More than a million people die from road injuries every year— Around 1.3 million people die from road injuries across the world every year. That includes the deaths of drivers, passengers, and pedestrians. That’s around 2.4% of deaths from all causes.

This is applied micro now: Editor gives you path to publication (Rej & Resub). You spend 9mo revising paper. 2 refs say accept, 1 says R&R. But, there's a new editor. They find a new ref that says reject. So, paper rejected. Everyone's time wasted.

Urban and Trade juniors 🚨 @foxecon.bsky.social and I are organizing a few thematic sessions at the SEAs in November this year. If you've finished your PhD in the last 1-2 years, send submissions us; we'll let you if it themes. Deadline: 🗓️ Friday May 27 ❗️ southerneconomic.org/conference/c...

2026 Call for Papers and Session Proposals

2026 Call for Papers Southern Economic Association®96th Annual Meeting November 21-23, 2026Marriott Marquis HoustonHouston, TX Call for Papers and Session Proposals The Call for Papers and Ses…

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If you have transportation related papers and would like to join in organizing a session, DM/email me!

Urban Economics Association@urbaneconomics.bsky.social · 8mo ago

📣 Call for papers 📣 15th European Meeting of the Urban Economics Association May 8 - 9, 2026 CREI, Barcelona Keynotes by Edward Glaeser and Monika Piazzesi. Please submit your paper by January 9. urbaneconomics.org/meetings/emu...

As an end of the year wrap up, I thought I'd look at my research in terms of "days between starting a project and acceptance"... here's the list: 1916 2771 1522 2009 1492 929 941 2616 I've decided this was stupid exercise lolol

📣 Call for papers 📣 15th European Meeting of the Urban Economics Association May 8 - 9, 2026 CREI, Barcelona Keynotes by Edward Glaeser and Monika Piazzesi. Please submit your paper by January 9. urbaneconomics.org/meetings/emu...

is quoting macbeth in an econ paper a good idea or a bad idea? i mean, it's october...

The program for our upcoming annual North American meeting is up: urbaneconomics.org/meetings/uea.... #UEA2025, hosted by Université du Québec à Montréal, features keynotes by Cecile Gaubert & Keith Head and 60+ paper sessions. To register, visit editorialexpress.com/conference/nauea2025/

Statement from the largest economics association about the BLS firing As context: AEA approximately never makes such public statements This is a big deal

Dr. Erika McEntarfer has devoted her career to public service. She has conducted herself as BLS Commissioner with great integrity. There is no evidence whatsoever that BLS data are politically biased. #econsky

welp there goes the credibility of US labor statistics... as soon as you fire the head of a stats agency for not producing stats that you like, you inject bias into how all future numbers are interpreted (and reported).

i love doing research, but... currently on a 13 strike rejection streak. it's sometimes not a very rewarding or validating profession.

I am looking for a research assistant to work with me on the development of U.S. housing markets. Experience with ArcGIS, Stata useful. We build datasets that allow us to understand housing affordability, the impacts of transit and zoning, and more: rb.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/FRS/jo...

Research Assistant/Sr. Research Assistant

Company Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Job Description Summary Research assistants (RAs) at the Philadelphia Fed play a key role in the Economic Research Department. Whether they are helping eco...

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spent some time calling ☎️ PA state house / senate members over proposed ✂️ to SEPTA transit 🚅 funding, and I have to say, it was cool to speak to actual ppl in the those offices

The Philadelphia Fed's Grad Student mentoring program deadline is coming up: 6/20 ⏰ We prioritize nearby universities but have accepted applicants from all over the country. Apply! www.philadelphiafed.org/the-economy/...

Philadelphia Fed Mentoring & Advancing PhDs (PFMAP) Program

Now Accepting Applications: PFMAP is a program intended to introduce Ph.D. candidates to the vibrant research life at the Philadelphia Fed and provide additional mentorship opportunities for participa...

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Curious how accurate multimodal LLMs are at digitizing diversely formatted historical tables? ➡️ pretty accurate! ➡️ helps a lot with harmonization ➡️ far cheaper than manual digitization ➡️ but iterative, disciplined prompt training is important! Check out our new WP - arxiv.org/abs/2505.11599

Out in print -- "Lockdowns and Innovation: Evidence from the 1918 Flu Pandemic". My first experiment with a short paper! w/ the wonderful @jeffrlin.bsky.social @ruben-gaetani.bsky.social Enrico Berkes, & Olivier Deschênes direct.mit.edu/rest/article...

Lockdowns and Innovation: Evidence from the 1918 Flu Pandemic

Abstract. Does social distancing harm innovation? We estimate the effect of nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs)—policies that restrict interactions in an attempt to slow the spread of disease—on lo...

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Well, NBER, in fact **I WILL BE** discouraged from submitting other papers for consideration at future meetings. 😎

refereeing can be hard: a journal rejects you 1, 5, times... and then asks for your objective opinion about another paper, especially when your own research has not always received objective review or careful editorship it's important to not perpetuate the jackassery, but it's not always easy

new achievement unlocked: rejection and referee request from the same journal w/in a 10 minute window ☑️

HAPPY SQUARE DAY 🟦

My NSF PRFB on the genetics of female polymorphism in hummingbirds was terminated yesterday. I don't have much to say, I'm just sad. We've discovered so much, and could have gone so much further. If anyone else is in the same boat, esp postdocs, please reach out, it would be good to connect.

fischerspooner fridays

##EconSky Our seminar speaker for tmr was coming from U Toronto. He was apparently detained (politely) for several hrs by US customs in CA. He was then cleared to travel to the US after his flight had left. Needless to say, no seminar tmr.

a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a snl logo

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a snl logo

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The massive changes in US research brought about by the new administration of President Donald Trump are causing many scientists in the country to rethink their lives and careers https://go.nature.com/41OhAgK

75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving

More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.

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www.chronicle.com/article/brea... All of us who use and value NCES data are distraught. No one more than @jdmatsudaira.bsky.social who understands the work being lost and implications better than anyone.

‘Breathtakingly Irresponsible’: Former Workers Decry Decimation of Education Dept.’s Data Warehouse

Fired NCES and IES employees describe a mad dash to save data that has informed higher education policy and practice since the days of Abraham Lincoln.

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hearing from folks who are worried about their devices being inspected for critical speech at the border... this is some un-American BS, unacceptable

New dataset alert: daily average online sentiment by county These are averages of online sentiment from geo-located tweets between 2014 and 2022. I'm glad to make them available more broadly now. Let me know if they're helpful! www.patrickbaylis.com/posts/2025-0...

Here are some sources for relevant data saving / rescue efforts: - @datarescueproject.org www.datarescueproject.org - Data Lumos www.datalumos.org

Shengwu Li@shengwuli.bsky.social · last yr.

Economists should urgently identify (or start collecting) datasets that parallel key BLS statistics.

a funny thing about using LLMs for surveying academic literature: the hallucinations are actually pretty good suggestions of what to work on and who to coauthor with...