Read the VoxDev article on this by @sberkouwer.bsky.social & Joshua Dean: voxdev.org/topic/health...

The latest JEP has an extraordinary set of papers on the economics of housing. My favorite? The one showing that most people incorrectly believe that increasing housing supply won't lower housing costs. Subsidizing home-buying is popular even though it raises costs. 🤦 www.aeaweb.org/issues/814

The thing that everyone said would happen is happening

For a brief moment in July we put the world on pause to celebrate queer joy and love in abundance!

I am looking for a version of this graph of global CO2 emissions by region, but projected out to 2050, for example using the @iea.org's World Energy Outlook or similar. Does anyone know if this exists? Thanks in advance! @ourworldindata.org

Wharton has not one but two environmental economists on the market this year! Benji's paper studies how the pricing of a scarce resource - water - affects housing markets in the U.S. Check out his great thread below!

I’ve made a Women in Econ starter pack (s/o @vinisingh.bsky.social for sparking the idea!). Share, follow, and comment below if you’d like to be added! go.bsky.app/LqBPkQZ

Hello #EnergySky #EconSky! I have a simple question: How many different companies own transmission infrastructure in the U.S.? The EIA has this handy graphic on distribution companies, and generation is similarly easy to find. Help would be great. Thanks!

📢Please retweet📢 Profs Van Benthem, Lockwood, Low, Rees-Jones, Kessler and I are hiring 3 predoctoral researchers (in environmental, behavioral, and public econ) to start July 2025. Prior RAs got into Berkeley, Princeton and Brown (econ PhDs). Rolling review: sberkouwer.github.io/BEPPhiring.pdf

Can cookstove subsidies reduce CO2 emissions? @joshtdean.bsky.social and I wrote an overview of our research demonstrating that @BurnMfg's Jikokoa/EOCA Char stoves cut 3.5 tons of CO2 - and save $120 in fuel - per household per year. Read more here: linkedin.com/posts/activi...

A friend is looking for a history of structural adjustment and the backlash to African decolonization that specifically focuses on agriculture: who farmed what, how, when, and why. Ideas? #marxsky

Job market update: we have just been given the green light to hire a junior slot in Empirical IO at USC. We will release the job ad very shortly. Please encourage your students whose primary or secondary field is empirical IO to apply. We will also consider people a few years out from the market.

We are opening two tenure-track positions (please repost!) Human Evolutionary Social Science Computational Social Science Come join a truly interdisciplinary department, within a world-class school of economics, in beautiful southern France! Deadline Jan 31st www.tse-fr.eu/groups/depar...

If you are ever offered an opportunity to get the Shingles vaccine, by god, take it.

Again, if your understanding of “campus politics” focuses on powerless left wing students and not influential right wing donors, you don’t have an understanding of “campus politics”

Considering a PhD in #BehavioralScience? Want the perfect stepping stone? We’re hiring 2 full-time RAs at Wharton at the research center I co-direct with Angela Duckworth: 1) RA: bit.ly/RC-BCFG 2) RA & Comms Coordinator: bit.ly/RCC-BCFG

No matter how incompetent and cowardly you imagine the cops were at Uvalde, tonight's Frontline goes minute by minute to illustrate they were so much worse.

🚨📢Job Alert 🚨📢 We are looking to hire a Fellow (~postdoc) in Energy Economics and Policy to join our team of environmental economists at the Department of Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics. jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

This is a stunning detail about the Uvalde shooting from incredible reporting by The Texas Tribune and @propublica.bsky.social www.texastribune.org/2023/12/05/u...

Texas won't let Kate Cox get an abortion even though her fetus has a fatal genetic anomaly and she is suffering agonizing, ongoing pain. She just sued in state court demanding the right to terminate the failed pregnancy immediately. reproductiverights.org/wp-content/u...

My cousin Kees Greven is a *phenomenal* pianist and just released his first album of piano compositions on Spotify. Give it a listen! open.spotify.com/album/4Lgvr2...

+1 for The San Antonio Express News lmao

Gifted link to my piece in the NY Times about Trump's plausible plan to convert the administrative state into the authoritarian state. 1. More MAGA appointees 2. Gut civil service protections 3. Hire govt lawyers who will enable Trump's authoritarian tendencies www.nytimes.com/2023/11/27/o...

