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Valerie Mueller
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Professor in the School of Politics and Global Studies, ASU
#DevEcon #EnvironEcon #AgEcon #EnvironDemography #PoliticalEcon
Non-resident fellow at IFPRI
Livin’ it up in Spain 2025-6

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Valerie Mueller @valmuellerasu.bsky.social · 2m
Scientific reports

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Valerie Mueller @valmuellerasu.bsky.social · 1h
I was thinking the same thing. Why are you making the move? I couldn't tell if the chrome search engine is horrible in Europe or just degraded in general?

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Valerie Mueller @valmuellerasu.bsky.social · 3h
I submitted an interdisciplinary paper to SR. Sat there 12 months. They could not find an editor. I would suggest names of editors to managing staff, listed on the webpage. They were no longer with the journal. Took me a month to formally pull the manuscript out. Would never no go there again.

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Valerie Mueller @valmuellerasu.bsky.social · 4h
And this is why I took a break from being an editor. When you suspect riffraff, there are no resources or support to stop and prevent it from happening again. They just transfer the slop to another journal until they find a sleepy editor!
erikangner.com Erik Angner @erikangner.com · 1d
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
Infographic with AI slop published in Nature Scientific Reports

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Valerie Mueller @valmuellerasu.bsky.social · 7h
You lasted longer than I would. By 9, I’m like I need to sleep.

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Valerie Mueller @valmuellerasu.bsky.social · 22h
Happy Thanksgiving to all of you celebrating today! Missing my 🦃 day big time.

Reposted by Katharine Hayhoe, Peter Thorne, Kevin J. Anchukaitis , and 17 more

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Erik Angner @erikangner.com · 1d
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
Infographic with AI slop published in Nature Scientific Reports

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Valerie Mueller @valmuellerasu.bsky.social · 1d
Efficiency? How do I trick the journal's AI so that the false accusations of my paper's bad formatting go away and the manuscript goes through the submission process? This is how I spend many hours of my time a year.

Reposted by Daniel L. Millimet, Michael A. Clemens, Valerie Mueller

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John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 1d
When fixed effects aren't fixed...

Important work by @dlmillimet.bsky.social and Marc Bellemare that should influence econometric practice.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
On the (Mis) Use of the Fixed Effects Estimator
Data that span multiple units and time periods allow controlling for time-invariant heterogeneity correlated with the covariates. While researchers can do this in different ways, the fixed effects es...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Reposted by James P. Collins, Valerie Mueller, Aaron Sojourner , and 2 more

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 2d
This is wild!

Seven-day-ahead weather forecasts in high-income countries are more accurate than one-day-ahead weather forecasts in low-income countries.

Reposted by Caroline Krafft, Valerie Mueller, Danila Serra , and 1 more

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CSWEP @aeacswep.bsky.social · 2d
CSWEP News Issue IV, "Focus on Fertility" by @caitlinmyers.bsky.social is out now. www.aeaweb.org/content/file...
www.aeaweb.org

Reposted by Diane Coyle, Simon Hix, Elizabeth Saunders , and 21 more

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Sara Hobolt @sarahobolt.bsky.social · 3d
🚨 LSE Assistant Professor in Political Science 🚨

We’re hiring a tenure-track assistant professor - any area of empirical political science - to join our wonderful Government Dept @lsegovernment.bsky.social

Any questions, please reach out to me

📣 Please share! 📣

jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Reposted by Valerie Mueller

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Nick Hagerty @hagertynw.bsky.social · 3d
Save the date! Announcing the 2nd Annual...

** BIG SKY WORKSHOP **
on the Economics of Agriculture and the Environment

Hosted by @montanastate and @PERCtweets in Bozeman, MT, June 18-19, 2026

Call for abstracts in January. Travel funding available for grad students

More info: bigskyworkshop.net

Reposted by Valerie Mueller

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Joel Wood 🇨🇦 @joelwwood.bsky.social · 3d
Most synthetic control studies use randomization inference (permutation based), but if you want prediction intervals for your synthetic control I just learned of this new R/Stata/Python package: SCPI
www.jstatsoft.org/article/view...
#EconSky
scpi: Uncertainty Quantification for Synthetic Control Methods by Matias Cattaneo, Yingjie Feng, Filippo Palomba, Rocío Titiunik
<p>The synthetic control method offers a way to quantify the effect of an intervention using weighted averages of untreated units to approximate the counterfactual outcome that the treated unit(s) wou...
www.jstatsoft.org

