It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to Stata: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration
Our paper on "Demand Estimation with Text and Image Data", joint work with Giovanni Compiani (@GioCompiani) and Ilya Morozov, is now forthcoming at the RAND Journal of Economics.
https://t.co/FsG3hP3SqJ
In the paper we extract product features from unstructured ... [1/4]
My wife is content to continue her normal hobbies right now and doesn’t need frequent updates on The Situation, which I have been dutifully monitoring.
Help! Who am I supposed to give briefings to?
A large UK field experiment—110,000 drivers, 60 percent of public chargers—found that cutting prices by 40 percent increased charging by 117 percent. Consumers respond fast, large grid benefits, from Louise Bernard, Andy Hackett, @rdmetcalfe, Luca Panzone, and Andrew Schein https://t.co/eWUp69njWW
🚨Lecture Notes🚨
I have decided to write lecture notes (grad level) on computational methods in economics, with a focus on ML methods. They can be found here:
https://t.co/S8f4hnANg5
Let me know if you think something specific needs to be covered or discussed in more detail.
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Hi, my name is Isaac Martinez. I am a PhD student in Economics at the LSE, and I wanted to share something personal. On July 6, 2025, I suffered a stroke while I was finishing my PhD. It was completely unexpected and changed my life. #EconTwitter#EconJobMarket
I’ve started an ongoing project to collect all the datasets which economists can use, all in one place, organized by topic. Started with 50, further suggestions are extremely welcome. It will grow considerably.
'From Under The Cork Tree,' @falloutboy’s star-making sophomore album, also came out 20 years ago today.
A look back at the moment when MySpace emo went supernova:
https://t.co/HVj4299ZRf
A permanent tariff reduces trade deficits if the Engel curves for aggregate imports and exports are convex, from Arnaud Costinot and @IvanWerning https://t.co/OhCidhpu2Q
The 2025 Best Paper Prize has been awarded to Amit Gandhi, Zhentong Lu, and Xiaoxia Shi for their paper “Estimating Demand for Differentiated Products with Zeroes in Market Share Data” https://t.co/HcrNQ7h2t3 Congratulations to the authors!
New tools for precisely estimating the effects of treatments defined by complex formulas, with an application to simulated instruments, from @borusyak and @instrumenthull https://t.co/sztJOc6vBy
The five best popular books you can read to understand economics:
1. The Undercover Economist
2. Mastering Metrics
3. Good Economics for Hard Times
4. The Myth of the Rational Market
5. The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008
Developing a measure to capture the temporal dimension of production and compute it using data from publicly traded companies worldwide, from @pol_antras and Vitalii Tubdenov
https://t.co/fjt8YakfEh
We are keen to have applicants from those just finishing a PhD or with a MSc and work experience.
The CMA is really great for the diversity of work on offer and the chance to not only do impactful work but also to do some really interesting economics.
Happy to chat if interested
Great opportunity to join the CMA!!! My team is hiring for an econometrics adviser. We do some really cool work such as recent work on Vodafone/three, Arcelik/whirlpool and some other cases in antitrust and markets. https://t.co/vxqRG4ZByv