"Manuscript writers cafe" in Tokyo only allows in people up against a writing deadline, berates them to finish, and won't let them leave until the manuscript is finished. 😂 grapee.jp/en/199026

Hi #EconTwitter! Want to dive into 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧 for causal inference? then, you cannot miss these two volumes by the RDD superstars Matias Cattaneo, Rocio Titiunik (@princeton) and Nicolas Idrobo (Penn). A must-have!

Links notes: kevinsheppard.com/files/teaching… Slides: kevinsheppard.com/files/teaching… kevinsheppard.com/files/teaching… kevinsheppard.com/files/teaching… More stuff on Kevin's webpage: kevinsheppard.com

Want to work at DIME? 10+ entry level opportunities to get hands-on experience in impactful economics research (in Washington DC and in various field research locations). worldbank.org/en/research/di…

Bob Lucas on the art of writing in economics.

Application deadline: August 31, 2023 Visit the link for more details: bit.ly/41FD3Wr #WeareAERC #AERCImpact

We have some funding available to support African conference speakers (see full criteria). If awarded, funded participants will attend both a pre-conference workshop at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, & #OxCSAE2024. Find out more & submit your paper: csae.ox.ac.uk/csae-conferenc…

The BREAD virtual courses on Development Economics are an excellent free resource for PhD students anywhere in the world. Earlier courses covered education; credit, risk, and insurance; migration; and firms. New one on environment & development below: Imran Rasul Pascaline Dupas

Done Deal! ✔️ The transformational new agreements between the Government of Botswana and DeBeers reflects the aspirations of the people of Botswana. #AdvancingTogether #PushaBW #ResetBW #TransformBW #EmpowerBatswana #GoMasisi 🇧🇼

Once upon a time in a village, a man appeared and announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for $10 each. The villagers, seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out to the forest and started catching them. The man bought thousands at $10 and as supply

🚨#callforpapers UNTANGLED is seeking papers for its 23 November conference: Labour market effects and social impact of technological transformation, globalisation & demographic change 🗓️Submit your paper by 24 September ➡️More details & CfP: bit.ly/44IfTAh #EconTwitter

“This boy was carrying his dead brother on his back to bury him In Japan, during the war A soldier noticed him and asked him to throw this dead child so that he would not get tired. The boy replied: He's not heavy, that's my brother!" The soldier understood and broke down in

Researchers love to offer '1st best' advice to policymakers & then walk away when advice is ignored due to political incentives. If we care about impact, let's carefully look at what a 2nd best -accounting for pol. constraints- looks like. And then give 'subversive' advice.

New call for papers. Conference on: "Structural Changes and the Implications for Inflation" Eltville (near Frankfurt), 7-8 May 2024. Keynotes from Carolin Pflueger and Ludwig Straub . Submission link (and PDF of call) in replies. Please submit!

My paper, "The Cross-Sectional Implications of the Social Discount Rate", is forthcoming in Econometrica! The basic idea of the paper in 5 tweets, and then some acknowledgements 1/9

Immigration drives politics in Europe and America. It has also produced two phrases - STOP THE BOATS and BUILD THE WALL. But you can’t stop immigration. For now, it’s pushed by situation in source countries. Soon, with demographic trend in Europe, it’ll be demand-driven.

1/5 Looking for a clear and gentle intro to shift-share instruments? I'm excited to release today our "practice guide to shift-share instruments" with Kirill Borusyak and Peter Hull, forthcoming at the Journal of Economic Perspectives AEA Journals 👇👇👇👇👇

Great initiative by #GreatmanMusic. RETWEET and help him reach as many people as possible! You know what, my people? A retweet costs you nothing. And when you see somebody who is disabled, like Great Man, pushing this initiative, it should shame us who are able-bodied that we

Mwari makanaka, ndokumbirawo 200 reposts ma Zimba. Skin cancer must fall, lets make this video viral if possible My name is Queen of BaTonga, daughter of the royal, Zambezia water tribe.❤️ #HutanoKuvanhu #AlbinismKonnect #2day2Go