\begin{thread} Here are some LaTeX tricks I've found useful when writing PDF reports in RMarkdown, with a focus on less well-documented tricks that took me longer to find. #RStats

Open science -> open source. Still doing your econometrics in STATA or Matlab? Here's a tweetstorm of my favorite free resources to help you make the transition to R. (Julia and Python are also great - I just don't know them as well) #EconTwitter #rstats

This is another shock to the world's poor, and coming so soon after the pandemic. And not only poor people in wheat importing countries. Urban, and the many rural families who are net purchasers, will see welfare losses across the world. economist.com/finance-and-ec…

A tragic loss for the world of research on global development & global poverty and for many of Martin's colleagues and collaborators across the five continents.

Martin was the principal author of the first World Bank report that established the one-dollar poverty line and that remained immensely influential ever since. His work esp. on China and India was seminal. He was a great colleague and a tutor to many.

Hi #EconTwitter! Interested in 𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐚𝐥 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 and program evaluation using the #econometrics of 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧? Check out this cool survey by the top experts Matias Catteneo and Rocìo Titiunuk (Princeton University)!

Las nuevas generaciones incorporan la tecnología y el juego de manera natural. Por eso, las industrias creativas pueden contribuir a transformar los sistemas educativos. ¿Qué puede aportar el edutainment a la #educación? Lee este blog de Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo aquí bit.ly/3jHlHaz

You have a paper relevant to development economics with some theory? Don't forget to submit it to the ThReD conference. Maitreesh Ghatak AMSE → 🦋 @amseaixmars.bsky.social

¿Es #ChatGPT el fin de los profesores? ¿Adiós a la #educación tal y como la conocemos? La irrupción de esta herramienta de inteligencia artificial sacudió a los sistemas educativos del mundo. Sobre sus consecuencias, lee este blog de Alejandro Morduchowicz Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo blogs.iadb.org/educacion/es/c…

Forthcoming: "Food Stamps and America's Poorest" by Dean Jolliffe, Juan F. Margitic , Martin Ravallion , and Laura Tiehen

✨✨ New Package ✨✨ Happy to announce that I am soft launching another R color palette package, {MoMAColors} today! Currently has 35 palettes based around artwork at MoMA The Museum of Modern Art. Download Instruction and Palettes here: github.com/BlakeRMills/Mo… #r4ds #dataviz #rstats

#CashTransfers may have limited impact lifting the floor of living standards for the poorest: "Social assistance (mainly targeted cash-transfers) lifts the floor by only 1.5 cents per day on average ...less than 10% of mean spending on social assistance." jmargitic.github.io/JM/Social%20Pr…

Interesting tool to turn research papers into AI generated podcast discussions that provide a high level overview: illuminate.google.com/home?pli=1 Fed it some of my papers and it did a very reasonable job, especially with the ML pubs. #econtwitter

#Lecturarecomendada 📚🔎 🎯Nuevo trabajo de Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo 🎯 🇨🇷El modelo de financiamiento de centros educativos en Costa Rica: las juntas de educación y administrativas. Accede aquí 👉🏽bit.ly/3ZZLiOA

I have received a lot of DMs recently about how difficult the job market is this year. I hope below can give some kind of solace and advice for the market. Keep your heads up everyone. ❤️

If you have ever tried to read free books from sites like Project Gutenberg, you noticed that they can be uncomfortable to read, due to their layouts, type & occasional errors This project takes those free books and makes them beautiful (and still free). standardebooks.org

For those who want to jump to the frontier in select areas of economics, the AEA has posted the webcasts of this year’s continuing lectures. Thanks much to Lawrence Katz for his leadership and vision in assembling these lectures. aeaweb.org/conference/web…

Check out our blog post at VoxDev on son preference and family structure with Garance Genicot 👇👇

If you're an economist and haven't heard about the double descent phenomenon, you might be overlooking one of the most interesting developments in computer science and statistics today. Personally, I haven't come across anything as fascinating since I first learned about Markov

Para los que aun no lo siguen, denle el follow a Roch. Gran joven (cada vez menos) macroeconomista argentino.