For #NSF and #NIH watchers, Grant Witness now has interactive data on numbers of grants and total funding obligations, broken down by institute and directorate, new awards and non-competitive renewals.
The stranglehold on new awards is still a disaster.
grant-witness.us/funding_curv...
The “big beautiful bill” greatly expanded SNAP work requirements for parents
In my paper with @jasonbcook.bsky.social, forthcoming at JPUBE, we ask what similar, existing requirements do
SNAP work requirements for parents deny vulnerable parents SNAP benefits and do not increase their employment
This is the kind of economic illiteracy that has public thinking that energy production ➡️ energy independence.
No one cares who you buy from when the price of the tradable good is set by global supply and demand.
This article is a perfect exercise in miseducation.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
timely
overlooking a series of circular water filled tanks of a sewage treatment plant at night. lights line a long brick building on the horizon as a blue-black sky is stark behind a veil of thin puffy clouds in the distance.
good night, sewers.
good night, streams.
good night, operations and maintenance teams.
good night, settling tanks.
good night, stream banks.
good night, engineers, scientists, crews, managers, inspectors, analysts too.
a good night for us means serving with care.
good night, sewers, everywhere.
Excited to share a new @nber.org paper w/Blonz/Hossain/Mulder/Weill where we show credit scores impact homeowners insurance premiums as much as disaster risk.
Here’s what happened in WA when they banned credit scoring:
📢 Call for papers!
We are organizing the 6th Early Career Workshop in Quantitative Political Economy on 14-15 May 2026 at King’s College London!
Keynote: Shanker Satyanath (NYU)
No fee, travel grants might become available!
Submit at: tinyurl.com/qpe2026
a modicum of good news
My favorite paper of 2019 has just been conditionally accepted at AER (lmao)
The Voting Rights Act rapidly increased Black wages in the South via public employment & redistribution
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The collapse of the US National Science Foundation
four stick figures on sleds, one is sliding face first, face down, marked "skeleton", diagonally opposite to it is one sliding feet first, face up, marked "luge". The other two combinations are drawn and labeled with question marks
given the existence of skeleton and luge, i postulate the existence of two other, yet to be discovered, winter olympic sports
devastating news
Postdoc posting: Economics of education at Tufts with my colleague Elizabeth Setren.
main.hercjobs.org/jobs/2203818...
In today’s NZ Herald
fwiw, famously, many cap and trade systems feature a phased/gradual introduction to ease this kind of adjustment...
chart
coming soon to @chicagocityscape.com: this chart showing new construction homes permitted per ward per year
the * asterisk indicates that the ward saw fewer than 100 homes in the 8-year period shown
If you’re not using Claude Code, now’s the time to jump in!
Are female economists treated differently than males in academic seminars?
These authors wanted to know whether gender shapes how scholars are treated when presenting research.
So they built a massive dataset of 2,000+ economics seminars, job talks, and conference presentations from 2019–2023...
Woah this NYC isometric map (looks just like Simcity 2000) is blowing my mind! cannoneyed.com/isometric-nyc/
Hey JMCs, I know the waiting can be stressful.
Good news: @billingsecon.bsky.social, @schnepel.bsky.social, & I are hiring a postdoc on our project funded by Arnold VentureS
📢 Apply here: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDetail…
#EconSky 📈📉
they don't make AER titles like they used to
Investigating whether economic hardship undermines preferences for honesty in Kenya, from Livia Alfonsi, Michal Bauer, Julie Chytilová, and Edward Miguel www.nber.org/papers/w34695
every day the Financial Times asks me questions i am frankly unqualified to answer
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This. Will. Go. Fast.
Everyone talks about the "credibility revolution", but I think one of the most valuable shifts in econ over the last decade has been the rise of rigorous descriptive historical work like this in top journals:
"Big 3 Not So Big"
Q: There’s a regression with three coefficients: b1, b2, b3
A theory says b1 > b2 > b3
What statistical test should I perform to test this joint prediction?
The point estimates are such that b3 > b1 > b2, if that matters
The EPA will stop considering lives saved when setting pollution limits and instead calculate only the cost to businesses. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...
Finished teaching a new course on energy markets and the clean energy transition last month. Was a blast and have lots of thoughts for next year.
One takeaway is the value of going beyond academic journals/textbooks and incorporating media articles, podcasts, and video. Here's a few we covered... 🧵
