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Giovanni Mellace @giovannimellace.bsky.social · 22d

🎉 Thrilled to share that my paper with Riccardo Di Francesco has been accepted at Economics Letters!
🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2502.11691

Causal Inference for Qualitative Outcomes

Causal inference methods such as instrumental variables, regression discontinuity, and difference-in-differences are widely used to identify and estimate treatment effects. However, when outcomes are ...

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Giovanni Mellace @giovannimellace.bsky.social · Sep 3

Excited to share our new paper on arXiv! 📢
With my amazing colleagues Seetha Menon and Nadja van 't Hoff, we show that—contrary to common belief—men use more healthcare than women when faced with an unexpected health shock.

🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2509.01310

Gender Differences in Healthcare Utilisation - Evidence from Unexpected Adverse Health Shocks

This paper is the first to provide causal evidence of gender differences in healthcare utilisation to better understand the male-female health-survival paradox, where women live longer but experience ...

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Giovanni Mellace @giovannimellace.bsky.social · Jul 22

Excited to present at #iHEA2025 in Bali 🌴:
📄 Nudging Nutrition: Lessons From the Danish "Fat Tax"
📄 Sex Differences in Healthcare Utilisation: Evidence from Unexpected Adverse Health Shocks
#IHEA205

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Giovanni Mellace @giovannimellace.bsky.social · Jun 23

Looking forward to presenting in Torino at #IAAE2025 our Shapley Instruments paper in a super interesting session. Join us on Wednesday if you attend the conference

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Giovanni Mellace @giovannimellace.bsky.social · Jun 21

It's always a great time visiting my coauthor @fedeabides.bsky.social in Siena. This time I also presented our brand new paper Shapley Instruments joint with Nadja van't Hoff and Zsolt Sandor.

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Giovanni Mellace @giovannimellace.bsky.social · Jun 15

I had such a great time at #espe2025 in Napoli. Very interesting presentations and outstanding social events in an amazing location.

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Giovanni Mellace @giovannimellace.bsky.social · Jun 11

🎉 Excited to share that our paper "Limited Monotonicity and the Combined Compliers LATE" (with Nadja van’t Hoff and Arthur Lewbel) has been accepted for publication in the Review of Economics and Statistics!
📄 fmwww.bc.edu/EC-P/wp1059....

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Giovanni Mellace @giovannimellace.bsky.social · May 28

#ICEEE2025

Giovanni Mellace @giovannimellace.bsky.social · May 28

Looking forward to presenting my paper with my great coauthor @rokspruk.bsky.social in Palermo on Friday. We evaluate the huge investment in public health and education that followed the revolution finding long lasting effects.

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Giovanni Mellace @giovannimellace.bsky.social · May 22

🚨 PhD course @sdu.dk this August!
"Historical Perspectives on Current Econ Issues: Big Data & Applications"
📅 Aug 11–22 | Odense
👨‍🏫 Christopher Meissner (UC Davis)
Apply by July 1 www.sdu.dk/en/forskning...

PhD summer school

PhD Course: Historical Perspectives on Current Economics Issues: Big Data and Applications HEDG and Department of Economics, University of Southern Denmark 12–22 August 2024

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Giovanni Mellace @giovannimellace.bsky.social · Apr 30

Wow!

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Julius Koschnick @juliuskoschnick.bsky.social · Feb 21

🚨🚨🚨PhD summer school at the University of Southern Denmark 🚨🚨🚨What can we learn about tariffs and trade from history? Chris Meisner, our keynote speaker, is one of the most renowned experts on historical trade and policy. + Learn ML + NLP tools in a hands-on-approach. Join us 11-22 August 2025!

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Giovanni Mellace @giovannimellace.bsky.social · Feb 21

Looking for a salaried PhD position? Join my colleague in a cutting-edge research project at SDU, in collaboration with MIT, to explore the transformative impact of disability reforms with register data!
Apply here: fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

PhD scholarship for research project on disability reform in Applied Economics

Application deadline: April 1, 2025, 23.59 CET.

