Benjamin Edelstein

PhD in Applied Economics at The Wharton School ➡️ assistant professor at @LoyolaQuinlan; urban, environmental, and public economist

[Benjamin Edelstein @benjonomics]

Excited to share that I will be joining Loyola University Chicago (@LoyolaChicago) in the Quinlan School of Business (@LoyolaQuinlan) as an assistant professor of economics!

A big thanks to my advisors, family, and friends for all of their support. Next stop, Chicago!

[Fermat's Library @fermatslibrary]

Happy Pythagorean Triple Square Day!

Today’s date is made of 3 perfect squares and they form a Pythagorean triple: 3² + 4² = 5²

This only happens once a century.

[Benjamin Edelstein @benjonomics]

Congrats, cool paper!

[Chris Elmendorf @CSElmendorf]

Very pleased that my paper w/ @ClaytonNall & @stan_okl, "The Folk Economics of Housing," has been published in the excellent new JEP symposium on housing markets. ⤵️

🧵/10.

[Marshall Burke @MarshallBBurke]

Stanford Doerr School is hiring at assistant prof level in Global Environmental Policy. Search is broadly scoped and aimed at anyone in quantitative social sciences or related fields, including econ, polisci, env policy, or data science as applied to env policy. Plz share, RT!

[Benjamin Edelstein @benjonomics]

First day at Loyola University as a new Assistant Professor of Economics! Officially a Rambler, or an educator of Ramblers… or something like that!

[Trade Diversion (Jonathan Dingel) @TradeDiversion]

Seventeenth Annual Conference on Urban and Regional Economics (CURE)
7-8 November 2025
LSE, London, UK

Submission Deadline: 31st August

https://t.co/7qzSiyhyLi

[Urban Economics Association @UrbanEconomics]

Of potential interest to UEA members:

The Public Policies, Cities, and Regions workshop, organized by CERGIC & GATE, will take place at ENS Lyon on December 10-11, 2025.

Keynotes by Jessie Handbury & Yanos Zylberberg

Submission deadline: September 15.

https://t.co/jpf8gQTt0O

[Jenny Schuetz @jenny_schuetz]

I'm hiring a Director of Housing!! Come help us develop creative approaches to increase housing supply. In my completely unbiased opinion, we're doing really exciting & impactful work on one of the most critical policy issues of our time. Join our team! https://t.co/ECPDT3HfIX

[AREUEA @AREUEA_ORG]

Join us next Wednesday, May 7, at 11:00 (ET), for our Virtual Seminar!

Registration: https://t.co/gL0FcLiip8

[Abdoulaye Ndiaye @AbdouNdiayeNYU]

Stefanie Stantcheva just won the John Bates Clark Medal. 🏅 here her greatest hits in public finance research explained

[Journal of Environmental Economics and Management @JEEM_tweets]

JEEM is happy to be a sponsor of Camp Resources XXXI in Asheville, NC. #econtwitter

Graduate students and young professionals, be sure to submit your abstracts by May 23.

Details here: https://t.co/0f711ng5gn

[Benjamin Edelstein @benjonomics]

In other news, I am officially Dr. Edelstein! A big thanks to my advisors Fernando Ferreira, @ArthurvBenthem, and Joe Gyourko; and to my family and friends for their endless support.

[Urban Economics Association @UrbanEconomics]

📣 Call for papers 📣

19th North American Meeting of the Urban Economics Association
October 3 - 4, 2025
Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Canada

Keynotes by Cecile Gaubert and Keith Head @ckhead.

Please submit your paper by May 30.

https://t.co/vNeFWe4imK

[CEPR @cepr_org]

CEPR - @essec Luxembourg Conference on Sustainable Financial Intermediation

Topics: Financial intermediation, household & corporate #finance, #greenassets

Deadline: 14 April 2025
Details 👉 https://t.co/OmeoG5060g

[Paul Novosad @paulnovosad]

Her “mistake” was bringing lab materials without proper declaration— requested by her Harvard PI.

Arbitrary detention like this is how autocracies operate— it’s also why autocracies have terrible economic results.

We are killing the golden goose.

https://t.co/OPqT7cdEah

[Urban Economics Association @UrbanEconomics]

Congratulations to Vincent Rollet (MIT), winner of the student prize at the European #UEA2025 meetings for his paper: "Can We Rebuild a City? The Dynamics of Urban Redevelopment"
https://t.co/krLqXlIBBj

[Urban Economics Association @UrbanEconomics]

PhD students interested in urban economics: Apply to join us at Tufts University for summer school July 21–23.

Learn from leading scholars, including @baum_snow, @melaniemorten, @AlvinMurph. Get feedback on your research and meet other urban economists.

https://t.co/rIuXeo2ZlY

[John B. Holbein @JohnHolbein1]

#RDDers: check it out.

"Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in Regression Discontinuity Designs"

[Benjamin Edelstein @benjonomics]

@SethWerfel @CSElmendorf @aarmlovi I haven’t read the paper carefully, but it didn’t cite the Rosen-Roback compensating differentials literature, which is typically how I think about how household incomes (and labor markets broadly) interact with housing markets. Which struck me as quite odd.

[John A. List @Econ_4_Everyone]

Within academia, the job market is particularly difficult this year. A dearth of interviews and jobs. The exact same thing happened when I went on the job market years ago: 150 applications, 1 interview!

Back then I wondered about the implications. So, what did I do? I wrote a paper about it! The study can be found here: https://t.co/nznykWXa0b

Both the demand and supply sides responded in an interesting manner. I wonder if the same is happening today?