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I'm proud that last Friday Arthur Lewbel was awarded an honorary doctorate from my university Economics, SDU. Arthur, Nadja van 't Hoff, and I have been working on a project titled Limited Monotonicity and the CC-LATE and I hope will be working on many more projects sdunet.dk/en/nyheder/eve…

But I also cover Sebastian Calonico's nonparametric estimator, Pedro H. C. Sant'Anna's specification test for the propensity score, Análise Real's sensitivity analysis, Tymon Słoczyński's interpretation of the 2SLS estimand and Arthur Lewbel's approach to extrapolating RDD results. And more stuff too.

Last Friday, I was privileged to receive an honorary doctorate from SDU, the University of Southern Denmark. I want to thank Giovanni Mellace, Lone Grønbæk Jørgensen, and everyone else at SDU - I feel humble and grateful.

A frank and productive exchange of views with my counterpart on key issues like expanding the global supply of candy and toys and tightening sanctions against chores.

I invited a live HeyGen AI avatar to a Zoom meeting with the instructions that it run the most stereotypical corporate Zoom meeting ever. What have I done.

There are two groups that aim to falsely undermine trust in today’s US election integrity: 1. Russia and its authoritarian allies. 2. the Republican Party. Actually, that’s just one group.

MLK Jr said, “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” Today is a setback, but the time of chaos & lies will not endure. We must be good people, manifest morality, & fight the rising tide of hate. The struggle for liberty & justice for all never ends.

Meet the Boston College Economics Department Job Market Candidates 2024-2025! Learn more about their research: bc.edu/content/bc-web…

An English prof recently declared that economics was "fake" because economists don't read Marx. Well, that's just silly. But reading Marx is still useful, as a cautionary tale of what can happen when social science gets too arrogant. noahpinion.blog/p/should-econo…

We’re looking for a motivated researcher to apply for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoc with our Econometrics and Data Science group at SDU! Our research focuses on Causal Inference, Machine Learning, Big Data. Full support for promising projects. inomics.com/scholarship/jo…

Week 7: The theory paper in focus this week is "Kidney Exchange" by Roth, Tayfun Sönmez & M. Utku Ünver. Undoubtedly, it is one of the most influential (in terms of research in economics) and impactful (in terms of goodness in society) papers of 21st century (micro)economics.

And here's the number of RECIPIENTS of social security in each age bucket with the death field set to false (and recipient set to true). A mere 89,106 are aged 99+, not the tens of millions suggested by Elon Musk.

Is your outcome a qualitative variable, but you still want to conduct causal inference? Check out our new paper! We also provide an open-source R package, causalQual, for easy implementation: 🔗 github.com/riccardo-df/ca… 📄 Read the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2502.11691

After several delays, Department of Government Efficiency has finally posted its purported savings. Why did it take so long to create a simple webpage with a 1000-row table? Who knows! Let's dig in. Headline number: $55B saved. They list the savings per nixed contract. This should be easy to verify then. 🧵

Three things worth knowing about the current fiscal debate: 1. When they're talking about savings, the numbers are usually billions (though sometimes millions). 2. When they're talking about tax cuts, the numbers are usually trillions. 3. A trillion is a thousand times larger

Sorry to hear about the passing of Ed Leamer. I recall once telling him I was working on nonparametric testing, and he said, “Too bad. I don’t believe in nonparametrics, and I don’t believe in tests.”

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Conservative orthodoxy was that Russia behaved for decades because Reagan did exactly the opposite of what Trump now advocates. They called Reagan a hero because he spent billions on arms for years until Russia cried uncle. Projecting strength instead of advocating surrender.

🎉 Excited to share that our paper "Limited Monotonicity and the Combined Compliers LATE" (with @nadjavanthof and Arthur Lewbel ) has been accepted for publication in the Review of Economics and Statistics! 📄 fmwww.bc.edu/EC-P/wp1059.pdf

Regardless of who's side you're on, every threat that Trump and Musk make is more proof that, in the USA, individual billionaires have too much power, and the president has too much power.