However, I do recommend checking out the sky when you wake up #GoJays

another good reminder to not read emails right when you wake up: 5:45am paper rejection emails 🤡

"Humans aren’t very efficient movers—until you put us on a bicycle, when we become some of the most energy-efficient land travelers in the animal kingdom." www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-hu...

A dear friend of mine (not on the socials) is researching Monsanto and found these GEMS in the archives. “They’re lean, hungry-looking bodysweaters. Pure skin stuff.” 💀

Great example of a non-land use form of option value. I value the option to *think about going to a cool kid cocktail place down the street but then ultimately rot on my couch with the dog and cat

Potential natural experiment for crime Econ people 😬 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

@englishrail.bsky.social and I have a piece in the Globe & Mail about how Canada can make housing more affordable and accessible, and disentangle itself from its unreliable and hostile southern neighbor: give its elevator industry the option to use the European/global standard, not just the U.S. one

Garbage, Parking, and the Death of Small Businesses. Eager to hear your thoughts! @jasonthorne.bsky.social @alexbozikovic.bsky.social @johnlorinc.bsky.social @holz-bau.bsky.social

I lived in the states for 10 years. Every Canada Day I would subject my friends to can-con music. “Do you know this song? No?? How do you not know this!?” It was very annoying for them. I finally put it all together in a playlist. It’s 8hrs long 🇨🇦

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

over on @dwell.bsky.social - @sustainabletall.bsky.social writes about spain's incredible social housing & cooperative movements, walking away from sterile, banal double loaded corridors www.dwell.com/article/why-...

Toronto’s urban tree canopy is no joke

Update: vote needed 2/3 majority but received only 57%. Opposing side started a whisper campaign against a vocal supporter claiming he was a secret developer 😞. No ADUs in Arlington for now.

Help pls! There were some nice critiques of this paper a few weeks ago and now I can't find them. Please send along if you remember. This paper was recently weaponized in Arlington MA to prevent the VERY mild proposal of allowing ADUs. www.nber.org/papers/w33576

I can't overstate how important a dedicated bus lane on Dufferin will be given the explosion of residential dev. nearby. People opposing this think traffic is bad now? Link for Dufferin and Bathurst surveys here and here: ca.mar.medallia.com?e=448169&d=l... ca.mar.medallia.com?e=448562&d=l...

obsessed with this +1 to the glass block 😍

Doing some GIS quality control and was confronted by the impending wet reality of Cape Coral FL. I imagine a future museum exhibit "we used to build like this" in the climate disaster wing.

📣 Call for papers 📣 19th North American Meeting of the Urban Economics Association October 3 - 4, 2025 Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Canada Keynotes by Cecile Gaubert and Keith Head. Please submit your paper by May 30. urbaneconomics.org/meetings/uea...

Distilling key facts about housing affordability and its decline in the US and reviewing the literature on housing supply and the causes of declining affordability, from Nathaniel Baum-Snow and Gilles Duranton https://www.nber.org/papers/w33694

In Bloomberg CityLab, I explained why cities must build cycling *networks* – not just lanes. It’s a lesson that many elected leaders have yet to learn (esp Ontario’s Doug Ford, who is taking a sledgehammer to Toronto's cycling network). 🧵

What's the advice for junior faculty now missing essential conferences that are crucial for networking (finding letter writers etc.)? I am a geriatric junior approaching tenure package submission being given a burner phone from my uni but also a warning not to go. I have 3 conferences in May.

The MIT Urban Economics Lab is hiring!! #EconSky My postdoc supervisor at MIT, Albert Saiz, is looking for a Real Estate Postdoctoral Associate! Apply here: careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl... Please help us share this opportunity and encourage job market candidates to apply!!

"The typical egg farm in Canada has about 25,000 laying hens, whereas many farms in the U.S. have well over a million." 👀 www.npr.org/2025/03/18/n...

writing my little papers between deeply depressing news alerts whilst the pets sleep through it all (yes the cat sleeps on a pillow on my lap while I type and no it’s not comfortable or efficient)

Today's distraction brought to you by the new Canadian housing design catalogue. Really thoughtful designs especially this courtyard 6-plex. I hope we are collecting data on the uptake of these designs! www.housingcatalogue.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/designs/bc/c...

We all hate the time change, and this is your semi-annual reminder that permanent standard time is better than permanent daylight time www.cbc.ca/newsinteract...

1/ 🚨 Can the US coerce smaller countries into submission using tariff penalties? Recent events with Mexico & Canada suggest it is trying. But our latest research indicates these attempts will likely fail and isolate the US economy. Here's why:👇

The mass firing of both new hires and recently promoted senior staff within #NOAA, including mission-critical and life-saving roles at the National Weather Service (#NWS), is profoundly alarming. 1/11

I'm deeply saddened to share that Donald Shoup passed away last night. He was the ideal academic—curious, methodical, and concerned with turning ideas into real-world change. TAing his parking course these past few years has one of the greatest honors of my life. Rest in peace, Shoup Dogg.

I know origin of a good is complicated and "made in Canada" doesn't mean 100% made in Canada (I think it means at least 40%?), but this is a good place to start. My partner is American, I lived in the US for over 10 years. This is deeply upsetting. madeinca.ca

Distracting myself from...basically everything...by running my little regressions and making my little plots hoping for some insight.

Twin Peaks: the return was television perfection (for me at least). I was obsessed when it came out. Each episode was like dipping into a mind bending trace. Loved it so much 😭

These sunrises are really doing the work to lessen my existential dread lately

"Seriously, I don’t care how much it costs. Take every dime I have. But know this: I would level my house to the ground before I paid slightly higher property taxes to fund infrastructure that would prevent a landslide from leveling my house to the ground."

But a good last 2024 sunrise in Toronto

Deb is done with 2024. Same.

Merry Christmas! Would be nice if parking tickets in this city were also $400 instead of $50.

Subway down, shuttle buses running. Nice reminder how many people the subway moves even at non-peak hours. Office plants getting a multimodal trip home for winter break.

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Has anyone worked with Rent Hub data? Pros/cons? #econsky

Has anyone worked with Rent Hub data? Pros/cons? #econsky

🧑‍🎄time! Our @cepr_org @LSEGeography @CEP_LSE DP #PrimeLocations is forthcoming at AER: Insights.🍾 Our🎁4u: PL shapefiles and employment by sector at micro-geographic grid-level for 381 MSAs and 125 global cities. All free to download from primelocations.ahlfeldt.com Use it wisely!😀

Great opportunity to join the National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS) team as a data analyst working on U.S. census data and geographic information systems. Find this and other jobs at the Institute for Social Research and Data Innovation! isrdi.umn.edu/employment

My husband has a large jade he grew from a single clipping. After 20 years, we finally got a flower! Had a nice south facing summer outside this year. That might have done it 🌱

Wow! Thanks to all 244 of you who have stepped up to give what you can. That means we’re just 56 members shy — will you help us get there by midnight? Pretty please with a toque on top? thenarwhal.ca/bf-2024-bsky

Many of my students were completely unfamiliar with co-op prior to an in-class panel discussion w/people involved in the new 2444 Eglinton East project. Really ambitious and potentially pivotal co-op dev in TO createto.ca/projects/244...

Call for papers for urban economics and economic geography workshop in Reading next June www.henley.ac.uk/events/unive...

Drop the lock screen 📱