Pay for the schools (and the teachers and so much more) by putting another 50 stories of housing on top?

"Nice convenient train you take to Boston from Newtonville, wouldn't it be great if we don't let anyone else move here near transit?"

Bold choice for the NIMBYest candidate running for Ward 4 at large in Newton to send a canvasser this morning to the commuter rail station #mapoli

Going to outsource my phd student advising to some wrapper for chatgpt or Claude. What could go wrong?

It is scandalous that speed cameras are currently illegal in Massachusetts. Thankfully, the 2026 budget tries to change this budget.digital.mass.gov/govbudget/fy...

Me, presenting my research to peers and senior colleagues

Pig butcher scammers out here increasing prosocial volunteering and dumpling consumption. Win-win-win

When Argentina, Greece, and Turkey pop up as the donors in your synthetic control design. Yikes

Brattle St mansions for NIMBYs

Any health reporters want to do a deep dive on MAHA influencers recommending people heat their raw milk at home? @lhoehnvelasco.bsky.social and I have a paper about early 20th century pasteurization mandates, and we want to highlight continued relevance, but I don't think we can cite instagram

Maybe economists and political scientists aren't so different after all?

Kid at kindergarten drop-off this morning with monogrammed backpack with initials “WMD.” Tell me your political consciousness wasn’t formed in 2003 without telling me

Oh thank god, finally a way for people to tell everyone that they went to Harvard www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/09/m...

Do journal editors get an alert when I finish a referee report for another journal so that they can immediately assign me something else?

Shout out to the Wu electioneer near the BU polling place who made my day by asking if I was a Boston voter. I guess my teaching clothes mask my usual suburban lameness?

I teach my undergrads how to read econ papers and evaluate identification strategies. Why? As important as econ history obviously is, I also want to make them informed consumers of empirical research. Because Sophie isn't going to be available to crush every dumb nutrition study they encounter

Clearly we aren't in a recession yet. Look at this very real and obviously not a scam "online remote evaluator" job text I just got. I wonder if these are in JOLTS? I also like the behavioral econ infused "reply immediately" part

Not the most pressing issue of the day But this putz is not an economist

Strong reporting here from ProPublica, which found that three Trump Cabinet members -- at Labor, Transportation and EPA -- call multiple homes their primary residence on mortgages. That's the same move that led Trump to fire Lisa Cook from her job at the Fed. bit.ly/466yMyI

Today in things I didn't know about 1920 Cincinnati--things I can fathom but that I didn't expect to be QUITE so "in your face." Ku Klux Klothes sold ordinary men's suits, overcoats, etc., but clearly only to a certain sort of customer. No Germans! stories.cincinnatipreservation.org/items/show/40

This needs an NSFW tag. It's only early August, right?

cc Newbury Street #bospoli

Get the state-level diff in diff machine ready

Sherman

I hope noble Elsevier makes a pretty penny off of all my papers Anthropic scraped illegally Wait, wtf?

The econ job market arms race and trend towards 6 year PhDs is probably not optimal **monkey paw curls**

Newton City Council candidate stuck in starter home for 13 years, but he's "unclear exactly how much more housing needs to be built." We're so cooked www.newtonbeacon.org/jj-kazakoff-...

“Moonshot: Public R&D and Growth” by Shawn Kantor, Alexander Whalley

Yeah, who do these epidemiologists think they are, economists?

Fascinating business model. Students can pay Kritik to "prove" to me that they didn't use generative AI to cheat on their assignments. Low, low price of $49 per student...

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📢 Interested in excess mortality methods, and want a challenge? I'm organising the "One Epidemic, Many Estimates" (1EME) project! Register *now* as a many analyst team (submissions due 15 March 2026), and then join us at LSE for a workshop on 21-22 May 2026! (1/n) www.lse.ac.uk/Economic-His...

Why is the rent so damn high in LA? Simple economics: the demand for housing is extremely high and our housing supply is extremely low.

Just received this statement from Lisa Cook: "President Trump purported to fire me 'for cause' when no cause exists under the law, and he has no authority to do so. I will not resign. I will continue to carry out my duties to help the American economy as I have been doing since 2022."

I’ve got a new working paper with @danielavidart.bsky.social, hot off the press. We develop a new method for measuring the risk preferences of agents in the past, and apply it to the U.S. from 1890-1920. Check it out! Feedback is welcome. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/chcof...

How to fix America's gerrymandering problem? @benschneer.bsky.social and I wrote in Time today about a solution we developed (with @cantstopkevin.bsky.social). time.com/7309565/amer...

YES to the expanded service and YES to this framing for it: "We're doing this to ensure that the people that need to use the system can use the system. We're a public transit agency. We do it to provide a public service." www.wbur.org/news/2025/08...

And yet our neighborhood character and community input in development are among the highest in the nation. Hope you enjoy visiting and super commuting, fellow young ppl #mapoli www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/13/d...

In goose meme form.

... Then they came for the Goldman Sachs economist and I did not speak out because the WSJ article was paywalled and so I wasn't sure if they were a real economist with a PhD or just some MBA faking credentials

Holy ****. For months —years — I have warned that Trump’s assault on federal statistics was beginning to resemble actions taken by authoritarian governments in China, Venezuela, Stalin-era USSR. Critics said I was being hyperbolic. How do they feel about this threat below? bsky.app/profile/atru...

For the evening crowd #econsky

Sorry @econzach.bsky.social, you are dead to me now www.boston.com/news/local-n...

Are any of my papers on your syllabus? Undergrad, PhD, econ history, or (preparing myself for crickets) a non-econ history class are all great. DMs are open and huge thanks in advance (I guess @barbarabiasi.com is a month ahead of me on tenure packet paperwork)

As a DC resident I do feel that the city has been overrun by "violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals" and I would like them to leave the White House and stop destroying the federal government.

Thought about this all day and don't have an answer. But we've only got 50 "laboratories of democracy" (derogatory), so wtf are we supposed to do if state-level DDs are all underpowered?

Hard to pick which “analysis” of his is my favorite. On the left, he made a quadratic “model” that assumed boomers were *just* set to start unretiring, until COVID and then Joe Biden. But on the right, you have this absolute masterpiece….

Glad to see @burhanazeem.bsky.social continuing to tell it like it is. There's no way to have a healthy, growing city without building places for people to live.

The concept of a 'strawman' is an inherently pre-internet concept. The networked world has demonstrated that no matter how bad or dumb an argument is, there is always _someone_ who will actually be making it in complete sincerity. You just have to learn not to engage with them.

PhD 2020. In what sense is he a longtime critic of anything?