"The Local Economic Impact of Natural Disasters" by Brigitte Roth Tran ( @brothtran.bsky.social ) and Daniel J. Wilson was just accepted at #JAERE. Read more here: buff.ly/17d9yEe

🌪️Can communities really "build back better" after a natural disaster? 📈A new #JAERE study finds they can. Eight years after disasters triggering federal aid, per capita income in U.S. counties is 0.5% higher, driven by rebuilding that lifts local wages and home prices. 📊#JaereFigureFriday 🌎#EconSky

If you'll be on the #EconJobMarket this coming year, you may want to join this webinar by @aereorg.bsky.social, titled, "Navigating Uncertain Waters: Advice for the Current Job Market," with Min Gong & @adrienneohler.bsky.social. 29 Sept 2025 @ 11am ET.

📢Call for Nominations📢 The SF Fed and its Center for Monetary Research are launching the new Janet Yellen Award! This award will be given annually to an exceptional early-career researcher who has made significant and policy-relevant contributions to macro-finance and/or monetary economics.

🌎 PhD students: apply to 2025 Berkeley/Sloan Summer School in Environmental/Energy Economics! 🔗 Info + application: www.auffhammer.com/summer-school 📅 Deadline: May 14 | Program: Aug 18–22 at Berkeley w @auffhammer.bsky.social @severinborenstein.bsky.social, TCarleton, MFowlie, KJack...

Just in time for #EarthDay, a dark-eyed JUNKO has made her nest UNDER the parsley in my raised-bed vegetable garden. The eggs are very small, ~ 3/4" long. The nest is beautifully constructed from fine strands. She flies off when I approach. I REALLY hope she likes slugs. Nature is amazing!

🌪️ Just accepted 🌪️ in JAERE: "The Local Economic Impact of Natural Disasters" by Brigitte Roth Tran (@brothtran.bsky.social) and Daniel J. Wilson Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #EconSky 📈 📉

Our practical guide to shift-share IV is now out in the JEP! www.aeaweb.org/issues/793 (Ungated version: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/el9yn...)

Very informative webinar on making claims after fires in CA. Helpful too for unaffected property owners concerned about their coverage. Communicate w/insurance in writing for records Keep receipts Be careful accepting FEMA funds if insured Know your rights Etc www.youtube.com/live/rABJ4mn...

This Thursday the Virtual Seminar on Climate Economics kicks off the year with Catherine Wolfram, who will present on: The Economics of Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanisms for Lower Income Countries 8 AM PST/11 AM EST Sign up to attend here: www.frbsf.org/news-and-med...

Short piece on a study determining how to clean a home that has survived a wildfire but was close enough to be affected by the smoke. #wildfire #smoke theconversation.com/wildfire-smo...

The National Weather Service has *once again* issued an elevated "Particularly Dangerous Situation" (PDS) Red Flag Warning for large portions of Los Angeles & Ventura Counties early Tue though Wed due to return of very strong offshore winds and extremely dry air. #CAwx #CAfire

What a wonderful story about @edgarmcgregor.bsky.social

For those who want to jump to the frontier in select areas of economics, the AEA has posted the webcasts of this year’s continuing lectures. Thanks much to @lawrencekatz.bsky.social for his leadership and vision in assembling these lectures. www.aeaweb.org/conference/w...

As I am now handling papers at AEJ:Policy again, I want to encourage authors of papers that identify partial equilibrium effects to consider (in a rigorous manner) how they relate to policy effects or general equilibrium effects.

Here's a schematic I published in this 2021 piece to illustrate how even a modest delay in onset of rainy season in Southern California can dramatically amplify wildfire risk by lengthening seasonal overlap between dry vegetation and strong offshore winds during Oct-Jan. #CAfire

Walked past this today and it looks like a great opportunity for people wanting professional looking headshots. Open tomorrow only. #assa

#ASSA2025 livestream sessions available to everyone at

Did everything feel a bit more mathematical this morning? That's because 2025 is a perfect square ✅! Yes, 2025 is 45² = (1+2+...+9)². It's the first square year since 1936, and the next one is 2116. But that's not all… read on ⬇️👀

Any recommendations for good primers on Bayesian methods? Looking for something that can be consumed within about an hour. #econsky #bayesian

Here are the first five sets of slides: 01 Introduction: psantanna.com/DiD/01_Intro... 02 Classical 2x2 setup: psantanna.com/DiD/02_two_b... 03 Clustering issues: psantanna.com/DiD/03_Clust... 04 Functional form: psantanna.com/DiD/04_Funct... 05 Covariates: psantanna.com/DiD/05_Covar...

