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On why he is retiring from academia: "It just didn't make sense to me to keep on puttering around, doing all this work, spending years to write papers that no one cared about when I had other ways of getting my ideas out. And really my interests were elsewhere. I didn't get any

🚨Attention all international tax scholars! 💰🌍🧑‍🎓 We are super excited to share that our International Tax Institutions database became public! The ITI provides in a single place the most relevant tax indicators for more than 200 jurisdictions over two decades 🧵

Sociologists study economists. Is there any research vice versa ?

A really strong policy statement from the new editors of American Political Science Review. Bravo.

Studying when and how using the exchange rate can speed up growth, from Pablo Ottonello, Diego J. Perez, and William Witheridge nber.org/papers/w32522

Is this the sentence with the most "differences" on Earth ? (from : Lai, Y. C., & Sarkar, S. (2023). The impact of the US–China trade war on Taiwanese firms' R&D investment and outward investment to technologically advanced countries. International Journal of Manpower.)

Other programming languages' IDE :

Everyone today.

A brief 🧵 on why I think the Nobel prize to Daron Acemoglu Simon Johnson and Jim Robinson (AJR) on institutions is one of the very good ones.

Talk about timely.

Important paper on the importance of analysing economic processes, not just equilibria, by Brian Arthur: ’Economics in Nouns and Verbs’. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

"Notably, about 40% of the manufacturing job loss effect is due to continuing establishments switching their primary activity from manufacturing to trade-related services such as research, management, and wholesale." - Nick Bloom, Kyle Handley Kurmann, and Luck

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

After being alerted about possible misconduct, the I4R are reproducing published papers that use data from a specific NGO (GDRI). This thread releases the first 2 reports and provides more information about the work and responses/statements from authors journals and journals. 🧵

Formula instruments are increasingly common: e.g. I notice most papers constructing climate shocks use them. Our new WP shows theoretically & practically how to build valid & powerful formula IVs. Big power gains in the simulated Medicaid eligibility setting. Comments welcome!

Brain rot is real, hitting adults too. Two recent articles show that.... 1) When our phones got smart, we got dumber: ft.com/content/a8016c… 2) When people are randomly assigned to make their smartphones dumb, they get smarter academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/arti…