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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

Common Ownership and Collusion

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

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Ever estimated a bunch of specifications, glanced across the coefficients and said “eh, looks robust to me!” Who *hasn’t*?? Then my new working paper is for you! www.djaeger.org/research/rob.... Be the first on your block to stop eyeballing…. Bonus R and Stata packages, just ‘cause I like you.

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.”

Jason Fletcher@jasonmfletcher.bsky.social · last wk.

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

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...

Which deaths count? Debating homicide coverage amidst newsroom scarcity

Past research documents disparities in which homicides receive news coverage and how victims are portrayed, yet the organizational processes producing these patterns remain understudied. This paper a...

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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 (🧵)

Why? Scrubs Scene

ALT: Why? Scrubs Scene

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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.

Twilight of the Gods

Contemporary proponents of law and economics claim to have abandoned the idea that law is an instrument for maximizing economic efficiency and wealth. Corporate law scholars haven't yet heard the good...

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Excited to share the lates @vrcinfo.bsky.social newsletter - take a look!

Center for the Study and Practice of Violence Reduction@vrcinfo.bsky.social · 2w ago

Our latest Violence Reduction Center newsletter is here! Explore the latest updates from the VRC, including progress across partner jurisdictions, recent convenings, research, and the people driving this work forward. Read here: mailchi.mp/9e5a21f86e4f...

Claire Heyison@claireheyison.bsky.social · 2w ago

Nearly every state saw ACA marketplace enrollment drop after the PTC enhancements expired, but some states fared worse than others. See how your state was impacted: www.cbpp.org/blog/aca-mar...

The next ViCE seminar is this Thursday, July 23, at 1pm ET. Katherine Kwok will present: "All SROs are not created equal: Heterogeneity in school policing"

📢 Heat impacts all communities, not just large cities. In our new American Planning Association PAS Memo, we explain the need for rural heat resilience and outline actionable principles and strategies for rural communities and small towns. www.planning.org/pub... #extremeheat #heatresilience

The anatomy of an AI-supported academic article is becoming more apparent. I desk reviewed ~70 manuscripts this week for our journal. Reckon 20ish had significant AI assistance. On top of hundreds of others recently I'm starting to see patterns. Are other editors are seeing the same or similar? 1/

I wrote about a recent Arizona Supreme Court decision upholding an election disclosure law meant to curb dark money. In interpreting the state constitution, the court rejected SCOTUS's framework for evaluating free speech claims. A very interesting case. statecourtreport.org/our-work/ana...

Arizona Charts New Path for the Right to Speak Freely

In upholding an election disclosure law, the Arizona Supreme Court departed from the U.S. Supreme Court's framework for evaluating free speech claims.

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Given the air pollution in North America, it is worth thinking about the large health impacts on vulnerable populations. In our @nature.com paper @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social and I show that air pollution exposure in the sub continent significantly increases child and infant mortality.

Saad Gulzar سعد گلزار@saadgulzar.bsky.social · 2y ago

In the final part, we use a meteorological model to isolate the effect of crop burning (from other air pollution factors) on child and infant mortality. A 1-log point increase in pollution exposure from crop burning causes an additional 24 out of 1000 infants to die in their first year of life.

We have a new study led by Hulya Seyidoglu, in Crime Science, linking google mobility data with crime, in the context of the covid pandemic, link.springer.com/epdf/10.1186... Most crimes increase when people come outdoors, as could be expected, but not for drug offences and anti-social behaviour.

Our temporary guest is staying in my office, and I've got constant eyes on me while I'm working. I turn around and see...

Why I’m a fan of the Oxford comma.

The UK AI pushback: 42% of people are deliberately limiting their AI use and 70% of people think it would be difficult or impossible to avoid being exposed to AI even if they wanted to. New report from us at @kings-dfi.bsky.social : www.kcl.ac.uk/news/over-40...

Over 40% of people are limiting AI use, as popularity starts to wane | King's College London

People are increasingly choosing to limit or reject the use of AI tools, according to a new report published today by the Digital Futures Institute at King’s College London and Responsible AI UK.

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Fun to see one of the books I copyedited for @mitpress.bsky.social is getting some attention! Morbid: Debunking Modern Longevity Science by Saul Justin Newman www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Something Is Very Wrong with Modern Longevity Science

A new book argues that many of the world’s oldest people aren’t so old after all.

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Excited to share new study in Criminology (open access) on GLP-1s & violence: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Among current GLP-1 users, the link b/t impulsivity and violence was flat across impulsivity levels. Similar story w/alcohol use. More to come from me & @daniel-semenza.bsky.social

Literally hilarious chart from Bank of America. 10/10 zero notes.

This pup found a stick shaped like an old timey pipe earlier today and has already solved three mysteries. 13/10

New in the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics (@oxfordecondept.bsky.social @wileyeconbiz.bsky.social): "Do Eviction Moratoria Decrease Intimate Partner Violence?" (by Linchi Hsu, Alexander Henke and Jeffrey Galloway) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #DV #evictions #IPV

Do Eviction Moratoria Decrease Intimate Partner Violence?

We examine the effect of eviction moratoria enacted in 2020 in the United States on intimate partner violence (IPV). Leveraging the differential implementation of state-level policies and detailed cr...

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The Voting Rights Act transformed local governments in the South, especially county commissions that control a lot of public budgeting. Public spending on Black areas grew The end of the Voting Rights Act in Callais might reverse this significantly www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1...