Just sayin’

“The survey included a state‐of‐the‐art discrete choice experiment (DCE) to estimate WTP”

I’m heading to my 40th college reunion this afternoon, can’t wait to see how old everyone looks.

Does existence value exist?

How about teaching data analysis and visualization instead?

When the universities start teaching the learning shortcuts

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky. No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

The review invitation had no deadline. I accepted it and the next email says: "Please try your best to complete your review by 03-Oct-2025." So, today is a week later and the tone of the automatic email message has changed. I won't referee for this journal again.

To a journal editor:

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Apologies, here are the two links again: Submit your abstract: sbca.mymeetingsavvy.net/login Call for abstracts: www.benefitcostanalysis.org/annual-confe...

✨New Article ✨ In a new open access article, Tanga M. Mohr and John C. Whitehead (@johnwhitehead81.bsky.social) use attribute non-attendance (ANA) models to test for differences in discrete choice expiriments with real and hypothetical payoffs

Come on bro, this is just undignified.

You should read this for sure.

What’s up with Saban’s hair today?

The big story here is of an agency of dedicated statisticians and public servants working tirelessly to improve economic data in a climate of budgetary cuts to data collection. They have been very innovative in meeting that mandate. But we should also just fund our economic infrastructure.

We are now accepting proposals for the 2026 Annual Conference scheduled for March 12-13, 2026, at the George Washington University Student Center in Washington, D.C. This is your opportunity to showcase your research, engage with peers and contribute to the evolving field of benefit-cost analysis.

What do we do when authors don’t provide a “response to reviewers” document? It’s a good journal. I haven’t encountered this in a good while.

How do they cash in? Seems like it’s pump and dump but they can’t dump it.

Rockville

Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it

Financial literacy course should probably include a section on "spending $65k on some weird scam."

We live in Crazy Town www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...

All I wanted was my reviewer certificate.

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From Wired: “Tech companies are continuing to feel the impact of President Donald Trump’s tariffs, this time in the gaming sector. Sony announced today that all editions of the PlayStation 5 will cost $50 more in less than 24 hours. New prices take effect August 21.”

The published article is now available at Environmental Resource Economics here, with open access. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Based on a special feature in Environmental and Resource Economics, the #Guardian documents unprecedented changes in US environmental policy, #EconSky #EAERE #EPA US Profs Catherine L Kling, Stephen Polasky, and Kathleen Segerson dissect the revolution... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Trump surrogate attacking government statistics by failing to add correctly is almost too perfect (16% + 30% ≠ “2 out of 3”)

Meet our presenters for our upcoming Animal Welfare and Benefit-Cost Analysis workshop in October: Nicolas Treich Nicolas Treich is a research associate at Toulouse School of Economics and INRAE in Toulouse, France.

Meet our presenters for our upcoming Animal Welfare and Benefit-Cost Analysis workshop in October: Nicolas Treich Nicolas Treich is a research associate at Toulouse School of Economics and INRAE in Toulouse, France.

Meet our presenters for our upcoming Animal Welfare and Benefit-Cost Analysis workshop in October: Mark Budolfson

What if it was a hot dog?

The lead story, "Truth Hurts," is brief and well worth reading. messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/dynamic/rend...

I don’t think I have ever publicly criticized any Presidential nominee before. But E.J. Antoni is completely unqualified to be BLS Commissioner. He is an extreme partisan and does not have any relevant expertise. He would be a break from decades of nonpartisan technocrats.

Reviewing a paper… Me: did you check for ANA? Authors: yes, found none Me (after publication): can I have your data?

If you want a better sense of Stephen Moore's facility with economic data and general relationship to the truth, I recommend googling 'Stephen Moore Volcker Rule.' www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/u...

Why do environmental valuation economists ignore attribute non-attendance? There is plenty of evidence that it biases attribute coefficients towards zero.

Price gouging the U.S. Forest Service (a monopoly example) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/b...

What to make of POTUS's attempt to fire the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)? Let's run down what knowledgable people are saying...

What data is your boy going to use when he’s cutting interest rates?

This

What say you, Howard Lutnick?

Ignore the premature boasts of politican schills www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/b...

AEA Statement on Dismissal of BLS Comm. "The independence of the federal statistical agencies is essential to the proper functioning of a modern economy. Accurate, timely, and impartial statistics are the foundation upon which households, businesses, and policymakers make critical decisions."

We are going to end up with something like the Waffle House Index to measure distress in the economy

For months, people have been asking me whether I still trusted gov’t data. My answer was always the same: The stats agencies faced longstanding challenges, some of which Trump was making worse. But there was no sign of political meddling. I can’t say that anymore. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/b...

Apparently this is the in the Authoritarian Playbook... in 2022... Turkey’s Erdogan Fires Statistics Chief After Record Inflation - WSJ www.wsj.com/world/middle...