John Lennon sang a song "How Do You Sleep?" He also had another song "Whatever Get's you Through the Night, Is All Right". I wonder whether he would have any concerns about this offsetting. There is an ecological issue here.

Today was a typical saturday. We went to the Santa Monica Farmer's Market to buy fruit and veggies. From there, we go to the ocean and let my son dig in the sand for an hour. He made some good castles and we read the newspaper. From there, we walked to a nice restaurant called "The Lobster".

This would appear to be a case where both selection and treatment play a role in generating the observed fact. The "fact" is that diabetic kids who watch a lot of TV have worse blood sugar control than diabetic kids who don't watch TV.

My wife and I are looking to buy a house out west and to sell a house on the east coast so information about the housing market always interests me. Below I report 3 data points that are just a pinch out of our price range.

As academics get older, they publish in different places. I have found a new home at UCLA Today. The only constraint was that I was given only 500 words. A windbag like me loses some nuance with this binding constraint.

Who says that there are no more good jobs in the U.S? Below, I provide proof that not all "good jobs" have been outsourced. Can you guess who seeks to fill this position? I'd like to see some data on the duration of employment in this slot.

What should become of old Rust Belt steel towns? This article claims that they are reinventing themselves as "progressive" green power producers.

A quick geography lesson about West Los Angeles. UCLA is in Westwood. If you want to be a "Wizard" of Westwoodk it will cost you. Here are some details about just one house for sale.

Today's New York Times Magazine is devoted solely to environmental issues. Al Gore gets a plug and some green architects are celebrated. I thought that this (below) was the most interesting article. It is a case study of Curitiba, Brazil.

Business School professors are used to giving lectures celebrating the efficiency and "fairness" of free market capitalist transactions.

I never thought that having the New York Jets on the Western midtown side of NYC was a wise allocation of scarce resources. While this part of New York City should clearly be redeveloped it is interesting to see the jockying and the diverse interest groups attempting to slow down progress.

Over on Central Park West, some wealthy people --- including Bono --- who live in the same building are battling over a localized externality caused by fireplace smoke diffusing into other folks' nearby apartments.

Here is some red meat for bloggers to chew on. Jessica Reyes has at long last released her well known study on the unintended consequences of the Clean Air Act. I'm interested to see how leading crime researchers respond to her study.

In developing nations' major cities there are large urban squatter communities. Such communities can pose public health problems as a source of contagion risk. It is also possible that criminal activity is fostered in such communities but I have seen no evidence testing this claim.

The NBER conference circuit sends us places we might not go to. Cohort studies this weekend is holding a conference here in Park City, Utah. During Ski season, this place would be quite expensive but off-season the congestion is low and there is still some snow on the mountains.

I would have enjoyed seeing my book get a plug in this recent issue of the Economist but I don't always get my way. This link provides a quick overview of some recent classics focused on urban issues.

Suppose there is a city featuring high home prices per foot of housing. Suppose this city doesn't pay people much higher salaries than what they would earn in other cities.

This article shows that people continue to debate Robert Moses' contribution to New York City. I've driven on his highways, and seen his parks, and I've read Robert Caro's biography. Biographies are funny things. I'm thinking of this new biography of Einstein by Issakson (spelling?).

I wasn't invited to a conference at Duke in the Fall of 2005. At this "structural economics" conference, the participants had some tough things to say about a variety of famous economists.

I plan to read both of these papers closely. I would like to make two remarks.

The Mayor of NYC is taking some small steps to make NYC even more energy efficient, safer and to reduce the cost of new construction. This is an interesting case of laws on the books being out of date in the face of technological advance.

My brother was kind enough to invite me to brunch this morning at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills. On a typical day, I don't eat there.

Cars now run on many different fuel sources ranging from gas to french fry cooking oil. In the Flinstones, Fred and Barney simply used their feet to power their cars. Those were the days. Here the New York Times provides us with an engineering lesson.

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