Reposted by Steve BerrySam @samd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026we could solve the western water crisis overnight by simply charging alfalfa farmers market rates for water 211004181
Reposted by Steve BerryStephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026This post by @lastpositivist.bsky.social remains the single best take on effective altruism 558066
Reposted by Steve BerryDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 17/09/2026Read this thread & the linked piece from @mikegrunwald.bsky.social. The climate bean-counting industry is boring, I understand why most people ignore it, but this is a truly epochal disaster in the making. 24524
Reposted by Steve BerryMichael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/09/2026The US President's new proposal to tax international students has been approved by the White House for release this week. It's an unprecedented $100,000 tax on int'l grads who stay to work after graduation on Optional Practical Training (most grads do), a crucial bridge to remaining by any channel. 21433715
Reposted by Steve BerryMichael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 08/09/2026🚨🚨🚨 Hey look, it’s WE ARE EATING THE EARTH, this time with a back made of paper! It’s lighter, it’s cheaper, and it’s got a new afterword. I hope you’ll check it out! 14513
Reposted by Steve BerryRichard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 07/09/2026We have a fixed amount of land but growing demands for food & housing—while also needing to protect & restore nature, which also would help climate. Environmentalists need to get more comfortable with land-efficient agriculture, eating more plants/fewer animal products, and denser cities/suburbs. 87513
Reposted by Steve BerryMichael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 01/09/2026We Are Eating the Earth. (Data version) 01410
Reposted by Steve Berryghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 30/08/20261) this is good and you should read it (and my prior is that Lowrey's book is also good and you should read it, although i haven't yet) 2) administrative burden is the single place I am most optimistic about positive impact from LLMs 1424628
Reposted by Steve BerryJonathan A. Parker @profjaparker.bsky.social · 29/08/2026For me, it’s been Pepe’s above all others since high school, and it’s pizza nirvana not oasis www.cnn.com/travel/new-h...cnn.comA New England oasis with a century-old pizza scene | CNNThe college town of New Haven isn’t the capital of Connecticut, but it is the state’s cultural capital. And the pizza capital, too. 041
Reposted by Steve BerryDan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 27/08/2026"How Test-Optional Policies in College Admissions Disproportionately Harm High-Achieving Applicants from Disadvantaged Backgrounds" is a great example of how sometimes research upends intuition. drive.google.com/file/d/10mW5... 161
Reposted by Steve BerryProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 31/07/2026Honoring Christopher A. Sims, a pioneering macroeconomist and econometrician whose work reshaped the paradigm for empirical macroeconomics. He is one of the few academics to directly impact the work of central banks throughout the world. Read the PNAS Retrospective: ow.ly/HPPu50Zv2vb 041
Reposted by Steve BerryNBER @nber.org · 04/07/2026Revisiting the determination of prices and quantities when markets don’t clear. Without the invisible hand, uncertainty shocks are stagflationary and demand shocks absorb slack, from Joel P. Flynn, George Nikolakoudis, and Karthik Sastry www.nber.org/papers/w35390 061
Reposted by Steve BerryYale Department of Economics @yaleeconomics.bsky.social · 30/06/2026"We analyze consumer surplus when a monopolist can adjust both prices and product qualities across segments, engaging in second- and third-degree price discrimination simultaneously." NEW Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper, by Bergemann, Heumann, & Wang: cowles.yale.edu/research/cfd... 021
Reposted by Steve BerryMichael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Cool news: WE ARE EATING THE EARTH has been short-listed for the Penn Libraries Book Prize in Sustainability. Congrats to the other finalists, they sound great. www.library.upenn.edu/news/sustain...library.upenn.eduPenn Libraries Book Prize in SustainabilityThis annual award acknowledges outstanding contributions to the global discourse on environmental sustainability, with a specific focus on books that have a substantial impact on the public's understa... 0192
Reposted by Steve BerryLynsi Burton (she/her) @lynsi-climate.bsky.social · 13/05/2026"A growing body of evidence now indicates that corn ethanol may generate emissions comparable to, or even worse than, gasoline once full lifecycle impacts are considered. The EPA ... concluded in 2023 that recent emissions estimates for corn ethanol exceed those of gasoline." 14521
Reposted by Steve BerryDavid Slichter @davidslichter.bsky.social · 05/05/2026(1/n) Holding the coursework constant but changing whether there's a diploma has no effect on wages: www.jstor.org/stable/10.10...jstor.org The Signaling Value of a High School Diploma on JSTOR Damon Clark, Paco Martorell, The Signaling Value of a High School Diploma, Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 122, No. 2 (April 2014), pp. 282-318 28016
Reposted by Steve BerryMichael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Burning trees for energy is as bad as burning crops for energy. New paper by the protagonist of a recent book! 1135
