DEADLINE EXTENDED: New submissions welcomed by September 30

📢Call for papers for the Economics Workshop on Marginalized Children and Long-term Outcomes, Oslo January 30-31, 2025! Child welfare/protective services of particular interest. Keynote lecture by Joe Doyle+contributed sessions.🗓️Submit paper/ext abst by Nov 1, 2024. #Econtwitter

🚨Columbia HPM has 3 open TT faculty searches!🚨 1. Quantitative health policy/health economics (assistant level) 2. Economics of public health (to join the new Center for Public Health Systems - assistant level) 3. Health care management (open rank) Links in the next tweet!

Facts, Facts, Facts (Hercule) Incarcerations for Immigrants and non-Immigrants in the Land of the Free; JD Vance Donald J. Trump may want to have a look (if they read...); perhaps Elon Musk too. great work by Leah Boustan, Ran, Elisa, Santiago, and Juan aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

I am on the job market this year (#EconTwitter)! I use applied micro methods to do research in the fields of political economy and economic history. Here is a thread on my research 🧵

I heard something the other day that stuck with me—every year there’s a draft for human capital and America has the first 100K picks and every year we trade them away for nothing.

I remember 10 years ago projects half the size of these wouldve taken years of fierce battle, hours of public comment. Post the pro housing revolution of the late 2010s, Berkeley unanimously approves high rise housing now and nobody even goes to meetings. berkeleyside.org/2024/09/13/hub…

Wildfire smoke has substantial, nonlinear impacts on US adult mortality and emergency room use, highlighting the benefits of improved air quality, even in areas meeting regulatory standards, from Nolan Miller, David Molitor, and eric zou nber.org/papers/w32924

Excited to get started w/ this team & research partner! Appreciate the support from Urban Institute & look forward to using this novel data to understand the relationship between skill development & social mobility

Countdown to my fall workshop on causal inference ("Causal Inference 1") at Mixtape Sessions! It starts bright and early on Saturday, September 21st from 9am to 5pm CST and I wanted to briefly tell you what'll be different. mixtapesessions.io/session/ci_i_s…

29 PhD students and counting. I know there are more of you out there!

We urgently need organizations to sign a letter to avoid dangers to Current Population Survey (source of the #Unemployment rate) if BLS-Labor Statistics isn’t adequately funded in FY2025. BLS will cut CPS sample by 5K soon. Please sign here by COB 9/23: forms.gle/DDu4YdpGwoMxdF…

🚨 New publicly available dataset on housing regulations across US municipalities With AlexBartik and Daniel Milo, we highlight a novel AI-based method for accurate categorization of regulations in unstructured text, which we use to establish 5 facts about housing regulation:

Are public housing projects good for kids after all? Our new paper (with EconAmy) Journal of Policy Analysis and Management says yes! We find new evidence that moving into public housing improves academic outcomes of children. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

I use this paper to show my students how hard it is to publish null results, even if SUPER important. 4 years with rejections of "fascinating, but we don't publish nulls." I'm happy this passion project (and my fave paper) with econshishir has found a great home at Health Econ!!

Delighted to welcome Johanna Arlinghaus as a co-organizer for the 2025 season of the @BSE_Berlin Quantitative Spatial Economics Research Seminar sites.google.com/view/bqse/co-o… May it be as fun and interesting as in 2024! Rainald Borck ThiloNH.Albers Kalle Kappner Jan David Bakker Volker Nitsch

Really useful report on who is leaving #MA from MassBudget. Data supports that #CostofLiving is major push factor. #AffordableHousingNow #BuildMABuild. Also very curious about large discrepancies between IRS data and Census data. #UrbanEcon - good question for class.

Free research idea: Use COPS grant decisions as a natural experiment to measure effects of various police interventions. (If you pursue this, please apply to AV for funding!) justice.gov/opa/pr/justice…

Great reaction to the recent David Deming article on breaking up Big Econ.