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danielascur.bsky.social
Torontonian. Economist. Sometimes professorial, (ex?)airplane dweller, rowing enthusiast, whisky lover. Account is mostly whisky, dogs and some econ. 🇨🇦🇧🇷🇮🇹 danielascur.com
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This cardinal comes by my window every morning now, perches outside and yells out to its partner on a nearby tree. I wonder if he's watching our morning routine like @bakerdphd.bsky.social watches reality shows

And if you do have something on, cancel it and go see @singhabhi.bsky.social be awesome!

This is Shadow. He forgot to put on his parking brakes. 12/10 we’ve all been there

If you’re feeling low, I cannot more highly recommend getting a goose lawn ornament you can dress up in festive seasonal outfits.

Absolutely fantastic paper!! I'll be using it in my class next week already.

Another excellent NBER Org meeting wrapped up, and it's available on YouTube!! www.nber.org/conferences/... @raffasadun.bsky.social and @andreaprat.bsky.social nailing the program and discussants yet again. Love this group! Thanks to all and looking forward to seeing old friends and new faces soon

I've had multiple people send this to me and say 'your Microsoft hate will make you appreciate this even more'. They're correct, no notes.

Looking forward to the next @nber.org Organizational Economics Working Group meeting on April 10/11, coorganized with @andreaprat.bsky.social. We have a great line-up of new research papers in Org Econ! Program and livestream link: www.nber.org/conferences/...

This is Ripley. He was nervous about taking the stairs. May have panicked a bit. 12/10

This is Oreo. He is not ready to wake up yet. Please put the blanket back before we call the FBI. 12/10

Saturday vibes 😴

When you make sure your friends get to eat too. #dogs

🚨Alerta de publicacão🚨 Meu estudo com @DaMataDan e Diana Silva avaliando os impactos do programa de educacão profissional do Governo do Estado da Bahia, conhecido como PROSUB, foi publicado no Journal of Development Economics. No fio abaixo explico os principais resultados

Pessoal, a firma está com vagas de trainne em várias áreas e locais do Brasil. O requisito principal é fazer parte da primeira geração da família a concluir o ensino superior, e ter até 4 anos de formado. Informações e vagas disponíveis aqui: prig.gupy.io. RT pra chegar em quem está precisando.

🚨New postdoc job alert 🚨 We are recruiting a two year postdoc here at @taxobservatory.bsky.social in Paris - to start this September The successful candidate will join our program on Illicit Financial Flows and Real Estate More info below 👇 www.taxobservatory.eu/postdoctoral...

@bakerdphd.bsky.social Reacher today is also special

SOMEONE PLAY W TELLEN

What a FANTASTIC day for Canada!! Michelle Alexopoulos is a star, and such a kind and helpful professor and colleague. This is great!!

“When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.” ― Bette Davis Happy International Women's Day

Centre for the Study of African Economies at University of Oxford will automatically consider all applicants from Africa for full funding for the MPhil in Economics - we have new scholarships for eligible students. How? Just apply asap: deadline 4th March (extended deadline): see below

New AEA-EEA-ES-RES joint report on publication process in economics is extremely useful + thoughtful, a short 🧵. (Link at end, if you haven't seen the report). #econtwitter #econsky Starts with principle: journals may play 3 roles: dissemination, editing and certification.

Looking to do a fully funded, policy-relevant PhD in economics? The ESRC has funded another joint CMA PhD studentship, this time with Lorenza Rossi and Stefano Fasani at Lancaster University, on the interaction of market power, price setting and macro dynamics. Please share widely and apply!

Look at the BABY. Look at the baby PLAYING 🥺

I needed this chuckle, thanks marketing team fail

WFH increases productivity by 12% in the public sector. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Roses are red Violets are blue Your IV may be biased Unless it's recentered by mu onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.3...

🚨 Oprea (2024 AER) argued that prospect theory choice anomalies were not due to risk, but due to complexity-driven mistakes. But this new analysis convinces me that Oprea (2024) is substantially wrong. In my opinion, the paper should be retracted.

@ericverhoogen.bsky.social always has takes worth listening and taking seriously -- he's making it easy to do so below! Watch it!

Our latest #POIDWorkingPaper by Yi Chen, @fabianodalri.bsky.social, Thomas Jungbauer and @danielascur.bsky.social presents a model of employee poaching with asymmetric employer learning poid.lse.ac.uk/PUBLI...