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Giovanni Mellace @giovannimellace.bsky.social · Feb 18

Is your outcome a qualitative variable, but you still want to conduct causal inference?
Check out our new paper Causal Inference for Qualitative Outcomes!
We provide an open-source R package,causalQual , for easy implementation:
🔗 github.com/riccardo-df/...

📄 arxiv.org/abs/2502.11691

Causal Inference for Qualitative Outcomes

Causal inference methods such as instrumental variables, regression discontinuity, and difference-in-differences are widely used to estimate treatment effects. However, their application to qualitativ...

arxiv.org

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Giovanni Mellace @giovannimellace.bsky.social · Jan 30

We’re looking for a motivated researcher to apply for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoc with our Econometrics & Data Science group at SDU!

Focus: Causal Inference, Machine Learning, Big Data
Full support for promising projects

More info & apply:
www.sdu.dk/en/om-sdu/in...

Econometrics and Data Science

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Federico Crudu @fedeabides.bsky.social · Jan 12

🚨NEW WP OUT!🚨 Our working paper with Claudio Detotto & Carlo Caporali on the causal impact of terrorism on voter turnout during Italy's Years of Lead is out! Comments and suggestions welcome! Link here: crenos.unica.it/crenos/publi...

Terror and Turnout: The Impact of Terrorism During the Years of Lead | CRENoS

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Andreas Steinmayr @andreassteinmayr.net · Nov 28

Our latest research with Toman Barsbai and Christoph Winter is now forthcoming in JOLE! 📄

We explore how labor market conditions at arrival shape migrants’ integration, showing that arriving during recessions pushes migrants into lower-paying jobs—a persistent effect lasting over 10 years.

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Giovanni Mellace @giovannimellace.bsky.social · Nov 28

We are looking for a full professor in economics with Focus on Big Data and Large Language Models in Social Data Science. Deadline: February 17, 2025
fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Professorship in Economics with Focus on Big Data and Large Language Models in Social Data Science

Application deadline: February 17, 2025.

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Michael Knaus @mcknaus.bsky.social · Nov 19

New WP 🚨

1. Recipe to write estimators as weighted outcomes
2. Double ML and causal forests as weighting estimators
3. Plug&play classic covariate balancing checks
4. Explains why Causal ML fails to find an effect of 1 with noiseless outcome Y = 1 + D
5. More fun facts
arxiv.org/abs/2411.11559

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Giovanni Mellace @giovannimellace.bsky.social · Nov 15

Looking to hire a talented and dedicated econometrician? I highly recommend Nadja van't Hoff. We collaborated with
Arthur Lewbel on "LiM and the CC-LATE", R&R at
the REStat. In her JMP, she develops novel identification results for settings with non-binary, ordered treatments. nadjavanthoff.com

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Giovanni Mellace @giovannimellace.bsky.social · Nov 15

Roberta Di Stefano and I have updated our paper, "The Inclusive Synthetic Control Method." The new version, now incorporating the penalized SCM in our application, is available here: arxiv.org/abs/2403.17624.

The inclusive Synthetic Control Method

We introduce the inclusive synthetic control method (iSCM), a modification of synthetic control methods that includes units in the donor pool potentially affected, directly or indirectly, by an interv...

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Giovanni Mellace @giovannimellace.bsky.social · Nov 6

The US elections in a nutshell 🤦‍♂️https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-3306573/Video-time-Puerto-Rican-Trump-voter-reveals-shocking-reason.html

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Clément de Chaisemartin @cdechaisemartin.bsky.social · Oct 7

Sciences Po has junior positions in econometrics and in health/environmental this year, please apply, and please RT!
econjobmarket.org/positions/10...

EJM - Econ Job Market

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Giovanni Mellace @giovannimellace.bsky.social · Oct 29

We are highering a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Macroeconomics, deadline December 1, 2024. eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

EJM - Econ Job Market

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Paul Hünermund @p-hunermund.com · Sep 20

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Paul Hünermund @p-hunermund.com · Sep 20

🚨We are thrilled to announce a special live recording of the Causal Bandits Podcast at #CDSM24! This year, Alex Molak will be joined by Ciarán M. Gilligan-Lee, Head of the Causal Inference Research Lab at Spotify, for an insightful discussion on the latest developments in causal AI.

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