#historytwitter please RT, I am looking for a map of coastal shipping routes in the United States at any time during the 19th century, please help Phil Magness Judge Glock Robert E. Wright @KevinGutzman Oxford Economic & Social History EHA Economic and Business History Society European Historical Economics Society Nathan Nunn 𝗡𝘂𝗻𝗼 𝗣𝗮𝗹𝗺𝗮

Does anyone know where to find Census 2000 block shapefiles for US states? Block group files are available on the Census website, but I can't find 2000 block files anywhere. I appreciate any help! #econtwitter #spatial

Did video gaming expansion boost municipal revenues in Illinois? By Gary A. Wagner of University of Louisiana at Lafayette & Dr. Douglas Walker of College of Charleston. #revenue #videogaming #videogames #economics doi.org/10.1002/soej.1…

New paper in Journal of Urban Economics with Tim Komarek and Gary A. Wagner. We estimate the local fiscal multiplier for government spending *declines* from the 2011 Budget Control Act 5-min summary: kylebutts.com/papers/fiscal-… Full Paper: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Looking for help from the #RStats community. Anyone know the vroom pipe connection equivalent to dplyr's filter(x %in% y), where y is a vector? I'm trying to pre-filter a large file. Maybe ky?

Holy cow. Started playing with data.table and it is so fast!

🚨ODU is hiring!🚨 Come join our great community in Hampton Roads! Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions. jobs.odu.edu/postings/19146

Help signal boost if you can 🙏🏼

.International Tax and Public Finance is currently seeking nominations for possible vacancies in the positions of editor-in-chief, policy watch editors, and associate editors. We would be delighted to receive your nominations (including self nominations)! Nominate here: uky.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8e…

We are super off-cycle (due to unexpected departures), but we have two TT lines that just got approved/posted! Each position requires a research focus related to agriculture/natural resources. Hit me up if you have questions! We're planning to move fast. jobs.montana.edu/postings/40716

My #MSUeconomics grad student needs 1 more paper/presenter for National Tax Assoc. 117 Annual Conference in Detroit. If you have a paper on the Take-up of Tax Credits/The Filing Decision Among Low-Income Households email your abstract to Fran Alba or reply to me. #econtwitter #MSUeconomics

The community development department at the Philly Fed is full of fantastic people.

Looking for some #RStats help. I created a factor using: mutate(x = factor(x, levels = unique(x)). When I reran the code and compared to a previous run, something with the factor is different. dplyr::all_equal reports this: factor<a0b1e> vs factor<038df>. What does this mean?

Who knows Steph Curry? Lorenzo is his biggest fan. foxcarolina.com/2024/08/17/ash…

You know what takes a long time, bootstrapping on a regression with 20+ million observations.

The idea that the US health care system is free market or an indictment of the private sector is ludicrous when only 11 cents of every dollar of health care expenditure is out of pocket. It was 33 cents in 1970. It’s a government system with perverse profits for certain players.

I’m excited to co-organize this NBER conference with Jim Poterba on issues related to the performance and fiscal dynamics of state and local governments. Please help to circulate widely and submit your papers!

#NewProfilePic

New research by Justin Callais, Vincent Geloso, Alicia Plemmons, and Gary A. Wagner uses the Archbridge Institute's Net Productive Entrepreneurship Index to analyze migration between regions.