I often work with young researchers who don't convert R&Rs to publications. I definitely don’t do everything well! But I put a lot of effort into this and have a 24/24 conversion rate. So I am passing along six tips based upon my experience as an author and editor. #Econtwitter

Economics Journals as Tennis Tournaments 🧵(for an extremely niche audience) Quarterly Journal of Economics = Wimbledon The oldest and most influential event, but also clubby, snobby, and elitist. To win it you must train on a very particular surface/ZIP code.

❤️‍🩹 Se cumplen 25 años del estreno de ‘Notting Hill’ la película de Julia Roberts y Hugh Grant

Ahora sí, amigos. Hoy salió mi nuevo libro. Lo conseguís en tu librería amiga (en Argentina, pronto en otros países) y en ebook. Escribí el libro que me hubiera gustado leer cuando estaba eligiendo qué carrera estudiar, cuando empecé a estudiar economía. Me cuentan.

What happens to women and their children when a wanted abortion is denied? Juliana Londoño-Vélez , UCLA , UCLA Department of Economics , discusses: faculti.net/the-impact-of-… #economics

How much should we trust synthetic controls? By default, not much. It affords the researcher an incredibly wide latitude to search for specifications that fit. However, it is possible to test for robustness, and is often the only tool for really big questions. Trust, but verify.

No sé cómo explicarle a alguien que en ese momento, Messi era el más malo de la cancha:

We, at Economía Uniandes, are hiring. We have two tenure-track positions open for assistant or associate professors in economics. Los Andes ranks among the top departments of economics in Latin America. We look forward to receiving the applications at: aeaweb.org/joe/listing.ph…

#econtwitter #econsky: recently used Refine.ink (developed by Ben Golub) as a AI assessment tool for papers + it is amazing, so wanted to share some examples of what it can do if you are curious. (It's much, much better than other free tools I've used)

#QJE Nov 2025, #8, “Conviction, Incarceration, and Recidivism: Understanding the Revolving Door,” by Humphries, Ouss, Stavreva, Stevenson, and van Dijk: doi.org/10.1093/qje/qj…

The next ViCE seminar is this Thursday, October 16, at 1pm ET. Maddalena Totarelli will present: "Prison Rehabilitation Programs, Recidivism, and Labor Market Outcomes"

What it's all about. 💜🥹 Prof. Joel Mokyr, winner of the The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, shares a lovely message from a former student.

🚨 New paper out in IMF Economic Review! 📄 The Distributional Effects of Oil Shocks (with Tobias Broer & John Kramer ) We study how oil supply shocks affect workers across the income distribution using 45 years of German administrative data. rdcu.be/eLprB

Big thanks to the organizers Hélène Rey Caterina Mendicino 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 ♒ Fiorella di Fiore, Carolina Villegas and Agnese Leonello. If you missed any presentation, you can review them again here: Day 1 youtube.com/live/Ro8Sz-ABr… Day 2 youtube.com/live/5Q7ZC5IPy… Program: cepr.org/system/files/2…

🌎Ciclo de Seminarios - Departamento de Economía, UCN 💡Research: Labor Market Effects of Functional and Geographical Fragmentation in Chile’s Mining Industry 🗓️Fecha: viernes 24 de octubre, 11:40 horas #UCN #EconomíaUCN #IDEAR #FACEAUCN #Chile #Antofagasta

I am super excited to share a new AI tool, Refine. Refine thoroughly studies research papers like a referee and finds issues with correctness, clarity, and consistency. In my own papers, it regularly catches problems that my coauthors and I missed. 1/

I am seeing tons of people react to this and say “Look at the AER, QJE” tons of papers with data from developing countries. I did my first 13 years as an academic in Brazil, of course it’s possible to publish good work from the periphery, but it’s SO MUCH HARDER, you have no idea

TOMORROW (Oct 29): AYEW Labour Economics Workshop! Join us at 9pm AEDT / 10am GMT to listen to Mariana Esteves (NovaSBE), Andrea Smurra (LSE), Jiawei Lyu (Pitt Economics) & Gabriel Rodríguez-Puello (JIBS)! Sign up: monash.edu/business/impac…

📆 Bookings for this year's Royal Economic Society Summit are now open! This online event will discuss the Economics of the Justice System, and will take place on Tuesday 2 December. Book today: bit.ly/48RISXw

Since JMCs are about to post their PDFs, here’s a friendly reminder to use technical terms precisely: