Interested in a PhD in Economics? 📢 4 additional funded positions are now open at Siena (with Florence & Pisa), including 2 positions on AI, industrial policy & employment (with internships at Banca d'Italia and IRPET) 🗓 Deadline: July 24, 2026, 2:00 PM (CEST) 📍 Website: phdeconomics.unisi.it
🚨NEW WP OUT!🚨 Our working paper (w. @giovannimellace.bsky.social and Z. Sándor) is out! Comments and suggestions welcome! Link here 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2604.15437 @deps-siena.bsky.social
Jackknife Instrumental Variable Inference
This paper introduces a class of jackknife-based test statistics for linear regression models with endogeneity and heteroskedasticity in the presence of many potentially weak instrumental variables. T...
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Giovanni Mellace@giovannimellace.bsky.social · 4mo agoDealing with many weak instruments? 📉 Our new paper "Jackknife Instrumental Variable Inference" (JIVI) provides robust tests for models with endogeneity & heteroskedasticity. Better size and power in tough settings! 🚀 Read the full draft: arxiv.org/abs/2604.1543
📢Open Day Lauree Magistrali Scuola Economia e Management 2026 🗓️⏲️21 aprile 2026, 14-16h Aula Cripta, Polo Didattico San Francesco (Piazza san Francesco, 7 - Siena) Information: 👇 orientarsi.unisi.it/scelgo/event...
Yo! 👋 Did you know that the first digital volume of our award-winning cyberpunk comic series Killtopia is now FREE to all? Dive into our wild world of Neo Tokyo and meet our cast of bounty hunters, yakuza crime lords and high tech low lifes Link below👇
📢Evento di riflessione su Gaza 13 ottobre, 10 am Aula Cripta - San Francesco, #Siena Organizzato da @deps-siena.bsky.social #DISAG
🚨Tomorrow 🚨 @deps-siena.bsky.social Research Seminar! Nadja van 't Hoff (University of Southern Denmark) "Gender Differences in Healthcare Utilization: Evidence from Unexpected Adverse Health Shocks" 🗓️⏲️ Sep 24 - 15:00, Goodwin Room
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📢 One PhD scholarship available! Conduct research on Worker Voice, Wages & Technological Change: The Role of Collective Bargaining, Unions & Employee Representation. Deadline: Sept 5, 2025 2 pm (CET) Application procedure: unisi.it/ricerca/dott...
📺 A little repost of our Glastonbury intro video. It features many of the faux-outrage media and politicians who drive this witch-hunt against Pro-Palestinian solidarity, whilst they give support and cover to slaughter. Free Palestine 🇵🇸
New report from @sourcedpress.bsky.social on Israel killing journalists. This meticulously fact-checked article covers the long history of Israel's war crimes in it's murder of the press sourced.press/a/israel-kil...
Decades of Israeli Forces Killing Journalists With Impunity
Israeli forces killed at least 217 journalists and media workers in the first 15 months of the offensive in Gaza. The attacks on those who risked their lives to tell Palestinian stories included…
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The Annual Meeting of the PhD in Economics of the Tuscan Universities (Florence, Pisa & Siena) is ongoing! Our PhD students are presenting their research and receiving constructive feedback from discussants and faculty members. #Pontignano #econsky
🧨 🧨 @deps-siena.bsky.social launches a fully funded Distinguished Visiting Scholar Program! We welcome scholars from any field of economics. Apply now and share your vision with us! More info below 👇
We're preparing our return to Neo Tokyo... Stay tuned for campaign details once we're ready to rock! First plot details: killtopia.co/killtopia-2%... Reposts appreciated ❤️
📢 The application for the PhD in Economics at the Tuscan Universities (Siena, Florence and Pisa) is now open! Several fully funded scholarships available Deadline: June 9, 2025, at 2:00 PM (CEST) Website: phdeconomics.unisi.it Call: phdeconomics.unisi.it/the-new-call... #econsky
25 April, Liberation day in Italy! festa della liberazione dal Fascismo in Italia! 🇮🇹 This day is also dedicated to my grandfather Giovanni, a partisan!!! ❤️
Today is #LiberationDay in Italy, the most important national holiday. On this day 80 years ago we were finally freed from Nazi occupation and the Fascist regime. I will never understand those who do not celebrate this date. Here are two pics from the liberation of Modena, my hometown.
🚨PhD alert - Fully funded at the Econ & Public Policy Department at Imperial College for fall 2025! We have a strong group in #HealthEconomics! Applications due April 30! More details: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/55wkl... #EconPhD #healtheconomics
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🚨TODAY🚨 New DEPS Research Seminar! Speaker: Toru Kitagawa (Brown University) sites.google.com/brown.edu/to... Title: "Dynamic Targeting: Experimental Evidence from Energy Rebate Programs" ⏲️Wed April 2 - 15:00, Goodwin Room
Here is our research seminar program for April to June 2025. Join us!
Our @deps-siena.bsky.social Research Seminar Series continues this week! Speaker: Marica Valente (University of Innsbruck) sites.google.com/view/maricav... Title: "Quantifying Informal Farm Employment From Migration Waves" ⏲️Wed March 5th - 15:00, Goodwin Room
🚨 Job Alert 🚨 4-year postdoc position to work on my ERC project HARSH - Uncovering the Roots of Harsh Parenting. 📍 Dep. of Economics @DSE_Unibo, Bologna, Italy 🇮🇹 📅 Deadline: March 14, 2025 💡 Learn more and apply here: econjobmarket.org/positions/11... #econtwitter #econjobmarket #ejm
EJM - Econ Job Market
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🚨NEW WP OUT!🚨 Our working paper with Claudio Detotto & Carlo Caporali on the causal impact of terrorism on voter turnout during Italy's Years of Lead is out! Comments and suggestions welcome! Link here: crenos.unica.it/crenos/publi...
Terror and Turnout: The Impact of Terrorism During the Years of Lead | CRENoS
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Some of their greatest hits are those like Nick "Blacks are more stupid than white's" Bostrom taking the stage to tell us about so-called "superintelligence", and other eugenicists we discussed in this paper: firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph....
The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence | First Monday
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I am thinking of making my DiD materials that I used for teaching in the last 5 years available. I am hoping these would find begineers in need of a step-by-step opinionated walkthrough of several developments Let’s see if I find the energy to do this!
Upgrade your #causalinference arsenal. A revision of our book "Causal Inference: What If" is available at miguelhernan.org/whatifbook Thanks to everyone who suggested improvements, reported typos, and proposed new citations and material. Enjoy the #WhatIfBook plus code and data. Also, it's free.
Had a very interesting research seminar yesterday at @deps-siena.bsky.social A paper by Salvatore Di Falco (University of Geneva) on the adoption of sustainable soil management practices in Ethiopia and the role of information constraints Thanks to Salvatore & all participants!
