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📣 Applications are open for the EUI PhD programme! 🎢Start your academic journey in September 2025 and embark on the intellectual adventure of a lifetime at the EUI in Florence⚜️ 🔗 loom.ly/Qag4xdc ⏳ Deadline: 31/01/2025 (14:00 CET)

🚀 Apply now for the fully-funded EUI PhD Programme in #Economics, #History, #Law, #PoliticalSciences & #SocialSciences Start the intellectual adventure of a lifetime at the EUI! 🕒 Deadline: Jan 31, 2025. 🔗 eui.eu/phd #EUIPhD #PhDOpportunity #AcademicExcellence

Digital marketplaces like #Amazon adopt a ‘hybrid model’ selling their products @ the same time as hosting third-party products. But playing as both ‘the referee & a player’ can distort the market, harming consumers by raising prices and reducing choice 🔗 loom.ly/_JeaUqY

The European University Institute is No. 6 globally in #PoliticalScience on the ShanghaiRanking! 👏   While rankings don’t tell the full story of excellence, this recognition is a testament to our outstanding academic community’s exceptional research and innovative teaching. Kudos to Political and Social Sciences at EUI!

Meet our Job Market Candidates! Read more about their research, Job Market Paper, and fields of interest. 🔭 Find the perfect match for your institution! All Candidates here 👉 loom.ly/Y42HRyE #EconJobMarket #Economics #jobopportunities

This is a dream job within a dream team, in close collaboration with lab and within Harvard Data Science Initiative

JUST PUBLISHED on #LaFonte. From the classroom to the lecture hall: Tackling #inequality through education policy reform. By Alexander Ludwig. #econtwitter Read the article 👉 loom.ly/joZ--p0

🎉We congratulate Sofía Sierra Vásquez stav federman 🟣 and Marco Colleoni for defending their PhD thesis in #economics at Economics at EUI in the past weeks. Congratulations to our new Doctors! 👏 #education #politicaleconomy #inequality

Upgrade your #causalinference arsenal. A revision of our book "Causal Inference: What If" is available at miguelhernan.org/whatifbook Thanks to everyone who suggested improvements, reported typos, and proposed new citations and material. Enjoy the #WhatIfBook. Also, it's free.

Happy holidays from the Florence Center for Data Science!! ☃️☃️☃️

I've now posted 14 DiD slide decks. In the future, I also want to add a few more decks: - Triple Differences - DiD with Continuous Treatment - Instrumented DiD - Synthetic DiD and related extensions - Heterogeneity analysis in DiD I also want to add more applications

🎉 Happy New Year! 🎉 Kickstart 2025 with exciting news! 🌟 Registrations for EuroCIM 2025 are now OPEN! Secure your spot with early-bird discounts until March 1. 🔔 Reminder: Abstract submissions close January 15, 23:00 CET—don’t miss your chance to contribute!

Two days left to submit your abstract to EuroCIM 2025! If you want the chance to present your work at the European Causal Inference Meeting 2025 in Ghent, send in your abstract no later than Jan 15, 2025. Submission form and more information here: eurocim.org/abstracts.html

I was often asked by practitioners about power calculations for causal inference with observational data, a hard problem with little leads. Finally had a clean solution, thanks to my spectacular student Bo Liu. Here it is: arxiv.org/abs/2501.11181 cran.r-project.org/web/packages/P…

We are honored to announce Olivier Blanchard as our next guest for the Eco Lecture Olivier Blanchard will present "#FiscalPolicy as a stabilization tool. The case for quasi-automatic stabilizers, with an application to #VAT" 📅 13 FEB h11 📍Villa La Fonte 👇 eui.eu/events?id=5763…

Geospatial data science is all about having access to good data. Here are a list of my favourite free geospatial resources:

🚨 I lost 100% of my grants—the lifeline for my income and my entire research career—because of this absolute shitshow. Years of work, countless hours, and so much hope gone in an instant. I don’t even know what’s next. 💔 #AcademicTwitter #ResearchFunding

Encourage to read: ‘Soul crushing’: What’s at stake for defunded NYC researchers and their projects? gothamist.com/news/soul-crus… via @gothamist

The 🚕 duopolists of Comune di Firenze are full, and can’t send me a cab tomorrow morning at 6.20 am. If I miss my flight to Brussels, I will have to rant like I never did bf abt the scandalous capture of mobility markets by incompetent incumbents, and supportive corrupt politicians.

Last night Russia attacked a European capital with ballistic missiles and hundreds of drones. Today the story barely registers in international news headlines. Western normalization and acceptance of Russian atrocities in Ukraine is what makes them possible.