Reposted by Steve BerryMichael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 16/04/2026I wrote about how Trump is making America's terrible biofuel policies even worse - and how most Democrats and environmentalists are too afraid to fight back. @canarymedia.com www.canarymedia.com/articles/foo...canarymedia.comFederal policy on biofuels goes from bad to worse under TrumpThe administration’s lavish biofuel subsidies for farmers are bad for consumers and the planet, but the problem goes way beyond his administration. 44118
Reposted by Steve BerryYale Department of Economics @yaleeconomics.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Join us in congratulating Donald Andrews for being recognized as an AEA 2026 Distinguished Fellow! His work has had a lasting influence on many topics in modern econometrics, and has repeatedly changed how econometric problems are understood. economics.yale.edu/news/260410/...economics.yale.eduAmerican Economic Association (AEA) Recognizes Donald Andrews as a 2026 Distinguished Fellow 053
Reposted by Steve BerryArmand Domalewski @armanddomalewski.bsky.social · 12/04/2026the people who collect data for government statistics like the unemployment rate, the census, etc, have boring, tedious, thankless jobs that they overwhelmingly do with integrity and honesty. 1138732
Reposted by Steve BerryDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 09/04/2026Just recorded a great pod, and I gotta say ... solar and batteries are going to win. They are the main dish. Everything else is a side dish. In 10 years, you won't be able to find anyone who disagrees with this. 37856124
Reposted by Steve BerryAaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 08/04/2026Chris is a very smart, conservative economist. I enjoy talking with and learning from him. You can hear him talking about the administration on this @hellerhurwicz.bsky.social podcast open.spotify.com/episode/6eBS...open.spotify.comS3E1: The End of the Free Trade Era: Trump’s Sledgehammer approach to constructing a new economic order 2133
Reposted by Steve BerryPaul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 05/04/2026Wrote another post based on a video with Markus Brunnermeier Use LLMs to lessen the large fixed costs of managing and organizing large databases. I use the setting of HMDA mortgage data to show how a massive 250m row db can turn into a trivial data exercise thanks to DuckDB + Claude Code.open.substack.comLarge Datasets and Structured Databases: Claude Code for EconomistsVideo 4 in a series on Claude Code 54712
Reposted by Steve BerryPam Davis-Kean, PhD @umpamdk.bsky.social · 03/04/2026The NSF 2027 budget has noted that they will close out the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Program (SBE). This is not a good thing. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202... 22552394
Reposted by Steve BerryReuters @reuters.com · 27/03/2026US refining group says record biofuel quotas may worsen Iran war price spike reut.rs/4c9wbrXreut.rsUS refining group says record biofuel quotas may worsen Iran war price spikeThe Trump administration ordered U.S. refiners on Friday to blend a record amount of biofuels into their gasoline and diesel this year and next, a move intended to help farmers but that the refining industry said would only backfire by raising pump prices already spiking due to the war in Iran. 232112
Reposted by Steve BerryRichard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Correct. On the vast majority of the world's land, solar would produce 100x or more the useable energy per hectare vs. bioenergy. Meaning 1 hectare for energy, 99 hectares left over for food. (Also, solar farms don't necessarily need to be put on farmland, but crops do.) 517255
Reposted by Steve BerryPaul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 21/03/2026🧵A thread on "AI one-shot papers". This has not been a focus on Bluesky, but on Twitter/X and LinkedIn, there has been a large discussion of the ability to "one-shot" policy evaluation, which David Yanagizawa-Drott has been pursuing in an interesting way: ape.socialcatalystlab.org 57319
Reposted by Steve BerryMartin Gaynor @martingaynor.bsky.social · 17/03/2026These are the words I gave over at a recent Iftar gathering for Ramadan. I'm very grateful to our Muslim neighbors for inviting me and giving me the opportunity to connect and to be together with them at this significant time. 0113
Reposted by Steve BerryTim Bresnahan @timobres.bsky.social · 14/03/2026Chris Sims, brilliant macroeconomic empiricist, has died. His Nobel acceptance speech: www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2018....nobelprize.org 03421
Reposted by Steve BerryMartin Gaynor @martingaynor.bsky.social · 09/03/2026New paper out with Amanda Starc on competition in health insurance markets, in particular on the complicated ways in which asymmetric information and competition interact (spoiler: things aren’t going so well). www.nber.org/papers/w34928nber.orgCompetition in Health Insurance MarketsFounded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an... 2216
Reposted by Steve BerryHealth Care Affordability Lab at Yale @yalehealthlab.bsky.social · 09/03/2026👋We’re the Health Care Affordability Lab at @yale.edu — a new initiative that pairs rigorous academic scholarship with strategic policy engagement to curb rising health care spending at every level of government. Read more: www.healthcareaffordabilitylab.org/commentary-p... 185
Reposted by Steve BerryRichard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 07/03/2026Long 🧵 tl;dr: - Global ag commodity markets are integrated - Biofuel policies raise ag commodity prices, causing ag to expand - This leads to land-use change emissions - We need to get off fossil fuels ASAP! But beware “solutions” that just swap fossil emissions for even higher land emissions 24213
