A checklist for difference-in-differences practitioners jonathandroth.com/assets/files/D… from Jonathan Roth, Pedro H. C. Sant'Anna, Alyssa Bilinski, & John Poe (Section 6 includes discussion of triple differences, changes-in-changes, and more.)

#EconTwitter Calling potential PhD applicants to join us for a rigorous PhD program with specialization in Economics. You will get guidance from some of the finest economists in the country and work with a very enthusiastic faculty and peer group with cutting-edge research output

🚨1-How does mafia violence affect citizens? Our new paper is out on Journal of Public Economics! Random exposure to media images of mafia violence *increases* institutional trust and donations to the State (about 10%) with Gian Maria Campedelli @AndyFMresearch and Paolo Pinotti

Seeing polished seminar papers can be intimidating to grad students starting research; so UCSD Development Economics piloted a "backstory" podcast where grad students interview seminar speakers to learn about the process of moving from idea to paper; this is now publicly available for all!

Delighted to have presented our paper on Recentralization in Vietnam (joint w/ Somdeep Chatterjee & David Fielding) in my first ever conference at the European Winter Meeting of the The Econometric Society (#EWMES2023), Manchester. Great feedback and invaluable comments all around!

🚨 DID Paper Thread 🚨 Are you confused about which new DID estimator to use? A bit more than a year ago, I wrote a short paper that gives a simple answer. I just completed a revision of that paper so here’s a 🧵 to celebrate! 1/N #econtwitter #differenceindifferences

Gonna be a great Good Friday weekend!! Psyched to be organizing this doctoral conference at IIM Calcutta for Econ PhD students. Two fantastic plenary speakers, fabulous discussants and a promising set of papers from the brightest young scholars across the country. #EconTwitter

V1.0 of our #WorkingPaper (with Pushkar Maitra and Manhar) on the impact of political competition on economic development is now available online: monash.edu/__data/assets/…. We show that the presence of a “relevant 3rd candidate” in Indian elections results in higher NL growth

Extremely glad to have presented our paper on political competition (jt. work with Sourav Bhattacharya, Somdeep Chatterjee Pushkar Maitra) at the Cornell Conference on Dev Econ. & Law. Beautiful campus, brilliant people, engaging conversations. Thank you, Prof. Kaushik Basu for the invite

An extraordinary piece of work by Nitin Kumar Bharti and Li Yang, showcasing human capital trajectories in India and China using historical reports dating back to 1900! A must read.

🚀 The #DiD Winter 2024 update is here! ❄ All the #Stata code has been rechecked and updated. Honest evaluation: ➕ the established Difference-in-Difference packages are very stable in terms of outputs. ➕Newer versions of old packages are now much faster. ➕New packages have

Very happy to share this news. Joint work with Manhar studying the consequences of #ECI’s 2022 Gujarat #GOTV call. Now forthcoming at #PublicChoice journal. #EconTwitter #PolSciTwitter paper link here: dropbox.com/scl/fi/arbqhy8…

#EconTwitter Delighted to be back with our in-person seminars at IIM Calcutta . Happy to host Pushkar Maitra , #ParimalBag, ProfAnanish, @j_fgomes and Areendam Chanda for a fantastic series of talks!! Looking forward.

1/ Out now: "How Indian Voters Decide"--a compendium of 10 essays that Carnegie Endowment published in 2024 to explore the underlying drivers of political behavior in India as part of our #IndiaElects2024 initiative.

#RDDers: check it out. "When Can We Trust Regression Discontinuity Design Estimates from Close Elections? Evidence from Experimental Benchmarks"

Since we're talking about the validity of close elections RDDs today, I thought I'd drop a few recent articles about issues that arise in this space so that folks can have them all in one place. #1. Hartman (2021) shows that most tests of covariate balance around close election

Happy to see joint work with Manhar accepted at the Scottish Journal of Political Economy. Manhar is a #JMC - if you are looking for an applied microeconomist or hiring in political economy related fields - take a look at him: sites.google.com/view/manharman…

Delighted to announce the prelim program for the #AmitavaBoseMemorialAnnualWorkshop. Looking forward to the 4 *Amitava Bose Special Sessions* by Maitreesh Ghatak, #DilipMookherjee, #DebrajRay and #RohiniSomanathan and papers by 45 other economists in the 5 sets of parallel sessions.

Very happy to be able share the polling-level dataset on Indian elections 2009, 2014, 2019 that we have been working on for more than a decade. Both the data and the data descriptor in Scientific Data are open access. Pranav Gupta SV-fakultetet UiO

Very happy to see my paper “How substitutable are the classical and radical right?” with Carlos Sanz (at the Banco de España and CEMFI) published in the Journal of Public Economics. The paper addresses a simple question: take a party of the classical right (e.g., CDU in Germany