We are pleased to announce the 2024 *Rebecca B. Morton Conference on Experimental Political Science,* on Friday, *March 1st* and Saturday, *March 2nd,* 2024 at NYU NYU Politics Department: nyu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cT… Deadline December 4! Tara Slough NYU Psychology NYU Economics NYU Sociology

Better late than never. 🙌 #WatfordFC | Rhys healey

DYNAMICS PhD has 10 PhD openings available starting in Fall 2024. Come work with a great group of people across both Hertie School and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin who focus on the politics and consequences of demographic change. sowi.hu-berlin.de/en/dynamics/ap…

How should we measure opinion in rapidly changing information environments? In a working paper, I develop an approach - the crowdsourced adaptive survey (CSAS) - that unites LLMs and adaptive algorithms to create surveys that evolve with user input. 🔗: dropbox.com/scl/fi/34yw3p0…

RA review of literature that examines changes to institutions, consists of real-time studies of plausible critical junctures, and exploits field experiments, from Michael Callen, @jonathanweigel, and Noam Yuchtman nber.org/papers/w31964

Christmas ruined

How Stanford AI Lab measures poverty using daytime satellite images. PLUS, how to process Black Marble nightlights data, and how to use Google Earth Engine with R. Here's an overview of the topics I covered this week:

Examining how labor market tightness affects unionization yields findings that challenge the notion that tightness drives US unionization, from Chantal Pezold, Simon Jäger, and @patricknuess nber.org/papers/w31988

Happy New Year! Kirill @Borusyak and I have a New (short) Paper on the infamous "negative weights" issue recently raised for TWFE and other popular OLS/IV specifications dropbox.com/scl/fi/gfvv9bu… Here's an (even shorter) summary thread

This paper by Heather Sarsons @saskatchewin again seems very relevant today: Women get penalized more for the same mistakes than men. And I bet this effect is even stronger for Black women. vox.com/science-and-he…

“Just 27% of [academic] mothers get tenure, compared with 48% of fathers and 46% of women without children.” dropbox.com/s/9z44i8xxaygf…

Are you using DiD to learn about something *continuous*? If so, then new DiD tools for binary designs don’t seem to help much. But here is something that will help! An update to “DiD with a Continuous Treatment” w/ professional age forecaster and Brant Callaway: psantanna.com/files/CGBS.pdf

Does affirmative action in government hiring negatively affect the quality of service delivery? Evidence from India says no. "Improvements in diversity can be obtained without efficiency losses." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

3 JMPs this year (!) find pollution-haven effects in battery recycling: 1. Emily Litzow et al in Mexico: erinlitzow.github.io/MyFiles/JMP_Li… 2. Gerald Ipapa in Kenya: drive.google.com/file/d/1-00MNO…. 3. Moogdho Mahzab et al in Bangladesh: drive.google.com/file/d/1Yd5W0p… There seems to be a pattern here.

NEW: in American Political Science Review we report a treasure trove of data from inside dozens of campaigns’ own experiments on persuasion The data reveal experimentation at a vast scale that is revolutionizing campaigning challenges academic theories & could have implications for democracy 🧵