We have a new paper explaining all the ways you can use natural language processing to analyze text data in Nature Reviews Psychology We provide user friendly recommendations for using NLP to ensure rigour and reproducibility Free link: nature.com/articles/s4415… Led by Stefan Feuerriegel

Explore more: The paper is available in open access here: 7/7 cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Fantastic macro data source for 243 countries - GDP, inflation, government finance, trade, unemployment, interest rates etc. - open-source - continuously updated - unification and extension of existing resources (IMF, World Bank, and OECD) with historical records:

Just submitted the final proofs of my new book, Impact Evaluation in Firms and Organizations, set to be published by The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social this summer! Compared to my first book, #CausalAnalysis, it’s shorter, less technical, and focused on business applications. Here’s the table of contents

We are very happy to publish the new National Elections Database, including the results of 1,023 presidential and 2,962 parliamentary elections conducted worldwide since 1946! nationalelectionsdatabase.com with Benjamin Marx and Vincent Rollet

This paper has been in the making for so long that eight children across the co-author group were born between the time we started and now! But it is finally out, and you can check it at arxiv.org/pdf/2503.13323

Our paper with Simon Freyaldenhoven, Christian Hansen, Jesse Shapiro, and Constantino Carreto about panel event study designs and their estimation with Stata is now published in the Stata Journal! Paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117… Stata Package: github.com/JMSLab/xtevent

🚨We just released a paper examining the long-terms economic impacts of "Liberation Day" tariffs. In summary: while these tariffs may help reduce the trade deficit, they will impose significant costs on the U.S. economy after retaliation by trade partners.

In a new paper, we build a new NKOE global network model and decompose the impact of tariffs on inflation, output, and exchange rate into channels of demand, supply, monetary policy, sectoral nominal rigidities, inflation-exchange rate expectations and global I-O linkages

Today I taught Acemoglu's paper "Simple Macroeconomics of AI" for my "Economics of AI" class at Baylor. If you're dying to see a deck of slides on it, well aren't you in luck. I decided today that I am not a marxist, but I may be an acemogluist dropbox.com/scl/fi/9bglvhb…

Really cool! The "Global Fuel Prices Database" "Global Fuel Prices Database provides monthly retail fuel prices of regular gasoline (research octane number, RON, below 95), premium gasoline (RON of 95 or above), diesel, kerosene, LPG for automobiles, bottled LPG, heating oil,

We have a new post! There's something for everyone: conditional triple-DiD, triple IV-DiD, covariate-balancing DiD, spatial Synthetic DiD, and updated DiD textbook (de Chaisemartin & D’Haultfœuille v2.0) (link in the replies)

This is an incredibly important paper that I think all professors TAs, curriculum designers, EdTech developers working on AI tutoring tools, educational policy makers, academic administrators and et al. should read it

New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP20246 The 2025 #Trade War: Dynamic Impacts Across U.S. States and the Global Economy Andres Rodríguez-Clare UC Berkeley, Mauricio Ulate Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Jose P. Vasquez LSE ow.ly/Wjbq50VThjg #CEPR_ITRE #EconTwitter

Version 2.0 of the National Elections Database is online! nationalelectionsdatabase.com We now cover presidential and parliamentary elections 1789–2023, extending the post-1945 data of Electoral Turnovers The Review of Economic Studies (academic.oup.com/restud/advance…). w/ Benjamin Marx and Vincent Rollet

This is great (gonna save it for next post)

github.com/kylebutts/vsco… If you are using vscode and stata, you should try out my extension. It uses interactive window which let's you write in a `.do` file but get a notebook type experience.

The repeated argument that AI is not actually useful to real people needs to be retired based on the representative national surveys we now have on real AI users. Teachers using AI report 6 hour a week time savings. Workers using AI report 3x productivity gains on 1/5 of tasks.

🎉 The 53rd EBES Conference has officially kicked off in 🇪🇸 Madrid! Over the next 3 days, leading researchers in economics, business, and finance will share cutting-edge work, exchange ideas, and build collaborations. Excited to be part of it! #EBES2025 #MadridConference

Join us at the 54th EBES Conference in Paris, Jan 8-10, 2026 🇫🇷 Hybrid event: present in-person or via Zoom! 🌍 All papers in economics, finance, & business welcome. #EBES2026 #Economics #Finance #Business #AcademicConference