Mein Mitgefühl gilt zB den Kolleg:innen aus Bosnien, die vor dem Krieg nach Ö flüchteten, hier seit Jahrzehnten als Leistungsträger:innen in Pflege, Spitälern, Handel oder Industrie arbeiten, Steuern zahlen, ihre Kinder großziehen und dann so etwas lesen müssen. Entschuldigung! Wir sind nicht so.

For someone who grew up in (the top decile of the income distribution of) a developing country, it is hilarious to see what Americans think is the bare minimum for a middle-class life. Kids sharing a bedroom? Oh, the indignity…

This looks like a must-read for diff-in-diffs folks. www.nber.org/papers/w34550

Our "Dodging Day Zero" paper is out in JEEA. We uncover how Cape Town avoided 2017's catastrophic drought. But in doing so, created longer term sustainability challenges and weakened the fiscal viability of public water. A lesson for the 1B living in drought vulnerable cities. #climatesky #econsky

Households face annual costs of roughly $400–$900 from climate change—mainly from disasters, higher insurance, and energy costs—with lower-income families and certain regions hit disproportionately, from @kclausing.bsky.social, Knittel, and @cwolfram.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w34525

This is wild! Seven-day-ahead weather forecasts in high-income countries are more accurate than one-day-ahead weather forecasts in low-income countries.

Here's my thread of this year's new scholars in Economics of Education and Education Policy. These PhD students and postdocs are on the job market, so take a look (and spread the word to others who might benefit from exposure). And now onto the scholars... 👇

TOMORROW (19 Nov) AYEW Education Workshop! Join us at 10am GMT(9pm AEDT) to listen to Mincer Chou (UChicago), @stnavdeev.com(@uva.nl),@kaveendravasu.bsky.social (@monashuniversity.bsky.social) & @subarnabanerjee.bsky.social (@uni-goettingen.de). Sign up for Zoom link: monash.edu/business/imp...

🚨New working paper #econsky 🚗🇩🇪 What happens when CEOs express political ideology? In our new paper, Sebastian and I investigate how Elon #Musk’s endorsement of Germany’s far-right #AfD in Dec 2024 polarized #Tesla sales across political lines.

62 Prozent der Wähler haben sich für eine Olympia-Bewerbung von München ausgesprochen. Der Deutsche Sportbund wird 2026 entscheiden, ob er sich mit der Stadt bewirbt.

🚨 @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 🧵 👇

Wow. This is the paper I have been waiting for. Mobile apps are brain rot, with meaningfully bad economic consequences for those who overuse them.

Reminder!

Deviations from moderate temperatures kill hundreds of thousands each year in the US and EU, with limited evidence on which interventions work to reduce these burdens, from Burke, Wilson, Avirmed, Wallstein, Martins, Behrer, Callahan, Childs, Choi, French, Gould... https://www.nber.org/papers/w34313

A research agenda for incorporating the effects of biodiversity loss and nature degradation into financial economics, from Stefano Giglio, Theresa Kuchler, Johannes Stroebel, and Olivier Wang https://www.nber.org/papers/w34286

In Hessen scannen Mitarbeiter*innen des Kultusministeriums Social-Media-Accounts von Schulen, ob dort mit Sonderzeichen gegendert wird und weist die Schulen dann darauf hin, dass die verboten sei. Alles normal.

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 🧵

We failed the drone test so he’s trying something else. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

When individuals are induced to work from home, they spend less time with work associates and do not substitute toward more time with individuals outside of their household, from Benjamin W. Cowan and Todd R. Jones https://www.nber.org/papers/w34239

Brazil’s supreme court finds Bolsonaro guilty of plotting military coup

#Berlin transport policy is incredible. The city implemented 30km/h limits on main roads where air quality was subpar and is now reversing it to 50km/h because ... it worked and the air is better.

Ich werde immer wieder gefragt, warum 1) so wenig von den Demokraten zu hoeren ist, und 2) warum es scheinbar so wenig gesellschaftlichen Widerstand gegen das Trumpregime gibt. Ein Faden mit dem Versuch einer Erklaerung:

Was darf Satire? In Österreich offenbar immer weniger. Schriftsteller Daniel Kehlmann über ein „lupenreines Skandalurteil“ gegen den Satiriker Florian Scheuba:

Although the holo deck probably added unavoidable ads in later installments

New Paper Alert!📢 "Does Remote Work Reinforce Gender Gaps in (Un)Paid Labor?" by‬ @jvali.bsky.social Yes! Within-couple analyses confirm that the Big Shift to WFH intensifies gender gaps in paid and unpaid work, particularly caregiving. Find out more: 🔗 www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/pu...

