Claude Code is absolutely elite at cleaning up replication files.

Trump campaigned on bringing down the cost of living "starting on day one," and then: started a trade war; deported much of the farm workforce, bombed Iran, allowed healthcare subsidies to expire, cut food assistance, ran an interest-rate boosting deficit, and attacked fed independence.

If you're a researcher looking for some rich housing transaction data: www.icpsr.umich.edu/sites/icpsr/...

"94 percent of the tariff incidence was borne by the U.S. in the first eight months of 2025" libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2026/02/who-...

Who Is Paying for the 2025 U.S. Tariffs? - Liberty Street Economics

Over the course of 2025, the average tariff rate on U.S. imports increased from 2.6 to 13 percent. In this blog post, we ask how much of the tariffs were paid by the U.S., using import data through No...

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Cornell students! I'm looking for a part-time research assistant to help me explore the relationship between tenant protections and housing affordability. Some details attached.

Updated foreclosure paper now up on my site! Main additions: 1. Sample expanded from 52K to 162K 2. Explicit modeling of loan-level foreclosure loss heterogeneity 3. Richer reduced-form evidence on servicer selection 4. New battery of robustness checks 5. Updated welfare results shorturl.at/dbpJt

I’ll be presenting my paper, “The Roles of Borrower Private Information and Mortgage Relief Design in Foreclosure Prevention,” at 12:45 PM ET / 9:45 AM PT this Friday (12/12) as part of the NBER session on Industrial Organization of Housing. NBER Youtube Channel: www.youtube.com/nbervideos

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@taccutexas.bsky.social All I want for Christmas is the stampede3 spr queue to be up and running.

Pre-doc & post-doc positions at Microsoft Research #econ_ra www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

Economics and Computation - Microsoft Research

Economics and computation is an interdisciplinary field consisting of economists and computer scientists who study pricing, matching, information, learning, and networks.

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🚨New predoc positions!🚨 Join @alexbartik.bsky.social and me to work on developing LLM tools to analyze zoning regulations and their impacts on housing affordability. One position starting at the "normal" cycle next year, and another ASAP. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/176538

Zoning enters the debate on immigration enforcement www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/u...

To Fight ICE, Portland’s Leaders Turn to What They Know Best: Zoning

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Worth constantly emphasizing the regressive nature of tariffs. Link1: www.axios.com/2025/04/02/t... Link 2: budgetlab.yale.edu/research/fis...

Trump tariffs would hit lower-income Americans hardest

Tariffs are another blow to people struggling with higher prices.

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I appreciate The Cornell Daily Sun highlighting local market power, and its potential influences on affordability! There's an industrial organization project in here somewhere. www.cornellsun.com/article/2025...

POGGI | Ithaca Is Monopolized

In her column, Julia Poggi urges readers to confront tough questions: Who benefits from Ithaca’s monopolies? Who’s left out? To protect the Ithaca we love — gorges, granola, grassroots — we must deman...

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Higher education has also historically been a major export for the U.S. www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

Trump’s Trade Math Ignores a Major Export: American Services

Trade wars are heightening overseas risk for U.S. companies. “When you generate bad will, it’s harder to sell stuff.”

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PhD students interested in urban: Apply to join us at Tufts University for summer school July 21–23. Learn from leading scholars, including @alvinmurphy.bsky.social, @econhist-allday.bsky.social. Get feedback on your research and meet other urban economists. urbaneconomics.org/workshops/su...

The MIT Urban Economics Lab is hiring!! #EconSky My postdoc supervisor at MIT, Albert Saiz, is looking for a Real Estate Postdoctoral Associate! Apply here: careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl... Please help us share this opportunity and encourage job market candidates to apply!!

Real Estate Postdoctoral Associate

MIT - Real Estate Postdoctoral Associate - Cambridge MA 02139

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A write-up of how I have leveraged the National Science Foundation's Access program for academic computing resources! access-ci.org/using-hpc-to...

Using HPC to Improve the Mortgage Industry - Access

NSF ACCESS resources at the Texas Advanced Computing Center are central to a study into mortgage relief failures during the U.S. foreclosure crisis.

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This release isn't too new, but let's keep archiving those public datasets! Nice repository of information. lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/02...

Announcing the Data.gov Archive | Library Innovation Lab

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Cornell students - I'm hiring someone to help me archive and organize Federal data and to do some preliminary data exploration. This data will relate most to urban policy, household finance, and natural disasters. Check out my job posting on Workday: www.myworkday.com/cornell/d/in...

Get your signature on this open letter to Senate and House leadership to express opposition to removal of public federal data. Research relies on access to information! copafs.org/copafs-sign-...

We are seeing some impact on reproducibility efforts with the transition to the new US administration. For now, I suggest that you make backups of any data that required you to actively interact with the Federal government, as there may be a delay in response times.... #openscience

Presenting my revised work on the effects of short-term housing regulation on housing affordability in the City of San Francisco — in the city of focus! #ASSA2025

Crack downs on short-term rents don't always succeed in their stated policy objectives, and the design of well intended regulation continues to be a challenge. The New York story looks no different. www.wsj.com/lifestyle/tr...

New York Made Airbnbs Harder to Find. Now It’s Reconsidering.

A bill introduced to the City Council could ease the strict regulations on short-term rentals.

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Day 2 visiting @newyorkfed.bsky.social! Working with @leeseltzer.bsky.social on a new project relating to evictions and foreclosure and looking forward to meeting with a talented group of RAs.

This Thanksgiving I'm thankful for the NSF's Access program for advanced computing resources! Check it out whether you need CPUs or GPUs. access-ci.org.

Home - Access

Following its highly successful Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) project, the National Science Foundation (NSF) is excited to introduce new advances in innovative cyberinf...

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I don't have a call for papers, but lets keep the #Bluesky #EconSky momentum going!

Last week, I had the pleasure of hosting the 2024 Cornell Real Estate Symposium with my colleagues, Dragana Cvijanović and Sean Flynn. Thanks to Caitlin Gorback, Jacob Sagi, @arpitrage.bsky.social, Lu Han, Erica Jiang, and Kris Gerardi for sharing their fantastic work in #realestate #urbaneconomics

First two weeks of lectures down as instructor! My consulting PowerPoint experience is coming in super handy, never had such a sustained need to produce slides before. 🥵

Buying a house was hard before the pandemic. Somehow, it keeps getting harder. Could the U.S.'s strange mortgage market be to blame? My story on how the dominance of the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage is creating a housing market of haves and have-nots: #EconSky www.nytimes.com/2023/11/19/b...