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Eirik Eylands Brandsaas

@eebrandsaas.bsky.social
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🇳🇴🇮🇸🇺🇸 Economist at Federal Reserve Board. Housing, macroeconomics, and household finance is my jam. And cross-country skiing. www.eebrandsaas.com

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Joe Fish @sadbusdriver.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Okay, some meta-commentary on this, which I think has troubling implications for good science 1. it's good this criticism happened 2. criticism was possible because Stacy Et Al were unusually good w/ disclosing data 3. criticism is probs bad for stacy et al 4. thus, incentives are to not share data
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Eirik Eylands Brandsaas @eebrandsaas.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Are you sick of reading about data centers? If not: In a new paper, we developed a simple method to forecast data center investment using project-level microdata on $1.3 TRILLION in announced plans. www.federalreserve.gov/econres/feds...
The stock of plans (data center construction projects that are neither started or abandoned) have increased from $0 to $1.3 trillion in about 18 months!
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Eirik Eylands Brandsaas @eebrandsaas.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
My 2024 “top 3” of interesting papers and presentations:
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Dr. Kaitlyn M. Sims @kaitsims.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
as a junior woman academic, it's hard to figure out how to get invited for opportunities. my go-to strategy is to just ask and take the no's on the chin. so i'm asking: does anyone w/an econ/social science/policy podcast need a guest about DV, welfare, crime, incarceration, or public health?
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Eirik Eylands Brandsaas @eebrandsaas.bsky.social · 17/10/2024
Using social media as a commitment device: I will not touch a single paper until I finish writing up this one.
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Brigitte Roth Tran @brothtran.bsky.social · 24/09/2024
Can anyone recommend resources on using Git specifically for academic research papers/projects? Seems like best practices differ from those for developing an app or a project with A LOT of collaborators. Looking for tips on branches, comments, when to commit, etc. #econsky
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Eirik Eylands Brandsaas @eebrandsaas.bsky.social · 18/09/2024
TFW you just submitted a paper to the JFE with enough footnotes a plenty and references to online appendices 😅🤦‍♂️
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Eirik Eylands Brandsaas @eebrandsaas.bsky.social · 28/12/2023
New paper: "The Housing Channel of Intergenerational Wealth Persistence" How important is the bank of mom and dad, through housing, for wealth persistence? Answer: very important (as important as the effect on education and income)! norges-bank.no/en/news-even... (1/10)
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The housing channel of intergenerational wealth persistence
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Eirik Eylands Brandsaas @eebrandsaas.bsky.social · 26/12/2023
Please tell me that somebody have trained an AI to generate Section 508 compliant text for figures?
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Eirik Eylands Brandsaas @eebrandsaas.bsky.social · 21/11/2023
New week, new housing chart. Before 2000, about 15 percent of new American housing units were mobile homes. Since then? A touch above 6 percent, which is way above what I would have guessed.
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Eirik Eylands Brandsaas @eebrandsaas.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
New week, new housing chart. Did you know that the US is at record high levels of housing construction? The strength is largely driven by large multifamily buildings.
Time series of privately owned housing units under construction in the US from ca 1960-2023, which is currently at record levels just above 1.6 million units.
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Eirik Eylands Brandsaas @eebrandsaas.bsky.social · 06/11/2023
Wildest thing about the American economy I've learned after two years at the Federal Reserve: Almost 1% of US GDP is residential realtor commissions! fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1b2IC
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Eirik Eylands Brandsaas @eebrandsaas.bsky.social · 18/10/2023
Back to my "commute" between New Haven and DC after leave. You learn a few things when you commute with Amtrak. 1) If you bring a bike (only $20, that's not bad) you have to take of the front wheel? Better have a quick release, unlike me 😬
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Eirik Eylands Brandsaas @eebrandsaas.bsky.social · 04/10/2023
Lets assume my friend posted a working paper and then heard about a JMP on the same topic. Similar research questions and overlapping methods. Both papers claim to be "first". Work done completely independently. How to sensitively approach this? Don't want to ruin/poach a JMP. #EconSky 📉📈
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