(1/3) We're excited to announce that we're hiring Research Fellows @SEIIatMIT! Learn more and apply at: bit.ly/2021ResearchFe… #EconTwitter

Insightful article by Eduardo Porter on our new study of employment discrimination with Pat Kline and Evan Rose: nytimes.com/2021/07/29/bus…

Join us for the Policy Impacts conference, tomorrow (Aug 12) from 1PM-5PM ET. The conference will feature presentations from Hilary Hoynes, Lawrence Katz, @elisajacome, Josh Angrist, Christopher Walters, and Amy Finkelstein. Schedule and registration are available here: policyimpacts.org/events/35/poli…

✏️New blog post✏️ Researchers Patrick Kline, Evan Rose, & Christopher Walters discuss their recent J-PAL North America-funded study documenting systemic employment discrimination and share how randomized evaluations can be used to detect & redress civil rights violations: povertyactionlab.org/blog/9-10-21/d…

How does employment discrimination vary across firms? Patrick Kline (Berkeley Economics), Evan Rose (UChicago Economics) & Christopher Walters (Berkeley Economics) on systemic discrimination among large U.S. employers: youtu.be/fLgWIyx0gDw

BREAKING NEWS: The 2021 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded with one half to David Card and the other half jointly to Joshua D. Angrist and Guido W. Imbens. #NobelPrize

"Congratulations Dave. This award could not have gone to a more deserving scholar, and you deserve another one for being a great colleague, mentor, and friend."Christopher Walters Read the many congratulatory notes to Nobel laureate David Card and submit yours: econ.berkeley.edu/content/celebr…

How do we measure school quality and why does it matter? School quality measures have far-reaching impacts, influencing school restructuring decisions, home prices, and parents’ school choice decisions. Read our latest findings on school quality measures: bit.ly/MITVAM2

New working paper w/Josh Angrist, Parag Pathak, & Christopher Walters: "Race and the Mismeasure of School Quality" dropbox.com/s/ba8ziznpeo72… We use IV + centralized assignment data to study the relationship between school value-added, student race, and school performance ratings A short 🧵:

Michal Kolesár, Chris Walters (Christopher Walters), and I were very happy to have been invited by the Scandinavian Journal of Economics to prepare this review article on the 2021 Nobel Memorial Prize dropbox.com/s/ee317mab94xe…

If you guys think all this negative weight stuff is bad, wait until #EconTwitter discovers the James/Stein (1961) result that OLS is inadmissible under squared loss when m>2

Want to learn the latest in estimating school quality w/ quasi-experimental data? Or the various IV tips & tricks MIT Blueprint Labs has accumulated over the years? Check out this new-and-improved handbook chapter with Josh (Josh Angrist) and Chris (Christopher Walters)! dropbox.com/s/f8s3n11558hf…

I am teaching a labor economics course 7/3 to 7/7 at the Barcelona School of Economics. The course should be beneficial for graduate students at all levels and many post-docs. Learn more here bit.ly/3RD0Sdf

Our new handbook chapter w/ Josh Angrist & Christopher Walters is now available online! Check out the latest in estimating institutional quality with quasi-experimental data: authors.elsevier.com/a/1hbvF5bvkCuu…

I’ll be posting from time to time about this coming workshops. This one we just finalized and it’s ready. It’s on empirical bayes, causal inference and machine learning by Christopher Walters 1/

It's not too late to register for this week's Mixtape session on empirical Bayes methods -- sign up at the link below to join! Lectures and live coding labs MWF, 6-9pm eastern