We're hosting a causal inference conference for students at Chicago this March! A great opportunity for students (including JMCs) to present research in empirical micro and applied metrics. We'll buy your flight and hotel. Deadline is Nov. 30: fs2.formsite.com/UChicagoEconom…

GPT4 cognitively testing survey questions - this is using a prompt by Chris Robert (not on twitter afaik) but he talks about the approach here linkedin.com/pulse/beating-…

If you are planning to apply to a PhD in Economics, you should consider our program at ASU Economics W. P. Carey School . Deadline to apply is January 15th. A program overview, job market placements and link to apply are here: wpcarey.asu.edu/economics-degr…

1/4: How often employers include wages in job postings and for which jobs is an important consideration when thinking about how labor markets function. This paper is a simple one: document how often wages are available. Answer: Very little.

A new year's gift. Solow on Solow. Take the time. infinite.mit.edu/video/robert-m…

A couple of years later, I have to admit, they were on to something.

🧵1/7 En smule provoserende at forsknings- og høyere utdanningsminister Sandra Borch tar en student til Høyesterett for selvplagiat, eller hva? Akademisk integritet under lupen: Gransking av Sandra Borchs akademiske fortid «Forskningsetisk sett, er plagiat noe av det mest

‼️One week left to apply! #postdoc Università Bocconi #NextGenerationEU👇

Thanks a lot to ⁦The Economist⁩ for featuring our research on the child penalty atlas and for the great visualisation work. How motherhood hurts careers economist.com/interactive/gr…

Ph.D. students in economics: How to organize your projects and not make the replication files a huge pain - a thread with a minimal working example with some potential extensions.

Remembering Hazel Kyrk in the International Women's Day. PhD in Economics from UChicago in 1920 and faculty member at the University from 1925 to 1952. Pioneer in the theory of consumption

Store svenske medier i dag: "Spis norsk oppdrettslaks kun noen få ganger i året". Viser bl.a til bruk av "putsarfiskar som används för att plocka laxlus". dn.se/varlden/expert…

Who cares about Diff-n-Diffs

Excited to have organized the 2nd Annual Oslo Labor Workshop June 6-7 with Manudeep Bhuller and Andreas R. Kostol at Norges Bank Thanks to Gizem Kosar Jonas Hjort Marianna Kudlyak 🇺🇦🇺🇸 Felix Koenig Sadhika Bagga Alexander Willén and others for making it such a great event! #econtwitter

Alex Imas

Many academic institutions give equal tenure extensions to birthing and nonbirthing parents. This seems odd, not least because research by Jenna Stearns and co suggests that fathers use leave to do more research rather than bond pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10…

#1 ingredient for a successful job hunt: Job Market Objective Function. Without your own objective function, it’s scarily easy to accidentally adopt someone else’s goals. Clearly, maximizing someone else’s goals means you’re unlikely to reach your true optimal outcome.

Peter Hull

First born children have higher IQ than their siblings. 🧵1/9