Are you sick of reading about data centers? If not: In a new paper, we developed a simple method to forecast data center investment using project-level microdata on $1.3 TRILLION in announced plans. www.federalreserve.gov/econres/feds...

My 2024 “top 3” of interesting papers and presentations:

as a junior woman academic, it's hard to figure out how to get invited for opportunities. my go-to strategy is to just ask and take the no's on the chin. so i'm asking: does anyone w/an econ/social science/policy podcast need a guest about DV, welfare, crime, incarceration, or public health?

Using social media as a commitment device: I will not touch a single paper until I finish writing up this one.

Can anyone recommend resources on using Git specifically for academic research papers/projects? Seems like best practices differ from those for developing an app or a project with A LOT of collaborators. Looking for tips on branches, comments, when to commit, etc. #econsky

TFW you just submitted a paper to the JFE with enough footnotes a plenty and references to online appendices 😅🤦‍♂️

New paper: "The Housing Channel of Intergenerational Wealth Persistence" How important is the bank of mom and dad, through housing, for wealth persistence? Answer: very important (as important as the effect on education and income)! norges-bank.no/en/news-even... (1/10)

Please tell me that somebody have trained an AI to generate Section 508 compliant text for figures?

New week, new housing chart. Before 2000, about 15 percent of new American housing units were mobile homes. Since then? A touch above 6 percent, which is way above what I would have guessed.

New week, new housing chart. Did you know that the US is at record high levels of housing construction? The strength is largely driven by large multifamily buildings.

Wildest thing about the American economy I've learned after two years at the Federal Reserve: Almost 1% of US GDP is residential realtor commissions! fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1b2IC

Back to my "commute" between New Haven and DC after leave. You learn a few things when you commute with Amtrak. 1) If you bring a bike (only $20, that's not bad) you have to take of the front wheel? Better have a quick release, unlike me 😬

Lets assume my friend posted a working paper and then heard about a JMP on the same topic. Similar research questions and overlapping methods. Both papers claim to be "first". Work done completely independently. How to sensitively approach this? Don't want to ruin/poach a JMP. #EconSky 📉📈