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Shosh Vasserman
@shoshievass.bsky.social
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IO economist + assistant prof at @StanfordGSB. I use theory + data to study how risk, commitment and information flows interplay with (good) policy design. shoshanavasserman.com
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Shosh Vasserman @shoshievass.bsky.social · Nov 7
The running list of IO job market candidates for 2024-2025 is live!

Fill this out to add your info: forms.gle/upCQ4Ez7sBTP...

Running list here: shoshanavasserman.com/io-jmc/
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Shosh Vasserman @shoshievass.bsky.social · Sep 5
I'm hiring a predoc to work w/ me on empirical IO/applied micro projects starting in Fall '26!

Details below and instructions here: shoshanavasserman.com/call_for_pre...

International students (who need J1) are welcome & non-econ bgs are fine given interest + curiosity. Please apply :)
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Shosh Vasserman @shoshievass.bsky.social · Jul 1
It looks more like the evolution of a Batman villain
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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · Jun 2
Forthcoming in the AER: "Robustness Measures for Welfare Analysis" by Zi Yang Kang and Shoshana Vasserman. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Robustness Measures for Welfare Analysis
(Forthcoming Article) - Economists routinely make functional form assumptions on demand curves to derive welfare conclusions. How sensitive are these conclusions to such assumptions? In this paper, we...
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Shengwu Li @shengwuli.bsky.social · Apr 29
I need the “Campaign in prose. Govern in econometrics.” t-shirt.
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Eva Vivalt @evavivalt.bsky.social · Apr 29
Quite the quote.
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Shosh Vasserman @shoshievass.bsky.social · Apr 5
Would you be willing to share your source @josephpolitano.bsky.social ?
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Steve Berry @steveberry.bsky.social · Mar 11
This has potential for academics who miss old Econtwitter.
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Nikhil Garg @nkgarg.bsky.social · Mar 10
*Please repost* @sjgreenwood.bsky.social and I just launched a new personalized feed (*please pin*) that we hope will become a "must use" for #academicsky. The feed shows posts about papers filtered by *your* follower network. It's become my default Bluesky experience bsky.app/profile/pape...
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Shosh Vasserman @shoshievass.bsky.social · Jan 27
It's hard [for me] to imagine tech that *forces* you to make a judgement based on its summary but maybe I'm just short of imagination..
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Shosh Vasserman @shoshievass.bsky.social · Jan 26
Here’s a more optimistic take: ppl have been peddling tools to “improve efficiency” thru prediction for years but they tend to only catch on among self-optimization nerds. Maybe these are the folks building tech now, but if this is the target they’re building toward I think they’ll face competition.
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Daniel Zhao @danielzhao.bsky.social · Jan 17
A cool analysis based on congestion pricing based on traffic passing by the Bloomberg office. Still early obviously but interesting that there's no big shift toward for private vehicles towards more expensive private vehicles (as a proxy for higher income drivers)
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Shosh Vasserman @shoshievass.bsky.social · Jan 13
Thanks for making this! I’d recommend adding @rebeccadiamond.bsky.social @codycook.bsky.social and @bradross.bsky.social
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Kristen Broady @kelizbro.bsky.social · Jan 9
Fellowship Opportunity:
The AEA Summer Economics Fellowship allows fellows to spend a summer in residence at a sponsoring research institution. Fellows are typically junior faculty, postdocs or grad students at the dissertation stage.

Application deadline: 2/1/25

www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/co...
Summer Economics Fellows Program
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Phil Haile @philhaile.bsky.social · Jan 3
I've gotten a flurry of requests to access my slides on "Models, Measurement, and Language in Economics" (presumably thanks to the great new year's reading list from @rohitlamba.bsky.social). The file is publicly available via my web page, but here is the link: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ntgkb...
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Pedro Sant’Anna @pedrosantanna.bsky.social · Jan 3
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!
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Shosh Vasserman @shoshievass.bsky.social · Dec 12
report it and make some $$? www.motortrend.com/news/nyc-idl...
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Shosh Vasserman @shoshievass.bsky.social · Dec 10
I’m not sure why ppl are opposed. I think it’s a nice idea to have the economist label associated w having economics papers on repec. As long as it’s easy to get one conditional on being an academic economist this seems like a net social good to me.
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Shosh Vasserman @shoshievass.bsky.social · Dec 6
Yes! Highly recommended.
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Shosh Vasserman @shoshievass.bsky.social · Dec 6
Have you tried Cursor?
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Zi Yang Kang @ziyangkang.bsky.social · Dec 3
1/ My co-author @mitchwatt.bsky.social is on the #EconJobMarket this year.

Mitch is an applied theorist interested in market design, IO, and public policy.

I happen to know his #JMP and its companion paper very well. 😇

🧵👇 with an overview of both papers.

#EconSky
Mitch's JMP: Optimal Redistribution Through Subsidies Our other paper: Optimal In-Kind Redistribution
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Rachel Leah Childers @donskerclass.bsky.social · Nov 1
Since I am suddenly inundated with statistics-oriented followers, I should post again that I am still conducting free weekly open office-hours for anyone in the world with Econometrics questions, Wed 10-12AM Eastern or by appointment.

Details and sign up at donskerclass.github.io/OfficeHours....
Free Weekly Econometrics Office Hours Email: davidbchilders@gmail.com or Sign up form: https://forms.gle/yVz8RtVALDXTmv5u7 Time: Wednesdays 10:00-12:00AM Eastern US (or by appointment) Location: Zoom Link https://bowdoin.zoom.us/j/7322488068 Who: Anyone. Grad students, researchers, government workers. Private sector is okay but in that case if your question requires work that exceeds the allotted time I may request to negotiate a consulting fee. What I can probably help with: Theory questions. Research design. Modeling. Particular expertise: Time series. Causal inference. Bayes. Structural approaches. Machine learning. Theory: Asymptotics. Statistical learning. Bayes/MCMC. Identification. Decision theory. Semiparametrics. Fields: I know most about macro (DSGE, heterogeneous agents, VARs, etc), but can follow along in applied micro (labor, development, health, etc) & some finance. Code: I think in R, can write Julia, and can get by in Python. I am likely to suggest you build a model in Stan. I know Stata but if it’s relevant to your question I suspect you can get better help elsewhere.
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Erik Brynjolfsson @erikbryn.bsky.social · Nov 30
Here's a great starter pack for folks interested in the economics of innovation, competition and IO

go.bsky.app/Rchu8QX
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Jeff Gortmaker @jeffgortmaker.com · Nov 29
Happy to share that my and @cconlon.bsky.social's micro BLP paper was just accepted at the Journal of Econometrics! jeffgortmaker.com/files/Incorp...

It's our 2nd tied to our PyBLP software, so here's a thread on surprising (to me) benefits of combining methods research with open source work. 1/6
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Shosh Vasserman @shoshievass.bsky.social · Nov 30
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Jonathan Berk 🏠 @berkie1.bsky.social · Nov 21
BREAKING: Over 100 Massachusetts cities & towns have now passed zoning reform to allow for multi-family housing near transit in compliance* with their MBTA Communities Law requirements. (*subject to final approval)
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Shosh Vasserman @shoshievass.bsky.social · Nov 22
I support everything except calling it a skeet
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Shosh Vasserman @shoshievass.bsky.social · Nov 21
It turns out winning when everyone else lost is a recipe for attention.