Travis Roach
@troach.bsky.social
Econ Prof living in OKC | Applied micro, Environmental/Energy/Labor mostly | Always have dirty hands 🪴👨🏼🌾 #nativeplants
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Just went scrolling through my liked posts looking for something from a week or two ago, and you know what? Y’all say some funny shit and post interesting stuff. Keep up the good work, everyone
November 26, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Just went scrolling through my liked posts looking for something from a week or two ago, and you know what? Y’all say some funny shit and post interesting stuff. Keep up the good work, everyone
Low-fat milk ass consumer confidence
Only 1% of consumers said business conditions were good in the U.S., according to the Conference Board’s report.
Consumer Confidence Falls Sharply In November—Hitting Lowest Level Since April
Only 1% of consumers said business conditions were good in the U.S., according to the Conference Board’s report.
www.forbes.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Low-fat milk ass consumer confidence
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Excited to see my JMP cited in the Economist—it highlights the tradeoffs workers could face with a higher minimum wage and suggests more worker protections like Fair Workweek laws could be important alongside minimum wage increases
www.economist.com/finance-and-...
www.economist.com/finance-and-...
November 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Excited to see my JMP cited in the Economist—it highlights the tradeoffs workers could face with a higher minimum wage and suggests more worker protections like Fair Workweek laws could be important alongside minimum wage increases
www.economist.com/finance-and-...
www.economist.com/finance-and-...
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My taxes bring all the boys to the yard.
And they're like "this is bad approach to fiscal policy".
And they're like "this is bad approach to fiscal policy".
November 25, 2025 at 11:55 AM
My taxes bring all the boys to the yard.
And they're like "this is bad approach to fiscal policy".
And they're like "this is bad approach to fiscal policy".
When the grading pile has stacked up
November 25, 2025 at 4:33 AM
When the grading pile has stacked up
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Such an important article.
As I’ve said increasingly increasingly in teaching workshops and department meetings “it’s hard to have time to teach calculus when you are also teaching fractions.”
With no offense to everyone out there doing their best, students, teachers, parents.
As I’ve said increasingly increasingly in teaching workshops and department meetings “it’s hard to have time to teach calculus when you are also teaching fractions.”
With no offense to everyone out there doing their best, students, teachers, parents.
‘A Recipe for Idiocracy’
What happens when even college students can’t do math anymore?
web.archive.org
November 24, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Such an important article.
As I’ve said increasingly increasingly in teaching workshops and department meetings “it’s hard to have time to teach calculus when you are also teaching fractions.”
With no offense to everyone out there doing their best, students, teachers, parents.
As I’ve said increasingly increasingly in teaching workshops and department meetings “it’s hard to have time to teach calculus when you are also teaching fractions.”
With no offense to everyone out there doing their best, students, teachers, parents.
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At The Big Green Machine, my @wellesley.edu students and I are tracking more than 600 clean energy manufacturing projects in North America.
Let us know what we are missing, what we’ve got wrong, and what needs updating. 🔌💡
Access our dataset and dashboard here:
www.the-big-green-machine.com
Let us know what we are missing, what we’ve got wrong, and what needs updating. 🔌💡
Access our dataset and dashboard here:
www.the-big-green-machine.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:47 PM
At The Big Green Machine, my @wellesley.edu students and I are tracking more than 600 clean energy manufacturing projects in North America.
Let us know what we are missing, what we’ve got wrong, and what needs updating. 🔌💡
Access our dataset and dashboard here:
www.the-big-green-machine.com
Let us know what we are missing, what we’ve got wrong, and what needs updating. 🔌💡
Access our dataset and dashboard here:
www.the-big-green-machine.com
As a former music major who took and quite enjoyed music history (ancient-1750), this is cool as hell.
Palestrina would’ve loved it.
Palestrina would’ve loved it.
He said "Amen" straight into the drop
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 21, 2025 at 11:28 PM
As a former music major who took and quite enjoyed music history (ancient-1750), this is cool as hell.
Palestrina would’ve loved it.
Palestrina would’ve loved it.
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Hi! I’m Mary and I’m on the #EconJobMarket this year.
Extreme heat doesn’t just affect students, it affects the people teaching them.
JMP 🧵:
Extreme heat doesn’t just affect students, it affects the people teaching them.
JMP 🧵:
November 14, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Hi! I’m Mary and I’m on the #EconJobMarket this year.
Extreme heat doesn’t just affect students, it affects the people teaching them.
JMP 🧵:
Extreme heat doesn’t just affect students, it affects the people teaching them.
JMP 🧵:
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Lots of great work out there on how students don't learn as well when it's hot out -- but guess what! Teachers don't teach as well, either!
Read on for a great paper on how heat and learning is as much a *labor* question as it is a *kids* question.
Read on for a great paper on how heat and learning is as much a *labor* question as it is a *kids* question.
