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Dropping a beta version of this page while everyone is up and processing baseball!

This tool lets you search the full text of papers from the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal series, and over 30,000 NBER working papers.

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Economics Literature Search
Full-text search across 15,000+ papers from top economics journals and NBER working papers. Track how empirical methods have evolved over time.
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November 2, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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📣 Submissions are now open for our second Women in Environmental Economics Workshop in collaboration with @CEPR.org from 9- 10 April 2026 in Venice.
📝 Papers in any subfield of environmental economics are welcome.
📅 Deadline: 3rd December 2025. More info and how to submit: 👇
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Call for Submissions: Women in Environmental Economics Workshop
In collaboration with CEPR, The CAGE Research Centre at the University of Warwick is delighted to announce a call for papers for the second Women in Environmental Economics Workshop. The workshop…
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October 20, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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📣 2025 CWEC/CEDC Job Market Mentoring Sessions

We are here to help you prepare, practice and succeed.

📣😀Practice Your Job Market Pitch

1️⃣ Session 1: Nov. 28, Friday Online 8:00 PM ET
2️⃣ Session 2: Dec. 1, Monday Online 8:00 PM ET

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October 16, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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📣 2025 CWEC/CEDC Job Market Mentoring Sessions

We are here to help you prepare, practice and succeed.

📣😀Practice Your Job Market Pitch

1️⃣ Session 1: Nov. 28, Friday Online 8:00 PM ET
2️⃣ Session 2: Dec. 1, Monday Online 8:00 PM ET

Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
2025 CWEC/CEDC Job Market Pitch Sessions (Online)
The Canadian Women Economics Committee (CWEC) and Canadian Economics Diversity Committee (CEDC) are hosting two sessions for all current job market candidates to practice—and get feedback on—their thr...
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October 16, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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📣 2025 CWEC/CEDC Job Market Mentoring Sessions

Join us for a series of interactive sessions designed to help you prepare, practice and succeed.
1️⃣Session 1: Application Tips and First-Round of Interviews
🗓️Oct 28 Online 8:00 PM ET
Register here:
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CWEC/CEDC Fall Job Market Mentoring: Applications and First-Round Interviews 2025-26
This year the Canadian Women Economics Committee (CWEC) and Canadian Economics Diversity Committee (CEDC) will be hosting virtual presentations and Q&A aimed at Economics PhD students in Canada who ar...
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October 16, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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📢 Do not miss the #EAERE suppported #envecon2026, the next UK Network for Environmental Economists - #UKNEE annual applied environmental economics conference.

📝 Submissions are to be sent by December 1, 2025

🗓️ March 20, 2026
📍 The Royal Society, London (UK)
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September 4, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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The 15th Heartland Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop at Illinois is coming up on Oct 25-26.

Submit your abstract by June 30! And spread the word.

More details & submission link here:

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June 3, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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📣CALL FOR PAPERS 📣

Workshop on the economics of ageing and pensions

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Where? Berlin @wzb.bsky.social 🐻

When? November 20-21 November 🍂

For whom? Researchers at all stages in their career

Anything else? Accomodation & travel cost will be covered 🚅🏨

Please circulate!
May 26, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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Despite being slightly more expensive than chlorine subsidies, privately-treated water delivers far higher take-up and social welfare in rural India.

Read today's article to learn more:
May 29, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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A direct link to this statement can be found below. Please distribute this widely so that all of our colleagues in the discipline can see that their work is valued and that we will not collaborate with, or tolerate, political coercion.

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Joint Statement of Principles
Statement of Principles from the Editorial Boards of Leading Health Economics Journals May 21, 2025 As academic independence and freedom of expression face increasing threats across many countries a...
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May 21, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Important null results in development economics

Despite the bias against publishing null results, they are important for policy, helping to kill bad ideas.

