📢 SGPE Summer School 2026 – Registration Open Join Stephan Heblich (Toronto; Editor @ JUE) for a 4-day intensive on long-run urban development. 🏙️ Why cities exist 🗺️ GIS + historical data methods 📊 Publishing & research pitch session 📍 Stirling | 11–14 May tinyurl.com/SGPESS26

Thrilled to have co-hosted 9th Workshop on Econ of Organised Crime in Edinburgh w/@scoteconsociety.bsky.social, Stirling Uni & Edinburgh Uni. Two fab days of research on organised crime, policy, & institutions. Thanks to all presenters, posters, & keynote speakers Olivier Marie & ACC Stuart Houston

🚨 Thrilled to announce 4th Annual SGPE Summer School 🎓 One-day masterclass on causal inference 📚 Topics: SCM, matrix completion, partial ID 🗓️ 5 June | 📍Stirling, UK | 💻 Dr Anthony Higney (Glasgow) 🎟️ £50 PhDs / £100 staff Lunch & dinner included! Sign up:bit.ly/SGPE2025SS All welcome!

We’re here in sunny stunning Glasgow for our Scottish Economic Society Annual Conference - follow us on Bluesky now we’ve left the other place @scoteconsociety.bsky.social #econsky 📈📉

Call for Papers: The 9th Workshop on the Economics of Organised Crime will take place in Edinburgh, UK, on 19–20 June 2025. Submit full papers by 15 April 2025 to WEOC2025@gmail.com. Join us for two days of cutting-edge research and discussion!

We still have a relatively poor understanding of the relationship between evidence and policy. Program evaluation in particular is often motivated by a desire to make policy better. But how effective is program evaluation itself?Michelle Rao's JMP tackles this question. www.michellerao.com/research

It's that time of year again! Don't forget to submit your papers to the 2025 Scottish Economic Society annual conference in Glasgow! Keynotes by Rachel Griffin, Wendy Carlin, and Gary Gillespie. Justine Wood and I are programme chairs. Deadline is 4 November.

Better late than never I suppose #1,540,376!

Apparently ~40% of crowdsource workers use LLMs when completing surveys Relatively simple fix for text responses: Add Javascript to Qs to prevent pasting Credit to Jiabi Wang for idea + Kaushal Addanki for code below github.com/rafmbatista/...