I'm still baffled by how cheap DC parking permits are, compared to rental costs for the same space. And like, the costs of building roads.

Fascinating study. A third of ocean plastic waste comes from rivers in The Philippines. Why? Risk factors for ocean plastics include proximity of cities to rivers, rivers to oceans (hence islands), & poor waste management. 1600 high-risk rivers identified. ourworldindata.org/ocean-plastics

Huge thanks to @iea_economics for the opportunity to talk about my work and my journey to becoming an economist!

Lilian, a turkey farmer, used ~$700 of her transfers on highway construction training at @kilimambogotec. “I want to study and fulfill my dreams as an independent woman.” She’ll complete her courses next month and be driving by January.

“Unless we provide a safe route [for asylum seekers], we are complicit with the people smugglers.”

I've no intelligent comment, but the news coming out of Afghanistan is just heartbreaking. My thoughts to everyone with loved ones, work, hopes, memories there. ft.com/content/be62bd…

Delighted to share that my new book, They Eat Our Sweat, forthcoming Oxford University Press, is now ready for pre-order!

Been reading this paper by Rebecca Diamond & Enrico Moretti about local cost of living diff. It's just really amazing data work. Shows how sometimes basic measurement and descriptive statistics can dramatically improve our understanding about the economy. web.stanford.edu/~diamondr/Diam…

We're hiring a person to do what I do in D.C. in Maryland and Virginia. Same level of seniority, with a necessary emphasis on land-use reform alongside transit, duh. It's a big job. Here's the posting: ggwash.org/view/83572/wer…

Just learnt that the New York Stock Exchange began with a few guys trading on a street corner in the open air under a sycamore tree (later upgraded to a coffee house). (Credit to the fun The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Capitalism In American History course)

Nice exploration of the "razors edge of gentrification" and attempts to get community investments right (re the 11th St Bridge Park development in SE DC)

🔔Call for Papers🔔 @DauthEcon and me are organizing a workshop on Urban Labor and local income inequality this fall at @iab_news Nürnberg & we are looking forward to your submissions! Plus: We can offer travel assistance to selected participants! #EconTwitter

These are 10 of my favourite #UrbanEconomics articles published in academic journals in 2023, continuing with a tradition from the last few years (order is alphabetical by first author, no ranking implied):