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Chelsea Parlett @chelseaparlett.bsky.social · 4d

Counter factual??? You mean FAKE NEWS???

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Bia @beatrizgietner.bsky.social · 19d

Amazing paper (and findings!)

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Harry Anthony Patrinos @hpatrinos.bsky.social · 19d

60% of U.S. students who start college finish within 6 years
• Non-cognitive skills shape grade expectations & performance
• But don’t predict graduation
• Many students misjudge future performance

By @gzamarro.bsky.social , Nichols, Trivitt, Djita
sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Unlocking college potential: The role of student expectations and non-cognitive skills in college success

Attending college is a significant human capital investment, but only about 60 % of those who start college will have a completed degree six years lat…

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Bia @beatrizgietner.bsky.social · 20d

We have a new post!📬
⭐️Factorial DiD (Xu, Zhao & Ding)
⭐️DiD With No Untreated Units (de Chaisemartin et al.)
⭐️Treatment Effects in Complex Designs (de Chaisemartin & D’Haultfœuille)
⭐️Inference With Few Treated Units (Alvarez, Ferman & Wüthrich)
diddigest.substack.com/p/where-stan...

Where Standard Assumptions Go To Die

Universal treatments without clean controls, continuous policies without untreated groups, reversible reforms over time and statistical inference with handful of cases

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 26d

Very interesting post on how the non-profit Feeding America implemented an auction system with its own currency which massively improved allocation of food to food banks.

www.worksinprogress.news/p/how-market...

How market design can feed the poor

America's largest non-profit had a broken distribution system. University of Chicago economists fixed it.

www.worksinprogress.news

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Bia @beatrizgietner.bsky.social · Sep 8

Loooove to learn about model misspecification 😍

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Peter Hull @instrumenthull.bsky.social · Sep 8

The Chamberlain Seminar continues this semester with two exciting online sessions on 9/26 & 10/31! Check out the details below and click below to join our mailing list!

mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/list...

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Olle Hammar @ollehammar.bsky.social · Aug 27

🚨 We have a comment on Begum et al (2018) forthcoming in @readdemography.bsky.social - see link below! @i4replication.bsky.social

Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · Aug 27

We also document changes in language about the randomization between the working paper and published version, and inconsistencies in the authors’ response. See full report (here osf.io/wp8fr/) for more details.

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Dani Sandler @dismalscientist86.bsky.social · Aug 23

Some thoughts on Emma Harrington and Matthew Khan's recent NBER paper "Has the Rise of Work from Home Reduced the Motherhood Penalty in the Labor Market?" www.nber.org/papers/w34147

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Work-from-Home as a Lever Against the Motherhood Penalty

Emma Harrington and Matthew Khan recently posted their paper "Has the Rise of Work-from-Home Reduced the Motherhood Penalty in the Labor Market?" as an NBER working paper. I first encountered this pap...

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Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · Aug 18

Why Does Value-Added Work? Implications of a Dynamic Model of Student Achievement www.nber.org/papers/w34119

"Although conventional value-added estimates are biased for individual teachers due to attenuation, we find they are forecast unbiased when applied across a sample of teachers"

Why Does Value-Added Work? Implications of a Dynamic Model of Student Achievement

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

www.nber.org

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · Aug 17

TIL the original paper describing CRISPR, by Francisco Mojica, was rejected by 4 journals and took 2 years to be published

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Iikka Korhonen @iikkakorhonen.bsky.social · Aug 14

New issue of Journal of Economic Perspectives is out. Quite timely piece on Fed independence.

pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...

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Bia @beatrizgietner.bsky.social · Aug 13

Automatic follow :) thank you!

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Bia @beatrizgietner.bsky.social · Aug 13

Who’s this queen??

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Bia @beatrizgietner.bsky.social · Aug 11

We have a new post🎈
Why your covariates might be "lying" to you and other tales from the "identification frontier":
✅ CBPS-DiD for model misspecification
✅ When good controls go bad (CCC violations)
✅ Bayesian sensitivity for PT violations
open.substack.com/pub/diddiges...

Parallel Trends… Conditionally: Covariates, Violations, and More Robust DiD Methods

The devil in the ~DiD details~

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Bia @beatrizgietner.bsky.social · Aug 11

We have a new post🎈
Why your covariates might be "lying" to you and other tales from the "identification frontier":
✅ CBPS-DiD for model misspecification
✅ When good controls go bad (CCC violations)
✅ Bayesian sensitivity for PT violations
open.substack.com/pub/diddiges...

Parallel Trends… Conditionally: Covariates, Violations, and More Robust DiD Methods

The devil in the ~DiD details~

open.substack.com

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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · Aug 11

Data come in many different formats and are used in many different ways, but in many cases, a checklist like this (along with good data documentation) can help you verify if a dataset is in a usable format for most general purposes.
osf.io/t8upr

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Women in Economics Initiative @womeninecon.bsky.social · Aug 4

🚀Be part of the next round of the Women in Economics Mentoring Programme — a unique opportunity that connects early-career women economists with experienced mentors.

🎯 Programme duration: October 2025 – July 2026
📆 Deadline to apply: August 31st
👉 Apply now: form.jotform.com/251723111137...

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Bia @beatrizgietner.bsky.social · Aug 5

Happy to participate!
You can register to attend here:
www.tickettailor.com/events/irish...

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · Aug 1

My Retrospective on Wokeness in detail! Blogs are for just saying stuff, after all. So here is my attempt to say what was distinctive (if anything) about a recent era of socio-cultural life, what (if anything) changed, and what (if anything) was to the good

sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2025/08/woke...

Wokeness: a Retrospective

In recent times my online sphere has had a fair few people make the claim that, in some sense, the culture has moved on from Woke. The d...

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econmaett @econmaett.github.io · Aug 1

Welcome me to the world of European data, y‘all! 🇪🇺 🇫🇷 🇧🇪 🇩🇪
#rstats #econsky #stats
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db.nomics.world

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DBnomics – The world's economic database

DBnomics is a free platform to aggregate publicly-available economic data provided by national and international statistical institutions, but also by researchers and private companies.

db.nomics.world

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Bia @beatrizgietner.bsky.social · Aug 3

Thank you! 🫶🏻

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Bia @beatrizgietner.bsky.social · Aug 2

lol get lost

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Bia @beatrizgietner.bsky.social · Aug 1

Will do ! 🫶🏻 thank you!

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Bia @beatrizgietner.bsky.social · Aug 1

We have a new post! 🫶 Covering:
➡️UN-DID (for unpoolable data)
➡️Staggered DiD with misclassification (for handling timing issues)
➡️Interactive/Grouped FE Guide (broader panel data, not specifically DiD but related)
+ 3 applied papers :) diddigest.substack.com/p/did-handli...

DiD+: Handling Data Constraints, Timing Issues and TWFE Limitations

What to do when data can't be pooled, timing gets messy, and TWFE isn't enough

diddigest.substack.com

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