Associate Professor of Economics and Real Estate at @UofAlabama | Via @UofT, @UChicago, and @BYU
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Joined May 2008
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DoorDash needs to be careful here
that $17 billion acquisition can easily become $33.25 billion after the delivery fee, platform fee, taxes, and dasher tip
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I appreciate the anonymous stakeholders who are bringing my work to the attention of city planning departments, leading to promising collaborations.
If you want courtyard urbanism in your city, probably the best thing you can do is write a note to your electeds and planning department explaining why the idea resonates with you and linking them to my website
NEW RFK Courtyard Urbanism Proposal for Washington DC:
-10,000+ homes in a dense, walkable, fine-grained neighborhood
-Family-friendly flats with access to protected courtyards
-1M sf of commercial and office
-a beautiful parking solution
Read all about it in my newest substack, or explore the interactive website (linked below)
And share widely
@realDonaldTrump @POTUS
@MayorBowser
@MayorofDC
@LeaderJohnThune
@SenJohnBarrasso
@SenSchumer
@SenatorDurbin
@ChuckGrassley
@SpeakerJohnson
@SteveScalise
@GOPMajorityWhip
@RepJeffries
@WhipKClark
@RepPeteAguilar
@RepLisaMcClain
@RepMikeQuigley
@EleanorNorton
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The @FundacioIEB is organising a workshop on consumption amenities and retail in cities on the 26-27 of January 2027. Please send your papers. Info and submission email here: ieb.ub.edu/en/events/call-fo….
Deadline 20 Nov.
Good discussion and good company guaranteed! @UrbanEconomics
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Parity: An SEC Horror Story
presented by: @renasant
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Reminds me of San Francisco’s $1.7m toilet. Paging @hknightsf.
Econ of rising public sector costs still undersupplied (calling @nicholas_bagley!). Here from a wild NYT article about a park reno in NYC. The *plan* is 18 months closure. It's a few pull-up bars! This should be installed in an afternoon, no "3-D modeling" needed, for like 10k.
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Today's cool young researcher #econtwitter #econsky is @jaug1022 @WFUEconomics who works on topics relate to urban economics, crime + development
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I'm thrilled to share that I've been named the CRC in Institutions, Inequality, & Economic Policy. I'm enormously grateful to U of T & the Government of Canada for placing their trust in me & supporting research to better understand Indigenous economies. rotman.utoronto.ca/news-even…
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It’s actually crazy how you grow up thinking home-cooked meals every day are just normal, then get older and realise how much time and effort it took your Mom to make that happen and how lucky you were to have that.
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In honor of @SteveYoungQB amazing appearance on @CollegGameDay this morning - here is the story of him showing up in my ward when I was a @BYU student as it appeared in @BYUalumni Magazine. #GoCougs
magazine.byu.edu/article/bes…
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I made a list of 100+ free social science datasets on GitHub. Check it out, and if your favorite dataset is missing, submit a pull request or reply! github.com/toddrjones/datase…
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🚨 Public good alert: I put together a list of 100+ free datasets for social science research, spanning a large number of topics.
I hope it's useful for students, researchers, and anyone looking for interesting data to explore.
Contributions are welcome! github.com/toddrjones/datase…
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🚨 Updated version of Transportation for the Abundant Society (with Jonathan Levine) now posted. It’s our answer to the question, what does “abundance” mean in the context of transportation policy? We think it’s distinct from domains like housing. Feedback welcome.
ALT https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5383031
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I'm hiring an economics predoc at @ColumbiaSIPA, generally on applied micro projects, but with a large focus on the impacts of AI on economic outcomes using large-scale field experiments with many companies.
Please share widely: apply.interfolio.com/194121
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Ariell Reshef and I have a new draft out. It is a paper about one figure. From 1850-1970 the employment share of legal services is constant. Between 1970-1990 it doubles, and then stabilizes at the new, higher, level. Lawyers' relative wages exhibit the same trend. What happened?
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I'm having an absolute nightmare experience inheriting an IRA into a special needs trust for which I am the trustee. Sharing in case any personal finance journalists are writing about how difficult it is for disabled people to inherit money.
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A powerful message from @ChristoffDTodd on the moral, spiritual, and societal perils of gambling. I was grateful to hear him quote my recent story in @TheAtlantic, but mostly I was just grateful for his wisdom on what I think is an urgent issue.
"Gambling is morally wrong. Gambling is built on the desire to obtain something for nothing. Its structure requires that any gain comes at other's expense. It is hard to reconcile that with the commandment to love our neighbor as ourselves."
—President D. Todd Christofferson (@ChristoffDTodd) #GeneralConference
churchofjesuschrist.org/lear…
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The running list of IO job market candidates for 2026-2027 is live!
Fill this out to add your info if you are an econ job market candidate in industrial organization this year: forms.gle/kSRAxu8NAFsJ1AXB6
Running list here: shoshanavasserman.com/io-jmc…
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This weekend, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will gather for their twice-annual General Conference.
So I made a little game:
Can you guess the LDS apostles’ political ideology from their speech patterns?
You’ll answer three quick questions. Then you can guess where each apostle lands.
Don’t know the current LDS apostles? No problem; you can skip straight to the results.
This is part of a larger project I’m working on that uses text to measure political ideology.
I'm looking at people and groups we don’t typically think of as ideological, and whose political beliefs aren’t usually public.
The basic idea: how we speak reveals something about who we are.
johnholbein.github.io/apostl…
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If you think students can benefit from writing research papers, read this article! You can still assign papers!
Dartmouth profs are doing this very successfully. One approach is having students use Google Docs, where the version history proves human writing.
It works! 1/
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From my non-social-media spouse, a new paper, using LLMs to replicate ... everything.
nber.org/papers/w35782
Headlne: "Across 4,452 published replication packages for five economics journals, the workflow flags discrepancies in 3,460 articles or their appendices."
