With the new development in Diff-in-Diff, is there any paper that studies the interacted impact of 2 different sets of policies, both with staggered roll-out? Any suggestion? scott cunningham Pedro H. C. Sant'Anna professional age forecaster

I wrote about the book White Rural Rage and the scapegoating of rural people.

I talked to over 20 experts in the field of rural studies and found a pattern of errors, distortions, and misleading uses of scholarship in Schaller and Waldman’s book. It’s egregious.

Buckle up. 🧵

Just wanted to highlight the recent release of the Policies for Place initiative Upjohn Institute , which has a number of specific, short policy recs for how local communities can better promote more inclusive economic growth: upjohn.org/major-initiati…

YIMBYism, Vancouver edition: macleans.ca/society/sen%cc…

Inside the Upjohn Institute youtu.be/EN2M4OZMBAE?si… via YouTube

I've kept a pretty low (online) profile of what I'm building, but word's getting out.

My company Astro Mechanica has invented a new kind of jet engine. Unlike any existing engine, it's efficient at every speed. Because it's efficient at every speed, we can use it in a new way:…

Are tech clusters the problem, not the solution?
americanaffairsjournal.org/2024/02/supers…

There is a discrepancy between how tech clusters function in practice versus their theoretical contributions to greater growth. The fact that the tech clusters have not yielded the economic benefits that they once promised should invite further scrutiny.
americanaffairsjournal.org/2024/02/supers…

Interesting article on NYC rent stabilization, about how tighter rules passed in 2019 have spilled over into the banking sector.

The question I don't see answered is: how do the tenants fare when the landlord is in financial distress?

wsj.com/real-estate/co…

BART did in-house engineering work on its new train cars, sped up production, and now the project is being delivered early and 15% under budget.

Sad news. The shul my wife and I attend in Kalamazoo was vandalized with swatiskas on Shabbat. They are great shluchim for the community, and we hope the perpetrators are swiftly caught. wwmt.com/news/local/ant…