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www.nber.org/papers/w31981 @thetahat.bsky.social this paper is very cool. They use accelerometers from Ubers to estimate potholes. My only issue is, in NYC, how many of those vibrations are people pounding on the truck of the car because "I am wALKing here!"

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stopreturnfascism.org

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🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/12/russian-researcher-harvard-release?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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Re-upping my advice about how to write a good title and abstract for an academic paper, appropriately called: "How to Write a Title and Abstract" Feel free to share this thread, which will focus on titles. #EconSky #AcademicSky

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The past few months have been the perverted reflection of 1965 -dismantling of Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act, Great Society -Natl Guard activated against will of governor for 1st time since LBJ sent them to AL to protect protestors messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/dynamic/rend...

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Today I almost crashed my bike on my way home because

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The tragic landslide in Blatten gives me the excuse to tell you the story of how we found out Ice Ages existed. It's a cool story and the most important bit is rather similar to what's happening now.

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Another invaluable article by M. Gessen. You can feel the normalization dynamics happening in real time, and fast. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/o...

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It could not be any clearer that the goal is to destroy US universities as they currently exist. www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

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These numbers are deranged

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“International students are essential members of the Harvard community. As teachers at Harvard, we have made a moral commitment to educate these students from the day they accepted their offer of admission to the day they receive their degrees. That commitment has not changed, and cannot change.”

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This framing is all wrong Our international students are not a “crucial funding source” They are our STUDENTS They are the reason we EXIST We teach STUDENTS

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Nicușor Dan — two-time International Math Olympiad gold medalist, PhD in mathematics from Sorbonne Paris North, and former mayor of Bucharest — has just been elected as the next President of Romania. From math problems to national ones. Good luck, Nicu! Q.E.D.

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Thrilled to share the cover of my upcoming book, Having It All: What Data Tells Us About Women's Lives and Getting the Most Out of Yours. @flatironbooks.bsky.social, Sept 23! Containing 15 years of research & my personal story. Preorder links, book talks, & newsletter here! corinnelow.com/book

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Thrilled to share the fantastic placements of our eight Sustainable Development PhD job market candidates this year! Anna Papp – Postdoc: MIT Econ | AP: UCSB Bren Danny Bressler – AP: Bentley Econ Gabriel Gonzalez Suntil – Economist: Amazon Isabella Smythe – ML Engineer: Rhizome

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This is a good article by @benrhodes.bsky.social, and I particularly like this part. As my optimism (?) grows that democracy could come back on the heels of disastrous Trump policies, I hope Americans will learn that they’re way less exceptional than they thought. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/o...

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I should have posted this before April 15, oops: do not overestimate the department fixed effect's contribution to individual outcomes. Look at these overlapping distributions. pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/... Has anyone updated this to cover post-2000 cohorts?

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Is this how p = 0.050001 feels?

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🚨 New Densely Speaking interview 🚨 Prof. Sara Bagagli (LSE) joins @jeffrlin.bsky.social and me to talk about her paper: "The (Express)Way to Segregation: Evidence from Chicago" Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/2R9J... Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... Let us know what you think!

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Files with dual-use classifications and replication codes for Xinyue Lin's and my paper “Trade policy in the shadow of conflict: The case of dual-use goods” are now available online! Github repo: github.com/mealekseev/t... Dual-use classifications: bit.ly/trade_dualuse (Also on my website)

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I just want to tip my hat to the crack team of White House economists who were able to discover--in just a few short days--that the U.S. is dependent on China for smartphones, computers and semiconductors.

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What real resources will firms waste to get these favors? Happy 50-year anniversaries: Anne O Krueger (1974) The Political Economy of the Rent-Seeking Society www.jstor.org/stable/1808883 Richard A. Posner (1975), The Social Costs of Monopoly and Regulation www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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Who could have predicted it? Unless we stand up and say no, right now, the authoritarian will just keep coming and unlawfully destroy our civil society. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...

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Our paper on ingroup bias in the Indian judiciary — we didn't find any — is finally out! This paper has one of the two best graphs I've ever made — on publication bias in the judicial bias literature. Black circles are prior studies on ingroup bias. Explanation in 🧵👇🏻

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Every authoritarian regime operates like this. Empowering the lower ranks of the repression forces to do their thing, without requiring specific orders, is not an unintended consequence — it’s the actual MO.

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When home heating is less affordable, more people die each winter. That's what our analysis found for a period when LIHEAP was in place. Without LIHEAP, the effect would presumably much larger. Ungated copy of the study here: bit.ly/2JrJfxR

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This!

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I am proud to have Chris Eisgruber leading my university. He is meeting the moment.

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Reposting, as a reminder to myself

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Hey @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social, there's an article from your website that I can't find any longer, do you know what happened? www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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NYU canceled a planned speech by the former president of Doctors Without Borders because she planned to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and cuts to US AID. This is what actual campus censorship looks like.

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This is a reminder that you can oppose 1) antisemitism, 2) the Gaza genocide, 3) the October 7 attacks, and 4) the current assault on universities, at the same time, and with no contradiction.

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Dahl was a weird guy but you can’t deny he was an exceptional writer. really effective piece of prose

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cambridge has 4 neighborhood conservation district commissions by their own admission, they exist to block infill housing quite a thing to exist as the city works to build more homes youtu.be/aqSIoz7dBf8?...

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The research group at the Workd Bank is doing an off-cycle hire for a trade economist worldbankgroup.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

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We are pleased to announce an experiment intended to stimulate academic discussion and exchange, centered on papers published in Econometrica 1/5

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My paper, Road Illumination and Nighttime Pedestrian Deaths: Evidence from Moonlight, is now published at Economics of Transportation. authors.elsevier.com/a/1kptw_oIvi...

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