In the formal sector of Brazil, managers are 5 percent of former job holders but their startups account for 27 percent of new firm employment, from Marc-Andreas Muendler, James E. Rauch, and Sergio Mikio Koyama https://www.nber.org/papers/w34158

Just published in @jpube.bsky.social: "Climate and migration in the United States" By @patrickbaylis.bsky.social, Prashant Bharadwaj, Jamie T. Mullins, & Nick Obradovich www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #econsky #publiceconomics

Bitte was….?!?!? 😳

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

War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength - and Germany violates human rights more than El Salvador. on the upsidedown world of the new State Department human rights reports www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Thought about this all day and don't have an answer. But we've only got 50 "laboratories of democracy" (derogatory), so wtf are we supposed to do if state-level DDs are all underpowered?

Just published in @jpube.bsky.social: "The impact of economic opportunity on criminal behavior: Evidence from the fracking boom" By @brittanystreet.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #econsky #publiceconomics

Great to (finally) see this in print: "Fines, nonpayment, and revenues" joint w/@libordusekeu.bsky.social academic.oup.com/jleo/article... Haven't thread-posted on research in a while (and missing this type of content on bsky!), so let me tell you a bit more about this paper (1/5) #EconSky

Moving further out, upgrading for space. #WFH is reshaping cities. Morgane Richard @siepr.bsky.social joins Tim Phillips @talknormal.co.uk to discuss how #RemoteWork is changing house prices and rents in London. New form the @pse.bsky.social ‬ -CEPR Policy Forum series: cepr.org/multimedia/e...

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

Cool paper with an great title. Across the world, boys are much more likely to overestimate their math ability than girls. People from high SES backgrounds do the same www.iza.org/publications...

Remote work used to be rare. Now it might be permanent. Steven Davis @hooverinstitution.bsky.social ‬talks to @talknormal.co.uk about what’s changed since #Covid, who’s benefiting—and what’s next for work New from Vox Talks: cepr.org/multimedia/w... #EconSky

📢 #CallForPapers To honour the memory of Ghazala Azmat, the Economics Department of SciencesPo is creating an award in her name. Junior researchers can submit a paper in economics of discrimination, gender, education & organizational #economics. Submit by 31 August. cepr.org/events/ghaza... #EconSky

Discussing the rise and fall of US carbon emissions since 1850, with a focus on the electricity sector and the policies, technologies, and shocks that shaped emissions, from Karen Clay, Akshaya Jha, Joshua A. Lewis, and Edson R. Severnini https://www.nber.org/papers/w33983

Open call for papers, Economics of Transportation in the 21st Century. Conference to be held virtually on October 24, 2025. Submit papers by 11:59pm EDT on September 3, 2025. More information: https://www.nber.org/calls-papers-and-proposals/economics-transportation-21st-century

Der Regierungschef rechnete jüngst vor, dass der deutsche CO₂-Ausstoß eigentlich egal ist. Wer sein Land so kleinmacht, kann auch sonst nicht mehr den großen Mann geben.

❓Why do the Nordics & Dutch speak English so much better than the Germans, Italians & French? ➡️ New Working Paper: Out-of-School Learning: Subtitling vs. Dubbing and the Acquisition of Foreign-Language Skills w/ F. Baumeister & E. Hanushek www.nber.org/papers/w33984 A 🧵 1/12

"To understand America today, study the zero-sum mindset." My piece in @theeconomistevents.bsky.social this week on how zero-sum thinking arises and why it matters so much for policy and politics. Based on our research at the Social Economics Lab. www.economist.com/by-invitatio...

🏭 Just accepted in #JAERE! 🏭 🗑️ Where does the world’s waste go when the biggest importer says “no more”? "Global Impact of a Unilateral Waste Trade Regulation" by Prakrati Thakur (@prakrati.bsky.social) Read it here: buff.ly/Kerq6gp #EconSky 📈📉

Speed restrictions imposed on two main train lines amid UK heatwave

Just published in @jpube.bsky.social: "Industrial automation and local public goods" By Luke Spreen, Ziyuan Wang, & @katelangyang.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #econsky #publiceconomics

NATO agrees on 3.5% defence spending. German government plans to raise it to that level quickly, with debt only. There was *one* politician in the election campaign who said all this needed to happen.

Every time I read these stories I cant help but think of Vance who came to Munich to tell Europe that we have freedom of speech problem.

Still recovering from shock of having just read a large grant application with made-up reference list. Familiar authors but most refs don’t exist. ChatGPT written all over it Must sound familiar to those marking student essays. But, really, in a grant application? Who do they think they’re kidding?