🇮🇹 The most astonishing bit of this graph is that it is NOT on the first page of every Italian newspaper every single day. It should.

J’Accuse! Antisemitism and Financial Markets in the Time of the Dreyfus Affair | Quoc-Anh (Q.A.) Do, Roberto Galbiati, Benjamin Marx, Miguel A. Ortiz-Serrano #EconTwitter cesifo.org/en/publication…

Friendship Networks and Political Opinions: A Natural Experiment among Future French Politicians | Yann Algan, Nicolò Dalvit, Quoc-Anh (Q.A.) Do, Alexis Le Chapelain, Yves Zenou #EconTwitter cesifo.org/en/publication…

Power, Scrutiny, and Congressmen’s Favoritism for Friends’ Firms | Quoc-Anh (Q.A.) Do, Yen-Teik Lee, Bang D. Nguyen, Kieu-Trang Nguyen #EconTwitter cesifo.org/en/publication…

From our AEA cttee on the job market, an update on the #EconJobMarket. In brief, the # of job listings is down, esp. nonacademic. Summary with graphs follows, with full report at: aeaweb.org/joe/communicat… Cc: AEA Information @JOE_listings CSWEP AEA Committee on the Status of LGBTQ+ Individuals #EconTwitter 1/5

Deeply saddened by the passing of my former colleague Philippe Martin... Philippe was such a nice person and such a sharp mind and brilliant economist...

🧵(1/11) Finally coming out in Journal of Financial Economics🥁 Quantifying the impact of red tape on investment: A survey data approach (joint w/G.Zheng) download for free from my website (link in bio) This thread provides a quick summary First, motivation... #EconTwitter #research 🥂🎆

Four years ago I sat poolside in San Diego and tweeted out this thread about the state of the AEA, as revealed at the annual business meeting. Things didn't look great then. They look worse now. In fact, they prompt a question: have we passed "peak economics?" This year's 🧵...

Hot off the press! New EJ virtual issue – Religion and Economics – out now. Featuring a foreword by Joint Managing Editor Sascha O. Becker👉bit.ly/3yP3EXP #FreeToView @OUPEconomics Royal Economic Society @essobecker

🚨Announcing APEN 2024!!!🚨 🌏U of Sydney 🗓️November 8, 2024 Peter Bils (Vanderbilt) Jiahua Che (CEIBS) Claudio Ferraz (UBC) Pauline Grosjean (UNSW) Masyhur Hilmy (UNSW) Federica Izzo (UCSD) Motohiro Kumagai (ANU) Register here: sites.google.com/view/apenetwor…

✈️ Heading to Adelaide this morning. Looking forward to seeing Paul Raschky Kathryn Baragwanath Patrick Healy @rdahis Ashani Amarasinghe Emilia @econemilia.bsky.social Quoc-Anh (Q.A.) Do and many others, and present our new paper on "Bad Democracy Traps"!

Does astrology work? We tested the ability of 152 astrologers to see if they could demonstrate genuine astrological skill. Here is how the study was designed and what we found (including a result that really surprised me): 🧵

1/ 🚨 We’ve built an interactive tool that lets you explore the Political Leaning Index for the top 1,000 musical artists in the US! This index measures the relationship between music streaming patterns across regions and the voting patterns of those regions in the 2020 election

Astrology and Matrimony: Social Reinforcement of Religious Beliefs on Marriage Matching in Vietnam | Edoardo Ciscato Quoc-Anh (Q.A.) Do Kieu-Trang Nguyen #econtwitter cesifo.org/en/publication…

We are very excited to share our list of great Monash PhD & Post-Doc candidates on the 2024-25 job market. We have a great cohort this year. List here: monash.edu/business/econo…

Beautiful important paper. But no shattering to no core in my view! Economics is not built on the (silly, because obviously wrong) presumption of neutrality. It is instead built on the (I believe correct) presumption that its adoption of analytical and statistical analysis i)

Excited to share this IZA non-technical article of our recent paper on the impact of disruptive peers, co-authored with Yves Zenou, Silvia Griselda and Sofoklis Goulas, Ph.D. on the impact of disruptive peers!

The contact hypothesis is a leading theory in social psychology--the idea is that interpersonal contact between groups, under favorable conditions, reduces prejudice. What do we learn from the new wave of pre-registered contact experiments? 🧵

How Tariffs Affect Trade Deficits... ... a new paper with amazing trade economist Arnaud Costinot. Many politicians and the general public expect tariffs to reduce imports lower imports and thus work to close a trade deficit. Economists typically say "not so fast"... 🧵1/n