RIP Betty
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Attention IO job market candidates:
Sometimes speakers in the CMA's external economics seminar series have to cancel at relatively short notice. We would love for these slots to go to JMCs to present their job market paper.
Drop me a message if you are interested or share with those who might be.
I read @itsafronomics.bsky.social new book βThe Double Taxβ this afternoon. Itβs engaging and one of the best popular ways to bring social science to the public and policy that Iβve read in a long while. Black women are uniquely disadvantaged in our economy. π she gave Janelle James her flowers!
I signed an open letter from economists supporting Fed independence & Gov. Lisa Cook. Letter: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Add your name by Monday: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
This letter is not particularly controversial in its assertions and the topic of central bank independence is extremely important. Takes about 4.5 minutes to read and sign (if you agree.) Looks like the number of signatories is up since Tatyana's post, but Economics needs YOU!
Update: we are at 379 signatures in support of Lisa Cook and Fed independence!
The letter be open for signatures through Sun. (Link to sign at the top).
If you are on X or listservs, please spread the word there!
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Just added my signature to the letter.
This is a no brainer.
Itβs wild weβre having a conversation about US central bank independence in 2025. But here we are.
Please read and consider adding your signature.
Today you can catch me on @npr.org's Here and Now sharing why the allegations against Governor Lisa Cook hold no merit and why more economists need to be speaking out. #econsky #blacksky #politics #news
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Always fun to step back from [waves hands around] to do a thread on new accepted research.
Happy to share the release of our paper "Show me the Money! A Field Experiment on EV Charge Timing" in AEJ:Policy today.
Co-authors: Megan Bailey, David Brown & Frank Wolak
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I do not like when the nerds who post graphs on here are all going "oof" and "jesus christ" at the same time
New Energy Institute Blog Post: Universities β The Origin of Many Electrifying Ideas - by @auffhammer.bsky.social
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A reminder this is happening today!
You won't want to miss the remembrances of Gary, including this *yearbook page* provided by his HS classmate Chuck Manski
Plus exciting new econometrics on feedback in panel models
Coming soon to Zoom rooms near you!
We're excited to announce a reboot of the Chamberlain Seminar, five years after its 2020 debut
We'll kick things off on 3/21 with a tribute to Gary. More info and future seminars here:
chamberlainseminar.org
Register here: stanford.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Join us for the first of the reconstituted Virtual Seminars on Climate Economics, now hosted by @cepr.org, online tomorrow 8am CA time
@hatethegamebook.com will present her super-cool experiment providing climate risk data to housing buyers on Redfin
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π¨Incredible lineup at @nber.org conference this Thurs/Fri 3/20-21: **Energy Markets, Decarbonization, and Trade**
πAgenda www.nber.org/conferences/...
π₯ Webstream www.youtube.com/nbervideos
Organized w Natalia Ramondo, supported by @sloanfoundation.bsky.social
The Cook County WP is the one. They have more coming out soon.
The take away from upzoning in IL was developers find the worst houses on the best blocks to remodel/infill. Very little new housing quantity but increased quality I believe.
Yes!! Tim McQuade and Rebecca Diamond have new work specifically studying this.
Open call for papers, Risk and Risk Management in the Agricultural Economy. Conference to be held in Cambridge, MA on November 21, 2025. Submit papers by 11:59pm EDT on August 12, 2025. More information: https://www.nber.org/calls-papers-and-proposals/risk-and-risk-management-agricultural-economy
In today's episode of doomerism isn't a strategy, here's a list of things you can do today to make the world around you suck a little bit less:
Pick ONE thing and do it.
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If post beef drake is strictly rnb drake, I think that's welfare increasing for everyone.
Happy Valentine' day
We've just opened a new @beckerfriedman.bsky.social pre-doc position through the International Economics and Economic Geography Initiative:
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Come work with us! The trade and spatial group at UChicago is a top-notch place to start your academic career!
Join our amazing team of environmental economists at LSE
Deadline is soon! The Race and Stratification Working Group at NBER will have its annual meeting on Friday, April 4, 2025! Dania Francis, Vicki Bogan, Ellora Derenoncourt and I are organizing the program. Submit your paper before the December 19, 2024 deadline! conference.nber.org/confsubmit/b...
Calling all field experimenters, including academics, policy types, and industry folks. I am happy to announce that our 2025 Advances with Field Experiments conference will be held Sept. 18th and 19th at the University of Chicago.
Details here: economics.uchicago.edu/advances-wit...
A long-run policy or technology-driven decline in oil demand will likely lead to oil supply disinvestment, rather than a green paradox in which producers accelerate extraction, from Ryan Kellogg https://www.nber.org/papers/w33207
Reminder that Iβm collecting innovation job market papers! Will try to send this post late this week, so still have a few days if you want to be included.
"This paper identifies an important bias β termed dynamic bias β in fixed effects panel estimators that arises when dynamic feedback [past outcomes influencing current outcomes] is ignored in the estimating equation." klosins.github.io/Klosin_JMP.pdf #econsky
π¦ Just accepted π¦ in @jaereaere.bsky.social:
"The Recreational Value of Rare Species: Causal Evidence from the Cassia Crossbill" by Arthur R. Wardle
Read it here: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/733759