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Abu Siddique

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🔺Associate Professor of Economics at Royal Holloway University of London. 🔺Research Associate at Institute for Fiscal Studies. 🔺Associate Editor at Frontiers in Behavioral Economics (Health Behaviors) 🌐 https://sites.google.com/view/abusiddique

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Abu Siddique @absidd.bsky.social · 29d

Great summer school & conference on social and economic networks, organized by @yveszenou.bsky.social

Abu Siddique @absidd.bsky.social · Feb 18

I have contacted the editorial offices to formally disassociate myself from these papers. It's painful, but it's right! 3/3

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Abu Siddique @absidd.bsky.social · Feb 18

..as I can no longer endorse the findings of these papers. Had I known about these things earlier, I would not have agreed to coauthor the papers in question. As a coauthor I deserve full disclosure, so I can make my own choice about a paper. 2/3

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Abu Siddique @absidd.bsky.social · Feb 18

🚨 Recently, I took a major decision by withdrawing my name from a series of papers on covid that I coauthored. After realizing that several crucial pieces of information about the design had been withheld from me by the team, I decided to withdraw myself,... 1/3

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Abu Siddique @absidd.bsky.social · Feb 2

Brick Lane at night #London

Abu Siddique @absidd.bsky.social · Jan 25

This workshop was amazing last year! Greece is beautiful! #econsky

Dimitrios Minos @dminos.bsky.social · Jan 25

Last year was a blast, so we're doing it again!!! Send us your papers for the 2nd Patras Applied Microeconomics (PAM) workshop (pamworkshop.upatras.gr) to be held at the University of Patras 1-3 July and share widely!!! @ianlal.bsky.social @vmonastiriotis.bsky.social

Patras Applied Microeconomics (PAM) Workshop

This 2-day workshop features a keynote speaker’s presentation, followed by around 12 research papers to be presented in plenary sessions of about 45 minutes each.

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Abu Siddique @absidd.bsky.social · Jan 25

Sneak peek at our new edutainment project on children's health in Bangladesh! 🇧🇩 #econsky

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · Jan 22

TWO studies for your lecture or problem set on omitted variable bias

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Fitness and muscle strength could halve cancer patient deaths, study suggests

Analysis shows patients need to exercise and keep their weight down to reap maximum benefit

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Valentin Kecht @vkecht.bsky.social · Jan 6

🚨 We are hosting the 1st IZA PhD Workshop in Labor and Behavioral Economics in Bonn (June 12-13, 2025)🚨

🗣️ Keynotes by @sydneecaldwell.bsky.social (UC Berkeley) and Chris Roth (U Cologne)

👉 Submissions (Jan 31) conference.iza.org/PhD_LaborBeh...

Please share and apply!

1st IZA PhD Workshop in Labor and Behavioral Economics

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Pedro Sant’Anna @pedrosantanna.bsky.social · Dec 30

Here are the first five sets of slides:

01 Introduction: psantanna.com/DiD/01_Intro...

02 Classical 2x2 setup: psantanna.com/DiD/02_two_b...

03 Clustering issues: psantanna.com/DiD/03_Clust...

04 Functional form: psantanna.com/DiD/04_Funct...

05 Covariates: psantanna.com/DiD/05_Covar...

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Pedro Sant’Anna @pedrosantanna.bsky.social · Jan 3

I've decided to collect my DiD materials in a single place.

psantanna.com/did-resources

There, you will find
- 14 lectures of my comprehensive DiD course
- Shorter lectures/talks I have given on DiD
- My DiD R/Stata/Python packages
- Some DiD checklists
- DiD materials from my friends

Enjoy!

Pedro H. C. Sant’Anna

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Henning Hermes @henninghermes.com · Dec 23

🚨 Christmas WP Alert 🚨
New study explores the causal impact of correcting misperceived gender norms on mothers' employment attitudes and expectations. Using a field experiment with German mothers of young children, we find three key results:
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#EconSky

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Abu Siddique @absidd.bsky.social · Dec 16

Joint with DAMS

Abu Siddique @absidd.bsky.social · Dec 16

I'm visiting my wonderful coauthor & friend Yves Zenou at Monash in February. I'll be in Melbourne for 3 weeks from Feb 9-28. Would love to connect with new people there 😃 I'll then spend a week at my sister's in Armidale, NSW. Really miss my nephew & niece! So excited about 🇦🇺

Abu Siddique @absidd.bsky.social · Dec 12

But at least that's online, cheap, and faster..

Abu Siddique @absidd.bsky.social · Dec 12

If someone is studying why minority academics have poor networks, note that this is a major reason. These small hurdles add up! 3/3

Abu Siddique @absidd.bsky.social · Dec 12

At every step, it feels like various policies punch you in the face, reminding you that you're from a poor country and must stay within your boundaries. This is what it feels like to be a minority: discrimination and suppression at every single step. 2/3

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Abu Siddique @absidd.bsky.social · Dec 12

Learned today that you need a visa to transit through the US even if you remain in the airport's controlled space for a connecting flight within 3-4 hours. Life is already difficult with visas required for destination countries; this adds another cost. Weak passports = hell! 1/3

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John A. List @johnlist.bsky.social · Dec 8

Field Experiments have matured from academic curiosity to bona fide contributor to knowledge in the past few decades. Yet, the political economy of their deployment in government remains ill-understood. We provide insights in a new working paper, available here: ideas.repec.org/p/feb/natura...

Toward an Understanding of the Political Economy of Using Fi

Field experiments provide the clearest window into the true impact of many policies, allowing us to understand what works, what does not, and why. Yet, their widespread use has not been accompanied by

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Abu Siddique @absidd.bsky.social · Dec 8

I did as well. I guess I'll have more info tomorrow.

Abu Siddique @absidd.bsky.social · Dec 8

Given the situation, can people present via zoom?

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Abu Siddique @absidd.bsky.social · Dec 8

#AEA email says the conference will take place in hotels affected by strike, but will people join online & avoid crossing the picket line? If that's the case, then I don't see a point of flying from London to SF & be forced to cross a picket line, only to end up at a conference with no one #econsky

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · Dec 7

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David McKenzie @dmckenzie.bsky.social · Dec 6

Respondents who received evening surveys (4pm-8pm) were 2.8 percentage points less likely than respondents who received morning surveys (6am-12pm) to self-report IPV - today's #econjmp by Katherine Theiss (Fordham) on how survey methods affect IPV estimates blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

Uncounted: how survey implementation methods miss 3 million annual cases of intimate partner violence worldwide. Guest post by Katherine Theiss

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