Our paper on Amazon deforestation is out! Grateful to everyone who helped along the way. I'd like to highlight one thing that made a huge difference: clear and thoughtful guidance from the editor.

🚨PUBLICATION ALERT📰 On the latest number of the J. of Economic Perspectives AEA Journals, our own Dan Millimet published an insightful paper about Yair Mundlak's (1927–2015) contribution to econometrics. Congrats to Dan and Marc Bellemare Applied Economics UM ! aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

Thanks for having me in this great workshop!

1/n Two days of rich discussion at the IEB–EU Tax Observatory WS on #Economics of #Taxation (co-org w/ Manon FRANCOIS Dirk Foremny @Sofia_BH_ Panayiotis Nicolaides Gabriel Zucman) wrapped up! Grateful for the fascinating keynotes to Youssef Benzarti & Dina D. Pomeranz 🟣 and to all participants...

I would like to express sincere condolences to all the families who have lost loved ones, in particular their daughters, who were at the summer camp, in the disaster caused by flooding of the Guadalupe River in Texas in the United States. We pray for them.

🚨NEW PUBLICATION📰 Our First Year (!) PhD student Samuel Cruz just published a paper in Mathematical Social Sciences Elsevier | ScienceDirect titled "Deposit Insurance in a Sequential-Service Constrained Environment." Congrats to Samuel and co-authors! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Fantastic! All the best in your next phase, Shuo Qi !

The SMU Police Department is heading to Kerrville this Friday, July 11, to assist local law enforcement following the recent flooding. As part of those efforts, donations to bring directly to those affected will be collected on SMU campus this week. If you’re unable to drop off

1/ Week 28: Theory paper in focus this week is the seminal article by Anthony Atkinson and Joseph E. Stiglitz that is now famously referred to as the "zero commodity/capital taxation" benchmark in public economics. It has led to much technical & policy debates. Let's find out.

Welcome, new Mustangs! 🐎 In the Fall semester of 2025, a new cohort of students will be starting their Ph.D. training at the SMU Economics Department. Here, you can learn a little bit about these young scholars from 🇧🇷🇨🇴🇬🇭🇰🇷🇻🇪: smu.edu/dedman/academi…

Looking forward to hosting this seminar with Mathieu Couttenier at MAP. Thanks Miguel Angel Carpio for the organization and invitation!

This evening, 56 years after the Apollo 11 moon landing, I spoke with the astronaut Buzz Aldrin. Together we shared the memory of a historic feat, a testimony to human ingenuity, and we reflected on the mystery and greatness of Creation.

After Trump's announcement of a 50% tariff on Brazil, in part due to what he perceives as persecution of Bolsonaro, Brazil's authoritarian Judge Moraes ordered: Bolsonaro is barred from using social media, barred from speaking to his son, and now barred from giving interviews:

Does planting trees reduce the health impacts of extreme heat? As part of a review/meta-analysis we're writing, I think the answer, perhaps surprisingly, is "we don't actually know". Blog link in next post, with short 🧵

Why do this, The Economist? "None of Moraes’s actions have been illegal." "Those who decry Moraes’s pursuit of Mr Bolsonaro seem to ignore the evidence in his prosecution." "Moraes, who is accustomed to receiving death threats, is hard to intimidate." economist.com/the-americas/2…

Brilliant article by MaryAnastasiaO'Grady summarizing the power grab in Brazil by the Supreme Court.

Could a highly desirable agent accept a partner that a less desirable agent would reject? When matching requires search in time-changing environments, this paper proves this impossible only where more desirable agents are more patient and less risk-averse. econometricsociety.org/publications/e…

So, everyone should select Sub-Saharan Africa?

Que artigo pusilânime. Defende firmemente o STF contra críticas menores, e se abstém de criticar os absurdos maiores. Generosamente admitem que o Supremo "pode ser criticado", mas jamais pelos autores, que acham importante limitar a liberdade de expressão aos "intolerantes".

I'm really happy to see our paper "College access spillover on high school performance: Evidence from college openings", joint work with Tales Rands, published at Economics of Education Review. (1/4) Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.econ…