Cannon "like boom" Cloud
@cannoncloud.bsky.social
Development econ PhD Student at Goethe Universität Frankfurt and WZB.
Doing research at the corner of development, transport and remote sensing.
https://cannoncloud.github.io/
You can find he/him knitting silly hats or riding funny bikes.
Doing research at the corner of development, transport and remote sensing.
https://cannoncloud.github.io/
You can find he/him knitting silly hats or riding funny bikes.
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I created a shiny web tool to play around with OL/TWFE so you can teach how this stuff can get so screwy. You can mess with temporal and cohort heterogeneity, treatment timing, whether you have any controls, etc. Share your worst plots! #econsky cannoncloud.shinyapps.io/TWFE_OLS_Pla...
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ICYMI: New paper for causal effects with panel data, subsuming other approaches. We generate realistic synthetic data based on commonly studied datasets, showing our method substantially outperforms others and providing insight about what in the data-generating process corresponds to gains.
New paper: Triply Robust Panel Estimators (TROP) by @susanathey.bsky.social @guidoimbens.bsky.social Zhaonan Qu @vivianodavide.bsky.social.
arxiv.org/pdf/2508.21536
arxiv.org/pdf/2508.21536
November 23, 2025 at 10:39 PM
ICYMI: New paper for causal effects with panel data, subsuming other approaches. We generate realistic synthetic data based on commonly studied datasets, showing our method substantially outperforms others and providing insight about what in the data-generating process corresponds to gains.
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They want feedback about how good my evaluation was so please tell them 🤪😉
We want your feedback – which evaluations merit the top award, and why?
Total prize pool: $6600
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Total prize pool: $6600
www.unjournal.org/news/unjourn...
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Unjournal 2024-25 Evaluator Prize Nominations; inviting feedback — The Unjournal
The Unjournal commissions expert public evaluation of research with potential for global impact. We recognize and reward the most useful, insightful, and credible evaluation work, including through ou...
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December 23, 2025 at 8:27 PM
They want feedback about how good my evaluation was so please tell them 🤪😉
They want feedback about how good my evaluation was so please tell them 🤪😉
We want your feedback – which evaluations merit the top award, and why?
Total prize pool: $6600
www.unjournal.org/news/unjourn...
Anonymous: coda.io/form/The-Unj...
Total prize pool: $6600
www.unjournal.org/news/unjourn...
Anonymous: coda.io/form/The-Unj...
Unjournal 2024-25 Evaluator Prize Nominations; inviting feedback — The Unjournal
The Unjournal commissions expert public evaluation of research with potential for global impact. We recognize and reward the most useful, insightful, and credible evaluation work, including through ou...
www.unjournal.org
December 23, 2025 at 8:27 PM
They want feedback about how good my evaluation was so please tell them 🤪😉
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An argument that the political history of Africa is a surprising success story as Africans achieved what they set out to accomplish, from Soeren J. Henn and James A. Robinson www.nber.org/papers/w34546
December 14, 2025 at 4:02 PM
An argument that the political history of Africa is a surprising success story as Africans achieved what they set out to accomplish, from Soeren J. Henn and James A. Robinson www.nber.org/papers/w34546
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I updated my DiD Visualizer tool for TWFE/OLS. 1. I added a break the model button to correlate treatment effects with treatment timing, making negative weight more likely. 2 Made the heterogeneous treatment effects more responsive to make things wacky with uniform distribution ranges instead 1/2
December 12, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I updated my DiD Visualizer tool for TWFE/OLS. 1. I added a break the model button to correlate treatment effects with treatment timing, making negative weight more likely. 2 Made the heterogeneous treatment effects more responsive to make things wacky with uniform distribution ranges instead 1/2
I updated my DiD Visualizer tool for TWFE/OLS. 1. I added a break the model button to correlate treatment effects with treatment timing, making negative weight more likely. 2 Made the heterogeneous treatment effects more responsive to make things wacky with uniform distribution ranges instead 1/2
December 12, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I updated my DiD Visualizer tool for TWFE/OLS. 1. I added a break the model button to correlate treatment effects with treatment timing, making negative weight more likely. 2 Made the heterogeneous treatment effects more responsive to make things wacky with uniform distribution ranges instead 1/2
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📣 First European-level Conference in Development Economics of EDEG!
