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Great to be at the Abundance book launch with Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson in NYC last night. A core, striking idea from the book: The U.S. isn’t failing to solve housing, healthcare, and energy shortages because it can’t. It’s failing because it won’t. 🧵

There are days in life that shake you. I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University & academic career... 1/🧵

Come work with us! We are hiring asap for a Program Associate as we seek to revitalize philanthropic support for nuclear weapons risk reduction. This role will work closely with me and Matthew to facilitate world-class grantmaking and donor communications.

🤩Paper finally out in the AER! With my co-authors, we surveyed climate attitudes in 20 countries covering 72% of global emissions. In brief, people want ambitious, global, and fair climate policies. A 🧵⬇️ aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

Happy my JMP is (finally) coming out! The review process at JAERE improved the paper a lot. Thanks to all who helps see this project through.

Latest rapid GE trade modeling run: 145% PRC tariffs, 10% universal tariffs, 25% steel/alum/cars tariffs, 84% PRC retaliation Headline: US GDP falls 0.8%, US prices rise 5%, $220B revenue What are country & sectoral outcomes? 🧵 1/

OK, I think ChatGPT 4o just changed grant proposal writing forever. Our problem, because of a tech and email mistake, we received notice that a huge proposal was due with less than a week notice, on a week when most of my Colombia team is on Easter holiday. 🧵

Job Market Done ✅ I'm thrilled to announce that I will be an Assistant Professor in Economics Bentley University starting this Fall. I'm excited to join a great group of colleagues and to move back to Boston!

We are back! EEE Summer School @ Berkeley! 🔗 Info + application: auffhammer.com/summer-school📅 Deadline: May 14 | Program: Aug 18–22 We especially encourage early stage Ph.D. students with possible interest in EEE topics! Must be enrolled in North American Econ"ish" Ph.D. program.

We had an all-star group of job market candidates this year. Great set of placements in a really tough year. Proud to be a part of this group!

Oh the places you will go! Bentley University, Stanford Economics, UC Berkeley, NYU Abu Dhabi, Sciences Po, MIT Economics, UCSB Bren School, Kellogg School, Amazon, University College London, Columbia Center for Political Economy & Rhizome! Congrats to all of you! annapappp Tarikua Erda R. Daniel (Danny) Bressler

🚨Berkeley ARE’s Francis Annan publishes in the Journal of Political Economy 📘 His paper explores "misconduct & reputation under imperfect information"—with insights from Ghana’s mobile money market 🇬🇭📱 Congrats, Prof. Annan! 👏 journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.108… sites.google.com/site/fannan231…

Congrats to all the Columbia | SIPA graduates, including the brand new doctors: Dr. annapappp, Dr. R. Daniel (Danny) Bressler, Dr. Tarikua Erda, Dr. Gonzalez Sutil, Dr. Smythe, Dr. Obolensky, Dr. Du Puy, and Dr. Longuet Marx!

🧵✨🙏 With the new Claude Opus 4, we conducted what I think is by far the most thorough pre-launch alignment assessment to date, aimed at understanding its values, goals, and propensities. Preparing it was a wild ride. Here’s some of what we learned. 🙏✨🧵

Humans cause greenhouse gas emissions, but human depopulation, starting in a few decades, will not meet today's climate challenges, from Mark Budolfson, Michael Geruso, Kevin J. Kuruc, Dean Spears, and Sangita Vyas nber.org/papers/w33932