🚨Deadline approaching🚨 Submit your extended abstracts to the Warwick Economics PhD Conference 2026 by 31st January! Great research + great people + free accommodation + travel funding! For further info follow link below. Please share widely!

We presented results on spatial unit roots etc at ASSA 2026 in Philadelphia. Joint work with @pdavidboll.bsky.social and @jvoth.bsky.social Short 🧵 (1/N) cc @andreamatranga.bsky.social @paulgp.com

Three SIOE @sioecon.bsky.social sessions on Sat 3rd Jan 2026 at @assameeting.bsky.social Philadelphia 0800-1000: Education, Immigration, and Knowledge Diffusion 1015-1215: Econometric Issues in Comparative Economics 1430-1630: Models of Autocracy See you there!

Another great opportunity for PhD students to gather feedback on their work, learn from national and international colleagues, and build up networks. Submissions by 31st January 2026. Find out more: sites.google.com/view/warwick...

PhD Students in Econ (and related fields): Join us at Warwick for a 3 day conference in May 2026! There will be sessions covering all major fields, along with two great keynotes and plenty of time to socialise with peers. We look forward to your submission (deadline: 31/01/2026), more info below.

🚨 New Version 🚨 The new and extended version of our paper on dealing with spatial unit roots in regressions, now *forthcoming at the Stata Journal* under a new title! w/ @essobecker.bsky.social @jvoth.bsky.social Relevant to anyone who uses spatial data ! Link and more information in🧵(1/n)

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so much fun working @essobecker.bsky.social and David Boll

🚨 New Working Paper 🚨 w/ @pdavidboll.bsky.social and @jvoth.bsky.social Do you run regressions on spatial data? Then keep reading! We present a guide and Stata package for methods by Müller and Watson (2024 ECTA) to deal with Spatial Unit Roots in Regressions. Link in 🧵 (1/n)

🚨 New Working Paper 🚨 w/ @essobecker.bsky.social @jvoth.bsky.social Do you run regressions on spatial data? Then keep reading! We present a guide and Stata package for methods by Müller and Watson (2024) to deal with Spatial Unit Roots in Regressions. Link in🧵(1/n)

🚨 Deadline approaching 🚨 PhD students in Econ and related fields, please submit your extended abstracts for our PhD conference *by 31st Jan*! We pay for your travel, accommodation and food, and we always have great speakers and lots of fun! More info and submission form below. #EconSky #EconPhD

🚨 Deadline approaching! 🚨 Apply for the 13th Warwick Economics PhD conference, taking place from 3-5 June 2025. Applications are welcome from every field in economics. Accommodation and travel costs will be covered. Keynotes by Prof Stefano Caria and Dr Amrita Kulka 👉 deadline: 31st January!

A great opportunity for PhD students to gather feedback on their work, learn from national and international colleagues, and build up networks. Submissions by 31st January 2025. Find out more: 👉 sites.google.com/view/warwick...

🚨 Call for Papers 🚨 If you're a PhD student in Economics, please submit your extended abstracts! We always have great programmes, and are very generous with funding. If you have any questions, write to us using the email on the website, or comment below for short questions.

🚨 Call for Papers 🚨 The 13th Warwick Economics PhD conference will take place 3-5 June 2025. Applications are welcome from every field in economics. Accommodation and travel costs will be covered. Keynotes by Prof Stefano Caria and Dr Amrita Kulka The deadline is 31st January! Link in🧵

Carmen Villa @carmenvillaecon.bsky.social specialises in Public Economics and Law and Economics. Her JMP shows that the closure of youth clubs, due to austerity cuts, led to decreases in educational performance and rises in youth offending. buff.ly/3OriDeT #EconJobMarket

Sarthak Joshi's job market paper shows how the changing spatial distribution of work can exacerbate gender employment gaps when women face higher barriers to commuting than men. Visit: buff.ly/49bSoCW #EconJobMarket

Angelica's job market paper explores how preferences for shorter working hours drive women into informal employment due to the limited availability of part-time jobs in the formal sector. buff.ly/3ZgJEIi #EconJobMarket

Xueying Zhao's JMP shows that a monopolist data seller can design and price information via a mechanism, which fully extracts the first-best surplus by strategically leveraging data correlations. Visit: buff.ly/3YZ65QY #EconJobMarket

Edoardo Tolva's job market paper uses the Russian airspace closure as a quasi-experiment to estimate the elasticity between transport modes and develops a model to measure its impact on welfare. Find out more: buff.ly/4hTFEEZ #EconJobMarket

Meet Puru Gupta! His JMP derives a liquidity adjusted Black-Scholes equation for derivative pricing when underlying market is dominated by institutional investors, and implements a numerical algorithm for pricing European options in illiquid markets. buff.ly/3Zh8Puk

See-Yu Chan’s job market paper examines how the endogenous response of recruitment activities reconciles the puzzle of rising U.S. college wage premiums alongside declining job skill requirements for graduates since 1980. Visit: buff.ly/4eFFL3V #EconJobMarket

Gavin Hassall's job market paper studies how information gaps in central bank communications explain variation in financial markets and the macroeconomy. buff.ly/3V05mh9 #EconJobMarket

Samuel Marshall’s job market paper quantifies the roles of labor market power, job search costs, and migration costs on the distribution of labor in sub-Saharan Africa. buff.ly/4eD7baM

Bruno Souza is an applied and labour economist. What happens to you when one of your co-workers is absent from the workplace? His JMP finds it can boost your wages and career trajectories in the medium run. Website: buff.ly/3CCmwLx #EconJobMarket

🚨📜I am excited to share my Job Market Paper, where I study the effects of youth clubs on education and crime. The paper highlights the broader value of after-school activities and the potential benefits of public provision. 1/10

To people who know the spatial labor literature: When we talk about spatial sorting of workers, we most often mean college vs non-college or similar. Is there any evidence on sorting *within* these groups? Eg, do we observe different degrees of sorting across skill or occupational groups? #EconSky

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To people who know the spatial labor literature: When we talk about spatial sorting of workers, we most often mean college vs non-college or similar. Is there any evidence on sorting *within* these groups? Eg, do we observe different degrees of sorting across skill or occupational groups? #EconSky

Re-launch of the Applicant Mentoring Programme (AMP): a joint effort by PhD candidates at Cambridge, LSE, Oxford, UCL & Warwick to help individuals from under-represented backgrounds applying to PhD programmes in Economics by reducing the information barrier. Help us spread the word. 👇 #EconSky

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📢Applications for this year’s Applicant Mentoring Programme (AMP) are now open: sites.google.com/view/econphd... The AMP aims to help applicants who are from underrepresented backgrounds or who lack support from other sources to prepare their applications to Economics PhD programmes.➡️

Insane: “The planning documentation for the Lower Thames Crossing […] runs to 360,000 pages, and the application process alone has cost £297 million. That is more than twice as much as it cost in Norway to actually build the longest road tunnel in the world.” ukfoundations.co

Does anybody have a decent template or tips on how to structure and organise R code for a research project? For example, how should I distribute code across files? Source scripts? Functions? Where should I load packages? (How) should I save data in between steps? #econsky

I have to unlearn automatically skipping over every other post in my feed, now that it's no longer either an ad for a fake mobile game or some verified grifter account. 🐦🦋