The hubris 🤬
Harvard has determined Summers is unfit to teach its students…
...SO Summers concludes he shouldl now spend all his time advising the world on public policy
www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
New NBER paper finds that US crash deaths rise by ~15% on dates of major album releases.
Distraction from smartphones is a likely culprit.
www.nber.org/papers/w34866
🌟 New @novafrica.bsky.social Working Paper!
"From Destination to Origin: Experimental Evidence on the International Spillovers of Migrant Integration"
By @catiabatista.bsky.social #NovaSBE #LaraBohnet #NYU @gazeaud.bsky.social #CNRS & @juliaseither.bsky.social #UofC
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"The IDF has also accused Jad of throwing a rock, which, under their rules of engagement, can permit soldiers to use lethal force.
But the footage of the incident shows an IDF soldier dropping an object next to Jad after he was shot, then taking a photograph of it"
Would anybody like to read one of my long threads about a 2.5bn year old rock, bacteria that could produce oxygen but not consume it, and tank production in wwii
Some useful rules of experimentation:
(1) change one thing at a time, never more
(2) run the edge cases to confirm they work the way you expect
Gets you surprisingly far
Deep breath.
I'm honored and excited to join the faculty of America's oldest research university, Johns Hopkins.
I'll start this summer as a full professor, one of the founding faculty at the brand-new School of Government and Policy.
We're building something unique & important, even historic.
Taxing rich people into oblivion is good for democracy. The revenue generated, while not sufficient for our purposes, is just a secondary benefit.
😢 "I also had the benefit of years of positive memories and joy, saved and accumulated in my knapsack for hard days. Children often lack some of these tools and supports due to their limited life experience, making them particularly vulnerable."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Postdoc posting: Economics of education at Tufts with my colleague Elizabeth Setren.
main.hercjobs.org/jobs/2203818...
Half a billion dollars to build concentration camps seems like it should be a MAJOR headline.
No one will be able to say they didn't know what was happening.
Better labor conditions might be the best way to improve livelihoods at scale in poor countries. Paul Krugman said: "A policy of good jobs in principle, but no jobs in practice, might assuage our consciences, [...] but it is no favor to its alleged beneficiaries."
www.nytimes.com/1997/06/22/w...
makes your blood boil to read this and the full article.
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 📈📉
I am currently on my way to another hearing regarding my federal charges for protesting ICE.
When I say our leaders must be willing to put everything on the line, I mean it.
And frankly, I see it as the bare minimum in this moment.
I've been thinking about this lately, and how the standard for what's "normal" is changing. What is happening is so, so far from normal.
We're hiring a research associate and a research intern for a field project on taxation in the Democratic Republic of Congo. This is a great opportunity for anyone interested in gaining hands-on research and work experience in a low-income country in partnership with the local government.
"Confronted with a list like this — a deluge like this — we look for details that might explain why these people were subjected to this treatment, details that might reassure us that we, by contrast, are not in danger.
[...]
There is a logic, and this logic has a name. It’s called state terror."
This is “it” happening here. Right now.
Reading this powerful witness piece by Rümeysa Öztürk and seeing the brutality every day reminded me. This regime does these cruel things to appear strong, but they only are if people and institutions don't stand up. This regime is unpopular.
"I am Puerto Rican," she says. "I send my kids with their passports to school. I'm having conversations with them about safety: Am I safe at school? A week ago we had an incident where there was a school bus with the STOP sign open and kids were getting on the bus and it was surrounded by ICE agents. And this is 7:20 in the morning and - just - you get that fight-or-flight response." At first her 9-year-old was carrying her passport in her backpack; now it's in her back pocket. "I have to prepare them for it if they get stopped," she says. "I said, Do not engage. This is not the time to be cussing at anyone. But she said, Mom, if I create enough noise, my friends can get away."
Our kids
nymag.com/intelligence...
Once this is all over, there just has to be accountability for this kind of thing. It will be impossible to have a healthy country without that.
Striking new work on how gangs shape economic development in El Salvador, Melnikov et al. in Econometrica
Stunted development in gang-controlled territory driven by labor mobility limits: harder to commute/work outside territory, smaller labor mkt, less specialization —>
doi.org/10.3982/ECTA...
A screenshot of an illustrated book saying: "Would you rather... jump into nettles for five dollars, ... swallow a dead frog for twenty dollars, or stay all night in a creepy house for fifty dollars?"
Nobody:
Economists using stated preferences:
what fresh hell. toddler cartoons with an ambulance whose job is to fix *cars*
pretty much sums up how US transport policy weights human life vs vehicles
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSsT...
"An April report by an internal Harvard task force on antisemitism called for greater supervision of the FXB Center and Palestine Program by tenured or tenure-track faculty"
Baccarelli: nah, let's destroy the entire center instead (he changed the "focus" of the whole center)
Harvard's steps to functionally dismantle the current FXB is another fold. There is no doubt, this happened because of its work on human rights and its work on Palestine, and pressure from Trump. What is the message this sends? This makes me feel ashamed.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
