🚨NEW PAPER🚨 "Anonymity and Identity Online" We geolocate the majority of EJMR posters and show that posting on EJMR is wide-spread at US universities and also frequent in other organizations employing economists. Presentation at NBER SI (7/20/2023): nber.org/conferences/si…

📊🔍 Erica Field, Robert Garlick,Syed Uzair Junaid, Alieha Shahid, Nivedhitha Subramanian, and Kate Vyborny have curated a valuable dataset on urban labor market effects of COVID and recovery! 💼📈 🔗 Stay updated: bit.ly/3NDQp14 Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office #EconTwitter

Hi #EconTwitter!🌐 Intrigued by the #economics (and #econometrics) of 𝗻𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀?📈 Check out this substantial piece📚by David Easley & Jon Kleinberg (Cornell University). Perfect if you're seeking a comprehensive, yet non-technical, introduction to the field. A must-have!🌟

Causal forests by Wager and Athey in JASA are for heterogeneous treatment effects. Causal transformers bring the AI revolution for a new credibility revolution: even better randomized and natural experiments. Check out my paper now! machinelearningxdoing.com/generalized-tr…

Useful advice from Chris Blattman. This is appropriate for 21yo+. 👇

The evidence does not seem to support the belief that growth mindset interventions impact students’ academic achievement.

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Forthcoming at EJ: ‘Gender Differences in Reference Letters: Evidence from the Economics Job Market,’ by Markus Eberhardt, Giovanni Facchini, Valeria Rueda doi.org/10.1093/ej/uea… Markus Eberhardt GiovanniFacchini @valiguaran Royal Economic Society @OUPEconomics #EconTwitter #OpenAccess

What works to address #gender gaps? This excellent WorldBank report includes 8 evidence briefs that summarize the findings from a review of more than 150 studies analyzing the effectiveness of #GenderEquality interventions across 26 countries in #SubSaharanAfrica. The briefs

Cell phone mobility data can be used to infer wages in areas within a city. In the July 2023 issue, by Gabriel E. Kreindler @thetahat and Yuhei Miyauchi Yuhei Miyauchi. zurl.co/hZps

My personal top-5 favorite graphs/exhibits from Claudia #Goldin papers 1. Gender pay gap is present in (almost) all occupations, even controlling for age, race and education. Why? Because of the "value placed on the hours and job continuity of workers" aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

In the U.S., as in many other countries, female labor force participation and earnings have been largely mischaracterized. Closing gender gaps is a major policy priority, and thorough research on effective interventions has never been more necessary.

Forthcoming at EJ: ‘The Limitations of Activity-Based Instruction to Improve the Productivity of Schooling’ by Andreas de Barros, Johanna Fajardo-Gonzalez, Paul Glewwe, Ashwini Sankar doi.org/10.1093/ej/uea… Ashwini S Johanna Fajardo-Gonzalez Andy de Barros Royal Economic Society #EconTwitter

Check out the first papers in the Environmental Research: Climate Focus Issue: Focus on Understanding the Gender and Climate Change Nexus ow.ly/KEbo50REna3 Special thanks to Guest Editors: Johanna Fajardo-Gonzalez Anna Fruttero WorldBank Daniel Halim WorldBank Alejandro Lopez-Feldman Ana Maria Tribin

If your primary job is not research but you want to keep publishing research, how do you do it? Based on a prompt from Amber Peterman, I offer 6 suggestions based on my experience in non-research units of international organizations. 👇 What's your advice and what did I get wrong?

This past semester I was tasked to teach a course on Data Science for Economist at Emory Economics Some of the materials I have used in the course can be found here: psantanna.com/Econ520/ I‘ve leveraged a good amount of work from the greats Grant McDermott https://bsky.app/profile/gmcd.bsy and Tyler Ransom

We learn more from reading on paper than on screens. 54 studies, 171k people: we process print more deeply than digital content—as long as it's informational rather than purely narrative. The paper advantage holds across ages and has grown over time. Long live physical books.

Great paper on experimental measures of bargaining power in 🇬🇭 & 🇺🇬 w/ lots of takeaway nuggets! Must read for the women's agency measurement crowd Kate Ambler @kmpjones & Recalde in JEBO cc. IFPRI doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo…