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Mathieu Lefebvre

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Economist - professor at Unistra Research on labor, public and behavioral economics And also indie rock music

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Association Française des Économistes de la Population @afepop.fr · May 16

Yesterday afternoon at the @amse-aixmarseille.fr, Prof @chetinicoletti1.bsky.social delivered a keynote on children’s peer influence 👥🧒

The auditorium was full for this insightful talk, introduced by @georgiathebault.bsky.social ! 📸

#AFÉPOP2025

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Andrea Albanese @andreaecon.bsky.social · May 8

🎥 The recording of the Difference-in-Differences course by Prof. @cdechaisemartin.bsky.social , which I had the pleasure of organizing at @liser.lu , is now online!

📚 12 hours covering everything from the basics to advanced methods.

👉 Watch the course here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... #EconSky

Difference-in-Differences (DiD) | Training with Prof. Clément de Chaisemartin - YouTube

Join Prof. Clément de Chaisemartin in this in-depth training on Difference-in-Differences (DiD) — a powerful econometric tool for causal inference and policy...

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Mathieu Lefebvre @mathieulefebvre.bsky.social · Mar 21

What else? 🤦

The New York Times @nytimes.com · Mar 20

Breaking News: President Trump signed an executive order aimed at dismantling the Department of Education, which can’t be closed without Congress. Follow live updates. nyti.ms/4ikmXdm

A photo of a federal building with the words U.S. Department of Education on it. A headline reads: "President Trump Signs Order Aimed at Closing Education Department" Photo by Michael A. McCoy for The New York Times

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · Mar 20

Breaking News: President Trump signed an executive order aimed at dismantling the Department of Education, which can’t be closed without Congress. Follow live updates. nyti.ms/4ikmXdm

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Agence France-Presse @afp.com · Mar 20

🇺🇸 Donald Trump a signé un décret visant à "éliminer" le ministère de l'Education, un projet applaudi par la droite américaine qui a fait des écoles un terrain de lutte contre les idées progressistes. "Nous allons le fermer et le fermer le plus rapidement possible", a déclaré le président américain.

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Philippe Quirion @philippequirion.bsky.social · Mar 9

« La maladie s’installe, ronge discrètement certaines disciplines, se banalise sans susciter l’indignation publique. En France aussi, il suffira d’une alternance pour que les métastases apparaissent. »

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« La guerre de Trump contre la science est la phase terminale d’une longue maladie dont les premiers signes ont été ignorés »

CHRONIQUE. Depuis de nombreuses années, l’ensemble de la droite américaine ne fait pas mystère de sa haine des universités, ni de son désir de détruire ou d’assujettir les sciences de l’environnement....

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NBER @nber.org · Feb 22

Studies across English-speaking countries find a decline in happiness and life satisfaction among young adults over the past decade while older adults show more stable or improving well-being, from Jean Twenge and David G. Blanchflower https://www.nber.org/papers/w33490

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Sydney Gordon @sydneyg.bsky.social · Feb 22

I am sad to share that all Retirement & Disability Research centers have been ordered to stop work. My fellowship will no longer exist, and the work of so many talented researchers and dedicated staff will be cut short.

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Press Release | Press Office | SSA

2025 Press Releases

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Mathieu Lefebvre @mathieulefebvre.bsky.social · Feb 18

Félicitations Cacilia !!!

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · Feb 15

Thread of my own work that has used data from Department of Education and columns that have focused on research funded by them

1/N Inequality in college graduation rates
Uses data from Education Longitudinal Study, conducted by Department of Education
www.nytimes.com/2015/06/02/u...

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Mathieu Lefebvre @mathieulefebvre.bsky.social · Feb 11

Last days to apply to the 2025 Conference in Applied Econometrics using Stata in Marseille.

We welcome quality research in applied econometrics from all fields.

Keynotes by Barbara Rossi ans Andrew Clark.

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2025 Conference in Applied Econometrics using Stata, France - Sciencesconf.org

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Association Française des Économistes de la Population @afepop.fr · Jan 28

⏰🚨Only 5 days left to apply 🚨⏰

Apply here 👇
🔗 afepop2025.sciencesconf.org

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casey wichman @cjwich.bsky.social · Dec 31

AEJ Applied starting the new year with 4 enviro/energy papers 👀

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Daron Acemoglu @dacemoglumit.bsky.social · Dec 17

Dear friends and followers, I'm sharing here the Nobel prize acceptance speech I gave on behalf of Simon Johnson, James Robinson and myself. Thank you everybody.

