#rstats we go back a long time but sometimes you are just so weird.

Love the tweet

Yes, ScPoEcon we teach a full course (24 hours) of basic programming skills floswald.github.io/ScPoProgrammin… Students appreciate (see below). I still hear the odd 'isn't that a waste of valuable teaching time' comment every now and then. Couldn't disagree more.

Well, INDEED! This particular bus stop stands about 500m from the house I grew up in. Krumbach's bus stops are a thing actually. 7 international top architects built one stop each. check it out.
bregenzerwald.at/en/activity/bu…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BUS:STOP_…

🚨We are still looking for French-speaking RAs for research projects in the DR Congo focusing on state capacity and development. Apply and come work with us!

Predoc: povertyactionlab.org/careers/predoc…

Research Associate: povertyactionlab.org/careers/resear…

Research Intern: povertyactionlab.org/careers/resear…

Join us on Tues. 28 (at 6pm) for the next meeting of the PhD Urban Economics Seminar in Paris! 🏙️

We are lucky to have Thomas Monnier presenting his ongoing research! Check the program & access the mailing list here: mateomoglia.github.io/seminars/

First time for me at Paris 1 - Thanks for the invite to the 13th arrondissement 😀! We had a fun seminar.

I wrote a blog post for RES Data Editor about reproducibility challenges across Stata versions. Based on forthcoming The Economic Journal paper by Konrad Burchardi et al (paper replicates perfectly!)
ejdataeditor.github.io/posts/20240505…
#econtwitter #reproducibility AEA Data Editor Miklos Koren Joan Llull (Econ)

My views, concisely, on this.

1. Tax incidence is messy., but Gabriel Zucman ‘s current assumption is reasonable in my view and is consistent with other recent work. See e.g. patrick-kennedy.github.io/files/TCJA_KDL…

2. I don’t agree with excluding the EITC when measuring tax rates. In fact I

Mannheim Macro is back with their quantitative macro workshop! targeted mainly at junior economists based in Europe. There is going to be at least one outstanding keynote talk! Victoria Vanasco 😉

humbled and grateful that

New lecture out, long overdue. Parallel programming.
floswald.github.io/NumericalMetho…

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