Hometown CicLAvia on Venice Boulevard. We are traffic. Today anyway. Wish this much energy went into making biking safe and pleasurable every day in LA.

amazing how much a community thrives, as soon as you take the cars away 🤷‍♀️

***Warning - long rant on struggles of being an immigrant with a "weak" passport*** With my new job, I switched statuses in the US from being a student to a worker - new visa & visa category - I need a new visa stamp for which I need to return to home country...

An environmental group successfully blocked the last miles of a nearly complete 102 mile transmission line that would connect 160 renewable sites to the Midwest. Brutal.

You are at the beach and want a beer. Local ordinances allow for only one beer vendor on the beach. Turns out, a lot of beach goers also want a beer. The line is long. The price was $20 a beer but seeing the long line, the beer vendor raises the price to $25 a beer. People

🚨We are still looking for French-speaking RAs for research projects in the DR Congo focusing on state capacity and development. Apply and come work with us! Predoc: povertyactionlab.org/careers/predoc… Research Associate: povertyactionlab.org/careers/resear… Research Intern: povertyactionlab.org/careers/resear…

When cheap parking can be found at home and at work, don’t be surprised if the highway in between is also a parking lot. #ParkingTips

Congratulations to Max Auffhammer on being named a 2024 AERE Fellow. Colleagues praise his pathbreaking scholarship, relevance for environmental economics, always giving back, and fostering a culture welcoming to those new/underrepresented in the field! Max Auffhammer Berkeley Rausser College of Natural Resources

16 years to the day where I had the idea for this paper while I was watching the first game of Euro 2008 and having a few beers. Should have been studying in grad school instead.

I left America for 3 years and traveled to every corner of the globe. Stayed on every continent. Visited my 60th country. I seriously contemplated living abroad long-term, but eventually the decision became clear: I would move back to the USA. The reason was simple: As an

We're thrilled to present our new paper, “A Welfare Analysis of Policies Impacting Climate Change,” at the NBER Summer Institute this morning at 9am ET. Catch it on a live stream on YouTube (Environmental & Energy): youtube.com/nbervideos [1/3]

LACEA's Urban Econ Network LAUrban is back with a call for papers for its 3rd Annual Meeting, now in Mexico City on Dec 5-6, 2024. the Keynote Speakers will be Paulina Oliva (USC Economics) and Matthew Turner (Brown University), organized with Banco de México as our local partner.

We're hiring! Here are the ads for two of our open positions that we're hoping to fill this year: join us! 1) econometrics usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-angele… 2) development/political economy - all applied micro welcome usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-angele…

It's wild that we think it's normal for urban planners to arbitrarily decide how many parking spaces every moth breeding business must have.

Kickstarted #USC PhD-WiE events for the year with our mentors, Marianne and Monica Morlacco! Shoutout to Caroline for making this possible 🙌🏻 USC Economics 1/3

Very proud of our USC Economics students on the job market this year. A short thread. dornsife.usc.edu/econ/doctoral/…

luigi isn’t even the first terrorist to come out of penn the first terrorist organization is penn masala

airport lounge worship is for dorks who are bad at timing. the optimal airport experience is walking directly from security onto the plane.