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Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "Flood Risk Mapping and the Distributional Impacts of Climate Information" by Joakim A. Weill. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

IT LIVES! First draft: 2011 This draft: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/xh3sg... In between: 12 years of being under review (of which half are on us). +1 coauthor. For me personally: a few moves, a few jobs, a few kids.

Our paper with @fcinnio.bsky.social @hornungerik.bsky.social “Flow of ideas: Economic societies and the rise of useful knowledge” is out in print @theeconjournal.bsky.social 🚨🚨🚨 In it, we investigate the effect of knowledge sharing societies from the 18th century on long-run innovation. Read on ->

Check out this Economic History Workshop in Uppsala (co-hosted by our @erikprawitz.bsky.social) 👇

School equalization in the shadow of Jim Crow: Causes and consequences of resource disparity in Mississippi circa 1940 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... "We estimate large positive marginal effects of local educational spending on Black students’ enrollment, attainment, and lifetime earnings."

"global warming induces mechanical trends in extreme temperature exposure that correlate strongly with a location’s baseline temperature. Substantial bias emerges if trends in the outcome variable also correlate with baseline temperature for any reason"

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)

Don't spend your Black Friday chasing deals. Read job market papers (and hire my students) instead @john-fallon-econ.com studies both occupational licensing AND the bizarre world of early 20th century healthcare, w MDs and chiropractors competing over patients to fix (or at least make less worse)

Now forthcoming at Quarterly Journal of Economics Enlightenment Ideals and Belief in Progress in the Run-up to the Industrial Revolution: A Textual Analysis Available at: digitalcommons.chapman.edu/esi_working_... (See thread below for an overview)

The space race produced great feats of engineering, yet contrary to conventional narratives, it failed to boost the wider economy. We spoke with Shawn Kantor and Alex Whalley about why this technological push didn't translate into big productivity gains. www.aeaweb.org/research/pub...

Agricultural innovation increased dramatically in response to environmental damage from the American Dust Bowl, substantially mitigating its economic impacts, from Jacob Moscona www.nber.org/papers/w34438

Shari Eli, Nicholas Li & Janki Shah use new complete count data to assess what can & cannot be learned about socio-economic status from the Canadian census 1871-1901. They analyze the non-reporting of earnings despite having an occupation & the characteristics of people at different earning levels.

Some authors have contacted AEA editors about an unexpected loss of data access that affects their ability to respond to an R&R. If this affects you, please explain the circumstances in your cover letter. Or reach out to the coeditor if you need guidance before resubmitting. @aeajournals.bsky.social

Reminder! Our Economics of Longevity & Ageing webinar series kicks off next month, on 19 Nov! With Amy Finkelstein Massachusetts Institute of Technology presenting 'Elderly Health & Longevity in the US' Register: https://cepr.org/events/event-series/economics-longevity-ageing-webinar-series #EconSky

So excited to be working with @jrothst.bsky.social and the amazing program committee to make this year's SoLE annual meeting the best ever-don't forget to submit your paper so you can join us there! www.sole-jole.org/2026-program...

Taking the literature as a whole, the global consequences of unmitigated climate change are likely to be substantial, unequal, harmful in aggregate, and potentially destabilizing, from Solomon Hsiang www.nber.org/papers/w34357

Join the RFBerlin Annual Public Lecture: “Why Women Won” by Nobel Laureate Claudia Goldin, Professor of Economics at Harvard University. 🆓 Free admission | 🎟️ Register now: form.typeform.com/to/j3BaW2OV 4 November 16:00 HU Spandauer Str. 1, 10178 Berlin

Nice piece from @antonhowes.bsky.social on @britishacademy.bsky.social Fellow Joel Mokyr who won the economics Nobel. As Anton brings out, it’s great to see the prize recognising economic history, especially that which comes out in books www.worksinprogress.news/p/what-makes...

What a great day: legends of innovation economics Mokyr, Aghion and Howitt win the Nobel. Joel was a PhD advisor of mine, so need a full article! Included: good & bad explanations of the Indus Rev, Aghion's charisma, influence of Jon Hughes, French fashion houses: kevinbryanecon.com/mokyraghionh...

🚨Econ Academic Job Alert🚨 UCalgary econ is posting for an Assistant or Associate Professor in Industrial Organization or Regulatory Economics Join us! #econsky careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1691840...

McGill Econ is hiring 🙌🏼 Check out our job ad below!

"Bob Fogel said to me once: For economics to work without economic history is like an evolutionary biologist without paleontology. You just miss 99.5% of all the species that ever walked on this earth." Joel Mokyr www.youtube.com/live/__0sGvj...

