Maxim Ananyev

Senior Research Fellow at @MelbInstUOM & Life Course Centre. Views are my own. Political economy. Disadvantage. Cultural Economics. Admin data. UCLA alum.

[Maxim Ananyev @maximananyev]

I started a Substack with some personal opinions and notes about Australia's economy.

My first post is about what both sides of Australian parliamentary politics seem to misunderstand (or pretend to misunderstand) about the subject of productivity.

https://t.co/u14dXBeh1t

[scott cunningham @causalinf]

Results from my Claude Code audit of six Callaway and Sant'Anna packages (two in python, two in R, two in Stata). Same specification, same dataset, same covariates, same estimator, almost never do they agree.

https://t.co/KpRwlAagbr

[Noah Dasanaike @dasanaike]

I want to up the ante on this. If you have a large document collection, I will digitize it for you, for free (you pay for inference), on one condition: that we make the data publicly available immediately.

[Noah Dasanaike @dasanaike]

Social scientists working with materials requiring digitization can only study what machines can read. In practice, that means printed Latin-script documents from well-funded archives. In a new working paper, I show that Vision Language Models used zero-shot outperform every existing OCR system across every script evaluated, and I propose a pipeline for deploying them on new collections. I apply it to six archival collections spanning 1.8 million pages across six countries for under $1,900.

[Koenfucius 🔍 @koenfucius]

Contrary to common wisdom and a sizeable literature, longitudinal research (with a natural experiment) in Australia by @maximananyev et al finds no causal effect of getting a pet on life satisfaction, loneliness, mental health, and general health:

https://t.co/fAsVah3Xaj

[Vitaliia Yaremko 🇺🇦 @YaremkoV]

🚨The deadline is tomorrow (Feb 1) 🚨

Submit your paper to the 2nd Women in Macro Workshop in Dublin using the link below:
https://t.co/4CeFPcYXSk

[AnastasiaBurkovskaya @burkaru]

School of Economics at USYD @USydneyEcon is on the market for a new Head of School. The deadline to apply is February 4. Position: https://t.co/qHWJkURcmk

[Vitaliia Yaremko 🇺🇦 @YaremkoV]

📢 Excited to co-organize the 2nd Women in Macro Workshop in Dublin 🍀 together with Dilan Aydın Yakut, @martyna_marczak, and @Alessia_metrics!

📅 Submit your paper by 1 Feb 2026!

Details 👇
#WomenInMacro
@tcdeconomics @imtcd @centralbank_ie @ISWEconomics @SNDE_ECON

[Maxim Ananyev @maximananyev]

One of the most underrated and critical skills for PhD students is suppressing FOMO in the face of constant hype cycles.

[Fizza @fizzasuhel]

Me (in initial yrs of PhD): I am just starting and I'm passionate about this ques. I'm gonna read, think, discuss and develop hypothesis+ get hands dirty with empirics.
Meanwhile econ twitter: if you are not vibe coding, developing a full paper in 22 mins with claude code and +

[Vitaliia Yaremko 🇺🇦 @YaremkoV]

📣 My department has 2(!) tenure track openings this year.

🗓️ Applications due Jan 12 at https://t.co/PhcNBKzkJV.

🍀Don't miss your chance to join a vibrant econ department in the heart of Dublin!

#EconJobMarket

[Paul Raschky @PaulRaschky]

We are hiring (a bit)! This year we are on the market for multiple positions at the junior and senior market and here is why you should join us (1/n):
https://t.co/KJvhsQWTmQ
https://t.co/pIaen0o74U

[Paul Raschky @PaulRaschky]

What he said. 👇

[David Byrne @dprbyrne]

We have just posted our job ad for a faculty position in econometrics. Application deadline is November 23, 2025.

https://t.co/5XHG0jK7xl

[Nicholas Decker @captgouda24]

Really important paper. We totally miss most earnings volatility for the 60% of Americans who are hourly workers, because we measured it at the yearly, not the monthly level. High-frequency data reveals that the situation faced by low-income workers is worse than we believed. 1/

[Melbourne Health Economics @HEU_unimelb]

Hi everyone, Melbourne Health Economics is moving to Bluesky - please follow us on the following handle: @heu-unimelb.bsky. We very much appreciate those that have followed our account, and welcome you to move over with us.
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[Maxim Ananyev @maximananyev]

You should never allow the LLM agent to make design decisions without you actively guiding them.

A labor-market takeaway is that my mates in the software development business should probably chill. LLMs will make you more productive, but they won’t replace you. At least for now.

[Maxim Ananyev @maximananyev]

Some thoughts on LLMs for coding or why "Pure Vibe Coding" is impossible now.

I'd like to write about my experience with Claude Code for some of the projects we're developing within @MelbInstUOM

These are my own subjective impressions from using the tool for about two months.

[Maxim Ananyev @maximananyev]

"Its main interface function is <description of what the function gets and what it returns>. It’s called <when exactly>."

In other words, you must describe the internal design of the system precisely.