The “big beautiful bill” greatly expanded SNAP work requirements for parents In my paper with @jasonbcook.bsky.social, forthcoming at JPUBE, we ask what similar, existing requirements do SNAP work requirements for parents deny vulnerable parents SNAP benefits and do not increase their employment

This is the kind of economic illiteracy that has public thinking that energy production ➡️ energy independence. No one cares who you buy from when the price of the tradable good is set by global supply and demand. This article is a perfect exercise in miseducation. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

timely

good night, sewers. good night, streams. good night, operations and maintenance teams. good night, settling tanks. good night, stream banks. good night, engineers, scientists, crews, managers, inspectors, analysts too. a good night for us means serving with care. good night, sewers, everywhere.

Excited to share a new @nber.org paper w/Blonz/Hossain/Mulder/Weill where we show credit scores impact homeowners insurance premiums as much as disaster risk. Here’s what happened in WA when they banned credit scoring:

📢 Call for papers! We are organizing the 6th Early Career Workshop in Quantitative Political Economy on 14-15 May 2026 at King’s College London! Keynote: Shanker Satyanath (NYU) No fee, travel grants might become available! Submit at: tinyurl.com/qpe2026

a modicum of good news

My favorite paper of 2019 has just been conditionally accepted at AER (lmao) The Voting Rights Act rapidly increased Black wages in the South via public employment & redistribution static1.squarespace.com/static/59dc0...

The collapse of the US National Science Foundation

given the existence of skeleton and luge, i postulate the existence of two other, yet to be discovered, winter olympic sports

devastating news

Postdoc posting: Economics of education at Tufts with my colleague Elizabeth Setren. main.hercjobs.org/jobs/2203818...

In today’s NZ Herald

Today in the worlds least surprising news www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

fwiw, famously, many cap and trade systems feature a phased/gradual introduction to ease this kind of adjustment...

coming soon to @chicagocityscape.com: this chart showing new construction homes permitted per ward per year the * asterisk indicates that the ward saw fewer than 100 homes in the 8-year period shown

If you’re not using Claude Code, now’s the time to jump in!

Are female economists treated differently than males in academic seminars? These authors wanted to know whether gender shapes how scholars are treated when presenting research. So they built a massive dataset of 2,000+ economics seminars, job talks, and conference presentations from 2019–2023...

Woah this NYC isometric map (looks just like Simcity 2000) is blowing my mind! cannoneyed.com/isometric-nyc/

Hey JMCs, I know the waiting can be stressful. Good news: @billingsecon.bsky.social, @schnepel.bsky.social, & I are hiring a postdoc on our project funded by Arnold VentureS 📢 Apply here: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDetail…#EconSkyky 📈📉

they don't make AER titles like they used to

Investigating whether economic hardship undermines preferences for honesty in Kenya, from Livia Alfonsi, Michal Bauer, Julie Chytilová, and Edward Miguel www.nber.org/papers/w34695

every day the Financial Times asks me questions i am frankly unqualified to answer

Big, big news! This is probably the coolest of the many jobs I have shared here! 🚨COME BE MY DEPUTY🚨 🚨JOIN THE BEST TEAM WORKING IN CLIMATE POLICY AND POLITICS!🚨 This. Will. Go. Fast.

Everyone talks about the "credibility revolution", but I think one of the most valuable shifts in econ over the last decade has been the rise of rigorous descriptive historical work like this in top journals:

"Big 3 Not So Big"

Q: There’s a regression with three coefficients: b1, b2, b3 A theory says b1 > b2 > b3 What statistical test should I perform to test this joint prediction? The point estimates are such that b3 > b1 > b2, if that matters

The EPA will stop considering lives saved when setting pollution limits and instead calculate only the cost to businesses. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...

Finished teaching a new course on energy markets and the clean energy transition last month. Was a blast and have lots of thoughts for next year. One takeaway is the value of going beyond academic journals/textbooks and incorporating media articles, podcasts, and video. Here's a few we covered... 🧵

Working in open science or meta-research? Present at the BITSS Annual Meeting in Berkeley! One of the leading conferences in this space.

I'm super skeptical of the result/magnitude here: • gradual change doesn't match traffic responses, which were sharp • confidence intervals are tiny (PM has high variance!) • This is not a standard DiD • Cook et al. use synthetic control + more monitors and find no change [1/3]

In today's JMP blog, @krajah123.bsky.social conducts experiments in India to show how spousal jealousy affects female labor force participation: women are more likely to take up work in women-only office & greater impacts for those with more jealous husbands blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...?

Years ago I would tell my first year econometrics class that there were doing ways of doing statistical inference, Bayesian and frequentist, also known as right and wrong. A student asked if that would be on the exam.

Trade JMPs (2025-2026) tradediversion.net/2025/11/27/t...

Re-upping this position before the December 1st application deadline. I'm looking to hire a post-doc - could be a climate scientist or environmental economist. Ideal start early 2026 but could be later. Please circulate!

really hoping that someone has bought Ashesh Rambachan and/or Jon Roth a new computer since 2023

if you don't think this thread is Cool, we won't get along

My group at the University of Illinois is hiring a tenure-track applied economist. We're especially interested in environmental/public reduced-form rookies with research that complements our group. Tell your students to apply! #EconSky www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....

If anyone has a job market paper they would like me to repost, tag me and I will do my best to do so! Would love to follow what people are working on more closely.

The evidence keeps accumulating that Brexit was an astonishing self-inflicted economic policy disaster. The fact that it is a slow-moving one bodes ill for those who think that populist economic mismanagement will translate into voters punishing populists. www.nber.org/system/files...

Excited to be part of this series! Join us on Monday if you want to hear about the theory and cost-benefit behind exempting green vehicles from congestion pricing, plus some empirical results from Stockholm

We're hiring at UIC Econ! uic.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Today's cool young researcher #econtwitter #econsky is @eco_osuna who works on topics related to development + labor

Resources Radio (from RFF) today dropped their podcast episode w Daniel Raimi talking to me about my research on "Energy Hog" households, who are mostly just homes in hot climates, with many occupants and w/out rooftop solar. www.resources.org/resources-ra... haas.berkeley.edu/energy-insti... 💡🔌

🚨 @andrealanauze.bsky.social & I are organizing the 2nd women & femme-id ppl in enviro econ workshop ♀️🌱📈 #EconTwitter Key dates: submit full paper or long abstract by Dec 3 Workshop: 9-10 April, in Venice, Italy Thx to @cagewarwick.bsky.social for 💰 & @cepr.org for support Link in 🧵 👇

Economists often tie their discount rates to market interest rates. Why? I critically examine the four most common reasons in a short paper just out in The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Time. You can download the preprint version here: philpapers.org/rec/KELTDA-6

Great news! Andrew Plantinga will be succeeding Nick Kuminoff as one of the four editors of @jaereaere.bsky.social starting January 1. Compensation for the less great but inevitable news that Nick's term must end. Thanks Nick and welcome Andrew. www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/jaere/cu...

Come work with us at @crestumr.bsky.social ! You will find a fantastic research environment, a collegial atmosphere and super bright students ✨