The "Introduction to Causal Inference" online course website is now live at causalcourse.com! There, you can find the course schedule, a link to the first lecture on YouTube, the course mailing list signup, the course Slack, etc.

TEACHING A LARGE CLASS REMOTELY Early in the fall I asked for (and received) help redesigning my 150-person undergrad enviro econ class. x.com/pbaylis/status… Here's a recap of what worked and what didn't, a thread. 1/17

#TrumpMustGo #25thAmendment #CabinetDoYourDuty

Just came across this great summary of online resources for Econ grad students (and frankly for any researcher) by my colleague Shanjun Li: li.dyson.cornell.edu/phdRes.php Covers pre-PhD, mental health, getting started w/ research, coding, writing, presenting, peer review, JM

Super-valuable advice!

IMO: If you are an econ theorist, and are regularly attempting more than 6 hours of research work a day, you are not on the research-leisure Pareto frontier. Real focus is physically draining, and creativity can't be forced. 🧵

New Yorker article on Ramseyer paper: { When I spoke to Ramseyer for this article, he said, “I don’t have any Korean contracts.” He further explained that he was “building on” an article he’d written in 1991 about indentured-servitude contracts for prostitution in prewar Japan,

Apropos of nothing at all, it's time to tweet out some of my favorite climate economists doing creative, important, stuff. Friends, add to this list!

Great line-up for our (LSE Geography & Environment) 4th annual workshop on Environmental Economics. This year with Imperial Business School & Grantham LSE. Keynotes by Janet Currie (Princeton University) and James Stock (Harvard University) Programme:lse.ac.uk/geography-and-…

Grateful to be part of #CREEAPHD2021 Workshop. Thanks for all the organizers to put this together. Great presentations and feedbacks!

#EconTwitter, struggling with your job market website? Check out hollina.github.io/make-a-job-mar… and youtube.com/watch?v=RF9kx8… Then, bring your questions for @chase__eck and Kevin H Wilson at the next #econ_prosem on 7/13. RSVP: bit.ly/econ_prosem-7-…

I have now passed 20K followers! Thanks to all of you for making this place more fun. I've also got TWO amazing mind maps (using #artography) for writing and productivity. What kind of map should I make next Tweeps? redbubble.com/people/redpenb… redbubble.com/i/art-print/Th…

This is probably a joke, but since the academic job market begins again soon: What is something that you (or someone you know) successfully negotiated for in academia that might not be obvious to others that they could ask for? (Obvious: salary, summer months, research $.)

I had the honor and pleasure of pre-viewing this guide on mental health for the econ job market. It is a nice mix of practical and mental health tips. It's basically like getting to exit interview the previous cohort in preparation for the market. Check it out!

A great course

The recorded introduction to / overview of the #EconJobMarket is now available on the AEA website. Also posted is the Zoom link for Thursday's live Q&A: aeaweb.org/joe/communicat… #EconTwitter CSWEP AEA Committee on the Status of LGBTQ+ Individuals AEA Information

My new tutorial on making the nightlight map of Europe (1992-2020) is now available at milospopovic.net/animated-hexbi… I'm happy to make more free tutorials in 2022! #nightlights #Europe #rstats #coding #Satellite #dataviz #DataAnalytics #bigdata

I did a lone mountain fellowship last summer, and it was amazing. Highly recommend to anyone interested in market based solutions to conservation problems.

10 academic writing skills I wish I had learned as a PhD student (with updated links) A thread ⬇️ 🧵 for PhD students and junior scholars:

Esther Duflo and I are delighted to put our MIT Economics PhD. Micro Development Economics course, 14.771, online MIT OpenCourseWare. All videos, syllabi, and lecture notes are free and open for all, including for use in your own classes. ocw.mit.edu/courses/14-771…