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The next ViCE seminar is this Thursday, September 17, at 1pm ET. Rui Costa will present: "Gangsta’s Paradise: Prisons and Gang Recruitment in Brazil"

📢 What’s current in #REEP? 📢 "Managing Unpriced Climate Risks in US Housing Markets" by Jesse D. Gourevitch, Karina French, Carolyn Kousky, Yanjun (Penny) Liao, Adam Pollack, and Joakim A. Weill. 📎Open access: buff.ly/Rv2hjow 📈📉 #EconSky

Can anyone point me to recent studies or to scholars working on home-based child care in low- or middle-income countries? Self-promotion welcome! I know much of the work on center-based childcare, but less on home-based care.

"For the first time, the DSM will use biology to understand mental disorders" theconversation.com/im-part-of-t...

Well, I guess I'm taking the day off of work tomorrow. Monsoon rolled through and caused chaos. Even had a little waterfall in the hallway, meaning we had to turn off the AC. Yay.

If you’re a PI who’s written documentation about values, expectations, or practicalities of your lab AND you don’t mind this being referenced in an upcoming article (with Christine Pfund and @weijima.bsky.social), I would ❤️ it if you shared your 📄 with us. Thanks!

New paper from my lab! We show that the retrieval state is recruited during both episodic and semantic retrieval, but not for perceptual judgments, suggesting that the retrieval state tracks domain-general internal attention. www.jneurosci.org/content/46/3...

New analysis from me & Diane Schanzenbach, possibly my favorite piece ever: We study the SNAP payment error rate and explain why tying how much a state will have to contribute toward SNAP payments to its PER is inherently empirically unstable. Remand. www.hamiltonproject.org/publication/...

The next ViCE seminar is this Thursday, August 27, at 1pm ET. Kennedy Johnston will present: "The Under-Reporting of Sexual Assault: An Experiment on Victims, Perpetrators, and Social Judgment"

Wow, The Economist is really doubling down (I know... I'm late.)

Interesting paper on urban tree cover and child mortality in LMICs that nicely parallels our marine heatwave paper in the same issue:

Stray cat watching from a vacant house last night. There are so many strays here in Tucson

Local electoral maps often underrepresent Black and Hispanic voters. Segregation creates bias even without intent; Voting Rights Act of 1965 oversight may have helped enacted maps partly offset it, from Carlos Fernando Avenancio-León, Daniel B. Jones, and Ying Shi www.nber.org/papers/w35623

We are doing another Economist Fantasy Premier League. Econs please join. Congrats to Vigyan who won last season and received the coveted mug. Here is the link to join the league: fantasy.premierleague.com/leagues/auto...

Bringing together 11 papers by leading scholars, this @pnas.org Special Feature asks what can be learned by studying illegal markets not as isolated social problems but as a class of markets—with supply chains, enterprises, incentives, and adaptive responses to policy. www.pnas.org/post/update/...

Estimating the short-run impact of restrictions on sugary beverage purchases with SNAP funds, from David E. Frisvold and Felipe Lozano Rojas www.nber.org/papers/w35613

I swear, if I hear the word "AI" one more time (ok, it's an abbreviation, not a word) or "slop"... *shakes fist*

Wondering why data centers are as unpopular as nuclear waste? It's not the data centers. The problem is both more obvious and more fundamental: The daily lived experience of the AI boom sucks. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ai-is-maki...

"Harvard announced that it is closing its writing center and laying off the center’s longtime director—a decision that could have repercussions far beyond Cambridge, @Tyler_A_Harper argues." www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

The 988 calling code improved suicide crisis line call answering in states with larger pre-launch capacity gaps, but gains were not accompanied by lower suicide mortality, from Benjamin Hansen, Niketana Kannan, and @jzhangecon.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w35601

Lol yikes

New blog post, using critical data from @prisonpolicy.org and @theappeal.org! Forcing people to purchase necessities enforces period poverty in prison.

🚨🚨🚨 We're hiring a junior professor in Policy Analysis/Public Administration/Public Management here at the UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy 🚨🚨🚨 aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05497

kids today are literally confused about whether "partying" was real or an urban legend

I'm looking to hire a couple freelance writers who use and truly understand prediction markets. I'm not looking for people who simply use prediction markets because they get better odds than traditional books, but people who can write about order books, implied probability, liquidity, etc. DMs open

How to Write a Top 5 Paper: A Case Study open.substack.com/pub/jasonmfl...

Deadline for proposals is midnight tonight. We also added a way to submit links to relevant resources, even if you don't want to present. Or to register to attend even if you don't want to present. #CallForProposals forms.gle/5SV6izohZj8x...

I'm late getting this draft up, but I am thrilled to share my WIP from the spring, "Disability and Lawyer Fitness," forthcoming in Case Western. This piece is important to me, as it weaves in my own journey as a member of the profession. Comments welcome! SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Open call for proposals, Grants to Support Data for Economic Measurement Research Projects. Submit proposals by 11:59pm EDT on September 30, 2026. More information: www.nber.org/calls-papers...

the american paradox

🛣️ 🌆 How do the quality of life costs of highways vary across cities? In a new review article (forthcoming at RSUE), Brinkman and I expand our Freeway Revolts methodology across US metropolitan areas.

Call for papers! 4th New Thinking in Industrial Policy Conference @columbiauniversity.bsky.social, Nov. 6, 2026. Conference page: cdep.sipa.columbia.edu/content/new-.... Submit here (deadline Sept. 14): docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F....

CARTOON OF THE DAY (if you know who made this let us know)

Jevan Cherniwchan and I have a new working paper—one we’ve been working on for a long time—on how energy transitions shaped societies in the past, and what they may teach us about the present and future. www.ifo.de/DocDL/cesifo...

Excited to share a new working paper with Vincent Abraham and Catarina Marvão: Using the population of legal cartels in Sweden, we provide the first empirical evidence that common ownership can facilitate explicit collusion. www.nber.org/papers/w35565

hive minds: can you think of a good example in political science, where a well identified design-based paper changed our understanding of a causal relationship that was based on shaky model-based regressions?

“Two teams can find nearly the same fact. The paper with the higher general-interest ceiling may not have a dramatically more credible estimate. It may instead ask the estimate to do more.”

Awesome job alert: The Center on Poverty and Social Policy is hiring for a (PhD-holding) research director to manage a national, state, and NYC policy portfolio and supervise their analysts. Apply here: povertycenter.columbia.edu/lead-our-res... #econsky

Homicides of white and wealthy people get more press attention. In this excellent new study, @jbenmenachem.com interviews journalists to understand why. Short version: journalists often recognize the inequity but feel constrained by resources and demands for novelty. doi.org/10.1111/1745...

If you'll be on the econ job market this fall with a paper related to crime, the criminal justice system, or people with criminal records, and would like to present it in the ViCE seminar, email me! (My address is on my website.)

First thing I see after getting off the plane in Boston at 10pm after a day of connecting flights 🫩

We know that hot days lead to worsening health outcomes. Surprisingly, we have very little info on the fiscal impact these hot days have on government programs like Medicaid. In this new paper, we match over a million Medicaid records across nearly 16,000 U.S. ZIP codes to daily temperature data (🧵)

Today, @matthewtbodie.bsky.social welcomes the appearance of a kinder, gentler, more ecumenical version of law and economics. Yet in corporate law scholarship, where shareholder primacy still reigns supreme, he finds scant evidence of any such shift.

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