Happy to finally have this paper out now in JUE. It's open access. Cell phone location data can reflect what's happening in illicit markets and well targeted narcotics enforcement efforts can reverberate regionally. Anyways here's the link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Identifying the general equilibrium effects of narcotics enforcement

I analyze the demand side impacts of a supply-side intervention into the market for illegal drugs in what has been described as America’s largest open…

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Happy to share we finally have a draft of this available to share. We look at the impacts of the migration of prominent Sicilian mafiosi to America following fascist repression in Italy. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Happy to share a new working paper with Alex Cardazzi and Victoria Biagi, a wonderful grad student at University of Liverpool. Here's a quick thread. (1/N)

Handbook chapter out today on the economics of criminal governance link.springer.com/referencewor...

Economics of Criminal Governance

Despite existing outside of formal institutional constraints, repeated interactions in criminal markets give birth to criminal organizations that function as institutions of governance over participan...

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The fog and Christmas time together can do some cool things

the last chapter of my dissertation is online now at Economica. Joint work with Bryan McCannon ......We look at criminal trials in 19th century London, documenting the impacts of the guaranteed right to defense for those accused of felonies. fun paper, lots of cool stuff in there t.co/brfBjMPjIq

Is this site a thing now?

Really it looked good to me too

I find myself reading textbooks more now that I'm done grad school. Fairly unexpected turn of events

Periodic dog content

Hi all! I'm Kyle at CU Boulder in the Economics department (and a job market candidate !!). I mostly tweet about my papers and my open source software/resources. I'll start off with a bsky exclusive. All the pdf slides from NBER methods lectures back to 2007: github.com/kylebutts/nb...

GitHub - kylebutts/nber_methods_lecture_slides: Slides from NBER Methods Lecture (extracted from the...

Slides from NBER Methods Lecture (extracted from the Wayback Machine) - GitHub - kylebutts/nber_methods_lecture_slides: Slides from NBER Methods Lecture (extracted from the Wayback Machine)

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Kebab shop is playing Avril Lavigne as I sit on the sidewalk having a beer with my dog. All is right in the world

📈📉 FGCU is hiring 3 positions in the Department of Economics and Finance: 1 junior AP in Finance, 1 junior/senior AP in Finance and 1 Instructor of Economics. Come and join me in SWFL!! lnkd.in/eyTkNtWx lnkd.in/epV3i-7i tinyurl.com/mpsk8pnt

Hear me out... a master login for editorial manager that works for all journals #EconSky

Female politicians face an additional gender gap: they are 3️⃣ times more likely to experience violence while in office. We study the reasons and consequences of violence in a new paper, summarized in this column cepr.org/voxeu/column... With @mpulejo.bsky.social and Gianmarco Daniele

Sounds like folks are worried about losing data access during a possible government shutdown, so I quickly whipped up this Education Data Portal with all the major datasets on schools, districts, and colleges: educationdata.urban.org/documentation/

Reupping this offer.

Khoa@khoavuumn.bsky.social · 3y ago

I was lucky to have an audience across platforms, so I'm happy to signal boost any job market candidate. Just tag me in your post and I will share/retweet.

The number 10 suggested feed here is one for furries. The new world is an interesting place

Seeing intros on here. So: I'm Zach, I'm a post doc at the CLEAN unit at Bocconi University. I finished my PhD last year at West Virginia University. Primarily, at the moment, I work on crime topics but really just into applied micro stuff. My dog is pretty cool.

While the content I'm getting here is great, is there truly no algorithm here? How do we go about finding content not directly posted/reposted by our follows?

Breaking in the new app with some recent dog content