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Drycleaners, their devastating impact on our communities that nobody talks about, and a solution: As a strip mall owner, I've dealt with this issue for 15 years, and I'd like to address it here. Hope this gets Retweeted so we save lives! Since the 1930s, the

I have lots of ideas for economics papers I'd like to write but not so much time to write them. So I decided to just post many of them publicly to see if anyone else wants to write them: economistwritingeveryday.com/2023/01/26/ste…

So you want to turn an office building into housing? Let's dig into how that actually works, and why older buildings are much easier to convert. w/ the amazing Larry Buchanan nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Climate risk is best described by the recent Oscar winner, explains Dr. Benjamin Keys (@Key_Z_E) at today’s hearing: “It’s Everything Everywhere All at Once.”

I have reinstalled Twitter to respond to this story and make sure my voice is fully heard. I am Casey. My real name is Alex but my mom decided it would be best to hide it for anonymity. But this is my story, not hers. This is not the free press’s story.

I just want to boost Jørgen Berge -- he is an incredibly talented econometrician that has made econometrics in #rstats much more accessible through his fixest package. The amount of care and attention and his dedication to feedback is astounding. You should give him a follow.

Fuck the NYT for this article. The bikes didn't "collide" with sentient cars; bad drivers fucking hit and killed the kids. To call for regulation of e-bikes and not call for cycling infrastructure is just victim-blaming.

If you follow me, you’ve seen me posting about Montgomery County, MD’s public housing authority. Today the agency gets its due with a Times feature on their approach to mixed-income public development. nytimes.com/2023/08/25/bus…

Rebecca Jorgensen JMP: "The Economic Consequences of Mergers Between Real Estate Agencies and Mortgage Lenders" Website: rajorgensen.com

Severe climate events (floods, wildfires) are increasing insurance costs – on average, home insurance premiums grew 21% this year. Will policyholders keep insuring their homes? We (@JohannesJasper2, Tobias Huber, Andreas Richter, & I) explore in a new working paper.

🚨Consumer finance researchers🚨 We're submitting a comment on how CFPB's proposed rule on personal financial data rights may curtail researcher access to consumer transaction data. We're urging CFPB to consider permitting anonymized data access for research purposes. 1/2

How and why do households react to unexpected income shocks? Our new paper🚨w/ Pierfrancesco Mei & Roberto Colarieti dives into this question, which is crucial for informing macroeconomic models & understanding the impacts of fiscal policy. Paper socialeconomicslab.org/research/worki… A short 🧵1/N

Around an approval discontinuity, Federal Disaster Loans causally reduces severe financial distress, decreasing bankruptcy filings by 61 percent in the 3 years after the disaster, from Benjamin Collier, Daniel A. Hartley, Ben Keys, and Jing Xian Ng nber.org/papers/w32845

Hey #econtwitter! Dropping back over to tell you about a great Wharton job candidate! Xian Ng studies whether households are able to optimize over financial products with different up-front versus sustained payments. This area often has a tradeoff b/t identification and stakes 🧵

Ok one more job candidate before I head back across the rainbow! Andelyn Russell is a great developmentXbehavioral JMC with a particular knack for building partnerships to run field experiments. Ande convinced a large Indian job board to experiment on both firms and job seekers.

This cross sectional measure is mostly driven by divorce rates. The gap in proportion ever married doesn’t change too much over time. Check out my prior thread/working paper to see why this is happening. It’s mainly an issue of divorce laws and mixed education marriages.

French senator perfectly describes the Trump situation.

partnered with the brilliant Thomas Bourany to explore how leakage effects through international goods and energy trade curb the efficacy of unilateral climate policies, create winners and losers, but can amplify the gains of policy coordination. check it out!