Hi! I’m Mary and I’m on the #EconJobMarket this year.
Extreme heat doesn’t just affect students, it affects the people teaching them.
JMP 🧵:
Extreme heat doesn’t just affect students, it affects the people teaching them.
JMP 🧵:
November 21, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Lots of great work out there on how students don't learn as well when it's hot out -- but guess what! Teachers don't teach as well, either!
Read on for a great paper on how heat and learning is as much a *labor* question as it is a *kids* question.
Read on for a great paper on how heat and learning is as much a *labor* question as it is a *kids* question.
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New paper 🚨!
Big thanks to the @jeem-econ.bsky.social editor, reviewers, & my advisors for letting me see a null result paper through to completion. #econsky #energytransition
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Big thanks to the @jeem-econ.bsky.social editor, reviewers, & my advisors for letting me see a null result paper through to completion. #econsky #energytransition
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Adjusting to the energy transition: Training and transfers in coal country
Between 2011 and 2016, coal mining employment declined by over 50 percent in Appalachia, producing sharp earnings and employment losses in coal-depend…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:39 PM
New paper 🚨!
Big thanks to the @jeem-econ.bsky.social editor, reviewers, & my advisors for letting me see a null result paper through to completion. #econsky #energytransition
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Big thanks to the @jeem-econ.bsky.social editor, reviewers, & my advisors for letting me see a null result paper through to completion. #econsky #energytransition
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Lawmakers, AG Challenge Insurance Commissioner's Competitive Market Claims - Oklahoma Watch
oklahomawatch.org/2025/11/20/l...
#Oklahoma
oklahomawatch.org/2025/11/20/l...
#Oklahoma
Lawmakers, AG Challenge Insurance Commissioner's Competitive Market Claims - Oklahoma Watch
As officials bicker over Oklahoma’s homeowners insurance market and lawmakers contemplate new legislation, Oklahoma Watch investigates measures of market concentration and digs into legal history to u...
oklahomawatch.org
November 21, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Lawmakers, AG Challenge Insurance Commissioner's Competitive Market Claims - Oklahoma Watch
oklahomawatch.org/2025/11/20/l...
#Oklahoma
oklahomawatch.org/2025/11/20/l...
#Oklahoma
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I'm on the #EconJobMarket! I study how policies and childhood environments shape outcomes of low-income & vulnerable kids.
In my JMP, I study the effects of allowing youth who would have aged out of foster care at 18 to stay until 21—offering support their peers not in foster care get from parents.
In my JMP, I study the effects of allowing youth who would have aged out of foster care at 18 to stay until 21—offering support their peers not in foster care get from parents.
November 20, 2025 at 11:06 PM
I'm on the #EconJobMarket! I study how policies and childhood environments shape outcomes of low-income & vulnerable kids.
In my JMP, I study the effects of allowing youth who would have aged out of foster care at 18 to stay until 21—offering support their peers not in foster care get from parents.
In my JMP, I study the effects of allowing youth who would have aged out of foster care at 18 to stay until 21—offering support their peers not in foster care get from parents.
Poor Oklahoma
(double entendre intended)
(double entendre intended)
"The researchers estimated the effects of the reinsurance shock on home prices in the ZIP codes most vulnerable to catastrophes... rising insurance premiums weighed down home values by ~ $20k in the top 25% of homes most exposed to catastrophic hurricanes and wildfires, and by $44k in the top 10%."
Rising Home Insurance Premiums Are Eating Into Home Values in Disaster-Prone Areas
Changes in the insurance market have started to affect home prices in the most disaster-prone areas, new research finds, pushing some homeowners’ finances to the breaking point.
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Poor Oklahoma
(double entendre intended)
(double entendre intended)
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For my entire life I've heard that if you visit Mexico "don't drink the water."
I'd now give the same advice to anyone visiting the US. Especially in the states that produce oil and gas.
I'd now give the same advice to anyone visiting the US. Especially in the states that produce oil and gas.
PA Environment Digest, By David E. Hess, Former PA DEP Secretary
@paenvironmentnews.bsky.social
· 7d
Inquirer: How An Energy Transfer/Sunoco Petroleum Products Pipeline Leak Disrupted A Quiet Bucks County Neighborhood: ‘Never Drink The Water’ tinyurl.com/3bxbsbwt
How a pipeline leak disrupted a quiet Bucks neighborhood: ‘Never drink the water’
More than 2.5 million miles of pipelines transport fuels under homes and farms in the U.S. One line leaked under this suburban Bucks County community, upending life in the neighborhood.
tinyurl.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
For my entire life I've heard that if you visit Mexico "don't drink the water."
I'd now give the same advice to anyone visiting the US. Especially in the states that produce oil and gas.
I'd now give the same advice to anyone visiting the US. Especially in the states that produce oil and gas.
