Despite having completed 90% of the manuscript, I was never able to defend my PhD It's definitely unexpected, but I'm thrilled to announce that I have restarted working on a PhD You can read about what happened and my plans on my newsletter: o.simardcasanova.net/p/8e29c3... #EconSky

New #openaccess article in the Oxford Bulletin of Economics & Statistics: "The Unexpected Side Effects of Lockdowns on Those Barely Inside and Outside of Lockdown Areas" (by Izumi Yokoyama, Reo Takaku, Kaichi Kusada, Takahiro Tabuchi, Takeo Fujiwara) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

1./ At last! 🎉 After years in the making, my paper with Manuel Fernandez & @marcogn.bsky.social is out as an IZA Discussion Paper. We ask: Can better streets boost property tax compliance? 🚧💰 If so, why? We answer this with an RCT in Mexico + a model of tax compliance. docs.iza.org/dp18082.pdf

It was a pleasure to deliver the invited talk at the 4th APHEC Workshop in beautiful Genova: "Disrupting Violence, Protecting Lives: Non-Fatal Strangulation Laws and Intimate Partner Homicides" Many thanks for the kind invitation!

New #OpenAccess article in the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics: "Do Teachers' Labour Contracts Matter?" (by @ainoaaparicio.bsky.social and Roberto Quaranta) 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🚨🚨📵📵 This Sunday, every phone in the UK will be sent an emergency alert test that sets off a loud siren notification, even if your phone is on silent. This could cause a risk for women experiencing domestic abuse. #Refuge #DomesticAbuse #SafePhone #SilentPhone #IPV www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch2i...

I had the opportunity of teaching a class on social-science-genomics 🧬📈 with a focus on gene-environment interplay at the summer school Applied Health Econometrics and Health Policy at the uni of Bergamo. Here the slides that I used (any feedback welcome!) drive.google.com/file/d/1IeQq...

The Census Tree is turning 2! 🎂🎉Our links allow researchers to follow people through the 1850-1940 US censuses. To celebrate, I'll be featuring a paper each day that uses the Census Tree in its empirical work. If you have a paper you think I should know about, contact us at censustree.org/contact👇

At last! 🎉 After years in the making, my paper with Manuel Fernandez & @marcogn.bsky.social is out as an IZA Discussion Paper. cc: @uofebusiness.bsky.social @iza.org

1./ At last! 🎉 After years in the making, my paper with Manuel Fernandez & @marcogn.bsky.social is out as an IZA Discussion Paper. We ask: Can better streets boost property tax compliance? 🚧💰 If so, why? We answer this with an RCT in Mexico + a model of tax compliance. docs.iza.org/dp18082.pdf

And nice NPR coverage today of our research in Kenya! www.npr.org/sections/goa...

🆕 How skin tone still shapes inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean Today on VoxDev, @billywoom.bsky.social (@pse.bsky.social) presents evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean suggesting that skin tone is a powerful predictor of intergenerational mobility: voxdev.org/topic/instit...

Econ PhDs who will be on the #EconJobMarket: Next Tues Aug 19 at 1pm ET is a NABE (‪@nabe-econ.bsky.social)‬ Career Week panel on "Industry, Government, or Academia? Choosing Your Path in Applied Economics" Register here 👉 www.nabe.com/NABE/Events/...

Did another small chatGPT experiment #econtwitter #econsky (h/t @thekenyadian): for a recent referee report I had to do [importantly, this was not in economics], I read the paper + made my notes; and then also asked ChatGPT for a referee report + compared

En el interior de la casa de siete pisos de Jeffrey Epstein en Manhattan, el delincuente sexual recibía a la élite, mostraba fotos con presidentes y exhibía una primera edición de “Lolita”, según fotos y cartas previamente inéditas. nyti.ms/4fqxiUl

🚨 The July 2025 #RESNewsletter is out now! Inside: 📝 Letter from RES President 📊 RES Conference recap 🇩🇪 Farewell from Michael Burda 👤 Profile: Sir Christopher Pissarides 📚 & more! 🔗 #RESMembers can read here: bit.ly/45qDyqK #Economics #EconSky

Nobel prize winner George Akerlof (my former colleague) on the firing of statistics officials: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/o...

This week's links are the last for a while before we take a break for a month: cash transfers and jobs, representation and relevance in development econ, garment manufacturing and poverty, and more.. blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

1/ New article with Alejandro Robinson-Cortes and @ye-yuan.bsky.social @uofebusiness.bsky.social: "A Quantitative Review of Matching Papers in Economics: Evolution, Diversity, and Gender" Forthcoming in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance. 🧵

For those without access, here is a gift link to the NYTimes article on the sad state of the economics job market www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/b...

