If you are applying for a PhD in Economics (or know someone who is), have a look at the Applicant Mentoring Programme (AMP), a joint initiative by CamEcon LSE Department of Economics Department of Economics, Oxford UCL Economics Warwick Economics. Applications are still open! sites.google.com/view/econphdam…

Call for papers! The 11th edition of the Warwick Economics PhD Conference will be held from 6-8 June 2023. Please apply with your extended abstract of no more than 3 pages by 8th February. Find more information and the application form here 👇 buff.ly/3ChHPyD

REMINDER! There is only one week left to apply for the Warwick Economics PhD Conference! Receive great feedback from fellow students from all around the world. Bonus: you do not need to worry about expenses! ✈️

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I wonder what the true correlation between [research quality] and [quality of writing] is. I find myself abandoning badly written papers after a page or two, but I wonder how much good research I'm missing by doing that.

Does anybody have an opinion on whether there could be a neoclassical bias in economic theory, not for ideological reasons but purely due to the fact that neoclassical models usually have the simplest solutions and therefore serve as a benchmark for non-neoclassical extensions?

This a school basement in a Chernihiv village that Russians turned into a concentration camp. I visited it today. And I listened to survivors for hours, shocked, in disbelief. The media narratives do not do the justice to what happened there. 1/

To experts in UK administrative geography: Does anyone know of a crosswalk/lookup table from Local Authority Districts to Counties (and their counterparts in Wales, Scotland, NI)? The ones I found from the ONS are only for England.

📢Applications for this year’s Applicant Mentoring Programme (AMP) are now open: sites.google.com/view/econphdam… The AMP aims to help applicants who are from underrepresented backgrounds or who lack support from other sources to prepare their applications to Economics PhD programmes.➡️

🚨 Call for Papers 🚨 The 13th Warwick Economics PhD conference will take place 3-5 June 2025. We welcome applications from every field in economics. We offer free accommodation and travel funding! Keynotes by Stefano Caria Amrita Kulka The deadline is 31st January! Link in🧵

A great opportunity for PhD students to gather feedback on their work, learn from national and international colleagues, and build up networks. Submissions by 31st January 2025.

1/6📢 NEW WORKING PAPER 📢 POLITICS OF FOOD 🍊🍊🍊 With Jared Gars and Chris Burnitt Link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… We study how political polarization impacts trust in independent expert regulators and downstream economic outcomes. A thread 🧵👇

🚨 Deadline approaching! 🚨 Apply for the 13th Warwick Economics PhD conference, taking place from 3-5 June 2025. Applications are welcome from every field in economics. Accommodation and travel costs will be covered. Keynotes by Stefano Caria Amrita Kulka 👉deadline: 31st Jan!

🚨 New Working Paper 🚨 w/ Sascha Becker + David Boll Do you analyse spatial data? Then keep reading! We present a guide and Stata package for methods by Müller and Watson (2024) to deal with spatial unit roots in regressions. Link in🧵(1/n)

🆕ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin-CReAM #DiscussionPaper by Sascha Becker, P David Boll, and Joachim Voth: "Spatial Unit Roots in Regressions: A Practitioner’s Guide and a Stata Package" (1/4)