🧵1/ Our first meta-science paper (with 350+ coauthors) is published today in Nature. It presents one of the largest-ever reproducibility projects in economics & political science. Here’s what we found 👇

Extended abstracts are due February 28th, to present in beautiful Bergamo, Italy @beriapaolo.bsky.social @jonathanhall.bsky.social Submit at www.itea2026.com #itea2026

Join us at the International Transportation Economics Association Annual Conference & School at the University of Bergamo, Italy, June 15-19, 2026! Submit your transportation economics research by Feb 28. Two paper prizes available! t.co/RytjQvt3Ec #itea #bergamo

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🚨New paper!🚨In “VancUber: The Long‑Run Effect of Ride‑hailing on Public Transportation, Congestion, and Traffic Fatalities” (forthcoming @ CJE), Craig Palsson, John Cairncross, and I use Vancouver’s ban on Uber/Lyft until 2020 to ask “what if ride‑hailing never came?” 1/12

🚨 FINAL REMINDER: Submit your abstract for ITEA 2025 by Feb 28! Join top transportation economists at Northwestern this June for the conference (June 25-27) and annual school (June 23-25). Keynote by MIT's Dave Donaldson. Student discounts available! transportation.northwestern.edu/news-events/...

June 23-27, 2025: Northwestern University Transportation Center - Northwestern University

ITEA Annual School and Conference

transportation.northwestern.edu

New research alert! Our study investigates the effectiveness of human-only, AI-assisted, and AI-led teams in assessing the reproducibility of quantitative social science research. We've got some surprising findings!

Join us at the International Transportation Economics Association Annual Conference & School at Northwestern University, June 23-27, 2025! Featuring keynote speaker Prof. Dave Donaldson (MIT). Submit your transportation economics research by Feb 28. Two paper prizes available!

June 23-27, 2025: Northwestern University Transportation Center - Northwestern University

ITEA Annual School and Conference

transportation.northwestern.edu

🚨 New paper! 🚨 Should Cities Tax Uber and Lyft?  Thread below, and link to the WP here:  papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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PhD students: If you will be on the 2024-2025 job market, build your website now. #econsky

Lukas Mergele@lukasmergele.bsky.social · 3y ago

Also important to realize that it is not enough to prepare website for November. Many people will just google a name and it takes time (some effort helps) for your site to climb the Google results.

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

Social scientist colleagues - more invite code donations welcome! Please send in text format via email or by DM at @brendannyhan at the old place. I've redistributed ~150+ thanks to many generous donations but I'm currently down to 4 codes.

🎙️🎙️🎙️ New Densely Speaking pod featuring Molly Brady with Greg Shill on private law, land use regulation, the outlook for zoning reform, and the Magic Mike cinematic universe. Spotify: spotify.link/ekbhofdLiDb Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...