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Jonathan Colmer
JonathanColmer
#EconTwitter I'm delighted that an early release of my paper "Rainfall Variability, Child Labor, and Human Capital Accumulation in Rural Ethiopia" is now available on the @AJAE_AAEA website. A short
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Robert H Frank
econnaturalist
Economic Naturalist Question # 24. Why might economists engage in excessive formalism?#EconTwitter In an earlier thread, I explored why introductory economics courses appear to leave little lasting imprint on the
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Matteo Greco
mtrgreco
#econtwitter I understand being a researcher/economist leaves no/very little time to update software skills. However there's an ongoing shift that should not be ignored. STATA and Matlab have become old
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Jess Hoel
Jess_Hoel
Hey #EconTwitter, a thread on how this professor is adapting to teach online.Background: I teach @ColoradoCollege, where we live and learn on the Block Plan. Students take 1 class at
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Fabrizio Venditti
F_Vend
1/NDo you like Local Projections together with IV to study dynamic responses to structural shocks? Then you need to go through this paper. There is an interesting estimator that you
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Chloe East
ChloeEast2
An update: Thanks to the help from #econtwitter, I have put together a set of slides for my public econ undergrad class today. Not planning to post publicly but happy
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Mark Kirstein
nonergodicMark
Thread on the Democratic Domestic Product DDP as an alternative to GDPIn this speech to @oecd_naec, Michael Higgins @PresidentIRL waves Goodbye 2 GDPand calls for a new different growth narrativeHiggins
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Patrick Mellacher
Patrick_M_Econ
Working Paper Alert I proudly present COVID-Town, an agent-based model that allows to study the spread of Sars-CoV2 and its impact on the economy under varying policy scenarios.Key takeaways belowLink:
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Dr. Abdullah Al Bahrani
DrAAlBahrani
To educators, especially economists, it might seem like a great example to use #Covid_19 to teach your content. I urge you to consider other examples. Your students will probably need
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Steve Nolan
ohstevenolan
Thread: New working paper from me and @KenClarkEcon out with @iza_bonn: “The Changing Distribution of the Male Ethnic Wage Gap in Great Britain” http://ftp.iza.org/dp14276.pdf @EthnicityUK @ManUniEconomics @PhDSoSS #EconTwitter (1
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G.C. Pieters, PhD
ProfPieters
1/9// The past few months #Econtwitter has been filled with (usually tenured) research faculty *really* paying attention to their teaching and developing their pedagogy for the first time. 2/9// The
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Sarah Jacobson
SarahJacobsonEc
As our semesters ramp up, I want to share a resource that may be useful to #EconTwitter for #TeachEcon purposes: the YouTube series @anythingbdismal, which made 6 great episodes (ep
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Mark Kirstein
nonergodicMark
If the book @EconTalker is writing on decision-making and data contains any decision theories imho it must include #Ergodicity Economics. Looking forward.http://www.econtalk.org/john-kay-and-mervyn-king-on-radical-uncertainty/ This might in
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Max Kwiek
mdkwaw
I have been co-organising a Theory Workshop https://sites.google.com/view/wecth/home for some years. The current COVID-19 pandemic has implications for seminar organizers and speakers. Some thoughts. 1/13 Webinars are popping up everywhere,
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Carolina Caetano
carolcaetanoUGA
If your treatment variable has bunching, this is good news! It may be possible to use this bunching to build a correction for endogeneity. We show how this may be
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César A. Hidalgo
cesifoti
In this new working paper we find evidence that gender differences in wages are lower for knowledge intense industries & occupations, and that this effect can be explained by competition
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