Philadelphia, PA
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Start the day out right tomorrow with Crime and Punishment at 8:00 followed by Economics of Crime at 10:15 both in Grand Ballroom Salon I. We'll bring the coffee. #ASSA2026
We need to change the climate on campuses such that students can actually speak freely about a whole host of issues about which they now self-censor
I'm still seeing disagreement about the Congressional testimony on Tues and hope some smart lawyers can help me out @HoffProf @lee_kovarsky (1/n)
Interesting history of decline and dome recent growth of long-term hotel stays as one solution to housing shortages slate.com/business/2022/07/h…
Wow - Columbia spends more on teaching than Harvard+Yale+Princeton combined! Or at least that's what they told US News. Great research on a bunch of disparities by Columbia mathematician. math.columbia.edu/~thaddeus/… @JoshFischman
Fascinating new paper by @AaronChalfin & Maxim Massenkoff that may resolve the seeming tension between the perception of higher crime but the reality of a big crime drop when the pandemic hit in 2020.
The main narrative about 2020 is that while murder rose, other crime fell. But people stayed inside more, making it hard to infer anything about public safety. In a new paper, Maxim Massenkoff & I study changes in the risk of violence while out in public.👇maximmassenkoff.com/papers/v…
Has anyone discovered a platform for online socializing like gather.town that is sufficiently better than zoom to justify using it? @jenniferdoleac
