The JEH was, is, and continues to be in good hands

Don't spend your Black Friday chasing deals. Read job market papers (and hire my students) instead @john-fallon-econ.com studies both occupational licensing AND the bizarre world of early 20th century healthcare, w MDs and chiropractors competing over patients to fix (or at least make less worse)

Congestion pricing and triple the tolls on the Pike and let's increase frequency of the Worcester-Framingham commuter rail 10x. Pretty please?

Non contiguous Massachusetts isn't super practical, but I still think it's a good goal for the Commonwealth #mapoli

Utterly deranged framing on this piece about labor mobility between two massive employers (and health care providers), @bostonglobe.com. Leading with costs to the employer? Poaching?

The MBTA Communities Act penalties were not nearly harsh enough, part 452 #mapoli

I liked it better when the goal of an econ phd first year was to survive MWG and avoid embarrassing yourself too many times in class

Sweet, sweet Canadian hydro power finally on the way #mapoli www.wbur.org/news/2025/11...

Raccoons can open bungee-closed trash barrels and chill inside so quietly that neither a human nor a dog will notice until flipping the lid open to throw in a bag of trash. Ask me how I know

Why didn't they poll trust in economists?

Higher education is one of our country's most successful export industries. And the exports (i.e. international students coming here) make it more affordable for domestic students. No decently run government would interfere with that, but here we are.

When the seminar coordinator announces their own presentation at the next seminar meeting

If only there were a way to increase the number of students attending these Newton elementary schools and save them from closure/consolidation. But seems impossible because I've heard from many Newton NIMBYs that the city is full... #mapoli www.newtonbeacon.org/ward-underwo...

Great tweetstorm about an excellent #econjmp. I've been lucky enough to advise @daniellecgw.bsky.social and see this work develop over the last few years. This is the definitive work on segregation academies and has important results for econ history, labor, edu, and public finance Hire her!

New at Can We Still Govern: The IRS is a key agency and its decline is emblematic of Trump-era mismanagement. @vanessawilliamson.bsky.social & Eliis Chen lay out the questions that Democrats should be asking its new leader. Incredibly informative piece. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/five-quest...

This Veterans Day I want to acknowledge the Black veterans of WWII who fought fascism and nazism and came home to fight for civil rights and democracy here. New research shows Black veterans were critical in securing the voting rights currently under attack. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Faculty misconduct changes what students study and whether they finish. Universities say they want stronger pipelines into male-dominated fields, but historically have papered over and tolerated behavior that punctures them.

Elon Musk and DOGE's legacy.

Hi all, please spread the word and we hope everyone can make good use of this new data drop: cmfdata.org The full surviving establishment-level Census of Manufactures manuscripts and digitized data from 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880!

The whole press is Breitbart now

I realize it is a bird, but I can't unseen Batman climbing up the wall

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10894-10823, Newton voters failed to repeal our antiquated overnight parking ban. 71 votes? AYFKM? www.repealparkingban.org

Unofficial results in the few contested city council races: - Dahmubed and Krintzman beat Chaimanis in Ward 4 At Large (two YIMBYs win) - Gross (YIMBY) and Gordon (NIMBY) beat Gross in Ward 6 At Large - Irish (NIMBY) beats Miller (YIMBY) in Ward 5

Hitting refresh repeatedly on the Newton live vote tracker like a sicko #mapoli newton-election-result.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/Municipal-El...

Today in Boston, if Josh Kraft didn't quit #bospoli

Thanks Google Scholar, but I think I'll just wait for my referees to patiently tell me about which @jondr44.bsky.social paper is relevant

Hot take: There's too little money in local political campaigns #mapoli www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Me, when I look at the CVs of my academic enemies

Taught Robert Gordon to my undergrads yesterday. Still not sure if I agree with him that we're out of good ideas/inventions. But if we are out, the next few years are going to be rough

I assume this is how economic historians look to real historians, right?

There's nothing green about being a NIMBY, you twerp (Getting campaign emails from people you are voting against is a blast)

My mental model of most voters and non voters

Huck Finn's Duke of Bilgewater finally made it "back" to the UK, but he's up to his old tricks www.bbc.com/news/article...

Sometimes, there are real gems in the Google Scholar "new citations to your articles" email. Awesome title for this experiment that rejects the existence of ghosts that cause crime

I'm sitting on the university wide social sciences curriculum committee for the first time and curricula review IS exactly the punishment I would wish on my worst enemies

My neighbors and I have so many credibly identified causal studies of the effects of immigration on wages, employment, innovation, crime, and intergenerational mobility ready to deploy (via beamer presentation)

Andrew Mellon's term as Hoover's Treasury Secretary during the Great Depression made him an easy frontrunner for worst cabinet secretary of all time. Apparently the grandson is spending a lot of money to give grandpa competition for his ignominious title.

Good things are possible (very infrequently) #mapoli

"so how do they get variation?" Subject of an email @asteinlight.bsky.social sent me re a medical study based on observational data. Remember everyone, marrying an economist is a very dangerous thing

Interesting discussion by two people whose opinions i respect about PhD education in the wake of Harvard's decision to downsize.

This year's International Open Access Week theme is about the research community owning its knowledge. RePEc is a perfect example: a bibliographic initiative by economists for economists created to help disseminate open access works. repec.org #RePEc #EconSky #OAweek

I've seen a lot of incorrect answers to this question at economics seminars and conferences www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/f...

Another reminder of why I muted tweets with "Mookie" in them on Twitter. Still sad, still miss him

I have a PhD in economics and I was a math major in undergrad. I write this not to brag but to provide context because it took me 20+ minutes to figure out the answer to my kindergartener's Russian Math homework

Referee 2 is that you?

Zohran just said: "I am going to make it easier for the private sector to build housing in this city because what we see today is not labor, it's not materials, it's the wait that is actually costing so many, so much to build that housing" I wish we would hear that as clearly stated in Boston.

As the author notes, his father John Corcoran was one of three cyclists killed in Cambridge last year. That's three too many. At this point I do consider opposing safe biking infrastructure to be disqualifying and will be voting accordingly.

Goldman Sachs does economic history