Here's my vote intention for Cambridge City Council. Remember that democracy starts locally & some of our most important issues, from climate resilience to social equality, are shaped by local policy: I vote for the candidates who are listed by BOTHA Better Cambridge & Cambridge Bicycle Safety. 1/

🚨🚨🚨 🚐🚐🚐 RA posting in Cape Town: analyze exciting minibus big data, working with Lucas Conwell, Nick Tsivanidis, Oluchi Mbonu and me. We are reviewing applications on a rolling basis so apply soon! Please share with potential applicants! drive.google.com/file/d/134w9...

Fun fact: you can estimate a conditional logit by running a fixed effects Poisson. They yield the same estimates and standard errors - they maximize the same likelihood. Poisson regression forever!

Come work with me! Stockholm Sch of Econ (@handels_sse ) is hiring Assistant Professors this year, both in Economics (my dept) and in Finance. By revealed preference, I think it’s a great place to work + a lovely city to live in. Econ advert below: jobs.hhs.se/en/job/stock...

We just spent 6 months to add 1 figure to this paper. Some people said, "Couples aren't prioritizing men's careers. Men just have better earnings opportunities when moving." Earnings effects of moves for couples on the left, singles on the right. Negligible gap between single men and women.

For econ JM candidates: @princetondevo.bsky.social is hiring for a 1-year postdoc with a start date in summer 2026. The only responsibility is to be an active participant in our Princeton development econ seminars and to continue pursuing your great independent research. Apply by Nov 24.

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...

I needed to hear this today www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVPV...

@pengzell.bsky.social asks about the social sciences, which I haven't looked at in a while. Indexing these against 2008 rather than peak, and struck that economics has been on a downslope for 6 years now, while psychology, the worst discipline, continues to rise rapidly. bsky.app/profile/peng...

It took me 2 minutes to write about how this proposed rule would eliminate all foreign PhD students, who are a critical part of US science and technology, and drive US innovation and economic growth

The H1-B visa thing is, like everything else in the Trump administration, set up to carve up exceptions for friends and punish enemies. It’s the authoritarian thru-line that stitches everything together.

Out today in JAERE! We measure water pollution released at India's industrial clusters. Does it hurt agriculture? Surprisingly: Not by much Come for how we published a paper of null results & with no regression tables Stay for new ways to proxy for crop yields & map hydrological relationships 🧵

It’s not a chilling effect. It would only be chilling if you had something horrid to say, and you don’t, do you? Certainly nothing critical of the regime, and absolutely no paraphrasing, not of anyone, not at this time!

We don't need to worry about stealth authoritarianism anymore. It's pretty clearly out in the open. www.cnbc.com/2025/09/18/t...

Excited to see the new Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics (Volume 6), edited jointly with Dave Donaldson come out: www.sciencedirect.com/handbook/han.... Fantastic set of chapters on recent advances and pointing the way to exciting further research @treballen.bsky.social @siepr.bsky.social

Today's cool young researcher #econtwitter #econsky is @dunc_webb @NovaSBE @duncanwebb.bsky.social who works on topics related to discrimination + human capital

My opinion about the historic verdict coming out of Brazil, with @stevelevitsky.bsky.social, is in the @nytimes.com today. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/o...

We (development econ faculty at Princeton) are hiring predocs, to start in summer 2026. Please share the application with folks who might be interested: rpde.princeton.edu/rpde-%E2%80%93-predoctoral-fellows-research-specialists-start-summer-2026 We'll review apps starting on 9/15. Thanks!

I will wake up *really* early and do just a bit more work.

Elaine Buckberg: To address "range anxiety," states should enact laws that require fast chargers to report real-time status that any EV mapping app can access via @brookings.edu Hutchins Center. www.brookings.edu/articles/cha...

This is a paragraph Brett Kavanaugh wrote on his little computer and then sent out into the world:

Truly excellent throughout.

Many interventions “work” in small trials but fail at scale Also, EdTech often promises much, but delivers little In a new paper (bit.ly/3JKLgVn) @karthik-econ.bsky.social & I show how personalized adaptive learning (PAL) software can sharply improve learning outcomes at scale🧵1/16

Yet another instance of the staggering human costs of US deportation practices. ‘I told my family, I’ll probably die’: US immigration sends Russian asylum seekers back to Moscow www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I signed an open letter from economists supporting Fed independence & Governor Lisa Cook Letter: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Add your name by Monday: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

dear academics, about that "my [dot] name [at] school [dot] edu" email address on your website. I'm going out on a limb here, but I really don't think this format is a huge defense against spam. But it makes it a bit tedious to put together a conference invite mailing list!

Tour de force review on “Economics of Attention” by Loewenstein just published in J Econ Lit @aeajournals.bsky.social #behavioraleconomics

A 4-year limit on student visa length would upend PhD programs.

We are hiring at Montana State! Link in thread If you aren't sure whether you fit the posted topic areas, please don't pre-screen yourself out, let our committee decide! I'm not on the search committee but happy to answer any general questions

We at @stanforddoerr.bsky.social are excited to announce a new PhD program in Global Environmental Policy, accepting applications this fall for Sept 2026 start. We're looking for folks with interest in social sciences, data science, and enviro science and who have strong quant training 1/

This is huge

🪅DHS (not that one) Program website active again, and accepting requests for data access dhsprogram.com/Who-we-are/N... (via @ipums.bsky.social )

Enrollment is open now: MicroMasters Program in Data, Economics, and Design of Policy By @j-pal.bsky.social at @mit.edu, starts Sept. 9 The opportunity of a lifetime to learn directly from Nobel laureates and other national treasures. Tuition scaled by salary—> micromasters.mit.edu/dedp/

An *extremely* interesting, sad read. Philippe Sands: "I’m not focused on whether it’s a war crime or a crime against humanity or a genocide, which is a distraction from the real issue. It is utterly appalling and unjustifiable, and it should not be happening. ..." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/o...

Statement from the largest economics association about the BLS firing As context: AEA approximately never makes such public statements This is a big deal

A new theory on how regional shocks affect aggregate welfare—applied to US highway network improvements—unpacking how and why it deviates from the Fogel/Hulten characterization, from Eric Donald, Masao Fukui, and Yuhei Miyauchi https://www.nber.org/papers/w34075

And the punchline...

The famine in Gaza is a level of horror I cannot comprehend. There is no justification for the Israeli government to restrict aid and food and cause people in Gaza to starve to death. This must stop.

What an excellent piece by Suresh Naidu. I could not agree more.

there's an actual genre of analysis that acknowledges that for generations people used to buy and sell other humans, aided by a comprehensive system of apartheid that continued for generations later, but nevertheless blames the resurgence of open bigotry on a decade or so of cringe Tumblr posts

Walking on campus, I was just thinking how hard it is to be a grad student. It was by far the hardest thing I have done professionally, and there were many days (and nights!) when I was certain I would never come up with a job market paper (or, any paper, really). Grad students, hang in there!🤗

This study's design does not seem like a credible way to answer a very important question. Panel with country fixed effects, without time fixed effects (not that adding these would solve the problem).

www.nber.org/papers/w31981 @thetahat.bsky.social this paper is very cool. They use accelerometers from Ubers to estimate potholes. My only issue is, in NYC, how many of those vibrations are people pounding on the truck of the car because "I am wALKing here!"