📢 Out now in the September 2025 issue of #JAERE! 📢 "Industrial Water Pollution and Agricultural Production in India" by Nick Hagerty ( @hagertynw.bsky.social ) and Anshuman Tiwari. Read it here: buff.ly/oAalYIW 📈📉 #Econsky

For people in Bozeman! We're voting on a ballot initiative this fall that sounds good but would cause some huge problems (Precautionary disclaimer: we wrote this as private citizens, not representing our employer) www.bozemandailychronicle.com/opinions/gue...

Out today in JAERE! We measure water pollution released at India's industrial clusters. Does it hurt agriculture? Surprisingly: Not by much Come for how we published a paper of null results & with no regression tables Stay for new ways to proxy for crop yields & map hydrological relationships 🧵

🔥BLS Staff: "We will publish reliable data, no matter how inconvenient the results... Acting Commissioner is a respected career professional. There are no other political appointees at BLS... will remain accurate & nonpartisan... if that ever changes, the professionals will tell you." #StandWithBLS

I don't like it but HIGH FREQUENCY, IN-PERSON assessments are the only way college students are going to learn anything this semester www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...

We are hiring at Montana State! Link in thread If you aren't sure whether you fit the posted topic areas, please don't pre-screen yourself out, let our committee decide! I'm not on the search committee but happy to answer any general questions

knowing "how the computer works" is quickly going from "advantageous skillset in office job" to "godlike degree of metacognition when navigating reality"

For six months, I've said that threats to economic data have been more collateral damage than intentional harm. No longer. Firing the head of the BLS is five-alarm intentional harm to the integrity of US economic data and the entire statistical system.

Excited to announce a new funding opportunity for research on "what works" in climate adaptation. We are specifically looking for strong causal designs that tell us what interventions work (or don't) to reduce impacts of a changing climate. Plz share + apply! seedfunding.stanford.edu/apply/U5N4

Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.

I had no idea our registrar's office went so hard youtu.be/diZr6PdwutM?...

"I'm going to govern in econometrics" is a winning campaign slogan for the ages.

Trying to put this as simply as possible: Trump sent an innocent man to a foreign prison and is ignoring a Supreme Court order to bring him back. If this stands, he could do the same to anybody in the U.S., we no longer have rights, and the Constitution no longer has meaning.

This is a big deal. Spread the word. But it’s tiny compared to the totality of what’s happening at NIH. Cure Research for all cancers, Alzheimer’s, everything is being gutted. Intentionally. It’s all getting burned to the ground but the news isn’t getting out. The new cures won’t be there for you.

💧 Just accepted 🌱 in JAERE: "Industrial Water Pollution and Agricultural Production in India " by Nick Hagerty (@hagertynw.bsky.social) and Anshuman Tiwari Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #EconSky 📈 📉

I think the real problem with DOGE is that it’s a bunch of people who think that everyone is stupid except for them, when in reality every organization is made up of people who are trying to do things as best as they can but are constrained by other factors

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

A good thing that happened today was receiving a text from a friend who does education research telling me that the USDE grant he worked on was reinstated, following a lawsuit that his university filed.

The economy relies on the BEA's accurate estimates of statistics that have stable, longstanding definitions. Businesses and investors need to know what's going on. Interfering with GDP numbers for political reasons will lead to disaster.

This year's Bozeman Applied Micro Conference is June 16-17, 2025 Paper submissions open now through March 7 www.montana.edu/econ/summerc...

I'm happy to publish something I've been reporting for a while: a guide for how to fight the Trump-Musk power grab and win, with specific advice that you can start acting on *today*. www.vox.com/politics/399...

A take on our rapidly moving Constitutional crisis that isn't exactly optimistic, but gives some plausible reasons to resist the pull of full doomerism. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/o...

YES PLEASE

Roses are red Coffee is bitter We love it when you share your own thoughts Rather than the worst screenshots from Twitter

Save the date! Announcing the inaugural BIG SKY WORKSHOP on the Economics of Agriculture and the Environment Hosted by Montana State University and PERC in Bozeman, MT -- June 19-20, 2025 Call for abstracts in January. Travel funding available for grad students www.bigskyworkshop.net

TIL pinto beans spark in the microwave

Actionable evidence, measured by timely release of the results (esp when program is linked to the ruling party) is the only thing strongly positively correlated with spending changes. This suggests the policy environment is changing over time -- quick release of evidence might be very important.

did an endangered eagle write this??

Proud to share my first NBER working paper. 17.5 million Redfin users were randomly assigned to see or not see flood risk on home listing; the treated users went on to make offers on less risky homes. First casual evidence that homebuyers are adapting to climate change www.nber.org/papers/w33119

Podcast suggestions for someone who loves the Ezra Klein Show and finds most other podcasts either too surface-level or meandering, but needs to reduce their attention to politics? Asking for me.

Podcast suggestions for someone who loves the Ezra Klein Show and finds most other podcasts either too surface-level or meandering, but needs to reduce their attention to politics? Asking for me.

oh, so we have to keep doing this forever wapo.st/4fkUVgo

What is the life you wish to preserve? Maintain that until someone stops you.

On the choices that Americans like me now face, inspired by 20 years of research and experience on nondemocratic politics around the world. Read and don't look away.

As suggested by @jamesfeigenbaum.bsky.social, here's a thread version of "An objective ranking of econ journal cover designs" Enjoy!

2. JPE Micro. This design doubtless put AER: Insights on notice. This is how you modernize your journal ecosystem (, graphically), folks

That's great news for all the env econ folks out there :) Amazing location! @aereorg.bsky.social #econsky

We're hiring! Come work with me and live in Bozeman! Ag econ may be interpreted broadly (to include energy, enviro, trade, etc) but your work should have some relevance to ag in Montana I think we plan to move early (sorry all) so get applications in ASAP! www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....

The question is not "which is the best variety of apple" but rather "why is there still a market at all for any variety besides Cosmic Crisp"

Mentoring and networking is about more than brief access to top journal editors and other famous economists, sorry to say @aeainformation.bsky.social (I appreciate all the individual participants! The issue is the overall approach)

Concepts of a plan for tomorrow morning’s 8:30 class

Academics, never change. I love you

Niche coding question: Has anyone who likes using R found a workaround to the fact that binsreg and rdrobust are ~10x faster in Stata? (Well rdplot is 10x faster; rdrobust is more like 2x.) Seems they could be taking advantage of fixest but aren't.

Let's be clear here: It's COMPLETELY UNHELPFUL for advisors/senior colleagues to just say "submit your papers". We know!! Repeating it is counterproductive, it only adds to the guilt and shame. What IS helpful is to help us understand WHY we are not submitting and to help us overcome the barriers