Here is a graph with dollar amounts of funding committed.

The curves look very similar to those based on the number of awards.

Data center builders thought farmers would willingly sell land, learn otherwise Even in a fragile farm economy, million-dollar offers can't sway dedicated farmers.

It seems that tech giants eyeing rural zones for data center development have underestimated how attached American farmers have grown to their lands in the decades they’ve been nurturing them.

📢 #EdWorkingPapers: Nearly 1 in 12 U.S. schools is located within a quarter mile of an environmental hazard site.

Sohil Malik, @matthewakraft.com & Grace Falken finds stark racial and socioeconomic inequities in schools’ exposure to pollution risks.

#SustainableED
📄https://bit.ly/49YdXsA

🆕📢Ahead-of-print in #REEP📢
"Causal Inference for Biodiversity Conservation" by Kathy Baylis, Alberto Garcia, and Robert Heilmayr ( @econservation.bsky.social ).
🔗 Read it here: buff.ly/b2a199a
📈📉 #Econsky

Visualization of the set of observations contributing to identification in an example regression

Visualization of the set of observations contributing to identification in an example regression

Visualization of the distribution of identifying variation weights in an example regression

In my updated paper, I introduce an R package, ididvar, that provides tools to easily identify the identifying variation in a regression: vincentbagilet.github.io/ididvar/



More information can be found on the package and project websites: vincentbagilet.github.io/causal_exaggeration/ididvar.html

5 Calls Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

actually quite cathartic to call one’s reps every morning and leave a message giving your perspective and demanding action.

here you try:

5calls.org

📢 Just accepted in #JAERE! 📢
"Glyphosate Use, Water Contamination, and Neonatal Health in the United States" by Tzu-Hui J. Chen.
Read it here: buff.ly/PhCSHrH
📈📉 #Econsky

Call your reps + please read the thread. Do it now, please.

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Government service should be attracting people with ambition and talent not making it an insane slog to get in the door and then be terrorized by insane conspiracists every 4 years for lower compensation than the private market.

Congestion pricing improved air quality in NYC and suburbs | Cornell Chronicle Cornell researchers tallied the environmental benefits of New York City’s congestion pricing program and found air pollution dropped by 22% in Manhattan, with additional declines across the city’s fiv...

In addition to all of the other benefits already reported about NYC congestion pricing, "In the first six months of the program, air pollution – in the form of particulate matter 2.5 micrometers and smaller – dropped by 22% in the Congestion Relief Zone (CRZ)"

news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...

People can sell their funds in these tax-sheltered accounts and pay zero taxes, as long as they keep it in the account. This means if they shift into a bond fund, a small stock index fund, an international fund, or a money fund, they owe no taxes.

Two interesting news items from NYU's Institute for Policy Integrity!

A new DC office, with Martha Roberts and Al McGartland: policyintegrity.org/files/media/...

& their website now hosts a ton of social cost of carbon documents that can now be otherwise hard to find:
costofcarbon.org/resources

The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine (Gift Article) A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Interesting paper highlight that binning can be misspecified in panel settings - this drives misinterpretation of extreme temperature shocks. #linkoftheday

www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/1ya6z...

Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.

Ok apparently this is actually not widely known: Gov. Shapiro withdrew Pennsylvania from RGGI today as part of a deal to pass a now-4month overdue budget.

Second is Hayeon Jeong.
JMP: Does Greater Policy Intensity Improve Policy
effectiveness? Evidence from Seoul, South Korea
Website: sites.google.com/view/hayeonj...
Interests: Environmental Econ, Behavioral Econ

The first is Hannah Farkas.
JMP: "The Economic Incidence of Schedule Unpredictability in Hourly Work"
Website: hannahfarkas.github.io
Interests: Environmental Econ, Labor Econ

Sober October Ends As Deer Realizes Apple He Just Ate Fermented

Sober October Ends As Deer Realizes Apple He Just Ate Fermented theonion.com/sober-october-ends-as-de...

Don’t let the frogwater that’s boiling us alive let you skip over this: we murdered another country’s citizens in cold blood, and when their leader objected, we called him a drug dealer and cut off aid to his country. That’s freakish.

Prosecutor Who Rejected Trump’s Pressure to Charge James Is Fired

If you’ve been telling yourself that we’re not really living under an authoritarian government, at some point you have to look at what’s going on and admit that this is what’s happening.

I know it’s hard to accept. It sounds like it must be an exaggeration. But it’s true.

If you're wondering how the right is taking the Santos pardon Newsmax had Rod Blagojevich on to say how great of an idea it was

A master class from MIT in responding to authoritarian overreach:

Your “premise … is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.
… America’s leadership in science & innovation depends on independent thinking & open competition for excellence.

This action by Lisa Cook is courageous, principled, and deserves broad support.

VA terminates union contracts for most bargaining-unit employees - VA News Union contracts for most bargaining-unit employees are terminated by VA.

I know there's a lot going on but I would've thought the federal government trying to unilaterally toss out the collective bargaining agreements it agreed to with ~360,000 nurses would've made a bigger splash yesterday. (I just heard about this myself!)

Who is Arrested by ICE under Trump 2.0? A 🧵

New from me & @elizabethacox.bsky.social!

Piece: immresearch.org/publications...

1. ICE arrests spike in Jan & May 2025; when arrests increase, percent of those arrested who are convicted of a crime falls

Majority arrested have no criminal conviction

The Second Austrian Assessment Report on Climate Change (#AAR2), co-led by IIASA & partners, shows 🇦🇹 warming by 3.1°C since 1900 - twice the global rate.
🌡️ More extreme weather
💧 Rising risks to health & economy
✅ Prevention is more cost-effective than inaction
iiasa.ac.at/news/jun-202...

Open Letter from Concerned Faculty from Columbia University, Barnard College, and Teachers College BY CONCERNED FACULTY AT COLUMBIA, BARNARD, AND TEACHERS COLLEGE We are publishing this letter at the request of several AAUP members from Columbia, Barnard, and Teachers College. The letter was dra…

academeblog.org/2025/05/27/o.... Excellent and urgent statement. Please share.

Any Econ PhD students at Harvard (or elsewhere in the U.S.) worried about visa status, the @iies.su.se has openings for PhD students who have completed their coursework and are at the dissertation stage, starting in the fall. Apply here:
www.su.se/institute-fo...

Scripts and language to demand your members of Congress not pretend this is business as usual tomorrow morning while LaMonica McIver is being threatened with imprisonment.