Reposted by Steve BerryRichard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 07/03/2026The global oil market is integrated. Changes to supply or demand in one place cause price effects that ripple around the 🌎. But did you know this is true for non-branded bulk food products like grains & vegetable oils? Below are export prices of maize (corn) from the US, the EU, & the Black Sea. 15911
Reposted by Steve BerryAaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 01/03/2026Care about Americans, employment, earnings, consumer prices, your local or our national economy? @usbls.bsky.social empowers us to better recognize these & make decisions. Consider signing onto Friends of BLS's new letter to Congress re its budget. And spread the word. 16228
Reposted by Steve BerryManuel Arellano @manoloarellano.bsky.social · 25/02/2026Congratulations to Charles Manski on winning the BBVA Frontiers Award for his foundational contributions to partial identification, semiparametric methods, subjective expectations, social interactions and policy decision-making under uncertainty www.premiosfronterasdelconocimiento.es/noticias/xvi...premiosfronterasdelconocimiento.esXVIII Premio Fronteras del Conocimiento en Economía a Charles Manskipor incorporar la incertidumbre en la investigación económica y su aplicación al análisis de las políticas públicas 14517
Reposted by Steve BerryFiona Scott Morton @proffionasm.bsky.social · 12/02/2026Re: Slater’s departure from ATR. Look at this Ticketmaster stock chart 063
Reposted by Steve BerryErika McEntarfer @erikamcentarfer.bsky.social · 11/02/2026Person who was fired here - you should still trust BLS data. The agency is being run by the same dedicated career staff who were running it while I was awaiting confirmation from the Senate. And the staff have made it clear that they are blowing a loud whistle if there is interference. 17606109
Reposted by Steve BerryFlorian Ederer @florianederer.bsky.social · 10/02/2026My co-author Charles Hodgson (Yale) is hiring a full-time pre-doc to work on projects focusing on the role of information externalities. The hired researcher will meet regularly with faculty and receive dedicated research training & career development skills. Application👇 11614
Reposted by Steve BerryAl Roth @alroth.bsky.social · 10/02/2026“Higher caffeinated coffee intake was associated with more favorable cognitive outcomes. " #econsky #academicsky #medicine marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/02/befo...marketdesigner.blogspot.comBefore I forget, coffee lowers risk of dementia 1112
Reposted by Steve BerryStephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 01/02/2026Good explanation of why the MTA’s already very high 2nd Ave. costs keep rising with each new phase, despite what Alon generously describes as quarter-measures to cut them 3223
Reposted by Steve BerryTimothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 21/01/2026Hospital Mergers Gain Momentum As Trump’s ‘Beautiful Bill’ Cuts Loom www.forbes.com/sites/brucej...forbes.comHospital Mergers Gain Momentum As Trump’s ‘Beautiful Bill’ Cuts LoomHospital merger and acquisition activity ended 2025 with momentum expected to continue as drastic cuts to Medicaid spending under Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act loom. 174
Reposted by Steve BerryMartin Gaynor @martingaynor.bsky.social · 20/01/20261/2 Did market power drive post-Covid inflation? There have been strong public claims that it has. Neat new paper by Christopher Conlon examines what coherent analysis has to say about distinguishing between market power (softer competition) vs increased demand www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comDid Profits Cause Inflation?A popular narrative has attributed the post-COVID rise in inflation to a rise in corporate profits. The literature in industrial organization offers t… 1112
Reposted by Steve BerryMichael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 20/01/2026If you’ve called me a shill for factory farms (and even if you haven’t) you might be interested in my new @nytimes.com column about how factory farms get away with disgusting pollution. They shouldn’t be banned. They should be regulated like factories! www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/o...nytimes.comOpinion | This Is Why Our Rivers Are Turning Into Sewers 0268
Reposted by Steve BerryJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/12/2025George Will: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... 412129
Reposted by Steve BerryPaul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 10/12/2025I was curious about the state of labor *supply* on the job market. I pulled the stock of New First Year PhDs, ABDs and PhDs granted at Graduate Depts from the CSWEP reports. The left plot is the Flow of economics PhDs, and the right is the stock of ABDs. 2184
Reposted by Steve BerryCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10/12/2025Devastating news. Kate was a great economist and a generous person. 114717
Reposted by Steve BerryMatt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 10/12/2025Whenever you try to unbundle education, you need to explain why your approach is going to work when *books* did not. What innovation are you bringing to the table that exceeds the development of the printing press? 1324
Reposted by Steve BerryPaul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 10/12/2025Goal for the next six months: dive into the debate on identification of demand elasticities in finance. Feels like asset pricing is rehashing debates from IO twenty years ago? But that’s good because it’s an important debate! @steveberry.bsky.social 1143