On 6-7 February 2020 I speak at an Australian Government hosted workshop on ‘The Future of Trade and Border Management’ at Putrajaya, Malaysia. The event is held at the margins of SOM 1 in… https://t.co/m7xVFoPzWS
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Want to know about the mechanisms by which a treatment affects an outcome? This paper develops tools for testing hypotheses about mechanisms under weak assumptions. Check it out!
New paper by @jondr44 and Kwon:
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The Stata command lwdid is now available on SSC -- it implements Lee and Wooldridge (2025) rolling DiD estimators. The methods are described here: https://t.co/ubKnsajjmT
We provide methods similar to, and motivated by, Callaway and Sant'Anna (2021, Journal of Econometrics).
A short thread on a new paper studying why voters often prefer environmental standards over more cost-effective instruments, like taxes or cap-and-trade. With Chenxi Jiang @maxlauletta@_josephshapiro@DmitryTaubinsky. 1/8
Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham's latest article is the best I've read on writing with coding agents/LLMs - whether for economics research or otherwise.
The most important technique he brings up is creating a style guide for writing which learns from your own past writing.
For academic work, the way I'd operationalize a V1 style guide it is this:
1. Put all your LaTeX files for all your writing in one class of writing (e.g. journal article) in a folder
2. Tell Claude Code "I would like to create a style guide which can be used to help me write academic papers. To this end, spin up a subagent whose purpose is to individually analyze my style in each paper, and then create a style file for that paper. Write them out to ./docs/papers/styles . Instruct the subagents to err towards being more detailed than less, and give exact examples."
3. Invoke the /skill-creator skill and ask CC "I want to create a style guide to help me write academic papers. Using the individual style evaluations in ./docs/papers/styles , help me create a /style-guide skill."
A lot more great stuff in the article and corresponding video.
Article link: https://t.co/RZaHcq3LdC
YouTube link: https://t.co/CuBLANHWRX
A developed general nonparametric theory of omitted variable bias for a wide range of causal parameters. Just Accepted new paper by Victor Chernozhukov @VC31415 Carlos Cinelli, Whitney K. Newey, Amit Sharma, and Vasilis Syrgkanis @syrgkanis https://t.co/o6rcl2c5YJ
I've taught all the 50+ economists I've trained on agentic coding to use @every's Compound Engineering (CE) plugin.
Recently, @danshipper, CEO of Every, has integrated a new update to CE which is particular useful to economists - his tool "Proof".
Whenever Claude Code via CE makes a plan or a brainstorm document, an option will come up to "Share to Proof".
This will generate in your browser an interface in which you can interact with that plan or brainstorm document and give very specific feedback to Claude Code.
A big problem for economists is that they have a much greater need for certain kinds of correctness than software engineers do.
A big part of getting the most correct or best results downstream is getting your plan right from the beginning.
I think Proof - especially with its tight integration with Claude Code - is pushing practically in a very intelligent direction for human/AI collaboration, and I'd recommend any Claude Code using economists to try out this feature in Compound Engineering.
@every is rapidly iterating on the Compound Engineering plugin, but I did a video a couple months ago on Compound Engineering which I think is still worth watching: https://t.co/mODp2jdHCJ
Statistical Rethinking 2026 is done: 20 new lectures emphasizing logical & critical statistical workflow, from basics of probability to causal inference to reliable computation to sensitivity. It's all free, made just for you. Lecture list & links: https://t.co/jFpoiNC6oW
El Niño raises the spatial correlation of agricultural yields, making the gains from trade more unequal. Just Accepted new paper by J. I. Dingel X: @TradeDiversion Bluesky: @tradediversion.bsky.social & K. C. Meng X: @kyle_c_meng Bluesky: @kylemeng.com https://t.co/CLLgP2fGBj
ever been here?
open overleaf → write a paragraph → "hmm...this needs a citation" → open 15 different tabs → skim 8 abstracts → find the 1 actually relevant paper → format bibtex → paste it back on overleaf
if so, i built a plugin just for you. meet openleaf:
→ reads your paper paragraph by paragraph
→ searches major academic databases
→ filters out irrelevant papers using ai
→ one click to add BibTeX to your .bib
you'll also find the 🤝 friendly and 🔥 fire reviewers there. i don't think i need to tell you what they do :)
free. open source. no account. no data collection.
works with ollama, openrouter, openai api and more.
https://t.co/XvX03iem38
dear algorithm, please show this to my fellow researchers in need 🙏
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I made a skill for PDF reading optimized for academic articles, including tables.
As a test case, I ran it on Acemoglu Johnson Robinson (2001).
You can see the benchmark results here: https://t.co/Dn6A4Y1C6a
Under the hood - it uses IBM's docling with various optimizations/tweaks for tables (you can see all the tables here): https://t.co/0ZoroP17tk
> thx @EconTraina for docling recommendation
You can install it from my skills repository - https://t.co/sbYtaO6hBa - which also includes a Python Learning Skill (https://t.co/VfW7r230ru) and has various install instructions
Or just point CC/Codex at https://t.co/bNypV3rWXv and ask it "install this skill"
I've got several ideas of how to improve the skill, but feel free to submit a Github issue and/or PRs with improvements.