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Note that while “bias” will get your proposal flagged, “unbiased estimator” still appears to be on the table.

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

Added more gun researchers to this starter pack who joined BlueSky. Please share and lmk if you’d like to be added! @daniel-semenza.bsky.social @vitalcitynyc.bsky.social @meganranney.bsky.social @sonalirajan.bsky.social @thetrace.org @giffords.org @everytown.bsky.social go.bsky.app/G9zEmHs

submitted 65 days ago • 5 comments

Former BLS commissioner Erica Groshen on how the policy change to Schedule F that Trump & #Project2025 advocate would destroy the credibility of the federal statistical system. Her comment on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/posts/erica-... ...

submitted 140 days ago • 25 comments

Virginia Tech professor and poet, Nikki Giovanni, has died at the age of 81.

submitted 75 days ago • 338 comments

And it’s official. I’m immensely grateful to the world’s greatest news organization for giving me a platform all these years, and greatly appreciate the moving sendoff 1/ www.nytco.com/press/paul-k...

submitted 79 days ago • 714 comments

Welcome, @marthaolney.bsky.social!! Yes - @riacton.bsky.social has put together two women+ in econ starter packs.

submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment

How do firms respond when faced with climate shocks? Tarikua Erda's research examines how firms adjust physical capital investment and entry/exit decisions, providing key evidence to a long-standing puzzle. (Among other interesting projects: www.tarikuaerda.com)

submitted 86 days ago • 5 comments

I’m on the #EconJobMarket! I study labor, climate, entrepreneurship & innovation www.tarikuaerda.com/jmp My #EconJMP examines how how manufacturing firms respond to flooding. Do flooded firms build back better? Or do they suffer unrecoverable losses that weaken aggregate productivity? 🧵 1/n

submitted 81 days ago • 1 comment

ggplot alone will change your life.

submitted 81 days ago • 1 comment

Ed Glaeser and I wrote about the future of cities for the IMF. Fun topic to think about. www.imf.org/en/Publicati...

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

Hey #blacksky ‼️ So good to have left the bad place. Someone please share a starter pack!

submitted 82 days ago • 289 comments

I had an IV joke, but it’s getting pretty LATE.

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

Regression is a tool for making comparisons If you don't know / can't easily explain what comparisons you're trying to make, then you don't understand the regression you're running

submitted 102 days ago • 10 comments

The Race and Stratification Working Group at NBER will have its annual meeting on Friday, April 4, 2025! Dania Francis, Vicki Bogan, Ellora Derenoncourt and I are organizing the program. Submit your paper before the December 19, 2024 deadline! conference.nber.org/confsubmit/b...

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

Economists love using linear regression to estimate treatment effects — it turns out that there are perils to this method, but also amazing perks Come with me in this 🧵 if you want to learn about our now-published paper "Contamination Bias in Linear Regressions!" 1/ (Twitter rerun!)

submitted 85 days ago • 19 comments

Thanksgiving this year falls on the 28th, and 28 is a perfect number – meaning that it is equal to the sum of its proper divisors (28 = 1 + 2 + 4 + 7 + 14). So... I hope you have a truly perfect #Thanksgiving!!

submitted 87 days ago • 4 comments

Pleased to announce the Fourth Annual Scotland and Northern England Conference in Applied Microeconomics at the Crief Hydro Hotel in Perthshire on 6-8 May 2025! Our keynote speaker is @ludogazze.bsky.social More info & submission link at applied-microecon.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/sane-worksho...

submitted 88 days ago • 1 comment

Contamination Bias in Linear Regressions -- out today in the AER! www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/x4bc1...

submitted 88 days ago • 7 comments

This seems wrong to me — at a minimum, using AI will let below-average doctors achieve average-ish levels of performance which would be a huge win even if there are no other benefits. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

submitted 87 days ago • 33 comments

Everyone should give @vitalcitynyc.bsky.social a follow! A great urban policy journal with contributions from an impressive array of scholars and practitioners—including yours truly!

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

We built a starter pack (a work in progress) of some people who know a lot about New York City policy — and assorted others of interest. go.bsky.app/FCDEhhc

submitted 88 days ago • 5 comments

We've created a starter pack for all of the economics journals on Bluesky. Please nominate other journals to join the list. go.bsky.app/4kR21vX

submitted 88 days ago • 13 comments

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

submitted 88 days ago • 31 comments

Outstanding piece from @mattyglesias.bsky.social and complementary thread from Thomas below. Some recent CJ efforts involve (low-level) offenses that lack a social consensus on punishment—yet come with non-trivial social costs. Ignoring the costs doesn’t make it good policy or more “progressive.”

submitted 90 days ago • 1 comment

Really thoughtful thread here with useful concrete details

submitted 90 days ago • 14 comments

Folks! Our excellent BFI institute at UChicago is on here, give them a follow. They do an excellent podcast (the PIE) and host great conferences/workshops with open call-for-papers.

submitted 90 days ago • 1 comment

We wrote a short VoxEU column about our "Anonymity and Identity Online" paper and its broader implications. cepr.org/voxeu/column...

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