Congratulations to our friends and colleagues @mattkahn1966 and @HPesaran, who were included in the 2025 Highly Cited Researchers list from Clarivate in the Cross-Field and Economics and Business categories, respectively!

Congratulations to Melissa Gentry of University of Texas A&M for her innovative JMP paper. I met her this summer at NBER. A brief thread. https://t.co/8oK7fZYHBg

I also advise Sneha Nimmagadda. She has implemented her own field experiment in rural India. Her development and health research emphasizes the importance of village level reference points in influencing mothers' views on healthy kids. https://t.co/LI9P7ZMoNM

As the Economic job market begins, I want to introduce two impressive young economists. Here is my student Jin Seok Park's webpage. He works on labor, Demography and urban economics topics. https://t.co/nJlHqIFxLQ

Breaking my social media hiatus to share some new work. Please see my fabulous co-author @ShuaiChenEcon's full thread below, but a few of my thoughts. First, I've spent lots of time focused on costs of gender-based violence. I'm now keen to think of how to help survivors. [1/5]

Grateful to @TexasMHA for inviting me to share results from the Texas Manufactured Housing Survey. This year was about uncertainty, but manufacturers are optimistic heading into 2026: ✅ Stable input prices ✅ Fewer labor shortages ✅ Capacity ready for a demand rebound

The 7th annual Texas Economics of Crime Workshop (TxECW) will be held in Austin, TX April 10-11, 2026 Organized by @DrJPCunningham, Cody Tuttle, and me Submissions due December 5 Link to submit: https://t.co/o8AY3wROP9 ✨We are looking forward to seeing your papers!✨

A terrific "AI, Economics, and Business" conference lineup from the Marshall School's Initiative on Digital Competition, *proudly co-organized by us at Dornsife's @USC_Econ Department*.

Another reminder of the call for papers for SOCAE 2025, due Friday, September 26th, 2025. See the google form below.

I’m especially grateful to @mattkahn1966 and the @LuskCenter for their guidance and support over the past year. Their influence has been invaluable in shaping my research and professional growth, and I look forward to building on that foundation in this new role.

I’m pleased to share that I’ve joined the Tavakoli Center for Real Estate at @USCMarshall as Research Director! This role is an exciting opportunity to advance applied research that connects academic insights with the pressing needs of industry and policy. https://t.co/mfq9I1tdRp

The call for papers for the Southern California Graduate Conference in Applied Economics 2025 (SOCAE) can be found @socae2025. We're proud to say this conference is collaboratively organized by our Econ PhD students with those at @UCLA @EconomicsUcsb @UCSDEcon @ucisocsci

There may be distributional consequences across industries, as the fee schedule may vary by property type/location. We'll know more once the rules are released (July 2026). For now, the @CaliforniaBIA is urging a revisit of Sec58 before the leg. session adjourns in 2 weeks.

That seems like a tough case to make, particularly with existing impact fees, local zoning, lengthy entitlement processes, etc. Adding another layer risks tightening the supply bottleneck rather than correcting an externality.

This looks like a textbook Pigouvian tax: charge projects for the external costs of the driving they generate. The logic is that, absent such a fee, developers will overbuild. A tax pushes activity back to the “socially optimal” level. But is CA really at risk of overbuilding?

There's been a lot of buzz surrounding California’s AB130, which includes several wins for increasing housing supply elasticity (streamlined CEQA exemptions for infill housing). But there's also a provision (Sec. 58) authorizing VMT fees for new construction (not just housing).

Econ PhDs who will be on the #EconJobMarket: Tues Aug 19 at 1pm ET is a NABE Career Week panel on "Industry, Government, or Academia? Choosing Your Path in Applied Economics" Register here 👉 https://t.co/MvdW5MX7Co

Just published in @JPubEcon: "The impact of economic opportunity on criminal behavior: Evidence from the fracking boom" By @brittanyrstreet https://t.co/rCJXhtBdzA #econtwitter #publiceconomics #frackinggas

@RMS Still, this paper highlights why updating CAT models matters. If climate risk is misestimated, premiums will be distorted, solvency threatened, and adaptation delayed. https://t.co/MviyVTRiry

@RMS The study has its limitations as it doesn't account for adaptive responses (building codes, retreat, etc.), sea-level rise impacts on storm surge, nor hurricane-induced precipitation flooding. 4/n