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Short advice thread for budding economists applying now for predocs TLDR: Being a predoc is/should be a major human capital investment that you and your PI will make together. Look for someone who will invest in you rather than simply someone who is a big name. cc Econ RA Listings

I'm hiring a pre-doc to work with me on empirical IO/applied micro projects starting in Fall '22! Details below and instructions here: shoshanavasserman.com/files/2021/09/…. International students (who need J1) are welcome & non-econ bgs are fine given interest + curiosity. Please apply :)

🚨New Predoc Job Posting Alert!🚨 David Arnold, Will Dobbie, & I are looking for a full-time predoctoral research fellow, to start in Summer 2022 at Harvard Kennedy School nber.org/sites/default/… Come help us develop new tools to study discrimination and bias in algorithms! Econ RA Listings

Academic job search with two bodies? Maybe not a problem! University of San Francisco are looking to hire two tenure-track faculty in digital economy/computational social science, three in statistics/data science, and one in computer science.

Thanks Michael Stepner great to see these consumption patterns hold in a side by side view. Individual income is a powerful predictor of not just spending trends but also income and balance trends during COVID. jpmorganchase.com/institute/rese…

I'm hiring a full time Research Associate at UCLA Anderson School of Management. The position entails working with government administrative data to analyze economic questions related to policy and regulation: ra.ashvingandhi.com The app is easy (email resume & transcript). RTs are appreciated!

I hope your holidays are as restful as my pet giant rabbit 🐇

Applying for pre-docs? I'm still accepting applications and will start to review shortly. RTs appreciated :) The position has a flexible start-date (sometime between February - June).

"Had just these two specific items not increased in price over the past year, Canada’s inflation rate would have been close to normal..."

CFPB is proposing to crack down on "junk fees", such as hotel resort fees, concert ticket convenience fees, debit card overdraft fees, and credit card late fees. See: nytimes.com/2022/01/26/bus… This is a research area of mine so I wanted to chime in with a few thoughts. Begin 🧵

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Want your university to study and improve graduate student mental health? We have a blueprint that could be helpful: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Gonna see how close I can get to dropping the pachyderm site link without getting banned and call that Masto baiting

As a company from eastern Germany, we know that building a wall to try and keep people from leaving isn't a good idea.

FYI to my professor friends with very common names who have wanted a professional site with a simple domain name (like michaelstepner.com). As of today, you can put your website at "yourname .prof" or "yourname .phd" blog.google/products/regis…

🤷🤷‍♀️New data: SHRUG 2 is out!! Development Data Lab has been working on this for two years, a HUGE update to India’s coolest data platform: 1. Maps of *every* 2011 town and village, with ids 2. All data at every geography (villages, districts, ACs, etc)... devdatalab.org/shrug 🧵1/N

With Elon Musk’s Twitter slowly falling apart, it seems we have no choice but to return to social media sites run by older and more experienced operators. alexa mar, do you still have the credentials for the CUSIDnet phpBB?