California is burning. The tragedy of the destruction is unfathomable. On top of that, many homes don’t have insurance. Why? This is because of price controls. But CA's Prop 103 system goes way beyond normal insurance price controls into total dysfunction 🧵

This is an amazing paper. So recommended. I wish to write something as comprehensive and policy relevant at some point. Congrats!

La patria es el idioma

Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

New 🚨 Research Brief on adjusting for undercounting of recent immigrants in the CPS 1⃣ I show that the CPS undercounts recent immigrants. For ex., the sample population of the 1994 cohort continues to rise until 1998 or even 2002. This shouldn't be... tinyurl.com/ms4pvk67

Need high resolution daily air pollution data for India? We've got you. Great new work led by Ayako Kawano developing satellite+ML-based measures of PM2.5 going back decades, and using it to evaluate recent progress in improving air quality. science.org/doi/full/10.11…

Congrats Juliana Londoño-Vélez . Very timely paper!

I can’t believe it - after years of advocacy, exclusionary zoning has ended in Cambridge. We just passed the single most comprehensive rezoning in the US—legalizing multifamily housing up to 6 stories citywide in a Paris style Here’s the details 🧵

"Managers use RTO mandates to reassert control over employees and blame employees as a scapegoat for bad firm performance. Also, our findings do not support the argument that managers impose mandates because they believe RTO increases firm values."

We've just opened a new BFI pre-doc position through the International Economics and Economic Geography Initiative: job-boards.greenhouse.io/universityofch… Come work with us! The trade and spatial group at UChicago is a top-notch place to start your academic career!

"You have a lifetime to work, but children are only young once." This Polish proverb has been so important to me. It keeps me grounded and helps me feel better every day. Maybe this will help you, too.

this is great work Nico. Glad it is being shared widely.

Join our team and help us analyze the effects of Quito's first Metro line using causal inference techniques and spatial models, suing census data, administrative records, satellite imagery, and official surveys. #QuitoMetro #SpatialAnalysis Inter-American Development Bank linkedin.com/jobs/view/4155…

Join our team studying the effects of the Quito metro! Applications will be open until March 4th.

Great paper about key practical considerations in event study designs and their estimation in Stata.

I'm excited to share my job market paper (for the 2025-26 market)! It introduces a new extension of RDD where outcomes are entire distributions: Regression Discontinuity Design with Distributions (R3D). Thread below 👇 (1/)

The Call for Papers for the 4th meeting of LACEA's Urban Economics Network is out! FGV São Paulo, Dec 5-6, 2025 Keynotes: Gilles Duranton (Wharton) & Ingrid Gould Ellen (NYU) Deadline for submission: Jul 15th Big thanks to our local organizers Daniel Da Mata & Ciro Biderman!