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Non-procrastinators, move right along. This isn't for you. 🎯 This essay may be the single most insightful piece I've ever read structuredprocrastination.com Does John Perry actually see inside my brain? Because this explains EVERYTHING. HT Dean Eckles #StructuredProcrastination

Interesting and nice new paper by Aguilera et al on whether particulate matter from wildfire smoke has worse health effects than other sources of PM nature.com/articles/s4146… It's a really important but tricky empirical question.

Great advice on how to assess the plausibility of diff-in-diff. Look at differences in levels, use as much pre-treatment data as possible, and put extra faith in studies where parallel pre-trends hold despite the presence of multiple common shocks in the pre-period.

Forthcoming in the JEL: "Graduate Student Mental Health: Lessons from American Economics Departments" by Valentin Bolotnyy, Matthew Basilico, and Paul Barreira. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

Can’t believe the mixtape now as python code. Thanks again Thomas Caputo . I’m so amazed you did this. I’ll send you an autographed copy of the book if you dm me your address. Thanks also to ky for all his help on the online version. mixtape.scunning.com

Maps of historic housing discrimination show how neighborhoods across the U.S. that suffered redlining in the 1930s face a far higher risk of flooding today. bloomberg.com/graphics/2021-… via Bloomberg Graphics

Nice use of our wind direction instrument to look at the relationship between pollution and COVID-19 cases/deaths

OK #econtwitter, does anyone have a favorite development-related RD paper with publicly available replication files? Asking for 21 undergraduate friends who would probably think it's weird if they saw their professor referring to them as "friends."

Congratulations to Hailey Brace, a 2019 grad of @PolicyCornell and current pre-doc Harvard University, for winning an U.S. National Science Foundation graduate research fellowship to support her PhD studies in economics and public policy. Congrats, Hailey!

Fewer people means fewer ideas: The Economist highlights a recent paper by SIEPR senior fellow Chad Jones on the unintended consequences of a declining population. econ.st/3d6kXVt

"being exposed to air pollution is associated with 0.024 of standard deviation lower test scores, increased likelihood of suspension from school, and increased likelihood that a school’s overall ... ranking will drop." by @JoannaVenator & Claudia Persico (@claudiapersico.bsky.social) jhr.uwpress.org/content/56/2/4…

I received two paper rejections this week. This signals to me that I have to try harder and improve my writing (and perhaps my logic!). I will re-read these 3 valuable links. economics.harvard.edu/files/economic… static1.squarespace.com/static/5e6033a… brown.edu/Research/Shapi…

We don’t deserve the internet

Very nice discussion by my colleague @TDeryugina in the NBER Reporter on how natural disasters can illuminate a broad range of economic phenomena. nber.org/reporter/2021n…

Our NatureClimate paper out today shows that anthropogenic climate change has already slowed global agricultural productivity growth. 1/ Link to paper: rdcu.be/chUvW Press release w/ video: news.cornell.edu/stories/2021/0… Code+data: doi.org/10.6077/pfsd-0…

Millions of Americans live and work in the suburbs. The car is the technology that people rely on. Ed Glaeser and I explore this point in a series of papers. nytimes.com/2021/04/02/cli…

1) Tables are better at the end of the paper, at least if you submit to AEJ: Applied (this is a topic discussed often by #econtwitter) 2) Appealing against a rejection by contacting the editor is not advisable and will take you nowhere (as multiple factors lead to a rejection)

What happened when Mohamed Salah joined Liverpool FC? Hate crimes declined by 16%. & the # of anti-Muslim tweets sent by LFC fans was cut in half. New American Political Science Review by Will Marble, Ala Alrababah علاء الربابعة, Salma Mousa / سلمى موسى, Alexandra Siegel: "Can Exposure to Celebrities Reduce Prejudice?" osf.io/preprints/soca…

U of IL Institute of Government & Public Affairs recently published a policy spotlight on a study by Julian Reif and Siho Park detailing the uneven patterns of excess deaths due to the COVID-19 pandemic in regional and political demographics across the US. Read more on their findings here: igpa.uillinois.edu/wp-content/upl…