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meredith conroy

sidney_b

39% of the women running in congressional primaries this year are Republican, compared to 26% in 2018.Political science informs why GOP women tend to lag behind, + helps explain why

Emma Caterine 🌹#CancelRent

EmmaCaterineDSA

Saying the Left is being deceptive about police violence because police killings have gone down while omitting that police violence overall has increased is just as fallacious as saying climate

Sam Hughes

samh510

In 2012 when I was interning at CAP the housing finance group was worried that it was too ambitious to even suggest mortgage cramdown and THEY LITERALLY JUST DID IThttps://twitter.com/matthewstoller/status/1341112094079512579

Joe Mead

JosephWMead

Okay, take 2. Here are just a few of the people who are tenured or promoted in academia, effective today. Their new status reflects the judgment and endorsement of their

Jorge Peña

jorgeapenas

1/6 This talk is about a recent paper (@ASNAmNat 2020 https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/707016?journalCode=an) with microeconomist G Nöldeke (https://wwz.unibas.ch/en/prof-dr-georg-noeldeke/) and marine biologist O Puebla (

Damon Jones

nomadj1s

A few days ago, the University of Chicago, i.e. the president and provost, emailed the campus with a subject mentioning “public safety”The email starts out by calling for an “examination

Yair Wallach

YairWallach

The discussion on Apartheid, one state vs two states, sends us back to the question of partition and its origins. Why was partition originally proposed and by whom? 2/ There's

Karlyn Gorski

karlynjane

Wow. This piece is so powerful. @whilke1 describes how Jens Ludwig’s (& by extension @uchicago Crime Lab’s) work both influences and is influenced by Chicago politics, even though Ludwig “insists

Alderman Matt Martin

AldMattMartin

In light of today’s meeting about the National Guard, here are 15 US cities with higher homicide rates than Chicago.Violence in Chicago is a serious problem. To address it, we

mesopotamian speech and debate club 𒌵𒆠

protosemite

If you’re someone like me who sometimes has a difficult time picturing ancient history, here are some of my favorite and accurate artistic representations/photos of ancient Mesopotamia This drawing is

Robert McNees

mcnees

Announcements like these are always thrilling, but now is the time to be cautious! The tritium contamination needed to explain what they see is *very* small, and almost as significant

brad plumer

bradplumer

Biden's new executive order on climate/environment has just been posted. Establishes an interagency group on the social cost of carbon, tells EPA to consider new methane regulations on existing oil/gas

Rachel Hope Cleves

RachelCleves

1. My new book is hitting the shelves this week, and I want to celebrate that accomplishment. But this is a hard book to promote with celebratory tweets. It’s not

Martin Modrák

modrak_m

I've spent some time recently arguing the narrow point that "journal publishes only preregistered studies" is NOT a good measure of transparency. So let's also argue a broader point: that

Peter Ganong

p_ganong

new predictions of effects of alternative UI benefit supplements The UI supplements have expired. Congress is considering a range of options.What will happen to 1) *consumption*2) *UI replacement rates*Thread w/@JoeVavra

Sylvain Catherine

sc_cath

New working paper with Constantine YannelisWe study “The Distributional Effects of Student Loan Forgiveness”. We find forgiveness to be a highly regressive policy. Full cancellation would distribute $192 bn to

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