It's April 15th, when your taxes are due and when admitted PhD students choose their graduate program.
Why isn't this process organized using the deferred acceptance algorithm? If Al Roth can match medical residents, why aren't we matching econ PhD students and programs?
You are correct that it’s hard to study the effects of retail rent control, since almost nowhere is dumb enough to pass it
📣 Call for papers 📣
20th North American Meeting of the Urban Economics Association
September 25 - 26, 2026
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Chicago
Keynotes by Jens Ludwig and Steve Redding
Please submit your paper by May 21st
urbaneconomics.org/meetings/uea...
Pat Kline: "I don't like the phrase 'causal inference' either because it's usually 'causal estimand identification' are what those papers actually are; there's nothing to do with inference typically; there's no distribution theory in those papers."
youtu.be/ifp_BUKl3ig?...
Almost all projectors are 16x9 these days. It's been six years since @paulgp.com told you how to set the aspect ratio in beamer, yet the market share of 4x3 slidedecks remains surprisingly high...
github.com/paulgp/beame...
#econsky
Congratulations to new Foreign Honorary Member Jacques-François Thisse of Catholic University of Louvain. aeaweb.org/about-aea/ho...
Congratulations to Ludwig Straub @ludwigstraub.bsky.social of @harvard.edu, winner of the 2026 John Bates Clark Medal! www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/ho...
Funny article where European academics puzzle over the fact that there are very few policy efforts to harmonize regulations across the US construction market academic.oup.com/publius/arti...
Like, being pro-free-trade was nominally a core conservative view. And the conservative intelligensia sincerely held that view. But Trump’s witless embrace of draconian tariffs as his signature economic policy turned out not to be a liability at all with Republican voters.
In response to the targeting of Iranian universities by the U.S. and Israel, Iran is now threatening to hit U.S.-linked universities in several Gulf countries, including satellites of:
-CMU
-VCU
-Cornell
-Northwestern
-Georgetown
-Texas A&M
-NYU
-American U
-U of New Haven
Very scary
The Iranian embassy in Iran quote tweets Trump's insane 'Fuckin Strait tweet with the comment: "This low level of civility and intelligence shown by a leader of a country is regrettable; the shameful fervor with which intentions to commit war crimes are repeated is staggering; and the fact that the Divine is invoked regardless of ill intentions clearly exposes deep fanaticism. Apologies for sharing this language." Trump's tweet reads: "Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP"
my entire timeline on x is now just iranian embassies demonstrating a facility with the english language that puts everything i've ever read from the trump administration to shame
The President of the U.S. The man with the nuclear codes. And people are just going to pretend this is ok.
In a functioning society, he would be removed from office within hours by his own party.
Congrats!
Do cross-country differences in commercial incentives explain why British series have had fewer episodes than US seasons for decades?
. @rfisman.bsky.social has a pair of papers on connections to Suharto and Dick Cheney that suggested institutional differences (www.hbs.edu/faculty/Page...). What would results for US politicians look like today? Has anyone written that follow up?
🧵1/ Our first meta-science paper (with 350+ coauthors) is published today in Nature. It presents one of the largest-ever reproducibility projects in economics & political science.
Here’s what we found 👇
New in the American Economic Review: migration doesn't hollow out the home economy — it builds it up.
More than 75% of the long-run income gains from migration are domestic. The home economy itself grows.
Here's what we found: 🧵
Trump: "We have a thing called a war, or as they would rather say, a military operation. It's for legal reasons. Because as a military operation, I don't need any approvals. As a war you're supposed to get approval from Congress. Something like that. So I call it a military operation."
Only 23% of government workers believe they “can report a suspected violation of a law, rule, or regulation without experiencing retaliation.”
That's way down form the share the prior year (72%) who said they could report suspected illegal activity without fear
www.thebulwark.com/p/two-more-g...
Documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY exposing how ICE has been lying for a year — not only to the public, but to the courts and to prosecutors — about being authorized to make arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and other immigration courts.
Documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY exposing how ICE has been lying for a year — not only to the public, but to the courts and to prosecutors — about being authorized to make arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and other immigration courts.
According to documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY, ICE has been lying for a year — not only to the public, but to the courts and to prosecutors — about being authorized to make arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and other immigration courts. (1/2)
NBER Summer Institute submissions are due by Thursday. If you're doing urban economics, please send your paper to us! www.nber.org/conferences/...
El Niño raises the spatial correlation of agricultural yields, making the gains from trade more unequal. Just Accepted new paper by J. I. Dingel @tradediversion.bsky.social & K. C. Meng @kylemeng.com zurl.co/8JdIE
Nailed it.
Note this was a dispute in the WTO. With the WTO Appellate Body blocked by the US, Colombia and the EU agreed to an alternative route to appeal, the Multi-party Interim Appeal Arbitration Arrangement (MPIA). TL:DR, Colombia lost. It has now complied with the ruling.
"I have not heard so many stories of either incredible cruelty by men and women with guns or incredible kindness by neighbors and strangers for one another since I covered the Lebanese civil war in the late 1970s."
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/15/o...
Penultimate paragraph of www.jdingel.com/research/Dav... is one model’s answer.
"Does Trump Know His Favorite Shoe Company Is Suing Him?"
nymag.com/intelligence...
When I first saw the only public document justifying the US Administration's $100,000 tax on H-1B visas, I couldn't believe it.
The analysis was full of mistakes. Big ones. Basic ones.
So I got the same data and reanalyzed it correctly. This is the result.
What a paragraph.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
....if our old pals the Houthis join in and block the Red Sea/Suez Canal as well as the Gulf, it's bad news for oil tankers which still use that route but much less so for container vessels, which now mainly go round Africa. This is a crisis of oil supply, not a collapse in the trading system. 2/2
