Hi #EconTwitter!
Some news I would like to share here—on July 1st, I'll join the board of Co-Editors of the @JEconometrics.
Proud to contribute to the premier #Econometrics journal together with @michae1jansson, @PaulaAureo, Viktor, Xiaohong, and an amazing team of associate editors.
#Econometrics
The RMC @UofEBusiness is hosting an in-person 3-day workshop led by Anna Mikusheva (MIT), Jack Porter (UW-Madison), and Frank Windmeijer (Oxford) on Instrumental Variables. Email me for the registration link.
The RMC @UofEBusiness is hosting a 3-day workshop led by Stephane Bonhomme (Chicago), Victor Aguirregabiria @vaguirregabiria (Toronto), Boris Nikolov (Lausanne) and Sam Engle @SamuelPEngle (Exeter) on Structural Modelling and Estimation. Email me for the registration link.
After a long Covid break, my colleagues at @qmuleconomics are bringing back to life the Annual Workshop in Quantitative Macro, E1Macro.
The deadline to submit is February 29th. See details below👇
#econtwitter spread the word.
p.s. April is a great time to visit London 🙂
Teachers account for < 5% of the workforce but have disproportionate impacts on success of future generations. Here, HCEO member @AnsonZhou9 shows that rewarding teachers’ skill has spillover effects such as ⬇️income inequality & ⬆️intergen. mobility. https://t.co/qHd8tciB7d
Hey @Dropbox when i looked this up i actually wasn't looking for a bunch of intro to CS definitions i was looking for an explanation as to what on earth you could be sending my data to OpenAI for that's so important you set the share toggle to "on" by default?
NEW: Average capital spending on schools has fallen by around a quarter in real-terms since the mid-2000s, and is 50% below its 2010 peak.
Read our new comment on the decline in spending on school building from @lukesibieta ⬇️
https://t.co/QdGGkyIgJa
Dr. Dario Sansone delves into LGBTQ+ socio-economic dynamics & policy impact. From employment effects of same-sex marriage to disparities in STEM fields, his research fuels awareness and inclusion. 🏳️🌈
Read more👉https://t.co/iCkaRrsJ9R
@PolicyExeter@UofEBusiness
This fall I'll be teaching a new online Mixtape class on design-based regression/IV analysis
The content will draw on my graduate applied 'metrics class at Brown, and will assume a basic knowledge of causal inference tools and regression mechanics
Sign up now! Discounts for students and those in low-income countries, as usual!
https://t.co/8WslGYrqui
@jmwooldridge (Semi)-pathological example: student-t location model with degrees of freedom v so that 1 < v < 2. Linear and Huber-score both identify the mean but estimator using the sample mean has infinite variance.