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Philly is the latest city to use bus-mounted cameras to automatically ticket cars blocking transit lanes and bus stops. This is one the best transportation technology innovations of the last decade. Every city should be using it.

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Accidents down 55% and injuries down 51% since nyc congestion pricing (!!!) www.nydailynews.com/2025/02/22/c...

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NEW: updated long-run gap in voting between young men and women in Germany: Gender divide continues to widen, but contrary to what is often assumed, young men continue to vote roughly in line with the overall population, while young women have swung sharply left. www.ft.com/content/29fd...

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💥The Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in Tesla, Meta, and Alphabet (Google). The fund with US $569 billion equivolent in assets is "directing more money to companies and projects that help to improve society and the environment." #Divest www.reuters.com/markets/euro...

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"Every $1 in public funding of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the study finds, yields roughly $2 in private-sector pharmaceutical drug sales. That doesn’t even include basic research that paves the way for more drug-specific studies" news.mit.edu/2015/3-quest...

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www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/14/m...

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In other news, labor force participation rates for US women. For the last 20 years, the only group (of these four) with increasing LFP are college graduates with young children. In sum, in the old days the biggest LFP gaps were by motherhood status -- now they are by education level.

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South Africa's rich history spans over a thousand years, yet schools focus mainly on colonial times. 📚🇿🇦 theconversation.com/south-africa... #Politics

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“Paris style”: Cambridge, Mass. finally raising building height limit to 6-storey

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Aleksander III receiving rural district elders in the yard of Petrovsky Palace in Moscow, by Ilya Repin, 1885-86

submitted 16 days ago • 32 comments

The #superbowl everyone s talking about. Thank you @sciencemoms.bsky.social

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BREAKING: 8.0-magnitude earthquake hits the Caribbean Sea - PTWC

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Retarder l’indexation des retraites ou supprimer l’abattement pour frais professionnels à l’impôt des retraités ? Un rendement budgétaire quasi similaire (~ 4Mds€) qu’on baisse les dépenses ou qu’on augmente les recettes, mais pas les mêmes perdants. www.ofce.sciences-po.fr/blog2024/fr/...

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Clean car, toxic brand #EVs www.ft.com/content/ea23...

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By allowing a variety of missing middle housing types in traditionally single-family only neighborhoods, developers in Portland are now able to produce housing to meet varied demands. These 2-bed, 2-bath townhomes sold for $350,000, $200,000 less than the median 1F price. 📍Portland, OR

submitted 21 days ago • 7 comments

Dear Econometricians, if you were planning to apply to an NSF grant this year, I have bad news for you #EconSky

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Pro-tip: the pass-through of #tariffs to consumer prices is close to 100% in the absence of meaningful competition (just like for many other indirect taxes)

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What does U.S. aid really pay for anyway? 1.5 million lives saved via Gavi, for one. New in AEJ: Economic Policy www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

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Yet another safety hazard of car bloat: New research by my MIT Mobility Initiative colleague @bhuvanatluri.bsky.social finds that heavier pickups and SUVs take longer to brake, making it harder to avoid crashes (esp true for electric pickups/SUVs). www.mmi.mit.edu/vehicle-perf...

submitted 26 days ago • 10 comments

🚨 New episode! 🚨 John Ioannidis changed how we think about research with "Why Most Published Research Is Wrong". 20 years later, we ask him • What has science learned? • What mistakes do we keep making? • What still needs to change? Listen now: t.co/djaqx07rvN

submitted 27 days ago • 5 comments

NEW: 2024 has just been confirmed as the warmest year on record, and the first to breach the 1.5C threshold. We used a ridgeline (Joy Division inspired) chart to visualise daily temperature anomalies since 1940. 2024 clearly stands out with 100% of its days above 1.3C and 75% above 1.5C.

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Work from home has allowed many people with disabilities to join the Labor force.

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My Trade Secrets today. People (including Trump himself) often say his tariffs hark back to the 19th century or the Great Depression. But the great Doug Irwin, whom I interview on the Economics Show podcast today (link in next post) convinced me he's more like Nixon. 1/n www.ft.com/content/007a...

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The SF Fed has a new data indicators page: Regional Indicators for Labor Markets and Prices. This page provides data on labor market conditions, prices, and earnings across US states. Thanks to economists Leila Bengali and Genya Duzhak for setting this up. www.frbsf.org/research-and...

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The UK is ageing 🧓 But while the UK as a whole is getting older, some parts of it are getting younger. So what is driving these changes?

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“Last year saw the biggest one-year jump on record, with carbon dioxide levels rising by 3.58 parts per million. The figure exceeds the most pessimistic predictions of the U.K. Met Office, which says that even record-high emissions from fossil fuels cannot fully explain the surge in carbon dioxide”

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"The last decade is a story of young people retreating from the pursuits that bring them the most fulfilment, and replacing them — consciously or otherwise — with pale imitations" www.ft.com/content/2305...

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Progressive vs regressive: nice visual of the estimated economic impact by income deciles of political platforms in the next German election

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Dramatic decline in air pollution in Paris over the past decade!

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Impressionnant : Paris a drastiquement réduit la pollution de l'air en 10 ans. Moins de voitures, plus d'infrastructures pour faire du vélo en sécurité, plus d'espaces verts... un exemple que de nombreuses villes européennes essayent de suivre !

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I think this is one of my favourite colourful climate chart type things, because it depicts two things at once: - Things are going to get worse, no matter what - The degree to which they get worse depends on decisions made today theconversation.com/my-new-dark-... by @edhawkins.org

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In the 1970s, Antonio “Pambelé” Cervantes was a world champion of boxing. He was from San Basilio de Palenque in Colombia, which was founded as a Maroon settlement in 1605 (of self liberated formerly enslaved Africans) & thrives today as the oldest continuous free Black town in the Americas.

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You can do better @natureportfolio.bsky.social by acknowledging the efforts of replicators, who make science stronger

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🗣️ Early-career and PhD-student economists studying productivity! #EconSky The deadline is January 16 to apply to this Sloan Foundation/@nberpubs.bsky.social fellowship focused on policies shaping R&D, permitting, and immigration—>

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Power lines. Altadena in the wake of the #EatonFire

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