It's harder to get funding for basic research projects than ever before in Australia. The @arc_gov_au Discovery Projects scheme now has the lowest “success rate” ever: 16.3%. Only 1 in 6 grants are funded. Why? The funding available has plummeted. Please help, Jason Clare MP❗️

"Sensitivity analyses can remain agnostic about [causal] structure. This is one reason they are useful; they adjudicate debates bc people can agree on validity w/out reaching full agreement on what constitutes plausible causal knowledge." - Aronow & Savje #statsquotes arxiv.org/pdf/2003.116...

Economists! We're hiring @UVABatten The search is in applied (domestic-focused) micro. We're hiring an assistant prof in public policy and economics. Rookies or advanced assistants welcome. I'm on the committee, so feel free to shoot me any Q's. #Econsky apply.interfolio.com/128395

Crossposting from @xuyiqing on that other place: a nice meta-analysis of 37 studies published in top PoliSci journals finds that TWFE estimates are highly correlated with imputation-based estimates a la Borusyak/Jaravel/Spiess .... yiqingxu.org/papers/engli...

Lots of new polisci folks lately! Find folks to follow by looking through people that have liked the polisky feed. bsky.app/profile/did:... If you want to post to that polisci feed, you need @profmusgrave.bsky.social to whitelist you (just ask him). Two helpful docs below.

Looking for friends from the bird site? This is working pretty well on Chrome: github.com/kawamataryo/...