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Screenshot of working paper: The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct

📣 New NBER Working Paper out today 📣

"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu

Interesting paper highlight that binning can be misspecified in panel settings - this drives misinterpretation of extreme temperature shocks. #linkoftheday

www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/1ya6z...

Happy new year everyone!! 🎉🙂
Please come to the #ASSA2026 Urban Economics session to hear about our work on identification of Optimal Place-Based Transfers with discussions by @tradediversion.bsky.social and other exciting papers.

Economics Literature Search Full-text search across 15,000+ papers from top economics journals and NBER working papers. Track how empirical methods have evolved over time.

Dropping a beta version of this page while everyone is up and processing baseball!

This tool lets you search the full text of papers from the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal series, and over 30,000 NBER working papers.

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Research Assistant ERC REALLYCREDIBLE Clément de Chaisemartin is looking for research assistants, for 12 months contracts, starting in June/July or early September 2025.

Please RT: I am hiring RAs, for 12-month contracts, starting in June/July or early September 2025. Apply if you’re interested in working on some fun and useful econometrics projects!

#EconSky

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We from @emoryeconomics.bsky.social
are excited to host the "Econometrics in Emory: Causal Inference with Panel Data."

📅 May 2–3, 2025

🔗 econometricsatemory.com

We aim to strengthen the relationship between academia and industry researchers so we all learn from each other!

It was a pleasure to host you @laurakgee.bsky.social !
Loved the talk and our discussions!

Healthcare jobs have grown 2x faster than the overall labor market since 1980

Healthcare overtook retail to become largest industry by employment in 2009

New working paper w/ @gottliebecon.bsky.social, @kevinrinz.bsky.social and @victoriaudalova.bsky.social on the rise of healthcare jobs

Very useful thread 🧵!

How are parents affected by their kid going to college? How are they affected when their kid gets a scholarship or grant?

New working paper with @palaashbhargava.bsky.social @econsandy.bsky.social @odedgurantz.bsky.social and Rob Fairlie

www.nber.org/papers/w33497

What Works and for Whom? Effectiveness and Efficiency of School Capital Investments Across the U.S.* Abstract. This paper identifies which investments in school facilities help students and which and are valued by homeowners. Using novel data on school dis

Super happy to see this accepted! academic.oup.com/qje/advance-...

Reviewing the theory of monopsonistic wage setting, its empirical implications, and some puzzles the framework has struggled to explain, from Patrick M. Kline https://www.nber.org/papers/w33467

Often discussions get lost in comparing features of languages. Rather language choice should depend on what maximizes one’s efficiency and production of output. And that’s idiosyncratic.

Conditional on language, notebooks like Pluto, Jupyter, qmd, Rmd are excellent tools for teaching.

Quantitative Economics with Julia This website presents a set of lectures on quantitative economic modeling, designed and written by Jesse Perla, Thomas J. Sargent and John Stachurski. The language instruction is Julia.

The real cost is switching from tried-and-tested legacy code.

But there is large variation across sub-disciplines within economics---a lot of labor and macro folks use julia. In fact, julia.quantecon.org was started and still heavily maintained by macro folks.

The Hidden Health Care Crisis Behind Bars: A Randomized Trial to Accredit U.S. Jails Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

Excited to share results from a 4-year first-ever RCT across US jails. We (Crystal Yang & I) find that death rates are much higher in jails than officially reported & health care accreditation improves staff coordination, quality & save lives.
www.nber.org/papers/w33357

PDF table made with LaTeX and tabularray with {tinytable}

R code for making the table

#rstats and #QuartoPub PSA: @vincentab.bsky.social's {tinytable} is the absolute best table making package out there for LaTeX output (it natively supports tabularray!), and it's phenomenal for HTML. It has fully replaced {gt} and {kableExtra} for me vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/

What a wonderful, practical and heartwarming thread to wake up to!! 😇

We use a new machine learning technique to identify the most cost-effective policies to boost immunization demand in India. We evaluated 75 combos of reminders, incentives, and local community ambassadors. The most effective increased immunization by 44%. https://buff.ly/4j0v3IF

For those who didn't make it to #ASSA2025: strongly recommend @sendhil.bsky.social's AEA distinguished lecture, available at www.aeaweb.org/webcasts/202... (starting at minute 16)!

GitHub - aeturrell/cookiecutter-research-project: A cookiecutter for creating research projects A cookiecutter for creating research projects. Contribute to aeturrell/cookiecutter-research-project development by creating an account on GitHub.

Just updated an old repo that's a cookiecutter template for research projects. Now uses uv for Python & Quarto for paper and slides, & has pre-commit + other bells and whistles.
Outputs dynamically updated in the paper & slides. Compiling the paper is just "make paper".

github.com/aeturrell/co...

Curious about Econ & Gender. Check out this session Sat 12:30pm at the Marker Hotel (location currently wrong in the #Assa2025 app) with work by @econprachi.bsky.social @bilgeerten.bsky.social and chaired by @olgashurchkov.bsky.social www.aeaweb.org/conference/2...,

Happy new year everyone!!! 🎊
Wishing everyone more happiness and peace in 2025! 😇

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I can guarantee a lot of productive projects that have policy impact.

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Here are the first five sets of slides:

01 Introduction: psantanna.com/DiD/01_Intro...

02 Classical 2x2 setup: psantanna.com/DiD/02_two_b...

03 Clustering issues: psantanna.com/DiD/03_Clust...

04 Functional form: psantanna.com/DiD/04_Funct...

05 Covariates: psantanna.com/DiD/05_Covar...

Believed Gender Differences in Social Preferences* Abstract. While there is a vast (and mixed) literature on gender differences in social preferences, little is known about believed gender differences in so

Recently accepted by #QJE, “Believed Gender Differences in Social Preferences,” by Exley, Hauser, Moore (@mollymooreplz.bsky.social), and Pezzuto: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

This and the OP is critical for understanding people’s reactions to LLMs, both positive and negative. I’ve seen a bias develop in both cases. In former case, heavy users have a feel for what prompts work and have limited their requests to those categories. This creates impression of robustness 1/n

Rest well, Manmohan Singh! The 13th Prime Minister of India was unlucky in the way he was portrayed, yet stood as a stark contrast to his successor: took open questions from the Press, was dignified in his remarks, and brought in much needed, sensible reforms as Finance Minister in 1991. A good man.

We should at a minimum do what Nature does, in which the referee comments and author responses are published along with the paper.

Allows the paper itself to be an authoritative artifact while lifting the curtain on the debate that led its creation.

(quoting @dholtz.bsky.social )

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In economics, editors, referees, and authors often behave as if a published paper should reflect some kind of authoritative consensus.

As a result, valuable debate happens in secret, and the resulting paper is an opaque compromise with anonymous co-authors called referees.

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