Understanding causality vs. correlation is genuinely hard especially on complex topics like inflation. Our research finds that 60% of Americans think high interest rates cause high inflation & support rate cuts to fight it. But high rates usually respond to inflation,not cause it

Evaluating an intervention which encourages parents and caregivers to foster human capital accumulation among their children between ages 3 and 5, focusing on math and phonic skills, from Noam Angrist, Sarah Kabay, Dean Karlan, Lincoln Lau, and Kevin Wong nber.org/papers/w33574

Look at the distribution of z-values from medical research!

Registrations are now open for ESCoE's 2025 Conference on Economic Measurement, in partnership with ONS Focus. This will take place on 21-23 May King's Business School. Register for your free ticket: escoe.ac.uk/events/escoe-c… #EconStats2025 #Conference

Full house at the Bennett Institute for Public Policy Annual Conference.

It's take your wife to work day.

Populism vs expertise: Inside the technocratic democracy debate Our research with Jacob Edenhofer 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 featured on BusinessThink businessthink.unsw.edu.au/articles/techn…

Some really interesting panels and talks to catch up on from the Bennett Institute for Public Policy conference, including some featuring ESCoE Leadership Executive member Diane Coyle. bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/events/annual-…

Every newspaper and news website that reports "imports subtracted from GDP" needs to call their econ writers in for a meeting, and explain to them why this is not how GDP actually works. noahpinion.blog/p/once-again-i…

When you get so used to reading intros of econ papers, I realized you tend to look for the same structure in papers from other fields.

Happy to have participated in the 2nd Global Intangible Investments Conference jointly conducted by Luiss Business School in Rome and World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) . The quality of papers and discussions were amazing. LBS was also a fantastic host. Looking forward to more research and policy on intangibles!

So, sa impeachment, kailangan ni VP Sara ng 8 votes for acquittal. She would likely have BG, Bato, Imee, Camile V, Marcoleta, APC, Mark V, & Robinhood. I guess Bam is just icing on the cake at this point.

What happens to economic growth if we take out income from the top earners? In this blog post, we examine what happens when we adjust GDP by removing income from the top 1% and top 10%. Our estimates paint a different story of growth.

Anti-economists like Oren Cass have overreached in their criticisms of mainstream economics. They repeat bland nostrums like "econ isn't a science" without understanding what econ says or what economists do. noahpinion.blog/p/the-anti-eco…

Interesting read. Apparently, people with difficult-to-pronounce names are at a disadvantage in labor markets: aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

"Policy-makers understand that when firms have market power over the goods and services that they sell, consumers suffer. The consequences of market power in supply chains are less clear, but they also could harm consumers." economicsobservatory.com/what-are-the-c…

Forthcoming in the JEL: "Difference-in-Differences Designs: A Practitioner’s Guide" by Andrew Baker, Brantly Callaway, Scott Cunningham, Andrew Goodman-Bacon, and Pedro H. C. Sant'Anna. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

Today we have published a systemic review addressing the challenges in delivering UK-wide comparable statistics. Our review provides a clear framework for the UK statistical system to take action to meet users' needs for comparable data on priority topics osr.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/publication/th…

Examining whether uncertainty statements reported by applied researchers are consistent with empirical frequencies, from Frank Schorfheide and Zhiheng You nber.org/papers/w33962