📅 June 11-12 2026
🌍 Kiel Institute for the World Economy
Hosted by the Standing Field Committee for Development Economics of the German Economic Association
Submit a paper: events.gwdg.de/event/1270/
Deadline: 15 Feb 2026
📅 June 11-12 2026
🌍 Kiel Institute for the World Economy
Hosted by the Standing Field Committee for Development Economics of the German Economic Association
Submit a paper: events.gwdg.de/event/1270/
Deadline: 15 Feb 2026
December 11, 2025 at 9:41 AM
📣 First European-level Conference in Development Economics of EDEG!
📅 June 11-12 2026
🌍 Kiel Institute for the World Economy
Hosted by the Standing Field Committee for Development Economics of the German Economic Association
Submit a paper: events.gwdg.de/event/1270/
Deadline: 15 Feb 2026
📅 June 11-12 2026
🌍 Kiel Institute for the World Economy
Hosted by the Standing Field Committee for Development Economics of the German Economic Association
Submit a paper: events.gwdg.de/event/1270/
Deadline: 15 Feb 2026
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After becoming a congressional leader, a politician’s stock portfolio beats out those of peers by 47 (!!!) percentage points a year through trades timed around bills and firms that later get government contracts
www.nber.org/papers/w34524
via @florianederer.bsky.social
www.nber.org/papers/w34524
via @florianederer.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 1:42 AM
After becoming a congressional leader, a politician’s stock portfolio beats out those of peers by 47 (!!!) percentage points a year through trades timed around bills and firms that later get government contracts
www.nber.org/papers/w34524
via @florianederer.bsky.social
www.nber.org/papers/w34524
via @florianederer.bsky.social
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Hello! I'm starting a new blog/newsletter thing.
First post is about aid and growth, and what I think is missing from the renewed enthusiasm in DC to subsidize private investment in developing countries: i.e., export discipline.
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First post is about aid and growth, and what I think is missing from the renewed enthusiasm in DC to subsidize private investment in developing countries: i.e., export discipline.
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December 2, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Hello! I'm starting a new blog/newsletter thing.
First post is about aid and growth, and what I think is missing from the renewed enthusiasm in DC to subsidize private investment in developing countries: i.e., export discipline.
1/
First post is about aid and growth, and what I think is missing from the renewed enthusiasm in DC to subsidize private investment in developing countries: i.e., export discipline.
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The American Economic Association's Committee on the Job Market surveyed Economics Departments in the U.S. regarding their plans to hire assistant professors this cycle (2025-26). 29.7% said that their department was under a hiring freeze.
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#EconSky #EconJobMarket
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#EconSky #EconJobMarket
December 1, 2025 at 10:02 PM
The American Economic Association's Committee on the Job Market surveyed Economics Departments in the U.S. regarding their plans to hire assistant professors this cycle (2025-26). 29.7% said that their department was under a hiring freeze.
1/3
#EconSky #EconJobMarket
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#EconSky #EconJobMarket
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New paper: Triply Robust Panel Estimators (TROP) by @susanathey.bsky.social @guidoimbens.bsky.social Zhaonan Qu @vivianodavide.bsky.social.
arxiv.org/pdf/2508.21536
arxiv.org/pdf/2508.21536
October 20, 2025 at 5:21 PM
New paper: Triply Robust Panel Estimators (TROP) by @susanathey.bsky.social @guidoimbens.bsky.social Zhaonan Qu @vivianodavide.bsky.social.
arxiv.org/pdf/2508.21536
arxiv.org/pdf/2508.21536
Whats the german word for the feeling you have when you take the first sip of water and realized you poured Naturell and not bubbley?
November 20, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Whats the german word for the feeling you have when you take the first sip of water and realized you poured Naturell and not bubbley?
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👋 I'm Danielle, and I'm on the #econjobmarket this year!
Let's start with a student describing her segregated school:
"The school felt temporary. Built like a warehouse with aluminum siding . . . I had a slipshod education"
The twist? The student is white, and her school is private.
A JMP 🧵 -->
Let's start with a student describing her segregated school:
"The school felt temporary. Built like a warehouse with aluminum siding . . . I had a slipshod education"
The twist? The student is white, and her school is private.
A JMP 🧵 -->
November 12, 2025 at 3:57 PM
👋 I'm Danielle, and I'm on the #econjobmarket this year!
Let's start with a student describing her segregated school:
"The school felt temporary. Built like a warehouse with aluminum siding . . . I had a slipshod education"
The twist? The student is white, and her school is private.
