It is scandalous that speed cameras are currently illegal in Massachusetts. Thankfully, the 2026 budget tries to change this budget.digital.mass.gov/govbudget/fy...

Clear and sensible piece on AI load growth and your electricity bill: energyathaas.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/w...

My coauthors and I are hiring a project coordinator for new research on an innovative jail-based rehabilitation paper (IGNITE), building on our recent QJE Apply at careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/project...

🧵 (1/7) With @knittelmit.bsky.social and @cwolfram.bsky.social, happy to announce our new paper on “Who Bears the Burden of Climate Inaction?”, just posted for BPEA @brookings.edu. We find large climate cost impacts that vary by both geography and income. www.brookings.edu/articles/who...

This will be remembered as the two days in which ascendant China took over global climate and energy policy leadership from declining America. The electrostate surpassing the petrostate. At Global Climate Summit This Week, U.S. Isolation Was on Full Display www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/c...

Come be a razorback! We are hiring two positions this year at the U of Arkansas! Macro/General Equilibrium: www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing.... Applied Micro: www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing.... Northwest Arkansas is consistently ranked one of the best places to live. Here's some highlights!

Fellow econ folks! We are hiring! Come work with me and my delightful colleagues at The University of Melbourne! Applications close November 23, 2025 Link: unimelb.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UoM_Ex...

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

@UCDavisARE.bsky.social is hiring an Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics: Financial and Agricultural Commodity Market Economics. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07305

I'm delighted to announce the release of the Flagship Report of the Global Climate Policy Project at Harvard and MIT Working Group on Climate Coalitions on "Building a Climate Coalition: Aligning Carbon Pricing, Trade, and Development." ceepr.link/3VmgC7g A 🧵 on what we do/find:

The School of Planning, Policy, and Environmental Studies at San José State University is hiring an Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies. We welcome applicants from all fields of environmental studies who apply an environmental justice lens to their work. jobs.sjsu.edu/sj/en-us/job...

I'm hiring predocs to work with me on econ policy research projects starting in Summer 2026. Topics include healthcare, consumer finance, energy markets, housing, and childcare. You'll be part of an awesome community of @siepr.bsky.social predocs. Details here: siepr.stanford.edu/programs/sie...

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📢JOB OPPORTUNITY📢 I am hiring a part-time or full-time research assistant in Mexico City 🇲🇽 For a project with #PierreBachas #AndersJensen to understand the impacts of a tax on firms' cash deposits at banks seankhiggins.com/assets/pdf/I... #EconRA @povertyaction.bsky.social @j-pal.bsky.social

📢Nina Roussille and I are hiring a full-time predoctoral researcher to work with us at MIT on labor economics research projects. IMPORTANT: this vacancy is open right now, so we are particularly interested in people who could start soon. Link to apply: careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...

Some professional news: Zurich’s ascent over the past ~10 years has been incredible. They show what can be accomplished when good institutions and resources meet. I’m incredibly excited and honored to participate in UZH’s continued success!

My papers arguing that the "Abundance Movement" needs broadening to include place-based jobs policies for distressed places are being released today, with a long paper at the Upjohn Institute & a shorter summary at Brookings Metro.

We’re hiring an assistant or associate professor to join our psychology department at the University of Illinois Chicago! We’re a vibrant research-active department in a great city, a diverse institution with a purpose-driven mission, and a fun place to work! #psychjobs uic.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Nice chart this week which reminded me of this shocking map that we ran five years ago. Clean energy production can't come to Poland soon enough www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

I hope that this figure (from www.climatedevlab.brown.edu/post/against...) blows up in response to this threat by Marzulla Law

My crack insurance team is out with new visualizations of the recent California FAIR plan data release. The picture is not pretty. This data release covers the period from September of 2024 to June of 2025. Think of it as the first look into the post-LA Wildfire insurance environment.

Excited to have this WP out! We use a real-stakes survey experiment to measure misperceptions about air pollution/health impacts & test whether updating beliefs changes WTP for clean air We find large misperceptions, but not strong evidence that rectifying these would close Black-White WTP gaps

This is how you save $2bn per hurricane: www.nber.org/papers/w32548

The White House is taking new steps to undermine every international student at our universities. It has approved a new rule restricting student visas to 4 years max. That's not long enough for PhD students, or about half of undergrads, to finish their degree. Likely to enter force within days.