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We call on other institutions in the economics profession to take these revelations seriously, to open an independent investigation into Summers’ conduct, and to reconsider his access to the platforms and networks that he has been afforded for too long.
November 19, 2025 at 7:25 PM
We call on other institutions in the economics profession to take these revelations seriously, to open an independent investigation into Summers’ conduct, and to reconsider his access to the platforms and networks that he has been afforded for too long.
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Women in economics have unfortunately become accustomed to dealing with sexism and harassment in the workplace. This reduces women’s productivity and limits their success and should never be tolerated.
November 19, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Women in economics have unfortunately become accustomed to dealing with sexism and harassment in the workplace. This reduces women’s productivity and limits their success and should never be tolerated.
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CSWEP strongly condemns Larry Summers’ behavior as revealed in the email correspondence with the late Jeffrey Epstein. While abuse of power in the economics profession is not new, rarely has the intent behind such abuse been so clearly stated.
November 19, 2025 at 7:25 PM
CSWEP strongly condemns Larry Summers’ behavior as revealed in the email correspondence with the late Jeffrey Epstein. While abuse of power in the economics profession is not new, rarely has the intent behind such abuse been so clearly stated.
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If an attractive young woman a third my age didn't want to date me, then why did she ask me for feedback on an economics paper?
by Larry Summers
by Larry Summers
November 17, 2025 at 6:54 PM
If an attractive young woman a third my age didn't want to date me, then why did she ask me for feedback on an economics paper?
by Larry Summers
by Larry Summers
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New paper reminds us yet again: HOMICIDE is the leading cause of death for pregnant women.
Gun violence & partner violence are related.
All-cause homicide & firearm homicide of pregnant women are higher, in states w/ higher calculated firearm ownership (1/x 🧵
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Gun violence & partner violence are related.
All-cause homicide & firearm homicide of pregnant women are higher, in states w/ higher calculated firearm ownership (1/x 🧵
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Firearm Homicide in Pregnant Women and State-Level Firearm Ownership
This cross-sectional study examines firearm homicide rates in pregnant compared with nonpregnant women and whether estimated state-level firearm ownership is associated with homicide deaths among preg...
jamanetwork.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:15 AM
New paper reminds us yet again: HOMICIDE is the leading cause of death for pregnant women.
Gun violence & partner violence are related.
All-cause homicide & firearm homicide of pregnant women are higher, in states w/ higher calculated firearm ownership (1/x 🧵
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Gun violence & partner violence are related.
All-cause homicide & firearm homicide of pregnant women are higher, in states w/ higher calculated firearm ownership (1/x 🧵
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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"Women who face long-term heat exposure in workplaces and homes are finding it takes a heavy toll on their health and income." 🎁🔗
What’s More Dangerous Than India’s Frequent Heat Waves? Heat Stress.
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:05 PM
"Women who face long-term heat exposure in workplaces and homes are finding it takes a heavy toll on their health and income." 🎁🔗
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'Four cones wins, but in order to get a cone you have to build a civilization. Which is where the spirit cards come in'
November 15, 2025 at 11:25 PM
'Four cones wins, but in order to get a cone you have to build a civilization. Which is where the spirit cards come in'
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I’m on the #EconJobMarket! I study labor, extreme weather adaptation, and inequality.
My JMP addresses an under-studied aspect of the labor market: schedule unpredictability among hourly workers in the service sector.
🧵👇
My JMP addresses an under-studied aspect of the labor market: schedule unpredictability among hourly workers in the service sector.
🧵👇
November 14, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I’m on the #EconJobMarket! I study labor, extreme weather adaptation, and inequality.
My JMP addresses an under-studied aspect of the labor market: schedule unpredictability among hourly workers in the service sector.
🧵👇
My JMP addresses an under-studied aspect of the labor market: schedule unpredictability among hourly workers in the service sector.
🧵👇
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The lipstick index 💄 is flashing red. Is a recession coming? My latest for @businessweektr.bsky.social @bloomberg.com part of their excellent beauty issue #recession #economy #spending
November 14, 2025 at 3:54 PM
The lipstick index 💄 is flashing red. Is a recession coming? My latest for @businessweektr.bsky.social @bloomberg.com part of their excellent beauty issue #recession #economy #spending
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I am excited to announce I am on the #EconJobMarket this year! 🎉 My research explores economic barriers for people with disabilities at the intersection of labor, public, and health economics.
My #EconJMP examines how reliable transportation transforms outcomes for this population. 🧵1/6
My #EconJMP examines how reliable transportation transforms outcomes for this population. 🧵1/6
November 7, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I am excited to announce I am on the #EconJobMarket this year! 🎉 My research explores economic barriers for people with disabilities at the intersection of labor, public, and health economics.
My #EconJMP examines how reliable transportation transforms outcomes for this population. 🧵1/6
My #EconJMP examines how reliable transportation transforms outcomes for this population. 🧵1/6