Cool new working paper worth checking out: "Cross-Validated Causal Inference: a Modern Method to Combine Experimental and Observational Data" arxiv.org/pdf/2511.00727
Emilia Tjernstrom
@econemilia.bsky.social
Development economist studying tech adoption, beliefs, and learning 💼 Senior Research Fellow at CDES, Monash University Soon: Associate Professor at Macquarie University 🧜🏼♀️ Freediver emiliatjernstrom.com
Reminder, last couple of weeks to get your papers in for a special issue of the WBER on migration and development.
For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files: splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
Epstein Document Search
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Hello world. I am recruiting a post-doc to work with me and my collabs on an ARC funded project, primarily around public/private health care and health outcomes. More details in the advert. Please share with anyone who might be interested. recruitment.uts.edu.au/OA_HTML/OA.j....
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Awesome text by Lea Bottmer, Guido Imbens, Jason Weitze and Mary Wooters: "An Undergraduate Course in Causality" hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/uynpjlow... #EconSky 📉📈
An Undergraduate Course in Causality
Forthcoming. Now Available: Just Accepted Version.
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We won't be releasing any additional info on social media until the situation is resolved with lawyers, but will keep releasing reports through our DP series. Here are two 40-page reports completed earlier this year. econpapers.repec.org/paper/zbwi4r... econpapers.repec.org/paper/zbwi4r...
🚨 WE @unswecon.bsky.social ARE HIRING! 🚨 JMC: apply and email/DM for any question! A short 🧵 on @unswecon.bsky.social and why you want to apply and join us in Sydney👇 econjobmarket.org/positionGrou...
EJM - Econ Job Market
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What issue unites Coalition, Labor, Green, teal and One Nation voters? Whistleblower protections. – Kieran Pender in @crikey.com.au Australia Institute research found 86% of Australians want stronger protection for whistleblowers, consistent across all voting intentions. #auspol
What issue unites Coalition, Labor, Green, teal and One Nation voters? Whistleblower protections
The government's persecution of whistleblowers Richard Boyle and David McBride is unjust, and the public doesn't support it. It's time for much-needed reform.
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@i4replication.bsky.social looking for a co-director to develop guidelines & help reduce the amount of PII that careless researchers release into the wild
Institute for Replication@i4replication.bsky.social · last yr.What is I4R supposed to do? Honestly, we need help. If a faculty has experience and wants to join us as a I4R co-director to develop guidelines and deal with these emails, please reach out ASAP.
"In extremely rare move, Harvard revokes tenure and cuts ties with star business professor" Francesca Gino
In extremely rare move, Harvard revokes tenure and cuts ties with star business professor
An internal investigation had found that Harvard Business School professor Francesca Gino’s research on why people lie and cheat was based on falsified data.
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The difference between Grok and a DOGE employee is that Grok will acknowledge being reprogrammed by Musk
Will Jennings📉🗳️@drjennings.bsky.social · last yr.Doesn't sound like a pivot
“Extending previous work, we vary the race, gender, and topic of the constituent’s message, and we observe if elected officials both open and reply to constituents’ messages. We find that Black men are systematically ignored, regardless of the message they send.” link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Unheard Voices: The Importance of Intersectionality in Responsiveness and the Systematic Ignoring of Black Men by Elected Officials - Political Behavior
All citizens are not listened to equally, despite the importance of responsiveness and listening to different theories of democracy. We take an intersectional approach to make several novel pred...
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New from me: Everything feels overwhelming. But here is a tangible thing you can do: write a comment to oppose Trump's plan to convert 50,000 career civil servants into political appointees. Deadline is May 23. Please share! donmoynihan.substack.com/p/here-is-a-...
Here is a specific thing you can do to fight Trump's politicization of public services
Plus: what I wrote in Science about the revised Schedule F
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ABS to planning to remove the Basic Microdata from the 2026 Australian Census data release and replace it with synthetic data. A major backwards step. Synthetic data will be unable to capture the complexity of interactions the microdata will show. #Census2026 www.abs.gov.au/statistics/r...
Proposed 2026 Census data products
Proposed changes to 2026 Census data products include replacing Community Profiles with enhanced QuickStats. This paper details the changes.
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And whether or not this is misconduct should be irrelevant to the editorial decision to publish the comment. Unfortunately, such editorial responses are common in top journals, decreasing the incentives to conduct reproductions and writing up comments.
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The Melbourne Institute is proud to present the 27th Labour Econometrics Workshop.
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“First, about half the time I reanalyze a study, I find that there are important bugs in the code, or that adding more data makes the mathematical finding go away, or that there’s a compelling alternative explanation for the results.” davidroodman.com/blog/2025/05...
Appeal to Me: First Trial of a “Replication Opinion” - David Roodman
My employer, Open Philanthropy, strives to make grants in light of evidence. Of course, many uncertainties in our decision-making are irreducible. No amount of thumbing through peer-reviewed journals ...
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I think it is worth knowing that the author of the original paper also published a paper in The Economic Journal making very similar claims, that has been quite systematically debunked. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Johanna Rickne@johannarickne.bsky.social · last yr.🚨 REPLICATION REPORT UPDATE: One year ago, a tweet by John Holbein alerted me, @ollefolke.bsky.social, and @jopieboy.bsky.social to a paper with a shocking result about Sweden’s law criminalizing the purchase of sex.🧵
This sure sounds like yet another case of authors explaining away major inconsistencies as "honest mistakes." I’m increasingly convinced our research integrity systems are striking the wrong balance between type 1 & type 2 errors cc @i4replication.bsky.social
Emilia Tjernstrom@econemilia.bsky.social · last yr.I am unfamiliar with both the original paper and your comment, but if the code doesn't match the paper's description, I would think that obviously constitutes some level of research misconduct?
Big fan of the quotation marks around "the truth" in the editor's comment #Replication #Transparency
Johanna Rickne@johannarickne.bsky.social · last yr.4/ Twelve months after contacting the journal, it posted three things. A comment by the editor: doi.org/10.1007/s001...; A response by the author: doi.org/10.1007/s001...; And FINALLY, the (almost) complete replication package.
🚨 REPLICATION REPORT UPDATE: One year ago, a tweet by John Holbein alerted me, @ollefolke.bsky.social, and @jopieboy.bsky.social to a paper with a shocking result about Sweden’s law criminalizing the purchase of sex.🧵
This is my cousin's daughter, Nastia. She's 14. Her dream is to be a tennis champion, but she can't train in Sumy (her hometown) because Russian attacks have destroyed the tennis community there. Read her full story in the link and please help her follow her dream. sponsor.me/AnastasiiaNe...
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Is there any way to check if your polling booth has a sausage sizzle out the back, so you can buy your "democracy sausage" sandwich (and perhaps a cuppa) after you vote? Yes there is! The #DemocracySausage provides a searchable map! #auspol #AusVotes25 democracysausage.org
Over 86% of 10,000 simulations show that a bundled agricultural programme in Kenya had a positive societal net benefit. Read the full article w/ @joshdeutschmann.bsky.social, Maya Duru, Kim Siegal & @econemilia.bsky.social to learn more:
VoxDev@voxdev.bsky.social · last yr.🆕 Why bundled agricultural programmes may succeed where others fail Today on VoxDev, @joshdeutschmann.bsky.social (University of Chicago), Maya Duru (OES), Kim Siegal (Mathematica) & @econemilia.bsky.social (Macquarie University) outline research on Kenya: voxdev.org/topic/agricu...