My friend @peterharveydigital.bsky.social is graduating from his PhD in Literary Linguistics today 🎉. I really enjoyed this summary of his thesis: www.peterharveydigital.co.uk/post/what-do... There are nice parallels with work in econ e.g. doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

German colleague asked why so many people live in California with disasters like fire, mudslides, earthquakes. I used to live in Los Angeles. The disasters are evidence *for* how nice a place it is to live. If everyone lines up at a kebab stand in a war zone, you should believe it is damn good kebab

There's lots of low ticket warnings for our April tour! If you've not got on it yet, don't snooze. Get your tickets now: www.pigsx7.com/shows

A great follow

The real reason Finland is the happiest country in the world isn't the sauna (www.economist.com/europe/2024/...); it's this:

A group of researchers has attempted to replicate our work on self-control and asset market prices published in the Review of Financial Studies (doi.org/10.1093/rfs/...) and not been able confirm our findings. See doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

📣📣📣 #EconSky Inspired by @tapiorasanen.bsky.social, here is a starter pack for economists conducting field experiments 🤓🫶 Please let me know who is missing – and share widely! 🚀 go.bsky.app/9hev4gN

🤸‍♂️Our research center @rationalitycrc.bsky.social‬: fantastic because we have fantastic junior researchers. For #Econsky, I highlight our current Ass't Profs / postdocs. Worthwhile to check them out, e.g. as possible seminar speakers. Please see my reply – I list those on Bluesky. 🙏

We're hiring: Full Professor in Financial Economics! In my (perhaps biased) view, our department has a vibrant research environment—yet friendly, and with a lively faculty lounge! Spread the word! lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Holy Cow! This paper sounds...big! #EconSky "The information resulted in changes to property prices and altered the market's hedonic equilibrium, providing a new finding that climate adaptation can be forward-thinking and proactive." www.nber.org/papers/w33119

My first post here. <looks around> Less bot-generated social conflict than the other place! I like it.👍

I’ve got bad news for anyone who laughed at that photo of John Lennon

New fallback response to tough seminar questions

Pretty pumped to present this new work with an amazing coauthor team at OI tomorrow opportunityinsights.org/updates/2023...

New ChatGPT prompt: "make me an infographic about..."

I used this excellent puzzle as a warmup in class yesterday (credit: @valeriaburdea.bsky.social , image credit: DALL·E)

Hey #JMCs: Did you ever wonder where you can find a dynamic research environment and friendly colleagues while living in a vibrant city?🤔 Join us @BristolUniEcon! Deadline: 19 Nov. Feel free to DM me in case of questions! econjobmarket.org/positions?sh...

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Good morning everyone! I always loved social media as a way to learn and to interact and meet great people from around the world. This platform looks very promising, let's do our best to build a great community here. Looking forward to it!

Our World in Data plus chatGPT are such a killer combo for making quick teaching illustrations (I wanted to add a quick regression line to this figure) @scientificdiscovery.dev

I'm teaching economics of crime next week. 2nd year undergrad level. Would love recommendations for papers that are simple to explain (esp. RCTs) and will capture students' imaginations, especially ones that have been tested in class. Planning to set the scene with this extraordinary figure

"The Glastonbury of Fireworks"

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🚨New working paper🚨   *The Fundamental Properties, Stability and Predictive Power of Distributional Preferences* (Authors: Ernst Fehr ® Thomas Epper ® Julien Senn) www.econ.uzh.ch/en/research/... #Econsky

#EconSky, what are your favourite examples of papers using micro-econometric methods to answer macro questions? (I would like to include more such papers as examples in the first-year econometrics course of our PhD sequence.)

(I just wrote about it thanks to your posts on my French-speaking econ popularization newsletter: fr.osc.ac/ecosceptique...)

Two graphs I showed my students yesterday. 1. The proportion of UK households that spend *any money* on alcohol is strongly increasing in income. This was surprising to us.

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

I was looking for a good example of Simpson's paradox for teaching and stumbled across this excellent one. Colored lines scientifically hand-drawn by me. Source: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles...

OH i can come out as entirely nonbinary that'll be fun!!!!