Got into a friendly argument with a family member over whether California or the Midwest will be relatively worse for smoky days in the coming years. Want to go on a journey with us? 1/n

@severinborenstein.bsky.social differentiates between demand reductions that save society's resources and demand reductions that are wasteful.

Our paper is officially out 🎉 We argue that climate clubs show promise: - A climate club with coordinated penalties could curb 68% of excess emissions from free-riding -Unilateral carbon tariffs? Not nearly as effective

Thanks to @lastweektonight.com for a great story on why work requirements are bad policy and for citing my research! Never thought I’d see my name next to John Oliver’s face while he talks about my work!!

This is a slap in the face of all public finance economists out there

if I were a car manufacturer, I would just drop an EV drivetrain into one of these iconic body styles and sit back and profit. failures of capitalism abound.

@alexnitkin.bsky.social is doing a great job keeping Chicago’s very limited ADU policy visible. My fave line: alderpeople are skeptical about allowing a housing type that doesn’t require getting permission from them 🤨

Great paper just out in Real Estate Economics by Andrew Bibler, @kteltser.bsky.social, and Mark Tremblay on the effects of SF’s Airbnb registration requirement. Quantities fell by a quarter and, interestingly, the effects were largest among professional hosts. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

New NBER paper: Shifting from the gas tax to a vehicle-miles-traveled tax would disproportionately benefit rural/Republican parts of the US. Reasons: 🔹 Higher EV uptake on the coasts (EV owners don't pay gas tax) 🔹 Gas cars in urban/Dem areas get better gas mileage www.nber.org/system/files...

Yesterday, AB745 (Irwin) passed the CA Assembly unanimously. It takes cap-and-trade funds from the climate credit & uses it to lower electricity prices during the summer, providing relief when needed most. This addresses energy affordability & provides momentum for C&T renewal. 1/ #energysky

This is like a list of Wout Van Aert palmares

get a handle on the car crash data in your neighborhood, ward, or other political district in Chicago. www.chicagocityscape.com/maps/chicago...

Best way to keep track of papal news

We’re hiring a lawyer to help defend our public records work. Deets: energyandpolicy.org/public-recor...

Recently accepted to #REStud, ``Colluding against Environmental Regulation," from Alé-Chilet, Chen, @jingli-econ.bsky.social and Reynaert: www.restud.com/colluding-ag... #EconSky #REStud #pollution #regulation #collusion

Today's cool young researcher #econtwitter #econsky is @juliaseither @juliaseither.bsky.social at Universidad del Rosario who works on topics related to experimental + behavioral economics www.juliaseither.org/

Recently the President ordered that coal generators don’t need to comply with the Mercury and Air Toxics Standard (MATS). My forthcoming JPE paper with Gautam Gowrisankaran and Wendan Zhang on uncertainty surrounding MATS, so it seems like it’s time for a thread! www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

A new map from @transalt.org shows exactly where the city's worst drivers are speeding through school zones.

🔌💡 Come work with us at Vassar College! Vassar is hiring a 2-year Research Associate (postdoc) in Community-Engaged Macro-Energy Systems Modeling. Bring your energy-modeling skills, learn to deploy them in a local/regional context, and communicate your work to local policy-makers. Reach out with Qs!

STAT News is a trusted and timely source of information – to be named by this outlet as an influential scholar in the field is a tremendous honor.

Every day we learn anew just how much classified ads were perhaps the load-bearing pillar of American hegemony

Excited to see this paper coming out in JAERE! The idea for this came from casual conversations very early in the PhD, so it's nice to see it find such a wonderful home! JAERE's review process was super helpful. Alternative title: "Why your recreation demand model probably needs a price instrument"

Trying again since the thread didn't appear correctly: today's cool young researcher #econsky is @pbiscaye.bsky.social at CERDI who works on topics related to development, labor + agriculture

This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.

To anyone who is not clear: The First Amendment protected Rumeysa Ozturk when she published her op-ed. The same way it has protected me. Rule of law means that we should be treated equally.