Reposted by Stephen P. Jenkins, Susan Hyde, Valerie Mueller , and 7 more

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Florian Foos @florianfoos.bsky.social · 3d
We have a new tenure-track job in @lsegovernment.bsky.social at AP level (empirical political science, open subfield): jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... Please apply and share with colleagues who might be interested!
Assistant Professor in Political Science
Assistant Professor in Political Science, , <p style="text-align: center;"><em><span>LSE is committed to building a diverse, equitable and truly inclusive university</span></em></p> <p style="text-ali...
jobs.lse.ac.uk

Reposted by Michael A. Clemens, Valerie Mueller, Aaron Sojourner , and 4 more

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Susan Athey @susanathey.bsky.social · 4d
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.

Reposted by Stephen P. Jenkins, Steven N. Durlauf, Dave O’Brien , and 2 more

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Herman van de Werfhorst 🟥 @hermwerf.bsky.social · 4d
Come and do a PhD at the #EUI! We are five professors in sociology, within the department of Political and Social Sciences. Social stratification, education, family demography, analytical sociology, experimental sociology, it’s all here!
eui-eu.bsky.social European University Institute @eui-eu.bsky.social · 27d
🚨 Applications Now Open for the EUI PhD Programmes 2026-2027!

📊 Economics |⚖️ Law |📘 History | 🏛 Political and Social Sciences

Join the EUI's 50th PhD cohort!

Apply by 15 January 2026 (14:00 CET) for the academic journey of a lifetime! 👉: eui.eu/phd

#EUIPhD #PhDOpportunity

Reposted by Valerie Mueller

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tenuretracker.info @tenuretracker.bsky.social · 5d
University of Bristol is hiring:
Assistant Professor in Data Science / Statistics

Reposted by Aaron Sojourner

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Valerie Mueller @valmuellerasu.bsky.social · 6d
Mike is a great economist and has a wealth of experience having also worked at @ifpri.org for a few years. Please give his JMP a look.
mjamurphy.bsky.social Mike Murphy @mjamurphy.bsky.social · 6d
Hello #EconSky, this is my official #EconJMP post!

I'm an applied micro-economist with a PhD from the University of Bordeaux. I work on topics in agricultural and environmental health in developing countries.

You can find my work at mjamurphy.com or check the 🧵below for what my JMP is all about
JMP Abstract: Title: Consumer responses to novel risk information: Evidence from an experiment in urban Kenya Authors: Vivian Hoffmann Sarah Kariuki Mike Murphy∗ November 21, 2025 Abstract Foodborne illness is a global public health problem, comparable in magnitude to malaria, whose burden is heavily concentrated in developing economies where regulatory capacity is limited. Since contamination is not observable, consumers cannot differentiate between higher and lower risk options. We test the impact of an experiment in which consumers receive information on the risk of contamination with a fungal toxin in formally and informally produced maize flour. We find a 47 percent increase in the share of households consuming the lower-risk product at follow-up in the treatment group relative to the control group, from a base of 38 percent. Our results demonstrate the potential for public surveillance and risk communication to shift demand towards safer product options where regulatory enforcement is weak. Keywords: Risk communication, food safety, Kenya JEL Codes: D83, I12, Q17

Reposted by Alistair Munro, Valerie Mueller, Michael Kevane , and 2 more

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Mike Murphy @mjamurphy.bsky.social · 6d
Hello #EconSky, this is my official #EconJMP post!

I'm an applied micro-economist with a PhD from the University of Bordeaux. I work on topics in agricultural and environmental health in developing countries.

