1. Anyone who cares about criminal justice reform should be excited about Kamala Harris’ selection of Minnesota Tim Walz to be her running mate. Over the past couple of years he has signed into law a ton of significant criminal justice reforms. For example:

This is from the guy who made all those funny spurious correlations. Now, he’s used AI to turn them into (fake) journal articles, with literature reviews and all!! 😂 😂 tylervigen.com/spurious-schol…

Looking forward to presenting new research about how incarceration affects the accumulation of wealth! Thursday 1 PM Eastern. Joint work with Winnie van Dijk Aurelie Ouss and John Eric Humphries. Updated abstract below

Is it just me, or is prepping talks the most excruciating part of this otherwise amazing job?

🚨Public good alert! 🚨#EconTwitter The public-use NUMIDENT is now available for download with nearly 50 million death records and 25 million claims records (1936-2007)! Link: doi.org/10.3886/E20720… 🧵1/N

Do you want to assign quantitative research articles in class but worry your students don't know how to read a regression table? Fear no more! A 500-word handout on interpreting regression results: raw.githubusercontent.com/favero-nate/mi…

Hope to see you today at 1 PM eastern!

I spent over a year barely able to stand due to long Covid, and I’m still suffering the consequences. This disease desperately needs funding to match the enormity of its burden.

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(1/5) *⃣ New study. *⃣ In preregistered experiments, we find consistent evidence that employers are more willing to hire applicants with criminal records (misdemeanor or felony) when given direct incentives (e.g., a tax credit). This holds under BTB. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/17…

Useful info: 1) Audit studies on racial discrimination in hiring suffer from publication bias. 2) There is still strong evidence of racial discrimination after adjusting for publication bias.

This is Chelsea Koetter & her sons. A few years ago, she accrued a small property tax debt. So the government seized her home, sold it—and kept the $102,636 profit. The Supreme Court said this practice is illegal. But some states are subverting that. A thread.

That Judge Learned Hand was J.D. Salinger’s best friend . . . (and godfather to Salinger’s daughter, Margaret)! ❤️

Fred Schauer Has Passed, lsolum.typepad.com/legaltheory/20…: It is with a heavy heart that I report that Fred Schauer passed yesterday, Sunday, the first of September, 2024.  I have known Fred for almost forty years. At the very beginning of my academic career, Fred provided comments on my

A very generous offer

RIP Fred, you will be missed. I joined Fred’s wife Bobbie for a ladies dinner a couple of years ago, to celebrate her birthday. Fred had come by the restaurant early to lay a rose at every place, along with some surprise gifts for Bobbie. When it came time to pay the bill, he

NEW in NBER: "Conviction, Incarceration, and Recidivism: Understanding the Revolving Door" By John Eric Humphries, Aurelie Ouss, Kamelia Stavreva, Megan Stevenson, & Winnie van Dijk: nber.org/papers/w32894