SERI is excited to announce an Indian Job Market for Economists. IJME will be organized in association with The Econometric Society, @EconJobMarket and NCAER. Learn more at seri.network/ijme/

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1/ I spent over 4 years in my PhD deep inside mathematical models of wireless systems. It slowly dawned on me that the professors were addicted to the models themselves and never entertained any doubts about whether the models had much to do with reality.

Are you looking for free publicly available datasets? Johnny 🍌Bananas🍌 has this great repository of rich datasets that would greatly aid in your research journey docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

So many aspiring young social scientists applying for their first research assistant positions right now, I thought I'd regale you with my first RA job (and my third best field work story). 👇

Municipal Corporations in India are struggling. RBI did some research to understand the reasons why and published a report on the same. A thread on the report.

India has one of the lowest rates of women in paid work. Great Lakes Institute of Management is hosting a research conference to deliberate on related issues on 9th/10th Dec 2022. Please join us on campus or virtually. The conference agenda is here - greatlakes.edu.in/chennai/inspir…

Inflation rate: Argentina 🇦🇷 88% Turkey 🇹🇷 85.51% Netherlands 🇳🇱 14.3% Russia 🇷🇺 12.6% Italy 🇮🇹 11.8% UK 🇬🇧 11.1% Germany 🇩🇪 10% Mexico 🇲🇽 8.41% USA 🇺🇸 7.7% India 🇮🇳 6.77% Brazil 🇧🇷 6.47% France 🇫🇷 6.2% Indonesia 🇮🇩 5.42% Japan 🇯🇵 3.7% Switzerland 🇨🇭 3% China 🇨🇳 2.1%

Daron Acemoğlu on whether it is important to have broad research interests:

Call for Research Assistant. Email me at [email protected] if you have any questions Econ RA Listings

For those using Jeffrey Wooldridge 's "Introductory #Econometrics" book, you probably know about Florian Heiss & Daniel Brunner books for Learning #R and #Python Great news now there is one more using #julia! Great way to learn all the basics! For now he also has the pdfs!

Last Saturday, I visited University of Houston after long time for 2nd Alumni Conference! It was not only fun but emotional to relive the past! I met my advisors, friends and current #PhD students! Thank you for organizing this Elaine Liu Dietz Vollrath & Kei-Mu. University of Houston Economics Alumni Association

Not new news, but still shocking: The West played an important role in pressuring India to engage in mass sterilization to control population in the 1970s. It wasn’t India acting all on its own. From Scott Alexander

Updated Google Search Phillips Curve: • Inflation search interest peaked in August 2022 and has dropped to about half that high by May 2023. • But inflation search interest is still about double levels of 2019 & 2020 • Unemployment search interest remains low

🤷🤷‍♀️New data: SHRUG 2 is out!! Development Data Lab has been working on this for two years, a HUGE update to India’s coolest data platform: 1. Maps of *every* 2011 town and village, with ids 2. All data at every geography (villages, districts, ACs, etc)... devdatalab.org/shrug 🧵1/N

In the first study of its kind, we looked at the outcomes of the top 250 rankers from the IIT class of 2013-2020. HALF of the top ranking IITians 30-32 years old are in the USA, but only 20% of the 25 year olds are! 🧵 1/4

Wrote an Op-ed in Mint with Prof VidyaMahambare. We talk about how consumption data can shed more nuance to our understanding of economic prosperity and variation thereof across states. Link: livemint.com/opinion/online…

Our new Op-ed in Mint. A thread by Prof VidyaMahambare on the same.

The Nobel Prize committee validates that institutions matter for economic prosperity. #NobelPrize2024