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I’ve open‑sourced all content from my talk Retrieving  &  Generating Data with LLMs in Python on my Github, along with slides. 🔓 10 Jupyter notebooks that show how to turn messy text into clean, structured data, all with GPT‑4o‑mini & the OpenAI API. Details on applications below🧵

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🚨New R package! {easymediation}🚨 The Simplest and Most Correct Way to Do Causal Mediation Analysis Are you tired of explaining mediation analysis to your colleagues? Just send them this package. github.com/rpsychologis...

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‼️3rd Workshop on Education Economics and Policy WEEP: Call for papers‼️ Oslo, Oct. 13-14, 2025. Keynotes: @woessmann.bsky.social & @cohodes.bsky.social . Deadline May 30. sites.google.com/site/astrids... PS. Booking ocean side sauna 😉 @uio.no @nifu.bsky.social @ntnu-econ.bsky.social #econsky

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Draft “A Practical Guide to Estimating Conditional Marginal Effects: Modern Approaches” is on arXiv: arxiv.org/pdf/2504.01355 w/ two amazing grad students, Jiehan_Liu & Ziyi Liu 🧵

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🚨New paper alert!🚨 How do different disciplines use statistical software? We looked at 10,000 papers. We all know a lot of economists use Stata and a lot of statisticians use R. But...

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The EdDev Community Group will meet on Friday at 11 AM ET. Jalnidh Kaur & Maheen Javaid will present work in progress. Join the EdDev Community Group today aefpweb.org/communit...

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🚨 working paper alert🚨 @carotorreblanca.bsky.social, Will Dinneen, and I have published an updated draft of "The Evolving Landscape of Political Science: Two Decades of Scholarship in a Growing Discipline." We hope you will find it interesting. osf.io/preprints/os...

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The second edition of The Effect is now available for preorder! This version has a whole new chapter on Partial Identification, a considerable update on staggered treatment and control variables in DID, and zillions of other little updates throughout. www.routledge.com/The-Effect-A...

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What's that, you want a round-up of papers presented at the @oxfordcsae.bsky.social conference last week? www.cgdev.org/blog/what-ec...

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Slowly but surely coming along: we have a new version of our working textbook on diffs in diffs! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Chapters 2 to 4, which cover the set up, classical DIDs, and relaxations of the parallel trends assumptions have been thoroughly revised and are now almost finished.

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For those who want to jump to the frontier in select areas of economics, the AEA has posted the webcasts of this year’s continuing lectures. Thanks much to @lawrencekatz.bsky.social for his leadership and vision in assembling these lectures. www.aeaweb.org/conference/w...

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Fantastic conference on field experiments in economics and business!

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"The world must now affirm that human lives matter, no matter where they are." -- Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo in today's FT.

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It's that time of year to circulate this list of orgs for those seeking ed policy jobs/internships. Please let me know if there are opportunities/orgs I should add. Good luck out there! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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📢 Call for papers: 📢 @cesifo.org Area Conference on Economics of Education (co-organized with Rick Hanushek) 5-6 Sept 2025, Munich Keynote: @raffasadun.bsky.social 👉 www.cesifo.org/en/event/202... Submission deadline: 18 May 2025 Past programs: sites.google.com/view/woessma...

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After a long wait, the working paper for the Many-Economists Project: The Sources of Researcher Variation in Economics. We had 146 teams perform the same research three times, each time with less freedom. What source of freedom leads to different choices and results? papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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After being alerted about possible misconduct, the I4R are reproducing published papers that use data from a specific NGO (GDRI). This thread releases the first 2 reports and provides more information about the work and responses/statements from authors journals and journals. 🧵

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👋 Hi! J-PAL is now on Bluesky! 📊 We’re looking forward to bringing conversations on evidence-informed policy to this new space. Follow us for updates on the latest research, policy insights, and how rigorous evidence is helping shape a better world.

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

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Roses are red, OLS is BLUE, I'll run regressions anytime with you.

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The EdDev Community Group will meet Friday 2/14 at 11 AM ET. Danila Serra & Emmerich Davies will present work in progress. Join the EdDev Community Group today aefpweb.org/communit...

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I'm hearing @aadukia.bsky.social speak at the IDB about her study "From Retributive to Restorative: An Alternative Approach to Justice in Schools" (www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/9rk24...). For an overview, I enjoyed her interview with @jenniferdoleac.bsky.social www.probablecausation.com/podcasts/epi...

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I'm looking for data on software use in the social sciences, esp. Stata vs R vs Python. I thought I saw this somewhere. Bluesky, do your thing... Please help! 🙏

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By request of my students, I put together a short explainer of some common data wrangling tasks in R. If you're interested, you can find it here: joshmerfeld.github.io/applied-micr...

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I made one for stats papers

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Just re-upping this #econsky: I currently have more mentors than mentees/students (can probably match another 10-11 students from LMICs who would like feedback on a research paper from a senior scholar.) Fill out the form here if interested! forms.gle/ekvvoEKBLYQM...

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At today's #2024APPAM Rossi Award Lecture, I’ll argue the substantial impact of open-science practices has been far too narrow. It’s time to adapt & adopt open-science practices—especially preregistration—for quasi-experimental designs (QEDs). #EconSky #EduSky #APPAM2024 @appam.bsky.social 🧵…

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Development econ job market candidates The devo group at Princeton is hiring 2 postdocs for 2025-26. Come spend the year with us before starting your faculty job. Nina Buchmann, who deferred her postdoc w/ us until 2025-6, will also be here for the year. www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....

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Introducing the #econ_ra feed. Shows posts containing #econ_ra To share info about economics research assistant, pre-doc, post-doc, & similar positions. Either side of the market is welcome to post opportunities, intros, or questions. Pin the feed & monitor. 📉📈 bsky.app/profile/did:...

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After coediting AER: Insights for about eight months, I wanted to share some (hopefully useful) information about this awesome journal.

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My annual post on submission numbers, acceptance rates, review times, etc. at development journals is now up: blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

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Looking forward to this tomorrow (Thursday)! www.idee-education.fr/servicesrech...

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Another super nice paper that found a great home: academic.oup.com/ej/advance-a...

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aaaahhh this new article by @dingdingpeng.the100.ci is so great and informative and fun! A call to think about potential outcomes and causal models even if you don't do experimental work, with all sorts of fantastic DAG examples. doi.org/10.1111/spc3...

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