Next week, I'm teaching another round of my online Mixtape course on BLP-style demand estimation!

The sessions are hands-on and last time we had a ton of great questions. Sign up here: www.mixtapesessions.io/session/dema...

Every city that has driverless cars before driverless metros needs to hang its head in shame.

Z-CAFÉ will soon open a new postdoctoral position. We’re looking for scholars passionate about family, health, demography, policy, and aging, broadly defined, who also bring strong statistical and computational skills.

The Economics Department and Tobin Center for Economic Policy are hiring several Pre-Doctoral Fellows starting in Summer 2026.

Come join our vibrant program! Learn more and apply here: tobin.yale.edu/programs/pre...

The other day a student asked me about the prevalence of insider trading in prediction markets. I now have an answer.

In my life I've seen treatments for AIDs developed, vaccines for Ebola and malaria, and now this. Medical science is one is the areas that still consistently seems to make these miraculous advances and I'm genuinely grateful to everyone involved.

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Absolute respect for the staff at the stats agencies who keep the innovation going, despite the challenges. These new data will be helpful. Do not take this for granted.

#NHV is implementing strong road diets with cycletracks along Whitney and State, 16 years after a huge citywide push by residents and city councilmen (now mayor and state rep), making room for 450 new homes

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The vibes at YIMBYtown were amazing. More than any other conference I’m familiar with, most people at YT are doing meaningful work on the ground and attend because they want to become more effective. Pragmatic, optimistic and energetic—just what we need right now. Let’s build more homes, y’all!

ND Gov. Kelly Armstrong at @yimbytown.bsky.social : on any policy change, 20% of people will be cranky & loud against, 80% are supportive but busy living their lives & don’t speak up. Ignore the 20%. Turn off your social media. Find a compelling emotional hook to engage the silent 80%.

“American colleges, especially the most selective ones, are confronting the dual problems of rampant grade inflation and declining rigor,” @rosehorowitch.bsky.social writes. “Teacher evaluations are a big part of how higher education got to this point.”

SB-79 HAS PASSED THE SENATE AND IS ON ITS WAY TO THE GOVERNOR’S DESK

This is not true. Blackstone owns 0.06% of the single family homes in America. There is no market where they own more than 1% of the homes.

Nobody has a monopoly on housing. 2/3 of American households own their homes and rental housing is a VERY diversified and competitive industry.

Dan Sacks and I are looking for a postdoc to work on Medicaid evaluation projects at UW-IRP. See posting: hr.wisc.edu/postdoc-and-... . Email your resume and cover letter to Tim Connor at [email protected].
For any questions regarding the position, please contact Dan Sacks at [email protected]

Induction stoves are quieter, cooler, and produce less toxic pollution than gas. On the other hand, they also cook better, as a growing number of professional chefs recognize.

Seems bad

As we kick off the fall semester, join us in welcoming our new faculty members to Yale!

Learn more about their backgrounds and research: economics.yale.edu/news/250828/...

Here’s the link to comment on the rule. Please do comment. They can make a difference in litigation. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

My very first concert was Ray Charles on the New Haven Green.

This move to import more U.S. corn ethanol will increase GHG emissions, rather than decreasing them.

Congratulations Rudi!

I now too have a "professional announcement." I have known it for quite some time now, but only from today on this is really, legally official: I am now Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor campus), @umich.edu

“It’s people who will get cancer in 10, 20 or 30 years who will really pay the price for these cuts”

Are the mRNA vaccines incredible? YES!

Are the mRNA vaccines perfect? No.

Have the mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives? YES!

Can we make the mRNA vaccines even better? YES!

Can we use mRNA vaccine technology to prevent and treat many other diseases? YES!

Fund mRNA research!