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On average, the higher a county's Republican vote share, the higher the fertility rate, according to the correlational analysis at ifstudies.org/blog/the-tru....

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I am honored to have been appointed an IZA Research Fellow. @iza.org

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📢 Call for papers: 🚀 3rd CESifo/ifo Junior Workshop on the Economics of Education 🥳 12-13 May 2025, Munich Keynote: Alexander Willen PhD students & early postdocs, please apply! www.cesifo.org/en/event/202... Deadline: 16 Feb 2025 Co-organizer: Caterina Pavese @cesifo.org #EconSky

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Quick Stata tip: "set sortseed" sets the seed for sorting tie breakers for things like "sort", "gsort", and "kmatch, wor." It can be useful when creating replicable code.

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I plotted a histogram of the distances of 701 of my runs, and apparently I like to stop right after hitting whole numbers/5k/10k.

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The free Chrome plugin "Advanced Profanity Filter" is an easy and effective way to remove profanity/language from TV shows and movies. It works by recognizing words in closed captioning. Siftbooks, a subscription service (that I haven't tried), filters out language and content on Audible books.

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Distance to nearest NFL team.

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What are your favorite books of all time?

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Distance to nearest Bass Pro Shops - probably my most beautiful map ever

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Distance to the nearest IKEA.

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Distance to the nearest R1 university (i.e., "Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity" as classified by the 2021 Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education).

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Quick Stata tip: reghdfejl is much faster than reghdfe. ssc install julia net install reghdfejl, replace from(raw.github.com/droodman/reg...) webuse hdfe, clear tempfile a save `a' *N=10M: forv i=1/9 { append using `a' } areg y x, a(id a1 a2) reghdfe y x, a(id a1 a2) reghdfejl y x, a(id a1 a2)

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Quick Stata tip: keep if inlist(state, "AL", "AK", "AZ") is the same as: keep if state=="AL" | state=="AK" | state=="AZ" And: keep if inrange(distance, 10, 91) is the same as: keep if distance>=10 & distance<=91

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Quick Stata tip: use "recol" to shorten the column width of variables in the Data Editor. This is useful for really long strings. ssc install recol sysuse census, clear replace state = "ABCDEFGASDFASDFSADF" in 1 recol state, maxwidth(7) compress

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Distance to nearest National Park.

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Quick Stata tip: to rename all variables so that they are lower case: rename *, lower

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Quick Stata tip: To quickly see how many observations of each variable are missing, use mdesc: ssc install mdesc sysuse lifeexp, clear mdesc

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Falling fertility.

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Time spent on religious activities on Sunday by age, split by male/female.

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Time spent on religious activities on Sunday, by age.

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Time spent sleeping by age, split by weekend/weekday and female/male.

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Time spent sleeping, split by weekday/weekend and by age.

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In general, people who are not members of NBER can submit papers to be considered at NBER conferences. Here's the link to the current calls for papers: www.nber.org/calls-papers...

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The surprising relationship between completed fertility and childlessness between 1871 and 1964. Source: "Fertility and Childlessness in the United States" by Baudin, de la Croix, and Gobbi, AER 2015.

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Quick Stata tip: If you want to look at a one-way frequency table of a variable, "fre" displays both values and labels at the same time, while "tabulate" does not. To use fre: ssc install fre sysuse auto2, clear tab foreign fre foreign

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Quick econ tip: here are a bunch of places that undergrad economics majors who are looking for jobs can look: bartonwillage.com/pages/Jobs.h.... Compiled by @bartonwillage.com.

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Quick econ tip: here's a list of over 100 economics conferences: docs.google.com/spreadsheets.... Curated by @anne-m-burton.bsky.social and @bartonwillage.com.

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We often forget how many aspects of life have dramatically improved in recent history

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The remarkable drop in child mortality.

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I am very sad to report that the microwave that my parents got when I was born 38 years ago has died. I will miss your uncanny ability to instantly bring warmth to all you encountered. Farewell, my friend.

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Based on your projections for how the market will view things 10 years from now, how would you rank AER: Insights, AEJ: Applied Economics, and AEJ: Economic Policy? 1️⃣ AER:I > AER:AE > AER:EP 2️⃣ AER:AE > AER:I > AER:EP 3️⃣ AER:AE > AER:EP > AER:I 📊 Show results

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I've written a book that compiles 97 of my Stata tips. You can download "Quick Stata Tips" and the companion .do file for free at www.toddrjones.com/quickstatati...

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ICYMI: I wrote a book that compiles 97 of my Stata tips. You can download "Quick Stata Tips" and the companion .do file for free at toddrjones.com/quickstatati...

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Quick Stata tip: I've written a book that compiles 97 of my Stata tips. You can download "Quick Stata Tips" and the companion .do file for free at toddrjones.com/quickstatati...

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Every single day I wish economics papers were longer. I mean, why settle for 80 pages when you can go for 120?

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Quick research tip: include the (control) mean of the dependent variable in your table.

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I'm looking forward to APPAM next week! I'm presenting research on how parents' and students' time is different in the school year vs. summer. #APPAM #APPAM2023 appam.confex.com/appam/2023/m...

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