Incredible photo via Potomac Riverkeeper today (credit: Nathan Hitt) of the Shenandoah River, muddy with polluted runoff from Helene, meeting the Potomac at Harper’s Ferry.
Minneapolis build more homes than other mid-Western towns and saw prices fall by comparison. Building more homes really does work.
DCSWEP and SGE are co-sponsoring virtual mentoring event - Jobs for Economists: Beyond Academia, targeted toward graduate students interested in pursuing non-academic careers in the field of economics. Oct 14 @ Noon EDT. To register, us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...@aeacswep.bsky.social
Still to need to tweak the algorithm to get important content to #econskyexplore.org/fat-bear-week
Fat Bear Week 2024
TIL: So many Iowans moved to Long Beach, California in the early 1900s that it had the nickname "Iowa by the Sea" lbpost.com/news/local-h...
The columnist Harlan Miller was impressed by the sheer number of Iowans here in the town of 160,000. “The vast majority of this augmented citizenry came 2,000 miles in pursuit of the setting sun, a he...
Call for papers for SEHO2025 is now open! Submit your research on the economics of the household by December 31, 2024, and join us in Zaragoza (10-11, June, 2025). The Call for Papers and some initial details in: iedis.unizar.es/seho2025/home See you in Zaragoza and, please, RT.
A policy in MN that evidently really benefited severely-disadvantaged children in a very cost-effective way. Grateful to NBER Digest for coverage of study by David Simon, Jon Pedersen, Heidi Ombisa-Skallet, & me. 📉 📈 #childwelfare#policysky
The Digest
Seriously, if you want to read a verdict from the bench that finally says what we've been thinking all these years, read this! I am so proud of this white southern man. I really hope it sticks, but the important part is SOMEONE IN A ROBE FINALLY SAID IT.
Some students came to our international folk dance group tonight. I told my daughter I was about that age when I first joined this group in grad school. Then realized that was 17 years ago.