Powerful article on #drought and #hydroelectricity. "By harnessing water, not burning oil or gas, to produce electricity, this new energy matrix was supposed to help mitigate the effects of global climate change — not make Ecuador a victim of it." www.nytimes.com/2024/12/30/w...

This seems like a big deal for insurance in California. I wonder what the experts on here think of the new rules? @kellyhereid.bsky.social @michaelwara.bsky.social @stevebowen.bsky.social @jacobgellman.com www.latimes.com/business/sto...

📣 Starting the years with the ASSA's? Join us next week the AERE’s Graduate Student Engagement committee's networking event! ✨ What: AERE Scholar’s Social, organized by the GSE ✨ When: Jan 3,  5:00pm ✨ Where: Lobby of the Parc 55 Hotel Register: bit.ly/aereGSESocial

Hello, #econsky! I have a question for you: What’s your preferred way to post working papers and track citations? Are there drawbacks to using repositories like SSRN or arXiv?

My mom came home with a few balloons for my brother's graduation party and said "I can't believe these are a buck fifty each now." Then after a few seconds she started chuckling, looked up at the balloons then back at us, and said "inflation."

The San Francisco Fed is still accepting applications for RAs to start this summer.

Economists love using linear regression to estimate treatment effects — it turns out that there are perils to this method, but also amazing perks Come with me in this 🧵 if you want to learn about our now-published paper "Contamination Bias in Linear Regressions!" 1/ (Twitter rerun!)

Economists registered with the RePEc Author Service can list their social media account in their profiles. The count as of today: 3213 Xwitter 440 Mastodon 134 Bluesky authors.repec.org ideas.repec.org/i/ebluesky.h... #EconSky #RePEc

When FEMA made deals with private companies to identify homes to rent for survivors, it didn’t prohibit them from signing up occupied properties. With FEMA offering rates well above what residents typically paid in rent, some landlords kicked out tenants to house wildfire survivors for more money.

Got the ball rolling on a Fed Economists starter pack go.bsky.app/GudXeoo Fed economists, let me know if you’re on Bluesky and I’ll add you

Very cool and very needed for current and future droughts. Hope it scales quickly. #energysky cleantechnica.com/2024/11/23/u...

Are you a scientist interested in a career working on assessing natural hazards? @ruarirhodes.bsky.social is one of the climate specialists on my team, and wrote a great introduction to careers in insurance for atmospheric scientists - have a look!

Four typhoons in 10 days, six in a month! www.bbc.com/news/article...

BlueSky migrants. Starter packs are a great way to meet new people. I like feeds. They are a really useful way to get information. Here are a few nice ones #EconSky #EnergySky #GreenSky #AcademicSky. When you mention a feed, your post automatically appears there.

If you see a lot of folks replying to posts with a 📌 emoji it’s because they’re using this feed. It’s essentially a bookmark! Reply with the emoji and it pulls the post into your own private feed and saves it there for you! Here:

The increasing volatility of hydropower: www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/ 💡🔌

Just a couple more days to apply for summer internships at the San Francisco Fed. Deadline is November 1. #econsky

Helping my parents with their finances has got me wondering: What share of consumer spending is essentially subscriptions that people signed up for long ago, that they no longer use? 🤔🤔🤔

Minneapolis Fed regional econ specialist @tuuyentran.bsky.social recently looked at energy supply/demand in the 9th Fed District. One interesting take looks at peak demand days in the wholesale energy market in upper Midwest. #EconSky www.minneapolisfed.org/article/2024...

We (@larsvil.bsky.social Joan Llull ECTA, Farasat Bokhari EI), are preparing a small 1 hour workshop (short presentation + Q&A/AMA) in Washington DC on Nov 22. Day before SEA, middle day of APPAM, available to all economists in DC area. Can I get 👍on how many #econsky folks would show up?

Highly recommend this article about long-term care insurance. Particularly relevant for those of us in the #SandwichGeneration and for people interested in insurance generally. Some parallels w/property insurance (rising costs and claims), but very different time frames www.msn.com/en-us/money/...

Re-upping my story from last month on “Zone Zero” in the wake of the Oakland hills fire in California on Friday that burned houses due to wind-blown embers. Zone Zero could remake the look of high fire risk urban neighborhoods but also save them. Free link. www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Introducing the #econ_ra feed. Shows posts containing #econ_ra To share info about economics research assistant, pre-doc, post-doc, & similar positions. Either side of the market is welcome to post opportunities, intros, or questions. Pin the feed & monitor. 📉📈 bsky.app/profile/did:...