Back by popular demand: if you're in Vancouver for CEA this year, don't miss the @cdnwomenecon.bsky.social reception tonight! 6-7:30 pm. All are welcome! Plus, there will be LOTS of snacks! 😄

The CES- CESEF Student Case Competition Did you ever want to give back to our profession and help build for the future? buff.ly/jWT1az3 #CES #evaluation #C2026

🧵1/ Our first meta-science paper (with 350+ coauthors) is published today in Nature. It presents one of the largest-ever reproducibility projects in economics & political science. Here’s what we found 👇

⏳ Only 2 days left! The submission deadline for the James MacKinnon 75th Birthday Conference is this Sunday, March 15. A great chance to celebrate his monumental impact on econometrics, from bootstrap inference to non-nested hypothesis testing. Submit: editorialexpress.com/cgi-bin/conf... 🧵

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New pub in @canadianpublicadmn.bsky.social 🥳 Federal eval. reports are increasingly interpreting "effectiveness" in terms of implementation rather than outcomes, despite the Policy on Results pushing the opposite—highlighting a real need for more flexible, "right-fit" eval. policy. Happy reading! 🔓

Evaluating “Effectiveness” under the Policy on Results

Evaluation units provide essential information for administrators of public programs. Canada's 2016 Policy on Results emphasizes evaluating “effectiveness,” with a focus on outcomes. However, it is u...

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It's ironic to see a discipline care **so much** about unbiasedness (causal inference!) at the level of a single test but then have a research production system and culture that is basically a ferocious bias generation machine. This is not good.

Carleton's looking for outstanding researchers working and residing outside of Canada to join our faculty at the Associate or Full Professor rank as a Canada Impact+ Research Chair. Expertise in a wide set of research priority areas is welcome (see the ad!). Applications are due January 29th.

Associate/Full Professor and Canada Impact+ Research Chair - Office of the Deputy Provost (Academic Operations and Planning)

About the Position Carleton University invites applications from outstanding researchers for Canada Impact+ Research Chairs at the rank of Associate or Full Professor. The Canada Impact+ Research Chai...

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Another fantastic year with this group! Big thank you to @slaszlo.bsky.social and Gabrielle Vasey for organizing this year.

Sonia Laszlo 🇨🇦@slaszlo.bsky.social · 10mo ago

And it’s a wrap! #SMOQK 2025 at Concordia - 5 excellent papers in development economics. What a great community we have in the Sherbrooke Montreal Ottawa Quebec and Kingston area. See you again in a year!

This was such a fun project to work on! Very excited to see it out in the world. Link to the article here (open access 🤩): journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Combining Text Mining and Manual Thematic Analysis to Understand Participant Experiences With Surveys - Ardyn Nordstrom, Aditya Maheshwari, Rheann Quenneville, Grace Shen-Tu, 2025

Participant engagement in large-scale surveys is vital to health and social science research. Understanding the factors that affect participant engagement requi...

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Canadian Evaluation Society / Société canadienne d'évaluation@evaluationcanada.ca · 11mo ago

CES members Ardyn Nordstrom and Grace Shen-Tu have recently published, an article entitled Combining Text Mining and Manual Thematic Analysis to Understand Participant Experiences With Surveys in the open-source International Journal of Qualitative Methods. buff.ly/lz8myND

So excited to share this article we recently wrote for @voxdev.bsky.social! The TLDR: having regular discussions with community members helped improve student learning and enrolment. Full paper here (open access!): academic.oup.com/wber/article...

VoxDev@voxdev.bsky.social · last yr.

🆕 Can talking about girls’ education improve educational outcomes? Today on VoxDev, Chris Cotton (Queen's University), Ardyn Nordstrom (Carleton University), Jordan Nanowski (CMHC) & Eric Richert (University of Chicago) outline evidence on girls' education in Zimbabwe: voxdev.org/topic/educat...

There's still time to register for the two keynote lunches at #CEA2025! Get your tickets here: www.economics.ca/event-5852688

Attention #EconSky #CanadaEcon: CEA has a new reception this year! Come join us for the CWEC/CFEC (@cdnwomenecon.bsky.social) reception on Thursday, May 29th (tomorrow)—right after Embrace Day! There will be snacks 🤩 All Embrace Day and CEA conference attendees are welcome. See you there!

