A review of US place-based policies reveals lessons learned and adapted in some newer policies, and ignored in others, from Matthew Freedman and David Neumark nber.org/papers/w33272

In 1991, David Lynch showed the world the alienation and innate horror of a dirty street, directing this unforgettable anti-littering ad for the City of New York. RIP to a visionary filmmaker and a pioneer of the Trash Revolution.

I am hiring a predoc at MIT to start this summer! We will work on various topics in labor economics - unions, minimum wages, imperfect competition, etc. Please apply and share ! #predoc MIT Sloan School of Management MIT IWER Econ RA Listings

The US increasingly relies on place-based policy to help distressed regions, but many regions lack the capacity to obtain resources or implement effective policy, from Gordon H. Hanson, Dani Rodrik, and Rohan Sandhu nber.org/papers/w33511

📢 It's out! My new book "Safe Havens for Hate" explores how extremists exploit gaps in online moderation to spread hate across platforms. Out now with Princeton University Press! 📖 Read more & order: press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove…

🚨New data alert! A beta version of the Global Tariff Database is now available! 🔗feodorateti.github.io 🔎If you're looking for cross-country data on bilateral tariffs, this might help you.

Call for papers! Weatherhead Center Research Cluster on Business and Government invites submissions for a conference on the political economy of business and government on May 9 at Harvard. Please see the attached call for papers for more details. forms.gle/RYZu9B1Rmfmzpb…

Nothing to see here, just a squad of masked henchmen kidnapping and disappearing a university student in broad daylight. Probably not the type of thing congressional Dems need to expend political capital on fighting.

In light of Trump making the 3rd term comments, I thought it would be interesting to revisit the broader data on term limit evasion attempts. In 2020, Mila Versteeg (UVA Law) and I worked with law students to collect data on strategies incumbents use to circumvent term limits /1

Not having kids is not a remotely effective climate mitigation strategy

UC Berkeley is hiring an Assistant Professor this fall, with a preference for candidates in International Relations, American Politics, or Public Law. I am on the committee and glad to answer questions. Please apply! Link in next post.

Academic job alert: The International Relations department at LSE is looking to hire two assistant professors, in international security and in IPE (climate, environment, global business). App deadline: 7th Sep 2025. Details👇 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/53… jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/58…