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Today at 8pm (Colombia), I’ll be talking about Informal housing and labor informality in space at the World Conference of Spatial Econometrics. It's joint work with Erika Badillo (Erika Badillo) & Juan Aristizábal (Juan M. Aristizábal). @EcofinEAFIT #EconTwitter #RStats #rspatial

My 2¢ re happiness in academia: 1) Different people have different needs for good work patterns, find your own. 2) Remember 1 when judging others. 3) Regularly remind yourself of true motivation for work (not publishing & tenure). 4) Research should usually be a social activity.

Glasgow may not have many sunny days, but when it's sunny you know it's going to be breathtaking. Nature or city, take your pick.

Welp, we had a great week. I guess it's time for winter again. thescottishsun.co.uk/news/scottish-…

This seems like the perfect moment to tell the world that while I was "away" on maternity leave, my paper with Sameer Deshpande "Crime in Philadelphia: Bayesian Clustering with Particle Optimization" was finally accepted for publication in JASA! doi.org/10.1080/016214…

*New draft alert* #EconTwitter Experiments + machine learning are changing the way we measure effect heterogeneity in policy settings. arxiv.org/pdf/2306.03363… My paper proposes the first valid confidence intervals for the VCATE, the treatment effect explained by observables.

This is a letter Feynman wrote to a former student who wrote congratulating him for the Nobel. I’ve posted it before but I really find it worth it to read especially as a student or early stage research person.

Happy Saturday #EconTwitter! Interested in the #Econometrics of 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀? Don’t miss this insightful survey by Aureo de Paula, covering the essentials as well as links to game theory-based econometrics. Teases potential areas for future research too. A must-read! 📚

*New draft* #EconTwitter Minimum distance is a popular approach to estimate structural econometric models cemmap.ac.uk/wp-content/upl… Our new paper (joint w/ Xu Cheng and Andrew Shephard) introduces a new weighting scheme that combines cross-fitting and matrix regularization

Si se encuentran en Medellín, apreciaría mucho verlos en mi seminario de mañana en EAFIT! Voy a hablar de la estimación de modelos de formación de redes, los determinantes de las conexiones entre individuos y sus efectos en un experimento de microcréditos. Allí los espero!

Con Silvia Ortiz-Merchán acabamos de publicar este paper, y para celebrar queremos replicar el juego que hicimos en este estudio aquí en Twitter. El ganador se lleva $100.000 o un bono de Amazon de 20 dólares. Se demoran 3 minutos: forms.office.com/r/paZ12T3Pec ¡Porfa retuiteen! 👍

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It's high time for male Spanish footballers to come out and support Jenn1 Hermos0 and the rest of her team.

Apologies for the self-promotion, but I'm thrilled that our article "Happiness and Productivity" from 2015, (whit about 10 previous rejections) is still among the top 4 most cited and read pieces in the Journal of Labor Economics over the past year!

Wonderful to welcome Daron Acemoglu to UofG yesterday to deliver a lecture on Artificial Intelligence as part of the new UofG ASBS uofgasbs.bsky.social Adam Smith Distinguished Lecture Series. In recognition of his contribution to research on economics and public policy, Professor Acemoglu was also

Combining academia and pop culture through memes is my contribution to society.

He estado un poco perdido de acá (creo que todos?), pero no quería dejar pasar la oportunidad de avisarles al respecto de este seminario que empieza pronto! 🚨 Nuevo paper usando métodos Bayesianos para el análisis de la potencial legalización de marihuana en Colombia