A JMP 🧵 -->
Let's start with a student describing her segregated school:
"The school felt temporary. Built like a warehouse with aluminum siding . . . I had a slipshod education"
The twist? The student is white, and her school is private.
A JMP 🧵 -->
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The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 2:36 AM
The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond
You mean "breadjudicial"?
Obviously prejudicial to the outcome
BREAKING EXCLUSIVE MUST CREDIT: Lunch for jurors in the “sandwich guy” trial are a variety of sandwiches, according to a source familiar with lunch.
November 7, 2025 at 8:28 AM
You mean "breadjudicial"?
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The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.
These big wins will embolden Dems to take on Trump's lawbreaking and show there's a price for GOP enabling of him. Folks hate to hear this, but normal patterns are asserting themselves: Liberalism isn't dead, Rs are likely to lose in 2026, and Trump is really unpopular, not a magical exception.
November 5, 2025 at 2:48 AM
The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.
@jamellebouie.net Why the Exorcist steps?
October 27, 2025 at 2:24 PM
@jamellebouie.net Why the Exorcist steps?
Right wing billionaires should clearly fund more sci-fi.
There are many good science fiction novels. Not a single one that I have read delivers a happy vision of the future in which aged right-wing billionaires control the media.
October 26, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Right wing billionaires should clearly fund more sci-fi.
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Thought about scientific consensus recently? We have a new DP @i4replication.bsky.social that probes into the famous replication debate between Acemoglu, Johnson & Robinson (AJR) and Albouy - and how experts assess this debate. We find that they disagree. 1/8 www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10...
October 11, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Thought about scientific consensus recently? We have a new DP @i4replication.bsky.social that probes into the famous replication debate between Acemoglu, Johnson & Robinson (AJR) and Albouy - and how experts assess this debate. We find that they disagree. 1/8 www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10...
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Worth a friendly reminder that the next set of nation-wide No Kings protests are set for October 18th.
There's probably one in your area.
I am not generally a crowds or protests sort of person, but there's one in my town and I'll be at it on the 18th.
www.nokings.org
There's probably one in your area.
I am not generally a crowds or protests sort of person, but there's one in my town and I'll be at it on the 18th.
www.nokings.org
No Kings
As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...
www.nokings.org
October 10, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Worth a friendly reminder that the next set of nation-wide No Kings protests are set for October 18th.
There's probably one in your area.
I am not generally a crowds or protests sort of person, but there's one in my town and I'll be at it on the 18th.
www.nokings.org
There's probably one in your area.
I am not generally a crowds or protests sort of person, but there's one in my town and I'll be at it on the 18th.
www.nokings.org
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All is not well at Elsevier richardtol.substack.com/p/fraud-and-...
Fraud and cover-up
Fraud and cover-up
richardtol.substack.com
September 15, 2025 at 7:54 AM
All is not well at Elsevier richardtol.substack.com/p/fraud-and-...
One way to address the "its not always sunny or windy" oil and gas disinfo
Clean energy developers are in the early stages of trying to link North America with Europe via a 6GW 4,000km cable
The UK could wake up w electricity from Canada’s hydropower, and send power back when it’s windy at midnight in North Sea and New Yorkers are making dinner
www.ft.com/content/db0a...
The UK could wake up w electricity from Canada’s hydropower, and send power back when it’s windy at midnight in North Sea and New Yorkers are making dinner
www.ft.com/content/db0a...
Growth of renewable energy heralds the rise of supercables
Projects are under way to connect regions and countries creating a new era of energy ties between economies
www.ft.com
September 12, 2025 at 12:09 PM
One way to address the "its not always sunny or windy" oil and gas disinfo
This seems bad. People unironically calling this their Reichstag Fire moment. 🚩
These are calls for mass political violence, against all Democrats. They openly call for the bombing of "Democrat" cities and for the jailing or killing of Democratic politicians. They are from some of the most influential voices in right-wing politics. Will anyone say anything?
September 11, 2025 at 7:47 AM
This seems bad. People unironically calling this their Reichstag Fire moment. 🚩
Don't like stanning for google docs but this looks good.
Ok, this is actually dope. First real solution I’ve seen to ensuring human writing in the age of LLMs.
Maybe the college essay isn’t dead after all?
youtube.com/shorts/AhA1l...
Maybe the college essay isn’t dead after all?
youtube.com/shorts/AhA1l...
Just give me the grade I know I deserve
YouTube video by Study with J
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September 10, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Don't like stanning for google docs but this looks good.