📢 Out now in the ❄️January 2026 issue❄️of #JAERE! 📢 "Global Impact of a Unilateral Waste Trade Regulation" by Prakrati Thakur ( @prakrati.bsky.social ). Read it here: buff.ly/UrIbxDk 📈📉 #Econsky

My manuscript "The Economics of Noncompete Clauses" is now out in the Journal of Economic Perspectives. Few topics have garnered more debate and policy attention over the last few years. This article brings us up to speed on the debate and the current answers. pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...

Documenting trends in joint exposure to environmental stressors for 168 US cities finds persistent, yet narrowing, multi-exposure gaps, from Glenn Sheriff, Danae Hernandez-Cortes, TC Chakraborty, and Theresa DeConcini www.nber.org/papers/w34739

Event-study plots in DiD are incredibly persuasive—but, honestly, not always honest. Why? If parallel trends or no anticipation fail, DiD estimates are biased. Testing against a zero-effect null then becomes misleading. 🚨New 📄: arxiv.org/abs/2512.06804 #CausalInference #EconSky #StatsSky #rstats

📢 Just accepted in #JAERE! 📢 "Glyphosate Use, Water Contamination, and Neonatal Health in the United States" by Tzu-Hui J. Chen. Read it here: buff.ly/PhCSHrH 📈📉 #Econsky

Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "Flood Risk Mapping and the Distributional Impacts of Climate Information" by Joakim A. Weill. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

There’s a paradox around remote work. Jamie Dimon says it will kill productivity, while startups are hiring for remote roles. Who is right? With Abhinav Gupta and Elena Simintzi we try to resolve this dispute Paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Substack: arpitrage.substack.com/p/remote-wor...

Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "Hurricanes, Climate Change Policies and Electoral Accountability" by Stefano Gagliarducci, M. Daniele Paserman, and Eleonora Patacchini. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

📢 #CallForPapers 15th Energy & Climate Economics #Conference 📍@tse-fr.eu | 📆4-5 June Submissions on any aspect of the economics of energy and climate change are invited. Deadline: 28 February Organisers: @ambec.bsky.social & Mathias Reynaert cepr.org/events/tse-e... #EconSky #EconConf

Parents’ traits can bias reports of children’s non-cognitive skills. Using parent and teacher measures of child skills in a dynamic model, we show that this bias tends to mask maternal influence and can distort evaluations of childhood interventions. buff.ly/H8Oi42O

The AEA has posted eight "Recent Developments" lectures exploring highly topical issues in economics, presented by the best scholars in the field: www.aeaweb.org/conference/w... Well worth a watch!

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