Melissa Knox

My CRRA coefficient is 0.10. My probability weighting function evaluated at 50% is 66.2%. I made 50 decisions. Estimate your rank-dependent utility preferences here: jamesblandecon.shinyapps.io/RDUAdaptive/

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literally your customer base was 90% parents of young children who want a good future for their kids in which they can be free to be themselves, no matter who they are. you told those people to go fuck themselves. they won't be back

17th Transatlantic Workshop on the Economics of Crime | The Economic Misfit October 9-10, 2026 – Ithaca, NYThe 17th Transatlantic Workshop on the Economics of Crime will be held in Ithaca, NY at Cornell University on October 9-10, 2026. It is jointly organized by Amanda Agan ...

🚨 Call for Papers: 17th Transatlantic Workshop on the Economics of Crime

Keynotes by Tom Kirchmaier (The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)) and Robert Sampson (Harvard University)

Submission Deadline: May 1, 2026

Read more here: theeconomicmisfit.com/2026/02/28/1...

Multiple bar charts comparing milks across a number of environmental metrics: land use, greenhouse gas emissions, water use, and eutrophication (the pollution of ecosystems with excess nutrients). These are compared per liter of milk. Cow’s milk has significantly higher impacts than the plant-based alternatives across all metrics. It causes around three times as much greenhouse gas emissions; uses around ten times as much land; two to twenty times as much freshwater; and creates much higher levels of eutrophication. The data source is based on a meta-analysis (by Joseph Poore and Thomas Nemecek, 2018) of food system impact studies across the supply chain, which includes land use change, on-farm production, processing, transport, and packaging. The chart is licensed CC BY to Our World in Data

A growing number of people are interested in switching to plant-based alternatives to dairy. But are they better for the environment, and which is best?

Lonny Fritzler installs paneling on a future therapeutic foster home for kids whose parents need addiction treatment elsewhere. He says he had to leave his hometown of Lodge Grass to recover from his own addiction to meth.

Illustration by Oona Zenda of a man having to weigh prioritizing either his job or access to health care with a lawmaker in the background.

Hundreds of people join a protest in downtown Hamilton, Montana, in April supporting the work of federal employees as President Donald Trump oversees efforts to restructure the nation’s government.

Hi — new to BlueSky! I’m a journalist covering how health policy and systems impact people. Lately I’ve reported on federal cuts hitting a rural bioscience hub, a town recovering from meth, and a man who said he had to break Medicaid rules.

Based in Montana, I write for both 📰 and 📻

I'll be teaching again for Barcelona Summer School of Demography, "Demography with R" 6-10 July: ced.cat/en/bcn4seaso... You can do this program in person or online. Sign up, it's fun to do demography! @cedemografia.bsky.social

Important to remember how much Democrats continued to rely on this guy AFTER he said that women were underrepresented in science due to innate mathematical inability. Harvard left him to continue to lead students after saying this.

“Canvas did not respond to a request for comment.” I wonder how many extra Instructors/TAs we could support if we just got rid of our Canvas service? (To help with all those oral exams we are supposed to be giving now…)

This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to ...

NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.

I mean it kind of has to be No Children right

Alysa Liu celebrating figure skating gold

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Reconsidering the graphical representation of propensity scores in causal diagrams I read with interest Mansournia et al.’s article ‘Balancing scores and causal diagrams’ [1]. While their effort to use directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) to il

How to draw propensity scores (PS) in DAGs? Some (me also) claim it is like "treatment -> PS <- covariates", since in order to compute PS we need both treatment and covariates. This view has confused me for so long, and now I think I was wrong. My letter here: track.smtpsendmail.com/9032119/c?p=...

These colors don't run

I guess you know you’re married to a Canadian when there are *two* curling songs out there and you know them both by heart.

Happy birthday to Audrey!

📣 Call for papers & sessions: CSWEP is sponsoring sessions at the Southern Economic Association’s 96th Annual Meeting (Houston, Nov 21–23, 2026). Submissions due Apr 1, 2026. Request the submission link: odozturk@moore.sc.edu, www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/co...
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Thinking of running an RCT in postsecondary education?

MDRC has created a fantastic set of resources to help you in projecting minimum effect sizes, randomizing, and processing data

Proud to have helped advise this project!

www.mdrc.org/the-rct

We are very happy to support the new edition of this workshop!

We will also give a short presentation on common mistakes when writing economics papers, and we will award a prize for the best paper

We’re very excited to be headed back to the Economics of Mental Health Workshop this June—this year as sponsors! Stay tuned 👀

Of course there’s a technology the left is excited about

A valentine from Public Health of Seattle and King County. A man shivers in bed while a smiling lady in a red mask shows off her bandage on her arm. Text: Noses are red Ice packs are blue I'm vaxed so miss me with severe symptoms of flu.

A valentine from Public Health of Seattle and King County. Two lady scientists shrug lackadaisically. Text reads: My love for you can't be explained by science. Just like the new federal vaccine guidelines.

A valentine from Public Health of Seattle and King County. Protesters in Minneapolis wear thick clothes and hold signs of support for immigrant neighbors. Text reads: To the health departments in the Twin Cities: Love unites us. Our hearts are with you.

Oh my GOD King County Public Health is just wilding out for Valentines Day (and a lovely one).

Please share with potential solid candidates for this postdoc (academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31576). We start reviewing application next week!

A data-savvy economist or data scientist with interest in agriculture and environment would be a good fit.

one of the greatest human triumphs of my lifetime is the relentless, unceasing, heroic effort by DECADES' worth of doctors and scientists to find a cure for a disease much of the world didn't take seriously for years because it predominantly affected a community they thought kinda deserved it

PReP was life changing because it prevented HIV.

Pre and post exposure prophylaxis have saved countless lives.

Now there’s an option that only needs to be taken every 6 months.

It’s effectively an HIV vaccine.

Not quite a cure, but damn close.

Science is awesome.

Well that’s basically what I was worried about…

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Oh interesting, thanks! I have a Mac, but it looks like one can set up a Linux container in the new OS.

If you’re not using Claude Code, now’s the time to jump in!

I see a lot of econ/socsci Bluesky asking for AI starter advice. IMO the highest impact, low cost tweak to your workflow is training an AI to follow *your* coding/writing prefs & habits.

Literally, tell Claude: "Look at <XYZ dirs>. ID common themes, styles & conventions. Write them to a .md file."

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