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ᴅᴀɴɪᴇʟ ᴍɪʟʟɪᴍᴇᴛ ✡️☮️❤️ @dlmillimet.bsky.social · Sep 5

You love staggered DID?! You wanna bet your life on it? 😂

Atheendar Venkataramani @atheendar.bsky.social · Sep 5

1/ #NaturalExperiments are increasingly being used to answer #clinicalquestions, like how does treatment X affect disease outcome Y.

Recent review by Lizzie Bair and me in NEJM Evidence covers examples and best practices for these types of studies:

evidence.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Natural Experiments to Inform Clinical Practice

Natural experiments refer to events or practices that result in similar individuals receiving different services or interventions for arbitrary reasons. In the clinical context, researchers may wis...

evidence.nejm.org

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ᴅᴀɴɪᴇʟ ᴍɪʟʟɪᴍᴇᴛ ✡️☮️❤️ @dlmillimet.bsky.social · Sep 5

👏👏👏

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Dean Eckles @eckles.bsky.social · Aug 11

When treating one person might affect others, there's an explosion of possible ways to quantify these effects.

Which of these are relevant to applied problems — like choosing a policy governing treatment?

This is the jumping off point for this new short paper:
arxiv.org/abs/2507.14391

Policy relevance of causal quantities in networks

In settings where units' outcomes are affected by others' treatments, there has been a proliferation of ways to quantify effects of treatments on outcomes. Here we describe how many proposed estimands...

arxiv.org

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ᴅᴀɴɪᴇʟ ᴍɪʟʟɪᴍᴇᴛ ✡️☮️❤️ @dlmillimet.bsky.social · Jul 14

As someone who was just in Europe for a conference … GET SOME AC! 😂 it was brutal

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ᴅᴀɴɪᴇʟ ᴍɪʟʟɪᴍᴇᴛ ✡️☮️❤️ @dlmillimet.bsky.social · Jul 8

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ᴅᴀɴɪᴇʟ ᴍɪʟʟɪᴍᴇᴛ ✡️☮️❤️ @dlmillimet.bsky.social · Jul 8

More like murder-suicide in the end since tariffs just screw us

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · Jul 8

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

~ George Orwell, 1984

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ᴅᴀɴɪᴇʟ ᴍɪʟʟɪᴍᴇᴛ ✡️☮️❤️ @dlmillimet.bsky.social · Jul 8

*combined* 😳

Maureen Conway @maureenc.bsky.social · Jul 8

With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded fed law enforcement agency in history, w/ more $$ per year at its disposal over the next four years than the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined
Read @vermontgmg.bsky.social
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/four-fears...

Four Fears about ICE, Trump's New Masked Monster

We're about to pour $200 billion into immigration enforcement—it's a terrible idea, sure, but understanding *specifically* why is important.

www.doomsdayscenario.co

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ᴅᴀɴɪᴇʟ ᴍɪʟʟɪᴍᴇᴛ ✡️☮️❤️ @dlmillimet.bsky.social · Jul 7

#econsky

A cool and important example of the importance of measurement error and the interesting research that can be done by taking the problem seriously.

doi.org/10.1111/joie...

Revisiting the Omitted Price Bias in the Estimation of Production Functions

The lack of information on quantities presents significant challenges for estimating production functions. As shown by Klette and Griliches in 1996, deflating nominal variables using aggregate price ...

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ᴅᴀɴɪᴇʟ ᴍɪʟʟɪᴍᴇᴛ ✡️☮️❤️ @dlmillimet.bsky.social · Jul 3

Sushi 🍣. Easily every day.

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ᴅᴀɴɪᴇʟ ᴍɪʟʟɪᴍᴇᴛ ✡️☮️❤️ @dlmillimet.bsky.social · Jun 29

lol. Someone needs a lesson on PI.

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ᴅᴀɴɪᴇʟ ᴍɪʟʟɪᴍᴇᴛ ✡️☮️❤️ @dlmillimet.bsky.social · Jun 29

I still have file folders from my UG and grad classes as a *student* in the 1990s

ᴅᴀɴɪᴇʟ ᴍɪʟʟɪᴍᴇᴛ ✡️☮️❤️ @dlmillimet.bsky.social · Jun 27

Sounds like a Game of Thrones episode

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ᴅᴀɴɪᴇʟ ᴍɪʟʟɪᴍᴇᴛ ✡️☮️❤️ @dlmillimet.bsky.social · Jun 27

Location of the first faculty meeting

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · Jun 20

This conference cannot be missed by economists studying migration and development.

