📢New paper alert! +🧵 "Supply-side drug policy, polydrug use, and the economic effects of withdrawal" w/@AhammerAlex NBER link: https://t.co/l0dm7zxRYA IZA link: https://t.co/57ngFpI3sN

Upgrade to StataNow 19.5! It includes cluster robust jackknife standard errors, adjusted p-values, and confidence intervals, similar to those described in my recent papers. The commend is "reg y x1 x2, vce(hc3 clustervar, dfadjust hansen)".

If we want to make progress on making america healthy again, Medicaid should cover GLP-1s for obesity. It's good health policy, and not as expensive as people fear. My latest in The Atlantic https://t.co/bvUKAWI7Hr

“You look happier” “Thanks my football team is 7-0 for the first time in 31 years”

“What do you want to be for Halloween” Asleep

"what if the professor punishes me for disagreeing with their argument" Professors seeing a student show any kind of passion about anything in the course at any time

Zero new jobs in the federal government posted on JOE in the past three weeks. Not surprising given the government shutdown (which began Oct 1), but still grim. At least two-thirds fewer such jobs posted in 2025 than in each of the past six years at this time. #econjobmarket

Dating your boss comes with risks and rewards. New research from Finland shows subordinates' earnings rise 6% after starting a relationship with their manager but fall 18% after a breakup. Unsurprisingly, it also hurts team morale and retention.

for every nobel, i subtract 5 top 5s

Remember, kids, there are only three AI futures: Universal love, everyone dies or +0.3% RGDP growth for 10 years.

I will also move to Europe for $32 million

Job market trajectories broken down by categories 👇

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!✨

Confused about what inference method to use? What level to cluster at? Based on a review of thousands of published empirical studies, we develop a useful heuristic: a good approximation for your standard error is your point estimate divided by 1.96.

With the shutdown, states have make up funds to keep Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) afloat. That’s 7 million people affected! For many families, WIC is crucial for keeping kids fed, which leads to other positive outcomes.

This is how the minimum wage literature feels

The haters said I couldn’t juggle this many deadlines. And they were correct. Honestly great call from the haters.

Because bravery doesn't get you tenure.

Econ ∞ says that the effect of the minimum wage is -1/12

New working paper alert 🚨 Students induced to leave violent areas due to increased violence experience academic gains after relocating to safer areas. Results appear to be explained by increases in school attendance and improvements in the learning environment after they move.

This is such a novel way to get policymakers, practitioners, and researchers in the same room together to tackle the most pressing, policy-relevant, unanswered questions of our time using credible causal methods.