Nobel Laureate Joel Mokyr, Avner Greif, & Guido Tabellini discuss their recent book in which they argue institutions and culture played a key role in setting Europe and China on divergent paths of economic and political development. cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

"No way I am going to retire. Even if my students are retiring, not me." ❤️

Econ history family: incoming book alert! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Despite progress, Americans continue to live in racially homogeneous neighborhoods. We spoke with Trevon Logan of Ohio State and John Parman of @wm.edu about why residential segregation persists, and why it matters. #econsky www.aeaweb.org/research/rac...

I'm exited to announce a new resource about making slides with quarto and revealjs. This book is the combination of all the work I have done in this area, reordered and polished up There isn't a lot of new information yet, but this format allows me to add more easily slidecrafting-book.com #quarto

Newly published in Journal of Health Economics. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This new CESifo working paper on covariate balancing looks very interesting. @jmwooldridge.bsky.social Link: www.ifo.de/DocDL/cesifo...

Biographies linked with publications show that mothers reach peak scholarly productivity later in life, declining until children reach school age, while fathers experience no change. The time costs of raising the baby boom generation led to a loss of female scientists thru failure to achieve tenure.

Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "Medical Technology and Life Expectancy: Evidence from the Antitoxin Treatment of Diphtheria" by Philipp Ager, Casper W. Hansen, and Peter Z. Lin. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

#rstats #econsky fixest v0.13.0 is finally out! It's still about making OLS and GLM estimations easy. Some major changes: - *default* VCOV becomes iid always! - singletons are removed by default! See all the changes here: github.com/lrberge/fixe...

Let's welcome our next departmental seminar speaker, John Parman. He will present his paper, "The Great Migration and Women's Work."

Very excited to see my podcast with John Parman about our review of the racial segregation literature is out! Listen to “Reviewing Residential Segregation” here: www.aeaweb.org/research/rac... via @aeajournals.bsky.social

The first edition of The Bulletin on the Economics of Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias is now available: https://www.nber.org/ba

Without CT we couldn’t have written the paper!

For Day 2 of our celebration of work using the Census Tree we highlight @lukestein.com & co's work on the gendered impacts of perceived skin tone. They find that among African Amer. sisters, women perceived to be darker-skinned were disadvantaged. *They also cite a great QJE pub by Lisa Cook et al*

Incredibly excited for my brand new class at Rotman this fall: Progress! Econ history + theory + history of thought + philosophy on why rare orgs at rare times in rare places accomplish new things. Trying to put rigor onto an idea that is very much in the air. kevinbryanecon.com/Bryan-Progre... 1/3

Nice post by @jamesbrandecon.bsky.social on the scaling benefits that come from offloading your big regression jobs to a database. jamesbrandecon.github.io/blog/posts_h... (Showcasing some new-ish 📦 s that he, @apoorvalal.com & myself have been working on, but haven't really advertised yet.)

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper: @meltemdaysal.bsky.social, Hui Ding, @maya-rossin-slater.bsky.social and Hannes Schwandt study the spread of respiratory illnesses among children and the magnitudes of externalities on younger infant siblings over the short and long-run. www.rfberlin.com/network-pape...

There are several recent papers which could fall under the heading ‘Economic History of the Scientific Revolution’ but this network analysis tracing how scientific ideas diffused amongst scholars in the period 1084-1793 is a real milestone, an ‘epidemiological’ model of how ideas spread like disease

Belatedly doing my best to amplify this. Refine works, and I can totally see it becoming part of my pre-submission routine.

Forthcoming in the JEL: "Difference-in-Differences Designs: A Practitioner’s Guide" by Andrew Baker, Brantly Callaway, Scott Cunningham, Andrew Goodman-Bacon, and Pedro H. C. Sant'Anna. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

The @jpolecon.bsky.social is the latest addition to the list of top Econ journals adhering to datacodestandard.org . Our data policy implements DCAS (www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/jpe...)

Just gave a presentation a the REGIS summer school we organised in Bordeaux. Algorithms for empirical research Slides and material here: github.com/lrberge/2025... The conclusion is that, even in the age of AI, using your brain is still relevant! #RStats #EconSky

I was recently asked “What is the most important piece of advice you would give to a new assistant professor?” My new blog post covers the answer. #EconSky

New @nber.org working paper from our colleague Kasey Buckles @kaseybuckles.bsky.social (along with Joe Price and Zach Ward), "Grandchild? Multigenerational Mobility in American History." Check it out: www.nber.org/papers/w33923

Forthcoming in AER: Insights: "Nonbinary and Transgender Identities and Earnings: Evidence from a National Census" by Christopher S. Carpenter, Donn Feir, Krishna Pendakur, and Casey Warman. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...