There is no other job where you can accidentally kill a random person for no reason and have this happen and they still never shut the fuck up about how they’re under siege

📢📢 PSA 📢📢 Face droop, half-body paralysis, and slurred speech are symptoms of stroke. ***IMMEDIATELY*** go to the hospital. Relatedly, things I learned today: - Brains are important, vulnerable, and really like oxygen - Access to healthcare is life- and limb-saving and I am so grateful for it.

📢Job announcement📢 @Penn has 3 (!) amazing post-docs for the following research areas: 1⃣ Migration, human trafficking, climate change (PDRI @pdri-devlab.bsky.social) 2⃣ Environment, society, cities, climate change in India (CASI) 3⃣ Contemporary India (CASI) Links below👇 #EconTwitter #EconSky

🚨JMCs doing behavioral Econ or discrimination 🚨 I’d love to see your papers. Tag me in a post with a link to your paper and I will boost it.

When I was most recently on the market, I responded to every request to pay upfront with “I’m very sorry but I don’t have a budget for that”. In the end ALL unis covered my travel upfront. (I had to be quite insistent in some cases, and am not sure what impression that left. But yes it can be done.)

Now that it's job market season again Could hiring committees PLEASE recognize how It reinforces inequality to require grad students to pay for their market travel upfront? Unless they have rich parents they are ILLIQUID and this is SUPER STRESSFUL

Another week, another week where 50% of NBER working papers are EEE! 🌳🏭🌏 #EconSky

Hey #EconSky! Since it's job market season, I wanted to share some A's to some job market FAQ's... using data/graphs! (1) When will people look at your website? Here's a plot using data from my JM website ('21-'22). Views peaked in *early November*

Beware the UVA poll going around on support for violence & democracy tinyurl.com/uvacpoll I've never heard of firm; few details on methods/sample; and question wording is messy and non-standard. Our survey using more careful methods finds support for violence is extremely rare tinyurl.com/viol-poll

Announcing the 2024 Migration & Organizations Conference, May 2024 at the Wharton School Submissions due February 15—> docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... PhD students can apply for support—> docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @profzeke.bsky.social #EconSky

Interrupting the current farce in the House are Jewish Voice for Peace activists staging a protest to demand a ceasefire in the Cannon House Office Building rotunda. (Photo from CNBC reporters on scene)

In June, NYC passed an exec order protecting people who provided or received gender-affirming care. When I told my partner she responded "Philly needs this too!" The next day she rallied her favorite lawyers. And here we are. Proud of her and of Philly! #transrights www.phila.gov/2023-10-17-m...

this blog post is super cool and interesting even if you're not a psychologist

Loth as I am to self-promo... New special feature in PNAS on Space Exploration and Economic Growth, edited by me, Luisa Corrado, and Maureen Cropper Topics: macro spillovers, oligopoly and environment, space mining, secular stagnation, & PPPs 📉📈 🛰️ https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2221341120

Médecins sans frontières has described the hospital bombing as a 'massacre'.

If you are an academic with research leave or earned sabbatical credit for academic year 2024-25, and are passionate about applying economic policy research to make the world a better place, please consider applying to the CBO’s visiting scholar program: www.cbo.gov/about/career...

Hello! We are a committee that works to connect LGBTQ+ economists across Europe at all stages of their career, both inside and outside of academia We have everything from mentorship programs for early-career economists, to social events, to the occasional seminar More ➡️ sites.google.com/view/ecqe

I'm pretty much giving up on the app formerly known as Twitter. It has really been degraded as a way to keep up with informed discourse, and I don't want to be an unpaid content provide for Musk. Will start posting wonkery here, maybe also on Threads

The World Bank is hiring again this year on the junior market. Both the research group (DECRG) and impact evaluation group (DIME) are hiring, with separate applications: DECRG: www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing.... DIME: www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....

$4.90 per ton of CO2 abated! That is an incredible intervention, made even better by the health benefits it provides to users. Cool paper!!

Should governments prioritize ambient levels or within-day peaks in air pollution? ⚫ Reducing ambient requires regulations addressing externalities ⚫ Peaks are often driven by private actions and thus require addressing private barriers 🧵 on my new NBER WP with @joshtdean.bsky.social #EconSky