Happy election day, Canada! 🇨🇦 If you haven't already done so, this is a friendly reminder that voting is incredibly easy here. It took so little time that @chrisbaileyauth.bsky.social had time for a little post-vote coffee date after👏

A little reminder for Canada #econsky: the CWEC/CFEC luncheon ticket at #CEA2025 has to be booked separately from your conference registration! www.economics.ca/event-5852688 This year's keynote speaker is @shellyjlundberg.bsky.social and we could not be more excited to host her! 🥳

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🚨 #EconSky PhD students working in Applied Micro: Submit your paper for the 4th Workshop, co-organized by @cmichaudleclerc.bsky.social, Priya Mukherjee, and me! Plus, we have two amazing keynotes this year: @econsandy.bsky.social and Rema Hanna.

AMIE@econmentoring.bsky.social · 2y ago

AMIE is now accepting submissions for the "4th Workshop in Applied Microeconomics", for PhD students, to be held remotely on Zoom on April 28 and 29, 2025. Submission Deadline: February 27, 2025 Call for papers: econmentoring.org/wp-content/u... Please share, R/T #EconSky 1/3

📣📣AWARDS NOMINATION📣📣We are accepting nominations for the SYLVIA OSTRY and the Early Career Researcher Awards. See our website here www.economics.ca/cwec-awards for more information. The deadline to submit CWEC.CFEC@gmail.com is March 15, 2025

@carletonu.bsky.social looks even better on skates! What a dreamy way to commute.

At our last departmental meeting, we had a vigorous discussion about the School's current and future social media presence. Happy to say, the School has joined Bluesky! Check us out @carletonsppa.bsky.social and take a peek at the SPPA Starter Pack below.

I'm thrilled to see this site building a serious community of researchers, writers and policymakers focused on education policy and economics. Below are links to 3 Starter Packs I've made to help you connect with such folks. Please let me know if I've missed you. The volume of requests has been 😮

Calling econ JMCs: Don't forget to sign up for this year's job market pitch session to practice and get feedback on your pitch! Open to all PhD students in Canadian departments, or who are CEA members. 📉📈

Canadian Women Economists Committee@cdnwomenecon.bsky.social · 2y ago

📣 2024 CWEC/CDEC Job Market Pitch Sessions We are hosting two sessions for all current job market candidates to practice—and get feedback on—their three to five-minute "pitch". Tuesday, Nov. 26 and Monday, Dec. 2, at 8 PM Eastern Register by November 22: forms.gle/eXSY3pNoAtVE...

An exciting position on the econ job market this year! Québec City is beautiful, plus you would get great colleagues (like @cmichaudleclerc.bsky.social)! ☺️

Catherine Michaud-Leclerc @cmichaudleclerc.bsky.social · 2y ago

I guess now is not a bad time to announce that our department @ecnulaval.bsky.social (in *Canada*) is hiring: econjobmarket.org/positions/11.... If you know some French and work in micro/metrics, seriously consider applying! Heads-up though. Canadian politics is not exciting.

The Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics invites submissions for the collection #Textual #Analysis in #Economics and #Finance. link.springer.com/collections/... #EconSky @kaufmanndani.bsky.social @elliottash.bsky.social @mariusbrulhart.bsky.social

Upcoming Events:🎺 🎺 🎺 - Early Career Women Economists: Lunchtime Series lnkd.in/gqBMGA3H - Brownbag series, last Monday of every month at 1 PM ET Sign up as a presenter for our Brown Bag lunchtime series: lnkd.in/gxVmGnHB Sign up as a discussant for our Brown Bag lunchtime series: lnkd.in/gD9AZqEi

Excited to have this working paper out with @mattdwebb.bsky.social and Morgan Nordstrom. In "Using Images as Covariates: Measuring Curb Appeal with Deep Learning" we use deep learning to integrate image data into traditional econometric models, w/ an app. to housing 👇📉📈 arxiv.org/pdf/2403.199...

Biking in a winter wonderland ☃️ #biketowork

So excited to be one of the first speakers for this year's @cdnwomenecon.bsky.social brown bag seminar. Happening this Monday! All are welcome—links below to register.

Canadian Women Economists Committee@cdnwomenecon.bsky.social · 3y ago

Our first brown bad lunch talk is on Monday Oct. 30 at 1pm ET and feature @gillianpetit.bsky.social and @ardyn.bsky.social . See details below and register here docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Learned about Claudia Goldin’s win by waking up to a very excited text from my dad (who is not an economist but has been a huge supporter of women in STEM–and me!–his entire career). Lots to be grateful for this (Canadian) Thanksgiving 🍁 📈📉

Another weekend at the office, another gorgeous view (with a hint of fall colours😍) 📈📉