We’re thrilled to announce the first AI and Society Conference 🧠🤖 📍 Bocconi University, Milan 📅 11–12 June 2026 🎤 Keynote by Sendhil Mullainathan Call for papers open—join us! bocconi.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Yagan Hazard @hazardyagan.bsky.social · 8mo ago

📣 Call for Papers: AI and Society Conference 🗓️ 11–12 June 2026 at Bocconi University Submit full papers: bocconi.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Keynote by the one and only Sendhil Mullainathan @sendhil.bsky.social Please share w/ your colleagues and students, we look forward to your submission

📣 Call for Papers: AI and Society Conference 🗓️ 11–12 June 2026 at Bocconi University Submit full papers: bocconi.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Keynote by the one and only Sendhil Mullainathan @sendhil.bsky.social Please share w/ your colleagues and students, we look forward to your submission

Florida Decided There Were Too Many Children

Florida Decided There Were Too Many Children

The state’s elimination of vaccine mandates is a courageous first step toward decluttering itself of any excess kids.

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My papers arguing that the "Abundance Movement" needs broadening to include place-based jobs policies for distressed places are being released today, with a long paper at the Upjohn Institute & a shorter summary at Brookings Metro.

I am heartbroken by the passing of our colleague Ghazala Azmat. A wonderful economist and AEJ: Economic Policy Board member, she was generous with her time and a vital contributor to many areas within applied economics and economic policy. She will be sorely missed. My heart goes out to her family.

I just heard our wonderful colleague Ghazala Azmat has passed over the weekend, and I am so, so, so sad. She was a lovely, wonderful, kind soul. A brilliant economist who will be dearly missed. RIP my friend. My heart is so heavy. Love to everyone who was lucky enough to know her.

#EconFr le premier papier issue de ma thèse a été soumis hier. Et comme c’est un papier particulièrement instructif pour la réforme du RSA, je vais faire un petit 🧵 et vous raconter ce qu’on y trouve. Dans le post suivant, vous trouverez le lien vers le papier et les codes de réplication.

Rising credit card defaults are in the news w/ the FT and WSJ running prominent stories Reasons are nuanced and likely to get lost in the headlines 🧵 on why the rise is largely a hangover from the post-pandemic credit supply increase

Economists love using linear regression to estimate treatment effects — it turns out that there are perils to this method, but also amazing perks Come with me in this 🧵 if you want to learn about our now-published paper "Contamination Bias in Linear Regressions!" 1/ (Twitter rerun!)

AEA Journals@aeajournals.bsky.social · 2y ago

The December 2024 issue of the American Economic Review (114, 12) is now available online at aeaweb.org/issues/785.

Happy to share that my and @cconlon.bsky.social's micro BLP paper was just accepted at the Journal of Econometrics! jeffgortmaker.com/files/Incorp... It's our 2nd tied to our PyBLP software, so here's a thread on surprising (to me) benefits of combining methods research with open source work. 1/6

One of us turned 1 and the other got tenure 😃😃

Thanks Pedro! Link to WP: arxiv.org/abs/2411.10959 and slides dviviano.github.io/projects/pre... We show how we can estimate treatment effects using remote sensed outcomes without having to correctly specify a model for remote sensed outcomes and leverage arbitrary ML methods. 1/n

Pedro Sant’Anna@pedrosantanna.bsky.social · 2y ago

A very interesting new working paper by the greats Ashesh Rambachan, Rahul Singh, and @vivianodavide.bsky.social: arxiv.org/pdf/2411.10959 It seems that this is another area where the empirical common practice was "too fast,'' and econometrics is catching up! Cool and empirically relevant stuff!

I made one for stats papers

Saloni@scientificdiscovery.dev · 2y ago

I made one of these for behaviour genetics back in the day.

This finally might produce enough outrage from macroeconomists to try out bsky... www.cnbc.com/2024/11/09/e...

'#EndtheFed': Elon Musk endorses plan to let presidents meddle with Federal Reserve after Trump election win

During his first term as president, Donald Trump was not shy about publicly disparaging Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and his policy decisions.

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"Causal inference is a trivial problem if you know the DAG. Research design is outdated." season's greetings!

My ERC team has created an account where they will share updates of the Stata and R packages they are working on, follow them! bsky.app/profile/erct...

Probably the most chilling paper I read in 2023, yet essential reading for all of us. academic.oup.com/qje/advance-... #EconSky 📉📈

Violence Against Women at Work*

Abstract. In this paper, we link every police report in Finland to administrative data to identify violence between colleagues, and the economic consequences fo

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Jen Doleac is on here! Welcome. Great follow. 📉📈 bsky.app/profile/jenn...

If you're a senior male economist and would be interested in discussing the drafting of an open letter re the newly announced IZA leadership change, e-mail me. Female econs are rightly tired of the burden of such efforts falling on them.

📈📉A great way to shorten a paper. Change the margins. Some paragraphs will have one-word last lines. Make those go away by writing better. Repeat until you are too tired to be obsessive anymore. Reinstate the original margins. I did this all day. My paper is three pages shorter with better writing

Questions re: IZA decision - What is the best summary of allegations against Falk? - How did IZA/briq investigate allegations against Falk? What decisions followed and why? - How did this recent decision happen? Why did Falk get the job, not Jager? Anyone have insights?

One of my pastimes is to watch videos about writing fiction. Many things that work when writing fiction also work when writing academic papers! I think this video on editing is quite useful: youtu.be/WLAmilJx3Us?.... E.g., accept that your manuscript will evolve a lot over time!

Incredibly useful resource: Power analysis collaborative guide docs.google.com/document/d/1...

This is a Bob LaLonde appreciation tweet. He changed the course of economics and also changed the course of my life. He passed away too young, though his memory is a blessing. Please add onto the thread with your appreciations of Bob!

Econometric Thread (#EconSky): Today, I will briefly discuss a few recent papers expanding the synthetic control method (SCM). I will talk about three WPss: Abadie + L'Hour (2019), Grossi, Lattarulo, Mariani, Mattei + Oner (2020); Cao + Dowd (2019) and Cattaneo, Feng, Palomba +Titiunik (2023).

CREST/ENSAE/Polytechnique is hiring we have several econ 📈📉 positions at assistant/associate level, any field econjobmarket.org/positions/9867 Our lab results from the merger of the dpts of econ of Polytechnique (France’s 1er engineering school)& ENSAEparis (which trains public statisticians)...

It’s a bit overdue now but I’m happy to announce that I’ve just started at the Paris School of Economics as an INRAE researcher!

🚨Publication Alert🚨 "Crime and Mismeasured Punishment: Marginal Treatment Effect with Misclassification" by Vitor Possebom (2023, doi.org/10.1162/rest...) I am so happy that my JMP was accepted at the REStat! I am thankful to so many people who helped me through this journey.