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I had this thought today I’d never thought about before. I have all these subscriptions — NYT, Strava, Dropbox, 1Password, Netflix, etc. some are monthly, some are annual. Annual of

Hugely important new paper forthcoming at Restat by Yotem Shem-Tov, at Berkeley. In some jurisdictions, if an offense has multiple offenders, and neither can afford a lawyer, they’ll be seemingly

First year PhD students in economics: first year is hard for many of us. You may be thinking about quitting. It’s your life, friend, but let me give you a

Does this paper exist? People claim female politicians are more likely to support policies that benefit women. Use the same close election design as Lee, Moretti and Butler with congressional

I've been thinking about a study of LSD using supply shocks from various events that I *think* could've restricted supply. One of those is an early 2000s arrest in Kansas

You know what is kind of funny but swept under the rug a lot? Bob LaLonde is his 1986 AER influential evaluation of the NSW program which was an RCT

I just taught @pedrohcgs and Callaway's excellent paper on nonparametric diff-in-diff. I think when you do a simulation showing the bias of TWFE and then show their estimator which isn't,

I am on a task force of local healthcare professionals and epidemiologists (don’t ask why someone thought I was competent enough to join something like that). I asked about false

I've had this lecture called "hidden curriculum" that I usually lead with in my workshops. It's the stuff we don't learn which is central to 1) empirical work and 2)

I really apologize if I freaked students out by describing my experience and offering suggestions. I had two goals: candor about time inputs needed to pass prelims, and a discussion

I’ve mentioned this study before. It’s by Levitt and it’s also the kind of study I always think of with him - kind of bizarre, somehow still about economic theory,

Interesting thread by someone new to #EconTwitter. I think there’s real challenges as Econtwitter scales up. I make it a point to follow every economist, and many periphery fields -