Joachim Voth
@jvoth.bsky.social
economic historian; sometimes dabbling in AI+SocSci; mostly on X; www.jvoth.com
New suite of tools to deal with those spatial errors, once and for all... with @essor.bsky.social and David Boll. Codex+Claude Code integration, ports for R and Python that really speed things up - no more excuses!
Sascha O. Becker@essobecker.bsky.social · 3mo agoWorried about spatial errors? Want to implement the Müller-Watson (2024 ECMA) approach to spatial errors -- that just won the Haavelmo Prize of the @econometric.bsky.social Society? @ecmaeditors.bsky.social
Econometrica is pleased to announce the 2026 Haavelmo Prize for the best econometrics paper, awarded to Ulrich K. Müller and Mark W. Watson for “Spatial Unit Roots and Spurious Regression.” www.econometricsociety.org/society/news...
Announcing the Winners of the 2026 Econometrica Prizes - The Econometric Society
I am pleased to announce the winners of the 2026 Econometrica prizes. The 2026 Arrow Prize for the best theory paper published in Econometrica in the preceding...
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Congrats to Müller+Watson. Paper coming soon
Sascha O. Becker@essobecker.bsky.social · 4mo ago2026 Haavelmo Prize for "Spatial Unit Roots and Spurious Regression" by Müller & Watson (ECMA 2024) 🎉🎉🎉 We have Stata code and a practitioners guide for you 👉 pauldavidboll.com/research/pub... Stata Journal Now working on "How much should we trust regressions using cross-sectional spatial data?"
New wp alert! Sultan Mehmood, Yaroslav Prokhorskoy and I have a new paper. Mass communication is normally used for indoctrination and persuasion. Using evidence from Stalin's USSR, we conclude that it can also be used as a tool for repression.
Want to learn about time use research? Want to learn how to manage and analyse time diary data? Register for the online short course today delivered by the Centre for Time Use Research, UCL. timeuse.org/introduction...
When your paper gets a top 5 conditional accept... despite R3...
How do you motivate workers? Leo Bursztyn, Ewan Racliffe and I have a new paper. We look at highly skilled 'workers' whose effort was near-impossible to monitor -- German fighter pilots in WW2.
With David Boll and Sascha Becker -- coming soon to a theatre near you -- a new and exciting no-motion-picture "should you distrust cross-sectional spatial data?" [spoiler alert - you can relax, it's not so bad]
Sascha O. Becker@essobecker.bsky.social · 7mo agoWe presented results on spatial unit roots etc at ASSA 2026 in Philadelphia. Joint work with @pdavidboll.bsky.social and @jvoth.bsky.social Short 🧵 (1/N) cc @andreamatranga.bsky.social @paulgp.com
I use this exact example in my very first ECON 101 lecture. I now have AV content.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.DEAN: What's the tariff on bananas? LUTNICK: Generally 10% DEAN: Walmart has already increased the cost of bananas by 8% LUTNICK: If you build in America, there is no tariff DEAN: We cannot build bananas in America
Having found in my masters thesis that high testosterone individuals prefer being seen as winners even if it means losing money, I had no idea we're talking *that* much money. If you're a hedge fund manager and want to set up an aggressive tesosterone-based trading strategy, hmu!
Conference. Distinguished colleagues; smart, top-of-the-game. Someone drops a "good for the climate" when I say I took the train... I look puzzled. What? There is emissions trading in Europe. Total CO2 is *capped*; net footprint of flights in Europe is ZERO. Same, btw, not true of trains (bec
This paper by the late, great Nick Crafts, on competition and productivity in the UK, well worth a read: cepr.org/voxeu/column...
Competition cured the “British Disease”
Britain’s relative economic decline throughout the 20th century – the so-called “British disease” – was a national embarrassment that only went away in the 1980s. This column presents new research showing that competition provided the cure. Only when Britain returned to a regime of competition and openness similar to that which had prevailed before World War I did productivity growth resume.
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Diane Coyle@dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 2y agoHm, I can see myself having to say pretty often that enforcing competition so markets work in the interests of customers means there is *less* need for regulation of other kinds.
🚨 New Working Paper 🚨 w/ @pdavidboll.bsky.social and @jvoth.bsky.social Do you run regressions on spatial data? Then keep reading! We present a guide and Stata package for methods by Müller and Watson (2024 ECTA) to deal with Spatial Unit Roots in Regressions. Link in 🧵 (1/n)
Great work by Lagakos, Michalopoulos, and Voth on personal narratives from 1930s to ask what gives people meaning. Work and community top the list. Neither enters economists' understanding of well-being directly. A big blind spot in how we evaluate policy impacts. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/2ej7c...
So pleased my article on geo-coding addresses of 121 million + people in British censuses 1851-1911 is now out with Historical Methods! #openaccess - map any census info (ages, occupations, birthplaces etc) by address - link census to other spatial datasets Get the code and data 👇
What is the meaning of life? What is the meaning of life? What would you remember as bringing satisfaction, meaning, and purpose to your life? These are the modest questions that David Lagakos, Stelios Michalopoulos and I try to answer by "interviewing" over 1,400 Americans.
so much fun working @essobecker.bsky.social and David Boll
Sascha O. Becker@essobecker.bsky.social · 2y ago🚨 New Working Paper 🚨 w/ @pdavidboll.bsky.social and @jvoth.bsky.social Do you run regressions on spatial data? Then keep reading! We present a guide and Stata package for methods by Müller and Watson (2024 ECTA) to deal with Spatial Unit Roots in Regressions. Link in 🧵 (1/n)
New joint work with the great @essobecker.bsky.social … is religion the opium of the masses? Or more like a vaccine against totalitarian tendencies?
Sascha O. Becker@essobecker.bsky.social · 3y agoNew paper with @jvoth.bsky.social "From the Death of God to the Rise of Hitler" Click (pdf) 👉 lnkd.in/g2wtSvUm
Made it to the other side! Excited to see if this can be like the #econtwitter of old…