I regret to inform you that I've written 🫘 the World’s Silliest Paper™ 🫘 and that now you can read it (link below) Together with an awesome coauthor, we dig into a simpler time; when using the Oval Office to thank a CEO just involved photoshoots with a can of beans 🧵

I regret to inform you that I've written 🫘 the World’s Silliest Paper™ 🫘 and that now you can read it (link below) Together with an awesome coauthor, we dig into a simpler time; when using the Oval Office to thank a CEO just involved photoshoots with a can of beans 🧵

This is why I don’t usually use SSRN

As someone who will be applying desperately to CAN and AUS schools this job cycle, this has not been the best World Cup 😞

we are one day away from the funniest VAR offsides graphic ever

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

I'll never forgive the ai freaks for making it so hot outside.

Things they teach you in econ grad school that you think will be handy later: the envelope theorem, the delta method, what unit roots are Things that are actually handy later: troubleshooting appliance repair with little mini experiments

Public lands pillaged for oil and gas profit, and ordinary Americans left holding the bill for cleanup: www.eenews.net/articles/int...

Back on my bullsh

Your friendly neighborhood economist makes a guest appearance 👀🤓

New Jersey leg just passed a big suite of energy bills: plugin solar, advanced grid technologies, and a bunch of data center regulations. Full list here from Sierra club: www.sierraclub.org/new-jersey/b... Story on nixing the data center tax credit from Heatmap: heatmap.news/politics/new...

RIP Efficient Market Hypothesis, you would’ve loved this

I have felt this first hand in Oklahoma with a massive depreciation in both quality of severe weather forecasts and quality of realtime weather reports NWS errs on the side of caution and sends the whole city into tornado shelters for what used to be a tight forecast of possible damage path 🌪️

Weird how this never applies to the Second Amendment.

Oklahoma restricts oil field wastewater injection within a half-mile of public water wells. Regulators have let companies do it anyway. But in the city of Enid, officials are pushing back against one of the state’s biggest industries.

When it’s time for penalties

3 out of 10 PKs were doinks, @sickoscommittee.org gonna bevel the goal itself

Using ancient DNA data to measure migration over the past 10,000 years shows that human mobility followed climate corridors and migration acted as adaptation to climate change, from Peter Huybers, Marco Tabellini, Charles A. Taylor, and Francesco Toti www.nber.org/papers/w35371

Estimating the effect of particulate matter air pollution on preschool attendance using restricted administrative data from the state of Georgia, from Mahta Ghafarianghadim and Garth Heutel www.nber.org/papers/w35367

Another awesome doom loop: Raising livestock drives deforestation, deforestation heats the planet, heat kills livestock so we need to raise more which means more deforestation and more heat. www.carbonbrief.org/livestock-he...

Literally had a former student text and ask about this today. It’s like Sev read that text and responded for me 💪

Matt Freese, who holds an Ivy League economics degree, came out of practically nowhere to secure the job as the U.S. national team’s starting goalkeeper—and his analytical approach has been integral to his rise. ⚽️ on.wsj.com/3Svs4PJ

I talked to one of our marketing profs who is real into consumer psychology and we ended up writing the World’s Silliest Paper™. Nielsen makes you do a 30 day quarantine before release and our time is up on July 3rd. For this 4th of July, get ready for bean-based fireworks 🎆 (no, not that kind)

Coming in hot

Just accepted at #LabourEconomics Our full paper: docs.iza.org/dp17323.pdf

New paper with Garth Heutel. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

We’re really gonna regret wasting the name “Watergate,” huh

Money down the drain. The only US nuclear reactors built in the last 30 years took 17 and 18 years from planning to operation and cost $16/W vs $1/W for wind/solar, which take 1-3 years. Trump administration announces $17.5b in loans for 10 large nuclear reactors apnews.com/article/nucl...

I mean this genuinely If you’re an academic/writer/creative of any flavor, then planting a little native plant garden is the best thing you can ever do for writer’s block. Tending to it takes your mind off of everything. So does checking for new blooms and going out to watch the bugs. Get planting!

Jevan Cherniwchan and I have a new working paper—one we’ve been working on for a long time—on how energy transitions shaped societies in the past, and what they may teach us about the present and future. www.ifo.de/DocDL/cesifo...

Having your electricity disconnected is more common in Oklahoma than any other state. Resident Nytieya Tobias owed $36 last month when she came home from work to find her power was off.

I can’t help but feel like the entirety of American style capitalism is taking a product, making it worse, and making more money off of it somehow This is a hydration break tweet

The Thunder are the Defending NBA Champions "when you exclude the Knicks and Spurs."

We flew B2 bombers halfway around the world we fought for 40 days we killed their supreme leader and then we handed them $300 billion. That’s not a win that’s what happens when you give a clown a flamethrower. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

All this minimum wage talk in the state has a research idea stuck in my head (esp since ours failed last night). Does anyone have a csv/excel file with changes by state over time? Surely this already exists and everyone isn’t making their own from scratch each time.

This is such a cool paper, glad to finally see it published

📢 Out now in the 🌸May 2026 issue🌸of #JAERE! 📢 "Downwind and Out: The Strategic Dispersion of Power Plants and Their Pollution" by John M. Morehouse and Edward Rubin. 📎 Read it here: buff.ly/apbcnxw 📈📉 #Econsky

Minimum wage state question is going to fail which is a huge bummer. Not even close w/ 70K separating them. Silver lining to this evening is that the statewide elected official that came after me because he didn’t like a paper I wrote will very likely lose his primary 🙃

Follow The Oklahoman's live updates for tonight's primary election: www.oklahoman.com/story/news/p...

Election Day is underway in Oklahoma! Candidates make their final push, we are getting ready to bring you the numbers as soon as they drop. From the highly competitive gubernatorial and congressional primaries to the future of State Question 832, we’ll have the results! https://oklahomawatch.org/

"Listen, @theonion.com. My culture is not your content." -guy who grew up in Austin, TX eating TexMex for 1-3 meals per day and whose first job was bussing tables at a mediocre Mexican restaurant

Going out to take a bunch of pictures of menu boards and prices generally. I want them in my back pocket because OK is voting on raising the minimum wage today 🤓

Higher education sees what you're doing, Iran. We have been doing it for decades to get around limits on tuition.

Quintessential Trump: In 2025, Trump axed the program to combat New World Screwworm, stating that they had "saved" $1.5 million a year. In 2026, the Trump announces a $1 billion emergency program to combat the Screwworm outbreak. $1 billion would have funded the old program for 667 years.

Some pictures from around the garden. We finally got some rain and everyone’s happy about it #nativeplants

Whether it's China developing an electric car that can charge in 5 minutes or Donald Trump keeping Washington's reflecting pool algae-free for nearly 48 hours, both countries have pushed the limits of their technological capabilities.

Air pollution and internal migration in the US from 2005–2019, from Michael Keller, Christopher R. Knittel, Benjamin Krebs, and Simon Luechinger www.nber.org/papers/w35317