Economist Writing Every Day

In no particular order:

Caetano, Gregorio, and Vikram Maheshri. “Identifying dynamic spillovers of crime with a causal approach to model selection.” Quantitative Economics 9.1 (2018): 343-394.

The “broken windows” theory of crime (i.e small crimes lead to bigger crimes) continues continues to find very little support.

Cabral, Marika, and Marcus Dillender. Air pollution, wildfire smoke, and worker health. No. w32232. National Bureau of Economic Research, 2024.

Air quality remains an underrated public good.

McBride, Michael, and Garret Ridinger. “Beliefs also make social-norm preferences social.” Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 191 (2021): 765-784.

It’s conditional cooperation all the way down.

Literature on Recent Advances in Applied Micro Methods

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