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@beatrizgietner.bsky.social

PhD candidate in Econ at UCDublin. Progress, Education, and Human Capital. https://beagietner.github.io/webpage/ Just work-related stuff here, check my Twitter/X for a personality

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Bia@beatrizgietner.bsky.social · 8mo ago

We have a new post :) Ever wondered what happens when your DiD sample composition shifts over time? Or what “parallel trends” means when outcomes are rounded into intervals? Or whether your pre-trend test is actually testing what you think it is? www.diddigest.xyz/p/the-outcom...

The outcomes you measure and the assumptions holding them up

New papers on compositional shifts, coarsened outcomes, pre-trend testing and event-study identification

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Harry Anthony Patrinos@hpatrinos.bsky.social · 12mo ago

60% of U.S. students who start college finish within 6 years • Non-cognitive skills shape grade expectations & performance • But don’t predict graduation • Many students misjudge future performance By @gzamarro.bsky.social , Nichols, Trivitt, Djita sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Unlocking college potential: The role of student expectations and non-cognitive skills in college success

Attending college is a significant human capital investment, but only about 60 % of those who start college will have a completed degree six years lat…

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Bia@beatrizgietner.bsky.social · 12mo ago

We have a new post!📬 ⭐️Factorial DiD (Xu, Zhao & Ding) ⭐️DiD With No Untreated Units (de Chaisemartin et al.) ⭐️Treatment Effects in Complex Designs (de Chaisemartin & D’Haultfœuille) ⭐️Inference With Few Treated Units (Alvarez, Ferman & Wüthrich) diddigest.substack.com/p/where-stan...

Where Standard Assumptions Go To Die

Universal treatments without clean controls, continuous policies without untreated groups, reversible reforms over time and statistical inference with handful of cases

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Dani Sandler@dismalscientist86.bsky.social · last yr.

Some thoughts on Emma Harrington and Matthew Khan's recent NBER paper "Has the Rise of Work from Home Reduced the Motherhood Penalty in the Labor Market?" www.nber.org/papers/w34147 open.substack.com/pub/dismalsc...

Work-from-Home as a Lever Against the Motherhood Penalty

Emma Harrington and Matthew Khan recently posted their paper "Has the Rise of Work-from-Home Reduced the Motherhood Penalty in the Labor Market?" as an NBER working paper. I first encountered this pap...

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Paul Bruno@paul-bruno.com · last yr.

Why Does Value-Added Work? Implications of a Dynamic Model of Student Achievement www.nber.org/papers/w34119 "Although conventional value-added estimates are biased for individual teachers due to attenuation, we find they are forecast unbiased when applied across a sample of teachers"

Why Does Value-Added Work? Implications of a Dynamic Model of Student Achievement

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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Crystal Lewis@cghlewis.bsky.social · last yr.

Data come in many different formats and are used in many different ways, but in many cases, a checklist like this (along with good data documentation) can help you verify if a dataset is in a usable format for most general purposes. osf.io/t8upr

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@lastpositivist.bsky.social · last yr.

My Retrospective on Wokeness in detail! Blogs are for just saying stuff, after all. So here is my attempt to say what was distinctive (if anything) about a recent era of socio-cultural life, what (if anything) changed, and what (if anything) was to the good sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2025/08/woke...

Wokeness: a Retrospective

In recent times my online sphere has had a fair few people make the claim that, in some sense, the culture has moved on from Woke. The d...

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Bia@beatrizgietner.bsky.social · last yr.

We have a new post! 🫶 Covering: ➡️UN-DID (for unpoolable data) ➡️Staggered DiD with misclassification (for handling timing issues) ➡️Interactive/Grouped FE Guide (broader panel data, not specifically DiD but related) + 3 applied papers :) diddigest.substack.com/p/did-handli...

DiD+: Handling Data Constraints, Timing Issues and TWFE Limitations

What to do when data can't be pooled, timing gets messy, and TWFE isn't enough

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Dan Goldstein@dggoldst.bsky.social · last yr.

New paper just dropped: Szaszi, Barnabas, Daniel G. Goldstein, Dilip Soman, Susan Michie. (2025). Generalizability of Choice Architecture Interventions. Nature Reviews Psychology. Thanks to @szaszibarnabas.bsky.social for doing the lion's share! www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Generalizability of choice architecture interventions - Nature Reviews Psychology

Choice architecture interventions (or ‘nudges’) aim to guide behaviour by changing the proximal physical, social or psychological environment. In this Review, Szaszi and colleagues show that the avera...

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Sebastian Luckeneder@sluckene.bsky.social · last yr.

Excited to share that a study that has followed me through almost my entire PhD is now published in @natcomms.nature.com : www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵 1/

Forest loss and uncertain economic gains from industrial and garimpo mining in Brazilian municipalities - Nature Communications

Mining is often seen as having opposing local economic and environmental effects. This study models these dynamics across Brazilian municipalities and shows that outcomes vary over time and by type of...

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