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Mathieu Lefebvre @mathieulefebvre.bsky.social · Nov 22

This week I had the great pleasure to be in the PhD comitee of Zexuan Wang at CREM @rennesuniv.bsky.social . Congratulations !

Mathieu Lefebvre @mathieulefebvre.bsky.social · Nov 18

Congratulations to @yujiang_sun for the excellent defence of his PhD at CEEM Montpellier . Great pleasure to be in the comitee.

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Sareh Vosooghi @sarehvosooghi.bsky.social · Aug 27

Why #economics is such a concentrated discipline? This NBER WP looks at 18 major fields: natural sciences, engineering, and #socialsciences. In all the award winners are diffused around the world, except in economics!

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Richard Blundell @richardblundell.bsky.social · Aug 27

‘To the extent that measures of inequality in healthcare utilization do not take into account the resources required by the individual to use healthcare inputs, they will present an overly positive picture of inequities’ academic.oup.com/ooec/article...

Socio-economic inequality in the distribution of health care in the UK

Abstract. This commentary begins with a discussion of how health care is modelled in a human capital approach and what that implies for inequality in the d

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Mathieu Lefebvre @mathieulefebvre.bsky.social · Feb 15

Very last day to submit your paper and join us in sunny Marseille in may.

www.amse-aixmarseille.fr/en/news/2024...

2024 Conference in Applied Econometrics using Stata, France

AMSE is organizing the 2024 Conference in Applied Econometrics using Stata, France on May 23 and 24, 2024 in Marseille. This conference is co-organized with Timberlake Consultants. Submissions are ope...

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Jason Kerwin @jkerwin.bsky.social · Jan 23

Social scientists need to write papers but we generally aren't taught how to actually do that. Here is how I get papers out the door, in 10 straightforward steps. 1/N #econsky #socsky #scisky

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Association Française des Économistes de la Population @afepop.fr · Jan 23

🚨 Only 2 weeks left to apply for the #AFEPOP2024 Conference! 🚨

🌐 Population Econ: Educ, health, labour, demographics, inequality, housing, gender, discrimination, policy evaluation, etc.
🌟 Keynote by @libertadgonzalez.bsky.social
🗓️ 2 – 3 May 2024
📍Paris area
👉https://afepop2024.sciencesconf.org

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Henning Hermes @henninghermes.com · Jan 22

We are thrilled to curate a Special Issue on “Field Experiments to Reduce Inequality” in the European Economic Review!

Guest editors: @lergetporer.bsky.social @michelebelot.bsky.social @henninghermes.com @fpeter.bsky.social & @simonwiederhold.bsky.social

Details: tinyurl.com/38hzxdte

#EconSky

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Mathieu Lefebvre @mathieulefebvre.bsky.social · Jan 18

Bienvenu !

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Association Française des Économistes de la Population @afepop.fr · Jan 16

📢 Submit your paper to #AFEPOP2024 📢

📣 Less than 3 weeks left to apply!
📍 Join us in the vibrant Paris area on May 2-3, 2024. 🗓️
⏰ Deadline February 5, 2024! 🗓️
🌟 Keynote by @libertadgonzalez.bsky.social
📜 More info here: afepop.fr/wp-content/u...

🙏 Spread the word!
#CallForPapers #AFEPOP2024

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Anne Lavigne @alavigne.bsky.social · Jan 9

Communiqué de l'AFSE sur le projet de loi relatif à l'immigration voté par le Parlement le 19 décembre 2023

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Association Française des Économistes de la Population @afepop.fr · Jan 5

🕰️ 1 month left to send us your best proposals

Join us for 🎀🦋 our inaugural conference 🦋🎀 on population economics (gender, household, education, labour, health, etc.)

Deadline: February 5
afepop2024.sciencesconf.org

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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · Dec 22

RIP Bob Solow. There will be many well-deserved encomiums: he was a wonderful person as well as a great economist. Here's a story you may not know 1/

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Steve Salop @stevesalop.bsky.social · Dec 22

Prof Bob Solow has passed away at 99. He was brilliant, charming and totally human. May his memory be a blessing.
www.nytimes.com/2023/12/21/b...

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Clément de Chaisemartin @cdechaisemartin.bsky.social · Dec 14

So excited to announce that our textbook with Xavier, "Difference-in-Differences for Simple and Complex Natural Experiments", is now under contract with Princeton University Press. Check out the "working textbook" version here! Comments welcome! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Clément de Chaisemartin @cdechaisemartin.bsky.social · Dec 12

My ERC team has created an account where they will share updates of the Stata and R packages they are working on, follow them! bsky.app/profile/erct...

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