I'm restarting open Econometrics Office Hours this week, now from Bowdoin College, where I am visiting this year. Open to anyone anywhere needing econometrics help! Now Wednesdays 10-12 AM Eastern or by appointment.

Sooo happy to see this paper out!💖 An amazing thread from an amazing scholar below 🙏🔥🔥👇

New diff-in-diff paper! This one looks at the popular "group-specific time trends" extension of TWFE (I count 39 papers in APSR/AJPS/JOP over the last 5 years that use them). Unfortunately, my take is not entirely favorable :) (1/) osf.io/preprints/soca…

ICYMI: 🚨Center for Global Development is hiring🚨 Senior fellows / fellows Could be the biggest hiring round in my many years here, as Rachel Glennerster takes the reins this week as our new president. Esp. looking for ppl in: health development finance education agriculture, & climate

IR Book of the Week! "Rethinking the End of Empire" by Lynn Tesser. Independence is due to nationalist movements, right? Not quite. The internal movements that led to decolonization were varied. Independence was seen as a one-sized-fits-all solution. amazon.com/Rethinking-End…

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The market for text-as-data papers is thickening!! Come check out the latest and greatest on zoom, Sept 16-17:

How does an economist optimise their morning routine? My latest column for the Financial Times tackles this important question. 1st 300 clicks free to read on.ft.com/3Tigk0H

“People are reasonable to think that there is competition with immigrants," I told Mitchell Hartman of NPR Marketplace. But “jobs ultimately come from economic growth, and new people joining the American economy are a cornerstone of economic growth.” marketplace.org/2024/09/05/is-…

So great to see our little baby come out in the JEL just now 😇 Such a pleasure to work with Jared Rubin & Ludger Ludger Woessmann aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

Happy to see this paper w. Raphael Auer Ariel Burstein Jonathan Vogel out in #ReStud😀: We document large differences in price elasticities across the income distribution and quantify their contribution to the unequal welfare effects of import price shocks academic.oup.com/restud/article…

Students at Stanford have built alphaXiv, an open discussion forum for arXiv papers. Think of it as 𝕏 for research.

Highly relevant 🔥 annualreviews.org/content/journa…

We (LSE Methodology) are searching for an assistant professor of qualitative research methods. We are a mixed-methods and interdisciplinary group. Please share widely, and feel free to get in touch if you have questions about the department. jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/62…

I am recruiting for a fully funded, 4-year PhD position in economics focused on migration&human capital, involving an impact evaluation of a major migration-related project in Central America. The application deadline is September 29. See details here: rug.nl/about-ug/work-….

I'm hiring pre-docs for fall 2025. Come work with me on housing policy, urban economics, and inequality with big data. rebecca-diamond.com/pre-doctoral-f…

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Meine Einschätzung zum Etat des BMZ: Die Kürzungen in der Entwicklungshilfe sind nachvollziehbar: #Politikum #Entwicklungshilfe WDR (ab Minute 3:53) www1.wdr.de/mediathek/audi…