Research using historical Canadian census data has changed repeatedly since the 1960s. This introduction reviews the literature and introduces six articles in this special issue. Each article uses ...

As artificial intelligence (AI) transforms the workplace, which jobs will remain valuable—and what makes them resistant to automation? Economist Luis Garicano, coauthor of Messy Jobs: The Work that AI...

October 16–18, 2026 · $7,000 prize purse · Limited spots. A public challenge to turn DASH design rules into working software. Build a configurator that generates valid standardized housing on real par...

Abstract. We study how employer concentration affects job design, focusing on schedule flexibility as a non-wage job attribute. Using the full text of 46

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The canivt R package parses Beyond 20/20 IVT files into R and enables modern data workflows based on StatCan IVT data.

We revisit the evolution of the relationship between mortgage debt and income, adding to the growing literature that extends beyond the 2000s housing …

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The paper presents a dynamic model of neighborhood segregation where fee motivated real estate brokers match sellers optimally either to minority or t…

Hi all, Announcing Armington.jl, a small package for building and evaluating arbitrarily-nested CES aggregators, trees where each internal node combines its children with a constant elasticity of sub...

(Forthcoming Article) - We examine the general-equilibrium effect of the China shock on US regions. We demonstrate that spatial linkages intensify the shock’s negative impact on employment across regions, leading to differential effects that are substantially larger than predictions from existing quantitative models. To address this disconnect, we develop a reduced-form representation of the impact of trade shocks in spatial models. Regional responses combine the direct effect of local shock exposure and its indirect spatial effects. Our approach extends shift-share empirical strategies and indicates that employment losses were amplified by strong agglomeration forces, large employment sensitivity to wages, and spatial and production linkages.

The Editors highlight three aspects of OMB’s recently proposed rule changes as particularly striking: that decisions on research funding would be made by political appointees, that funding could be...

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Publication date: May 2026 Source: Journal of Urban Economics, Volume 153 Author(s): Luis Sarmiento, Yeong Jae Kim

In some parts of Florida, one in four real estate listings are seeing price cuts, and experts say this sends a disturbing message about the state of the housing market.

Publication date: May 2026 Source: Journal of Urban Economics, Volume 153 Author(s): Diogo Baerlocher, Guilherme Lambais, Eustáquio Reis, Diego Firmino Costa da Silva, Henrique Veras

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Claude Code sucks but is still useful: experiences maintaining Julia’s SciML scientific computing infrastructure So it’s pretty public that for about a month now I’ve had 32 processes setup on one of the 64 core 128gb RAM servers to just ssh in, tmux to a window, and tell it to slam on some things non-stop. And it has been really successful!… with the right definition of success. Let me explain. This is a repost of the long post in the Julia Discourse. * How is Claude being used, and how useful has it been? j-bowhay, post:1, topic:131009 I think the first will answer the others. Basically, Claude is really not smart at all. There is no extensive algorithm implementation that has come from AI. I know some GSoCers and SciML Small Grants applicants have used AI (many without disclosure) but no wholesale usage has ... READ MORE

Automated valuation model for all class 200 residential properties in Cook County (except vacant land and condos) - ccao-data/model-res-avm