"We use fixed effect regression to account for selection bias."

Swift’s 2048 presidential campaign gets off to a rocky start as she loses the mighty econometrics lobby.

Small sample so far, but results could say something about who owns EVs, what they’re used for, and how much we should worry about extending range (vs making affordable L2 ubiquitous).

"This significant research gap has long puzzled the discipline..."

Housing prices in Springfield, OH have gone up at almost the exact same rate as the entire US and all of Ohio over the past decade We have a national housing affordability crisis in the US caused by supply restrictions, not a particular one in Springfield caused by immigrants

Anyone else think that the $25k credit to first time home buyers will just raise house prices by…oh I don’t know…about $25k?

Suddenly? These highly-paid CEOs are really on top of things, aren’t they?

Maybe this means that this is a silly question to ask “people”?

Most academics have zero social status: you’re confused by the high social status that a small set of academics has. That is because the US rewards both excellence and charlatanism disproportionately.

Couldn’t agree more. My Kia EV6 has a Touch Bar that allows you to toggle the function of physical knobs between volume and temperature control. This is an extraordinarily dumb design choice in an otherwise excellent vehicle. Must stop fetishizing touch screen controls.

The bedtime routine

Exactly right: it is the same problem.

Outstanding interview about what’s happening on the Southern border, and about immigration in general, by someone who actually knows what he’s taking about: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

Check out this super cool #OpenData Used Vehicles Dashboard by International Transport Forum - OECD itf-oecd.org/used-vehicles-… #transportation #transport

One of the things you see as an academic is that writing quality and analytic ability are kinda randomly distributed. Some of the most beautiful arguments are analytically embarrassing and there's lots of brilliance hiding behind bad writing. I think about this a lot on

Ubiquitous *slow* charging is grossly undervalued.

Uh oh. Don't tell the "EV sales have stalled" folks, but August saw a set of new records in the US: -Most plug-in vehicles sold (145k) -Most battery electric vehicles sold (121k) -Highest battery electric (8.6%) and plug-in vehicle sales shares (10.2%) Hybrids are also growing

…asks man from Florida.

Correct. And so says George Loewenstein, one of the founders of the field: nytimes.com/2010/07/15/opi…

Massive own goal. In contrast, one of America’s presidential candidates is the child of two people who came here as grad students.