We are hiring! Join our UMBC Public Policy faculty in this tenure-track position in Cybersecurity Policy! Learn more and apply: facultyjobs.umbc.edu/cwfac/en-us/jo…

From mental health at top-ranked econ programs, to the fallout from the Flint water crisis, to the origin of government in ancient Iraq: here are the 10 most-read Research Highlights of 2023. aeaweb.org/research/top-t…

Just Accepted new paper, “Knowledge Access: The Effects of Carnegie Libraries on Innovation” by Enrico Berkes and Peter Nencka zurl.co/eoDV

Our paper on the career trajectories of interdisciplinary researchers has just been published on PNAS! tl;dr: Researchers who are initially the most interdisciplinary tend to stop publishing earlier in their careers compared to their disciplinary peers. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Come work with us! The Dept of Political Science at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) invites applications for a tenured Associate or Full Professor position with a specialization in cybersecurity, beginning in August 2025. #PAjobmarket  facultyjobs.umbc.edu/cwfac/en-us/jo…

College establishment quasi-experiments show colleges shape county-level educational outcomes. In the July issue, by Lauren C. Russell (@LRussellEcon), Lei Yu, and Michael J. Andrews (Mike Andrews) zurl.co/ub1O

I am happy to announce that my paper with Ruben Gaetani and Marti Mestieri, titled "Technological Waves, Knowledge Diffusion, and Local Growth", was recently published on the JPEMA (journals.uchicago.edu/toc/jpema/0/ja)!

Announcement #2: We are on the market again! This year we have two open positions: 1) Health: apply.interfolio.com/155333 2) "Cyber security" (broadly intended) apply.interfolio.com/155330 Let your friends and family know. DM/email me if you have any questions.

one last (I promise!) update from i3open - the Innovation Information Initiative's big weekend: ➡️the 2025 batch of i3 Fellows⬅️ funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Fellows receive a stipend and attend i3 Technical Working Group Meetings. we seek Ph.D students engaged in open datasets. here is this year's

#econtwitter FSU's Dept. of Economics and Institute of Governance and Civics (IGC) is hiring at the Associate or Full Professor level Look for the ad on Econjobmarket.org

Post-doc in Economic History at Yale, now hiring egc.yale.edu/opportunities/…

Excited that my paper on the antitrust economics of search engine defaults will be published in the Journal of Law and Economics. Link to preprint: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

On this #FridayFeature, we highlight "Do College Applicants Respond to Changes in Sticker Prices Even When They Don't Matter?” Authors Levin, Ma, and Russell examine how published tuition prices influence student application behaviors. Read more: doi.org/10.1162/edfp_a… AEFP

🎙️New episode alert! 🥳Our guest is Kyle Myers from Harvard and we talked about Trump, the "elasticity of science", fundings & politics. Personal questions and new games towards the end. Oh, and.. tell us your price 😁 Centre for Economic Performance Programme on Innovation and Diffusion Ruveyda Nur Gozen John Van Reenen #EconTwitter

Forthcoming in AEJ: Microeconomics: "The Organization of Innovation: Incomplete Contracts and the Outsourcing Decision" by Thomas Jungbauer, Sean Nicholson, June Pan, Michael Waldman, and Lucy Xiaolu Wang. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

Universities often serve as "anchor institutions" that deeply affect the character of their communities. In a new paper, we (Mike Andrews / Lauren Russell) ask how (and when) the establishment of a college influences local political and civic life. 🧵 osf.io/preprints/soca…

How do universities shape the surrounding community? Building on meticulous archival work by Mike Andrews, we answer this question by focusing on cases where multiple locations were considered for a major university and the winning location was chosen for idiosyncratic reasons