Para q sirven los académicos?
Para investigar, OK.
¿Pero para q las universidades contratan investigadores como profesores?
¿q tiene que ver la investigación con la instrucción?
Defensa totalmente desinteresada de mi gremio hoy en #EstoNoEsEconomia
https://t.co/iIrhHxE0Be
Our paper “Difference-in-Differences Designs: A Practitioner’s Guide” is now published in the Journal of Economic Literature. It took us a while but we are happy!
We put together a lot of material to make the paper useful in practice: https://t.co/30TbAgihlz
Hope you like!
Grateful to have participated in this excellent workshop on Health and Economic Well-Being organized by @RF_Berlin. Great insights, wonderful community, and the pleasure of meeting new colleagues while reconnecting with friends. Thanks for the great organization!
...and that's a wrap! With closing words from RFBerlin director Christian Dustmann, the conference on Health and Economic Well-Being comes to an end! We thank everyone who joined us! 🎉
New preprint! We re-analyze 46 papers that use log-like specifications (ln(Z+1), inverse hyperbolic sine, etc). We find widespread non-robustness, and we show through theory + simulation how these models drive spurious significance. 1/
https://t.co/Uxy4srDuxe
📢 We're hiring Research Assistants at @CUNEF Universidad (Madrid)! Positions available across several fields in economics. Applications reviewed on a rolling basis — apply early!
More details & apply here: https://t.co/264Oyx4DDT
#EconJobs#EconTwitter
¡Atención colegas!
En CAF lanzamos una convocatoria a proyectos de investigación en temas de vivienda en América Latina y el Caribe.
Deadline: 8 de Marzo. Más detalles en el siguiente link:
https://t.co/wVaTO9kIAa @AgendaCAF
🚨🚨🚨The call for papers for our *Workshop on Public Policies* is out: https://t.co/TuClFni7AC
Amazing keynotes by @michelacarlana and @MatthewJLindQ
Send your papers by February 22nd to join us in June (15&16) in Barcelona!
🚨 Deadline extension 🚨
The deadline for the COSME Workshop on Gender Economics (May 29–30 at @FundacionAreces, Madrid) has been extended until this Friday, Feb 6.
Send us your best paper!
Keynote speakers include Paola Giuliano and Nagore Iriberri.
https://t.co/Ziln9CICs5
📄🗓️Send us your papers! We're organizing a new workshop at the Barcelona School of Economics Summer Forum on the Economics of Families, Gender and Work (June 8-9), with
@farre_lidia
and
@anacostaramon Join us!
📢 Call for Papers — Special Issue
Fertility and Family Dynamics: Mechanisms, Policy, and Welfare
Fertility rates have fallen well below replacement across rich and middle-income countries. We invite papers that go beyond accounting to identify causal mechanisms and evaluate pronatalist/promarriage policies using explicit welfare criteria.
📅 Submission deadline: Nov 2, 2026
📘 Journal Special Issue (Elsevier)
✍️ Guest editor: Sebastian Galiani (University of Maryland)
https://t.co/KHvuIlZ2sa
📢#CallforPapers - RFBerlin-CEPR Annual Symposium in Labour Economics 2026
Submit a paper or express interest in attending the 2026 @RF_Berlin - CEPR Annual Symposium in Labour Economics.
Organisers: Hyejin Ku @ucl@RF_Berlin, Jérôme Adda @Unibocconi@RF_Berlin
https://t.co/oVe6C7S8rK
What happens when Swedish women are biologically incapable of naturally bearing children?
They earn roughly the same as men!
Bravo to @landais_camille et al - who examine a rare congenital condition to track the gender pay gap.
(Assuming these women are otherwise normal).
📢📄🩺 RFBerlin invites submissions for the upcoming conference on Health and Economic Well-Being.
Submit your work now and share this call with colleagues.
Submit now: https://t.co/Q6pmJQHZEP
About the event: https://t.co/8t7EImjnpU
#CallForPapers#AcademicTwitter#EconTwitter #HealthEconomics #PublicHealth
🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨
@CUNEF Univ. is hiring Assistant Professor in Economics and related fields.
Application deadline: November 15 ⏰
More info: https://t.co/SlFnFA6k7F
Apply to join one of Europe’s most dynamic economics departments! #econtwitter
📢 Call for Papers!
CAF and WELAC (LACEA) invite submissions for the Workshop on Gender, Households, and Inequality (Dec 16–17, Buenos Aires).
📄 Call: https://t.co/7UKBFX4R8J
📅 Deadline: August 3
@voxlacea@AgendaCAF
❓Why do the Nordics & Dutch speak English so much better than the Germans, Italians & French?
➡️New Working Paper:
Out-of-School Learning: Subtitling vs. Dubbing and the Acquisition of Foreign-Language Skills
w/ F. Baumeister & E. Hanushek
https://t.co/5NBogfqLia
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Forthcoming in the JEL: "Difference-in-Differences Designs: A Practitioner’s Guide" by Andrew Baker, Brantly Callaway, Scott Cunningham, Andrew Goodman-Bacon, and Pedro H. C. Sant'Anna. https://t.co/usGVoaPfkx