Happy to share that our paper with Jonna Rickardsson on the labor market effects of the 2004 mining boom in Northern Sweden is out in Labour Economics! @eale_sbe (1/5)
https://t.co/mKIp48pbKb
🚨 NEW ECONOMICS JOURNAL 🚨
We are excited to announce the launch of The Review of Economic Studies: Insights, a new open-access journal in the REStud family.
Mission: publish concise, high-quality research on important questions across economics and economic policy.🧵1/13
Development economics finally has a global professional home. Today we launch @ideadevecon ... Open to every development economist, everywhere.
Join the community: https://t.co/d32NJVmjEj
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Hoy (coincidencialmente tras las revelaciones de @NoticiasCaracol) publicamos con @juanf_vargas y @AndresFRiveraT un artículo académico que evalúa los efectos de los ceses al fuego decretados por el gobierno o de @petrogustavo bajo la llamada “Paz Total” sobre los niveles de violencia, la gobernanza criminal y las operaciones de la fuerza pública contra esos grupos criminales organizados. Va 🧵sobre el trabajo y principales resultados. El trabajo completo se puede descargar acá: https://t.co/RLajlNVS14
¿La educación reduce el crimen?
Este artículo analiza la relación entre capital humano y criminalidad a nivel municipal en Chile, usando datos de 2006 a 2017 para más de 300 municipios. Un 🧵
When treatment locations are as-good-as-random, how do we estimate causal effects on nearby observations? Use counterfactual locations, known ex-ante or predicted via neural nets, and quantify uncertainty based on the quasi-experimental design.
https://t.co/mQ260FVpKd
Our Call for Mentors is open 🚨
Join us to inspire the next generation of economists!
Commit 12-15 hours for the year
Eligibility: PhD in economics, public policy or related fields
Deadline: July 15
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We've updated the "operators manual" to judge/examiner/leniency designs, to appear later this year in the JEP!
Lots of new results and practical tips here -- link below!
📢 The 2026 @NOVAFRICA Conference on Economic Development is already next week!
Join leading researchers and policymakers on 18–19 June for two days of cutting-edge research and discussions on economic development.
🔗Program & info: https://t.co/atSbTXI3jo
#NOVAFRICA2026
https://t.co/VB5ZPBEbde These mentoring sessions by Jesse are among my favorite perks of joining HBS. He wrote an article about them here and I imagine junior faculty elsewhere may benefit from this kind of mentoring as well.
Today I've put up my 10th annual blog on development journals, where I work with editors to put together submission numbers, acceptance rates, review times, journal rankings, and more. More than 16,000 papers were submitted to 14 journals in 2025, and over 1,000 published 1/5
It was so much fun to chat with @jenniferdoleac about my @restatjournal paper—with M.Prem and @DanielMejiaL—for the 126th episode of @ProbCausation!
Thanks Jen for the invitation (and for paraphrasing my complicated answers 🤣).
Listen to it here: https://t.co/eH9XrkW8vl
Working with co-authors who prefer Word? 📝 We’ve launched a new feature to import .docx files into Overleaf and export them back again. It’s a great way to get your drafts started.
🚨 Due to high demand, I created a new (and much improved) version of the Econ Journal Matchmaker.
New tool here:
https://t.co/kvrQQmo5SG
#EconTwitter Please help spread the word by reposting. 🙏
More details below 👇
Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "Class Disparities and Discrimination in Traffic Stops and Searches" by Benjamin Feigenberg and Conrad Miller. https://t.co/0BCMn5K9RW
I've updated my undergrad and grad 'metrics course slides from this spring -- including new material, (many) fixed typos, and more!
Check 'em out on my website (link below), and feel free to email for the source materials if you'd like to use some of it for your own teaching
I've started a Substack!
In "Probable Causation: The Newsletter," I'll share regular updates on what I'm thinking about in the evidence-based public safety space.
Please subscribe and share!
First post linked below.
(1/6) 🧵 Join our "The Micro and Macro Perspectives of Labor Market" Virtual Reading/Workshop Group co-organized with Jesse Wedewer at @DukeEcon!
It allows PhD students to connect with peers outside their home department. Here's how it runs:
#EconTwitter
🚨 Are you about to submit an Economics paper?
I made a free tool that suggests journals/editors that may be a good fit.
Super easy to use. Just upload a PDF of your paper: https://t.co/izY83ftTOS
#EconTwitter
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