I've highlighted some key examples we have featured on @voxdev.bsky.social: voxdev.org/topic/import...
Important null results in development economics
Despite the bias against publishing null results, they are important for policy, helping to kill bad ideas.
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April 11, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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🆕 How some development projects undermine Africa’s pastoral communities, sparking violence

Today on VoxDev, Eoin McGuirk (Tufts University) & Nathan Nunn (University of British Columbia) outline their research: voxdev.org/topic/agricu...
Displaced and divided: How some development projects undermine Africa’s pastoral communities, sparking violence
Pastoral regions of Africa are witnessing a sharp increase in armed civil conflict. Research has identified ‘mismatched’ agricultural development projects as one major factor driving this violence by ...
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March 10, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Check out this VoxDev writeup of my recently accepted paper on infrastructure, institutions, and biodiversity conservation! @voxdev.bsky.social
🆕 Can inclusive institutions balance the development-biodiversity trade-off?

Today on VoxDev, @raamadhok.bsky.social (University of Minnesota) explains how institutions that centre the voices of forest-dependent communities can help mitigate species loss: voxdev.org/topic/energy...
Can inclusive institutions balance the development-biodiversity trade-off?
Infrastructure expansion into forests substantially degrades biodiversity. Yet, institutions that centre the voices of forest-dependent communities during project planning can help mitigate species lo...
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March 4, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Environmental economists - submit to present at the NBER summer workshop

Submissions due March 20th: papers.nber.org/confsubmit/b...

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Submission: Summer Institute 2025, Page 1 of 2 - MyNBERNBER: National Bureau of Economic Research
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February 4, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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🚨The call for the 2025 #edition of the #BSE #SummerForum workshop on #DevelopmentEconomics is out (co-organised with P. Bustos, G. DeGiorgi, G. Leon and D. Yang). Send us your best papers (deadline: FEB 28) and join us in beautiful Barcelona on June 18-19. events.bse.eu/live/files/5...
January 17, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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Joint Asian and European Workshop on Econometrics and Health Economics – Singapore, August 27-30, 2025 #healtheconomics
Joint Asian and European Workshop on Econometrics and Health Economics – Singapore, August 27-30, 2025
From: Shiko Maruyama Subject: Joint Asian and European Workshop on Econometrics and Health Economics – Singapore, August 27-30, 2025 Dear Colleague, Joint Asian and European Workshop on Econometrics and Health Economics – Singapore, August 27-30, 2025…
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January 15, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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For those who want to jump to the frontier in select areas of economics, the AEA has posted the webcasts of this year’s continuing lectures. Thanks much to @lawrencekatz.bsky.social for his leadership and vision in assembling these lectures.
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2025 AEA Recent Developments Lectures
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January 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Required reading for all economists.

Follow these steps and save yourself a lot of time down the road!
January 5, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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I've decided to collect my DiD materials in a single place.

psantanna.com/did-resources

There, you will find
- 14 lectures of my comprehensive DiD course
- Shorter lectures/talks I have given on DiD
- My DiD R/Stata/Python packages
- Some DiD checklists
- DiD materials from my friends

Enjoy!
Pedro H. C. Sant’Anna
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January 3, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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First, happy new year to all.

Second, my brilliant friend and co-author, Marc Bellemare, has given up on social media and has returned to his "long form writing" (aka blog). He starts off the new year on a bit of a sour note, but an important one.

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W(h)ither Development Economics?
(Over the last one or two years, I have explained to a number of colleagues and graduate students that I was not interested in doing development anymore. I am writing this post to avoid having the …
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January 1, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Here are the first five sets of slides:

01 Introduction: psantanna.com/DiD/01_Intro...

02 Classical 2x2 setup: psantanna.com/DiD/02_two_b...

03 Clustering issues: psantanna.com/DiD/03_Clust...

04 Functional form: psantanna.com/DiD/04_Funct...

05 Covariates: psantanna.com/DiD/05_Covar...
December 30, 2024 at 5:19 AM