Freshwater-Saltwater's unexpected reunification

In 2020, my friend @jasndoc.bsky.social wrote a fictional dialog between R and STATA. In 2023 I said in a few years AI could make it into a stunning movie with spoken parts. It's here. sora.chatgpt.com/p/s_692d0b8c...

"The order of authors is decided by their Real Analysis grade in undergrad."

You can just use Stata 😏

4 compliers. There are 4 guys who switched because of the IV.

Had a visitor today.

He's already preparing for the Nobel peace prize next year.

When the Editor finally assigned you as Reviewer 2 and you know what to do.

Also me before and after a round of R&R.

(merge) m:m

So, Admin says no October CPI release for you! Alberto Cavallo provides some insight... #EconSky econbrowser.com/archives/202...

Sorry guys it was my 100k unread emails.

Will I get a good income out of doing a PhD? Of course not. But will I at least also find a stable job that allows me to pursue my research? Also no. But will I at least be happy doing what I like? Hahaha also no. Sounds like a terrible career. Where can I find the application?

Paper under review for 6 months at a journal

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

Doctor: I'm gonna push here, and you may feel uncomfortable and a bit of a pain. Just let me know. PhD student: OK Doctor: If you keep changing your dissertation topic, you will never finish your PhD. Your friends outside of academia will have far more money and higher position. PhD student: Aaah

The Friends of BLS steering committee is sponsoring a member webinar noon to 1pm ET Thurs, Oct 23. We aim to build nonpartisan support for a strong BLS & need your perspectives & energy. Former Commissioners @ericagroshen.bsky.social, William Beach, & @erikamcentarfer.bsky.social will... #EconSky

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

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

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

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

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...

Synthetic Control Method be like

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

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

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

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

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.

God forbid a man trying to keep his job for more than a month.

"But did this BLS Commissioner Nominee even have an econ PhD from a top econ program" is the most expected dunk from economists.

At this point I am not even sure what neoclassical economics even means.

25%

Can finally write about the US would have a better economy if it had a Western institution.

Data-driven synthetic control method be like

My optimal setup as an applied microeconomist.

PhD student: "I think I will wait another year before going on the job ma..." Adviser:

Tariffs *have* shown up in the data (just not at total CPI level) #econsky econbrowser.com/archives/202...

When you are caught starting a new project instead of finishing all of the current ones.

When the hardest proof of the paper "is left for readers as an exercise".

Using time series graphs to make causal claims be like

Seeing too many diff-in-diff reviews and and summary articles but not sure where to start? We propose a new way to synthesize this growing literature using a Review in Reviews approach.

Applied microeconomists in every battle:

Economists claiming to be the first to study a topic be like

Every econ debate about immigration:

Yeah it’s called being “under review”

The unclustered standard error center for conservative scholarship.

@joshua-goodman.com is writing a new paper