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Matthew E. Kahn
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A nomad economist traveling around Southern California and Manhattan.
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Will AI and Robots Eliminate Poverty?
In a provocative interview, Elon Musk said “AI and robots will eliminate poverty”.
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November 20, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Efficiency boosts trust in government.
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Monitoring Public Sector Mega-Projects
What do Boston’s Big Dig project, the California High Speed Rail project, the Los Angeles Purple Line connecting the Pacific Ocean to downtown LA, and Manila, Philippines flood control investment have...
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November 17, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Who Protects the Sheep from the Wolves of Wall Street? A Review of “Fixed” by Campbell and Ramadorai (2025)
In the 2025 book Fixed: Why Personal Finance Is Broken and How to Make It Work for Everyone, John Campbell and Tarun Ramadorai (CR) provide a general audience overview of the main themes of modern hou...
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November 15, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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A 14 minute discussion about AI, data, jobs, my mother, Robert Redford and selection bias.
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How Does the Rise of AI Impact Young Person's Labor Market Opportunities?
Tonight at USC’s Department of Economics, I will participate in a panel discussion related to the rise of AI and its implications for the Labor Market.
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November 12, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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A Prospective Analysis of The Trump Administration's New Policy that Expands Access to "Miracle" Weight Loss Drugs
Many applied microeconomists have had successful research careers measuring the intended and unintended consequences of policy changes.
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November 7, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Mayor Mamdani's Policies Will Offer a High Stakes Test of the Urban Laffer Curve
I lived in Manhattan from 1968 until 1972 and from 1993 to 1996 and from 1998 to 2000.
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November 6, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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As the job market begins, I want to highlight a USC economics student who has written a better thesis than my 1993 "classic".
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Sneha Nimmagadda
Email Address: [email protected] Phone: +1 (310) 359-5293
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November 4, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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I am circulating a free copy of my new book about economic shocks.
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Diabetes, Floods and Unemployment .pdf
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November 1, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Great to work on this report
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Rethinking Resilience: Adapting to a changing climate
The most consequential climate-policy question for developing economies is how quickly people, firms, and governments can prepare for shocks, recover from them, and learn to do better next time.
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October 31, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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New (Optimistic) Evidence on Adapting to Snowstorms
In our information age, we have increasing access to real-time local weather forecasts.
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October 29, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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A Green Vibe Shift?
While Led Zeppelin recorded “The Song Remains the Same”, Bill Gates is now singing a slightly different (optimistic) green tune.
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October 28, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Lessons from the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics for the Abundance Advocates
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics celebrates Creative Destruction.
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October 15, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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The Simple Economics of Flood Risk Model Uncertainty and Risk Modeling Progress
Every property in the United States is at risk of flooding.
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October 14, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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The Economics of Shipping Green Power to U.S Cities versus Chinese Cities
The New York Times has published an insightful article that allows the authors to sketch out the environmental benefits of an authoritarian state (where the CCP can allocate land as it sees fit) and t...
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October 11, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Why Does Superstar Caitlin Clark Only Earn $84,000 to Play in the WNBA?
Caitlin Clark is a superstar who earns $84,000 playing professional basketball in the WNBA.
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October 9, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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The Simple Economics of Shifting Electricity Demand Curves
In this Substack, I build on my recent podcast. I present a simple geometric example to illustrate what economists mean when they discuss calculating the “derived demand” for electricity.
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October 8, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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An Incentive Proposal for Accelerating Tenured Faculty Retirement and Reducing University Budget Deficits
I am deeply worried about the academic job prospects for young Ph.Ds in fields such as economics.
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September 12, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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A 7000 page free book. This is a big file. 150 meg.
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September 12, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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A Coasian Perspective on Improving Urban Public School Education
In urban public education systems across the United States, an achievement gap persists.
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September 9, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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September 7, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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My mother says that this photo makes me look like a candidate running to be the Governor of Missouri. I hope she agrees with 72% of my points here.
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The Cost of Chronic Disease | The Ripon Society
As of 2023, roughly 194 million American adults had at least one chronic condition, which cost our nation’s economy billions of dollars each year.
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September 2, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Costa!
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Equality Before the Law in U.S. Civil War Courts-Martial
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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September 1, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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A 9 minute podcast on data centers and AI and power plant geography.
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A Podcast on The Benefits of Co-locating Power Plants Next to Data Centers
The microeconomic perspective on daily events.
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August 30, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Do the GSEs=SOEs?
Mortgage Securitization Reform Lessons from China's State Owned Enterprises
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August 29, 2025 at 1:14 PM