"How does Mandatory Energy Efficiency Disclosure Affect Housing Prices?" was 🚨 just accepted 🚨 in JAERE. Read it here: journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72…

First EconTwitter Tweet: I just realized that the rule of thumb of 42 being a reasonable number of clusters is actually a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy joke from Mostly Harmless Econometrics. 😆 #EconTwitter

Finally got my paper on state income taxes accepted! Key finding: post-WWII adoptions of the income tax increased revenue per capita but had no impact on the absolute level of revenue in the long term, due to outmigration. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

An awesome two days hanging out with and seeing new work from this outstanding group of economists at Georgia Tech School of Economics's second annual Southeastern Workshop on Energy & Environmental Economics and Policy (SWEEEP)!

New paper investigating energy use among the top 1% of global energy consumers finds that low-cost messages priming religious and national identity to conserve energy led to sizeable reductions in electricity use - based on study in Qatar ⬇️ lse.ac.uk/granthaminstit…

I'm ecstatic that my paper on cleaning up the Great Lakes is finally out, after all these years. I'm so grateful that I got to work on this project with Robyn Meeks and Michael Moore. Great coauthors make all the difference, and these two have taught me so much!

My latest working paper is out at NBER! Woohoo!

Envision an economics professor. Was it me? Most likely. Apparently I’m the “book definition of an Econ teacher.”

I am speaking at AERE 2024 Summer Conference. whova.com/xems/apis/open… Title: Pollution Liability Insurance and Corporate Environmental Compliance in China (w/Fan Wu & Yiyuan Zhang). We look at Electroplating and Circuit Board industry violations. DALL-E Depiction:

Happy to announce that my paper with Teju Velayudhan has been accepted at The Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat)! We find that the proliferation of local governments in Indonesia significantly lowered GDP. #econtwitter direct.mit.edu/rest/article/d…

Excited to share that my paper "Revenue Persistence and Public Service Delivery" is forthcoming The Economic Journal! Using data from Indonesia, I examine how local governments respond to different types of intergovernmental grants. bit.ly/4ja6jO1 @OUPEconomics The Economic Journal #econtwitter