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Just completed a final draft of "Probability and Statistics for Economics and Business: An Introduction Using R," which I am happy to share is under contract with MIT Press. If any instructor would like to check it out (for free), send me a DM or e-mail. probstats4econ.com

Greetings from beautiful Cambridge, MA! Here for NumFOCUS Project Summit 2024! nfsummit24.com #opensource #openscience

As promised, here are a few more details about why we renamed estimagic to optimagic and what it means for users: tinyurl.com/optimagic-rena…

Great to see an Econ Nobel Prize winner getting this into helping students with their Python! paulromer.net/escaping-from-… #EconTwitter #datascience #python

We’re advocating for increased econ PhD stipends in our discussions with university admin. If you’re at an R1 public university, please share your stipend level and whether your insurance premium is covered. Your insights will strengthen our case. Reply or DM me or RT—thank you!

We just submitted a report on our REMARK initiative titled "Reproducibility Standards in Economics" in collaboration with Curvenote. This project was funded by Johns Hopkins University @MSELibrary Open Source Programs Office and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. econ-ark.github.io/FOSSProF/

Was really happy to contribute to this cool project! Open source science is the future of econ.

Today, we welcome Chris Carroll (JHU), presenting his paper "Welfare and Spending Effects of Consumption Stimulus Policies," co-authored with Edmund Crawley (FED), Ivan Frankovic (BBK), and Hakon Tretvoll (SSB). 1/7

Conclusion: UI extensions provide the "best bang for the buck" in welfare terms, while stimulus checks have the highest immediate spending impact. Payroll tax cuts offer little benefit compared to the other two options. 7/7

📢 New Working Paper Alert! I am happy to share a new paper: “Intertemporal MPC and Shock Size”  with Tullio Jappelli (CSEF ), Alessandro Sciacchetano, and LSE Department of Economics.  💬 Comments & feedback are more than welcome! Paper: 👇 dropbox.com/scl/fi/sdyyn4e… 👇Below is a short summary 🧵

Open call for applications, Post-Doctoral Fellowship on Wealth and Income Inequality. Submit applications by 11:59pm EDT on December 5, 2024. More information: nber.org/career-resourc…

📢Job Announcement!📢 Seeking OCR/text recognition expert for projects on US racial inequality. Position is fully remote within the US. Google form + link to formal application here: tinyurl.com/4km52r3u

QuantEcon has released an updated version of the Julia lecture notes, with updated manifests and packages for Julia 1.11 support: julia.quantecon.org/intro.html

We have just added a new lecture on Neural Network using Keras and JAX. ❣️Don’t miss it.❣️ jax.quantecon.org/keras.html

Open call for applications, Graduate Student Workshop on Heterogeneous-Agent Macroeconomics. Workshop to be held in Cambridge, MA on June 4-6, 2025. Submit applications by 11:59pm EDT on February 27, 2025. More information: nber.org/calls-papers-a…

Arpit Gupta A hedge fund with a university attached to it — preserving the capital comes first

Forthcoming in AEJ: Macroeconomics: "Temporary Layoffs, Firm Entry and Exit Dynamics, and Aggregate Fluctuations" by Sanjay K. Chugh and Alan Finkelstein Shapiro. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

A very valuable review of agent-based modeling! "Agent-Based Modeling in Economics and Finance: Past, Present, and Future" by Robert L. Axtell and J. Doyne Farmer aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

Congratulations to Stefanie Stantcheva (Stefanie Stantcheva s-stantcheva.bsky.social) of Harvard University, winner of the 2025 John Bates Clark Medal! aeaweb.org/about-aea/hono…