You can find my work at mjamurphy.com or check the 🧵below for what my JMP is all about
JMP Abstract: Title: Consumer responses to novel risk information: Evidence from an experiment in urban Kenya Authors: Vivian Hoffmann Sarah Kariuki Mike Murphy∗ November 21, 2025 Abstract Foodborne illness is a global public health problem, comparable in magnitude to malaria, whose burden is heavily concentrated in developing economies where regulatory capacity is limited. Since contamination is not observable, consumers cannot differentiate between higher and lower risk options. We test the impact of an experiment in which consumers receive information on the risk of contamination with a fungal toxin in formally and informally produced maize flour. We find a 47 percent increase in the share of households consuming the lower-risk product at follow-up in the treatment group relative to the control group, from a base of 38 percent. Our results demonstrate the potential for public surveillance and risk communication to shift demand towards safer product options where regulatory enforcement is weak. Keywords: Risk communication, food safety, Kenya JEL Codes: D83, I12, Q17

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Joseph Harrison @jharrison37.bsky.social · 6d
🚨 🚨 Publication 🚨 🚨
My work on residential relocation of Immigrants and their descendants in France has been published in Population, Space and Place.
This work was part of my time in @standrewssgsd.bsky.social with the @migrantlife.bsky.social project.
Available here
👇👇👇
dx.doi.org/10.1002/psp....
Residential Relocations and Housing Changes Among Immigrants and Their Descendants: An Analysis of Longitudinal Register Data From France
This paper investigates residential mobility and housing changes among immigrants, their descendants, and the native population, alongside the association between family and household characteristics....
dx.doi.org

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Centre for Economic Policy Research @cepr.org · 6d
📢 #CallForPapers - Women in Economic Theory Conference
May 15-16, 2026 @ LSE
Interested researchers are invited to submit papers for the conference, with a preference for completed papers.
Deadline: 14 December 2025
cepr.org/events/women...
#EconSky
Organisers: Mariagiovanna Baccara, Gilat Levy, Paula Onuchic, Anna Sanktjohanser

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Valerie Mueller @valmuellerasu.bsky.social · 6d
Before you marry, Catholics have to take a class called Engagement Encounters. In addition to talking about faith, you are given exercises to discuss difficult subjects like how many kids do you want to have. I think we need a similar course, but for coauthors to discuss AI use in collaborations.

Reposted by Christian E. Weller, Edgar Morgenroth, Valerie Mueller

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Tatyana Deryugina @tderyugina.bsky.social · 7d
Hey, #EconSky job candidates & their advisors! My group at the UofI is hiring, looking for an environmental/public applied economist.

If you haven't applied already, now is a great time to do so!

www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
American Economic Association: JOE Listings - August 1, 2025 - January 31, 2026
www.aeaweb.org

Reposted by Valerie Mueller

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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 7d
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booksofm.com Monica Valentinelli is riding to Isengard @booksofm.com · 7d
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."

There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

Reposted by Caroline Krafft, Joshua Goodman, Valerie Mueller , and 6 more

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Kate Musen @khmusen.bsky.social · 7d
I'm on the #EconJobMarket! I study how policies and childhood environments shape outcomes of low-income & vulnerable kids.

In my JMP, I study the effects of allowing youth who would have aged out of foster care at 18 to stay until 21—offering support their peers not in foster care get from parents.

Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Scott C. Doney, Valerie Mueller

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ClimateBook @climatebook.bsky.social · 7d
Are you an early-career researcher who would like to work with me at MIT? The MIT Distinguished Postdoctoral Program is still open (Nov. 30 deadline, so hurry!) Details are here:
eaps.mit.edu/research/pos...
Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowships Program
Competitive fellowships supporting exceptional early-career scientists. The EAPS Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship Program attracts researchers with interests in the broad range of disciplines rep...
eaps.mit.edu

Reposted by Joshua Goodman, Valerie Mueller

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Lavar Edmonds @lavaredmonds.bsky.social · 7d
Q for the professors: I’m mentoring a few students on their (econ) honors theses. I’m used to giving feedback for grad students, but the objective function/expectations for undergrad work seems necessarily different

How do you differentiate advising research for grad students vs undergrads?

Reposted by Cas Mudde, Katharine Hayhoe, Stéphane Hallegatte , and 20 more

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Monica Valentinelli is riding to Isengard @booksofm.com · 7d
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."

There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

Reposted by Valerie Mueller

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AERE @aereorg.bsky.social · 7d
📢 Just accepted in #JAERE! 📢
"Nature's Kidneys: the Role of Wetland Reserve Easements in Restoring Water Quality" by Nicole Karwowski and Marin Skidmore.
Read it here: buff.ly/FhGARIR
📈📉 #Econsky