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📣 We're excited to announce our 2024 Membership Round is open! We’re looking to expand our network w/ new individual researchers & institutional members. Deadline: Sept 30, 2024 For more details & to apply, see here: forms.gle/eFfNQFQzZR9UMX… Please RT & share w/ networks!

Loss of an intellectual giant. His work was an inspiration to me as a grad student and remains ever relevant.

Interested in becoming an EGAP member? We’re expanding our network! Learn more and apply today: forms.gle/eFfNQFQzZR9UMX… Deadline: Sept 30, 2024

There is not enough constancy in the social world for "cumulating understanding of recurrent macro phenomena" to be a reasonable goal for social scientists. A better goal is providing "micro navigation tools" for selecting good actions in ever-evolving macro circumstances.

Interesting analysis: “sample sizes typical of many real-world clinical trials datasets often constrain regression adjustment methodologies from attaining their theoretical potential in practice.” Proposes methods to “borrow observations from large-scale observational datasets.”

NYU's Politics Department is seeking outstanding and innovative scholars for two positions at the assistant professor level: International Relations and US Politics. For full descriptions and to apply visit apply.interfolio.com/152515 (IR) and apply.interfolio.com/152513 (US).

Junior faculty recruitment in IR and American Politics at NYU:

Fortunately there is a pre-analysis plan …

The seamless interface between estimatr and modelsummary in R is such an efficiency boost, not to mention the brilliant performance of each respective package. Vincent Arel-Bundock and estimatr team (no longer here?) bravo

Effect heterogeneity restrictions in studying mechanisms and in mediation analysis cyrussamii.com/?p=3979

Maximal covariate leverage strikes again (cf. Alwyn Young's work on randomization inference and degrees of freedom corrections), balance test edition.

The Mercury Project’s Health Ambassadors researchers are gathered this week in Nairobi to collaborate on data analysis & results interpretation. The project is an intervention across four countries: Côte d’Ivoire, Malawi, Senegal, & Zimbabwe. Learn more at egap.org/healthambassad…

Scholars of political economy in Africa: please remember to apply for the 2025 #WGAPE meeting at OSU on April 25-27. Papers and research designs are due Jan. 7. Full travel funding is provided for selected authors. Africa-based scholars are particularly encouraged to apply.

How do you get an event study that looks like this? By having almost no treatment variation. 🧵 1/ #econtwitter

very excited to see the paper "Nonparametric identification is not enough, but randomized controlled trials are" with comments from Ben Recht ("A Bureaucratic Theory of Statistics") and myself ("What randomization can and cannot guarantee"): muse.jhu.edu/issue/54591