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Khoa @khoavuumn.bsky.social · Sep 7

My quickest QJE rejection was when I thought about submitting a paper there then got a rejection notice.

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Khoa @khoavuumn.bsky.social · Sep 4

So novel 🥳🥳🥳

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Khoa @khoavuumn.bsky.social · Sep 4

You are not a development economists if you haven't read this classic.

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Khoa @khoavuumn.bsky.social · Sep 4

I was giving up on bluesky but Klaus brought me back with this.

Klaus Pforr @klauspforr.bsky.social · Sep 3

so finally a sociologist fails to acknowledge the creative work of an economist @khoavuumn.bsky.social

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Khoa @khoavuumn.bsky.social · Sep 4

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

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Khoa @khoavuumn.bsky.social · Sep 1

First year PhD student be like "I can't find interesting research ideas"

The research ideas:

Acid Rain @bearysweet.bsky.social · Aug 27

Fancy an all-you-can-eat salmon buffet? Then head on over to Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska.

It's the salmon run season right now, and the waterfall is absolutely swarming with bears. They've all gotten so chubby from feasting.

🐻🧸 Yummy..

#nationalpark #bears #salmon #wildlife

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Sandy Black @econsandy.bsky.social · Aug 19

Society of Labor Economists (SoLE) Annual Conference will be May 1-2, 2026 in Denver, Colorado. Submission portal is now open! Deadline for submissions is October 31--don't forget to submit! It will be a great conference! (organized by me and @jrothst.bsky.social)

mailchi.mp/sole-jole/so...

SOLE 2026 Submissions Open

mailchi.mp

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Khoa @khoavuumn.bsky.social · Aug 18

Synthetic Control Method be like

𝕃𝕦𝕔𝕒𝕧𝕚 𓅰 🐱 @lucavi.bsky.social · Aug 18

good evening

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Khoa @khoavuumn.bsky.social · Aug 18

You can make your treatment variable "as-if random" by sorting the variable randomly in your dataset. Follow for more econometric tips.

Khoa @khoavuumn.bsky.social · Aug 18

Does renaming my independent variable as "def_exogeneous_var" make my regressions causal?

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Khoa @khoavuumn.bsky.social · Aug 18

Just revisited a previous draft of the paper that I'm working on. July Khoa was a terrible writer.

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Khoa @khoavuumn.bsky.social · Aug 18

Does renaming my independent variable as "def_exogeneous_var" make my regressions causal?

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Khoa @khoavuumn.bsky.social · Aug 13

Corinne Low! She's on here.

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Khoa @khoavuumn.bsky.social · Aug 13

It's pretty clear that people are only gay if the marginal benefit is less than the marginal cost of dating men.

David Roberts @volts.wtf · Aug 12

This economist ran the numbers and concluded that dating men ... doesn't really pencil out.

This Economist Crunched the Numbers and Stopped Dating Men

And she’s never been happier.

www.thecut.com

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Khoa @khoavuumn.bsky.social · Aug 13

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · Aug 13

Essentially you take a bunch of variables (sometimes also over time) and then ask "can I somehow cluster observations according to the variables."
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Profit, or at least a publication.