Yes, we can track when you’re on campus. And we do! We just don’t access those data until we need to.

Folks seemed to like these before, so I'm posting the full set of slides from my advanced undergrad 'metrics course at Brown University (drawn from an earlier class developed at The University of Chicago, with parts co-developed by Jonathan Roth)

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I’m filling out a medical form online and I’m curious who’s out there speaking Old English.

Missed the seminar?

🎧Listen to the @NOVAFRICA NovaSBE Sustainable Development Talks with Marco Manacorda School of Economics & Finance at Queen Mary on his paper

'The International Transmission of Democratic Values: Evidence from the African Diaspora'

Link: 🔗bit.ly/4b585LW

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IV-OLS gap can be empirically decomposed, accounting for heterogeneity, nonlinearity, and endogeneity bias. In the March 2024 issue of REStat by Shoya Ishimaru. zurl.co/PZVZ

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Economics can help us think about some of the toughest problems facing society & how to use data to find answers. Abhijit Banerjee & Esther Duflo explain how in a #DEDP course based on their book “Good Economics for Hard Times. ” Enroll here: bit.ly/3Utkzaw #EconTwitter

Can you remind me of an econ article published on the impact of Mexico's war on drugs on education? It may have been published in JDE or RESTAT.

It's going to cost £1.8 million per person sent to Rwanda.

£1,800,000

Per person.

That's the Rwanda Bill.

Great insights at my CSEF masterclass on the real impact of research beyond filling literature gaps — addressing economic problems is key! Thanks carla guerriero Monica Langella Michele Giannola Armando Miano Lorenzo Pandolfi Andrea Ramazzotti Valeria Zurla Roberto Nisticò Giovanni Pica 👇

We're hosting the 4th Early Career workshop in Quantitative Political Economy 16-17 May 2024! The event is open to PhD students and Postdocs from any social science using quantitative methods to study politics and policies.

Apply now! More info here:

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***tomorrow***

See you at University of Westminster from 12:00!

One more add-on to #jwdid . Now you should be able to estimate constrained heterogeneity
Baseline: full cohort calendar
Others: twfe, event only, calendar only, group only. Restricted event cohort.
And continuous treatment (under linearity)

Had a workshop recently where people were divided into teams, given same dataset, asked to find the most interesting story, illustrate it, and present it. All in 10 min. Fascinating how many teams got the same story, except the ones presented by historians. Great storytellers.

!Excited to share our year-end event!

Workers’ struggles and capitalist strategies: Perspectives from Africa and South America in an age of
‘sustainability'

17 and 18 June 2024 Queen Mary University of London

Register here: forms.gle/rArrGXmtnjieSk…

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Attention all econ post-dos: Universität Osnabrück advertised a three yr position in International Economic Policy ⁦Humboldt-Stiftung⁩ ⁦African Economic Research Consortium⁩ uni-osnabrueck.de/universitaet/s…

Introduction to the JDE Special Issue on 'Methods and Measurement' is up!

* measurement error, field experiments, expanding the scope of measures & more 🤓

Kathleen Beegle Dillon Dean Karlan & Christopher Udry

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🚨 Just a couple of weeks left until the deadline (May 3) to submit your paper for presentation at the XV Transatlantic Workshop on the Economics of Crime at ETH Zurich on Oct 4-5!📢

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Just watched Scoop on Netflix, def recommend it 🍿🍿

Brought me back to a journalism course I took a few years ago when the Prince Andrew interview first aired. My classmates & I agreed it was a masterclass in interviewing techniques. Fab to learn more about behind-the-scenes.

Colegas en México, me encantaría si me ayudan a difundir esto. Quiero contratar estudiantes de licenciatura durante el verano que me ayuden a recolectar datos sobre crimen organizado en México. Cualquier estudiante interesado por favor escríbanme a [email protected] 1/