I often hear discussion of how the media should avoid reporting a criminal suspect's race or immigration status, to avoid bias against Black/Hispanic/immigrant groups. The intuition is that reporting that info in specific cases hurts the whole group. But what if that impulse gets

Only two NBER papers this week?

I just sent out a five page referee report for a paper I really liked to an incredible journal and put the wrong title of the paper wrong in both my referee report AND the letter to the editor (copy-pasted from one to the other). Someone pls send an assassin.

Excited to have this important work coauthored with Harry Barbee, PhD out in JAMA We describe the public health and ethical implications of restricting access to gender affirming care under Medicaid.

New Publication. 🏙️📈 Thrilled to share that our paper, “𝘿𝙤𝙚𝙨 𝙍𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙡 𝙄𝙣𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙚 𝙏𝙚𝙣𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙐𝙣𝙚𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙤𝙮𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩?”, has been published in the 𝐉𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐔𝐫𝐛𝐚𝐧 𝐄𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐬!!! 🚀 🚀 🚀 (with Hanchen Jiang and Xi Yang). Thread.

My first day on faculty senate. This cannot be real.

It's ghoulish to mock or justify the shooting of Charlie Kirk. Rising political violence is a horror of our time. Unchecked it will lead to catastrophes none of us want to imagine. Deeply hoping he pulls through. We are all people, whatever we believe. That has to come first.

The glee with which people celebrate murder is disgusting and pathetic.

Woah I just noticed this correlation 🤯. At some point, do we need to consider the possibility that RFK Jr. is causing autism? ...👇

My grading buddy is distracted by the squirrels.

"On the level of individuals and civilizations, personality predates ideology, meaning before you were a fascist, you were a bully and an asshole." -Brennan Lee Mulligan

Must not interfere. It’s a canon event.

Simple: the opportunity cost of crime increased.

Thank Mr. Bernke