bsky.social @aeacswep.bsky.social @joelistings.bsky.social 1/9

new WP y'all www.nber.org/papers/w33236

Great thoughts (and cool paper!)

For those doing energy transition research: Hearing from folks who actually live and work in energy communities is *wildly* informative. Thanks Daniel for letting me tag along on this trip!

in my "economics and policy" class (ie, econ 101 for non-majors), I have students earn "participation points" in various ways throughout the semester, and they can earn points by generating econ memes based on course content. here's a thread of some of my favs from this semester... #econsky

I just realized that my entire academic career is in the hands of Overleaf.

Making my #EconSky debut to crowd-source materials for my new class on "The Economics of Place" We'll explore spatial inequality & the forces driving it --migration, local shocks, housing, environment, policy... Got good resources (papers, data, syllabi, etc.)? I'd love suggestions!