The best of the best, year after year. #EconConf #EconSky

LISER's Crossing Borders Research Programme @liser-cb.bsky.social · Jun 20

📣 Call for papers - 18th International Conference on #Migration and #Development

📅 Event held September 25-26, 2025 in Paris

🤝 With keynote's from: Paula Gobbi, @dmckenzie.bsky.social & @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social

⌛ Submit by July 15, 2025

#EconSky #Poverty #Inequality #Globalization

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Shooshan Danagoulian @shooshan.bsky.social · Jun 20

#Econsky 📈📉 does anyone have access to cleaned thermal inversion data for the US 2000-2020 and is willing to share it?

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ᴅᴀɴɪᴇʟ ᴍɪʟʟɪᴍᴇᴛ ✡️☮️❤️ @dlmillimet.bsky.social · Jun 19

5 hour meeting today. Off to Italy tomorrow. Life as an academic and dept chair. Not complaining.

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ᴅᴀɴɪᴇʟ ᴍɪʟʟɪᴍᴇᴛ ✡️☮️❤️ @dlmillimet.bsky.social · Jun 18

Several union episodes escaping to murder on Law & Order 😂

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ᴅᴀɴɪᴇʟ ᴍɪʟʟɪᴍᴇᴛ ✡️☮️❤️ @dlmillimet.bsky.social · Jun 18

Leadership in action

Politico @politico.com · Jun 18

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has given an unusual level of authority on the Israel-Iran tensions to Gen. Erik Kurilla, who is known as “The Gorilla.”

Hegseth defers to general on Pentagon’s plans for Iran

U.S. Central Command chief Gen. Erik Kurilla is overruling other top Pentagon officials.

www.politico.com

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ᴅᴀɴɪᴇʟ ᴍɪʟʟɪᴍᴇᴛ ✡️☮️❤️ @dlmillimet.bsky.social · Jun 18

Journal of Eco Surveys perhaps

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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · Jun 18

A woodcut of a bird beside the text "you dim motherfucker, science is real"

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ᴅᴀɴɪᴇʟ ᴍɪʟʟɪᴍᴇᴛ ✡️☮️❤️ @dlmillimet.bsky.social · Jun 18

As in being less of an ass? I would think anyone comfortable being an ass now wouldn’t change because more people than the editor and authors can read an anonymous report. But I could be wrong. I don’t have much faith in … people.

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ᴅᴀɴɪᴇʟ ᴍɪʟʟɪᴍᴇᴛ ✡️☮️❤️ @dlmillimet.bsky.social · Jun 18

I don’t think people would care or read it. It would have some small educational advantage for young folks learning how to write and respond to referee reports. But those just interested in the research won’t waste time reading it.

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ᴅᴀɴɪᴇʟ ᴍɪʟʟɪᴍᴇᴛ ✡️☮️❤️ @dlmillimet.bsky.social · Jun 18

😮

HuffPost @huffpost.com · Jun 17

"Anne was a remarkable person and culinary talent," the network said of its late star.

Food Network Star Anne Burrell Dead At 55

"Anne was a remarkable person and culinary talent," the network said of its late star.

www.huffpost.com

ᴅᴀɴɪᴇʟ ᴍɪʟʟɪᴍᴇᴛ ✡️☮️❤️ @dlmillimet.bsky.social · Jun 17

Ah, the honor system. What could go wrong?

(Not the fault of AJPS... I applaud the effort. Just so difficult to enforce.)

American Journal of Political Science (AJPS) @ajpseditor.bsky.social · Jun 17

We have been discussing amongst ourselves how AJPS should handle the issue of artificial intelligence (AI) in the creation and review of journal submissions. These are important issues we feel we must address. Read the AJPS AI Policy for authors and reviewers here: ajps.org/2025/06/17/a...

AJPS AI Policy

We have been discussing amongst ourselves how AJPS should handle the issue of artificial intelligence (AI) in the creation and review of journal submissions. These are important issues we feel we m…

ajps.org

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