🚨 New Paper Alert "Is Mobile Money Changing Rural Africa? Evidence from a Field Experiment" By NOVAFRICA Scientific Directors & NovaSBE Professors @catiabatista.bsky.social and #PedroCVicente in print in The Review of Economics and Statistics @restatjournal.bsky.social 📄 doi.org/10.1162/rest...

🆕 @iza.org DP with Dércio de Assis, @arpitaghosh.bsky.social and Sonia Oreffice. Laws criminalizing non-fatal strangulation cut intimate partner homicide rates for both men and women. Legal reforms save lives. 🔗 docs.iza.org/dp18006.pdf #Econ #Policy #IPH #NFS #IPV @uofebusiness.bsky.social

Lucy Bronze on how she decided to blast her penalty down the middle (and score). “Statistically it’s risky for the goal keeper to stand still… so yeah, I love maths”.

The @resmedia.bsky.social is now inviting applications for the next Editor-in-Chief of The Econometrics Journal. Details here: res.org.uk/call-for-app... #Econometrics #Editor #Applications #RES

La rectora Laia de Nadal clausura el XIII Congrés CIDUI: “Els docents som agents de canvi” Les universitats públiques catalanes impulsen una nova edició centrada en la innovació educativa i el reconeixement i reivindicació de la docència com a motor de transformació https://f.mtr.cool/vjvmvmmgyd

🆕 @iza.org DP with Dércio de Assis, @arpitaghosh.bsky.social and Sonia Oreffice. Laws criminalizing non-fatal strangulation cut intimate partner homicide rates for both men and women. Legal reforms save lives. 🔗 docs.iza.org/dp18006.pdf #Econ #Policy #IPH #NFS #IPV @uofebusiness.bsky.social

📢 RES VACANCY We're seeking an Editor-in-Chief for The Econometrics Journal, starting May 2026. Play a key role in shaping the journal & advancing the RES Strategy 2024–2028. 🗓 Apply by 22 Sept 2025 🔗 bit.ly/4eFVD87 #RESVacancy #EconSky #EctJ

🧵New survey paper: "Inference with Few Treated Units" Luis Alvarez, Bruno Ferman and Kaspar Wüthrich Tired of referees saying your standard errors are wrong? This survey will help you understand if you really have a problem — and, if so, how to fix it!

Exploring Cambridge with my special assistant 😀

🚨 New paper with Dércio de Assis, Arpita Ghosh & Sonia Oreffice: “Strangulation Laws Save Lives.” We build a unique dataset on US state laws criminalizing non-fatal strangulation (NFS) and estimate their effect on intimate partner homicide (IPH). NFS laws reduce IPH! drive.google.com/file/d/1Dcu3...

🆕 article in the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics: "Vog: Using Volcanic Eruptions to Estimate the Impact of Air Pollution on Student Test Scores" (by Rachel Inafuku, Timothy J. Halliday, Lester Lusher, @paulaaureo.bsky.social) doi.org/10.1111/obes... #Environment #HumanCapital🌋💨📝🏫

New #openaccess article in the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics: "Robot Adoption and Occupational Health" (by Mattia Filomena & Francesco Principe) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #Robots 🤖 #Health 🏥 #automation 🏗️ #workplace 🏢 #accidents

I was recently asked “What is the most important piece of advice you would give to a new assistant professor?” My new blog post covers the answer. #EconSky

Nice piece by @sanpages.bsky.social in @nadaesgratis.bsky.social (in Spanish) on our Ramayan paper (with @resuf.bsky.social, @pbrimble.bsky.social, Alessandro Saia & Akhila Kovvuri)! #Econsky #Ramayan

Evaluation Summary and Metrics: "The Effect of Public Science on Corporate R&D"

These evaluation packages with robust exchanges may be helpful for researchers, research students & their instructors. ...As examples of 'real world discussion of how to apply the models and approaches' in #causalinference #econometrics ( @climent.bsky.social @causalinf.bsky.social & others)

Many thanks to all who made the 3rd Diversity and Human Capital Workshop @uofebusiness.bsky.social possible: presenters, participants, organizers, helpers, and the administrative team! We are especially grateful to Josh Angrist, Patricia Cortes, and Imran Rasul for their keynote talks!

Join us for the Workshop on Economics of Maternal and Infant Outcomes at City St George’s, University of London. Thursday 10 July 2025, 9-5pm. For details of the programme and registration: citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

The third keynote at the 3rd Diversity and Human Capital Workshop is delivered by Prof. Patricia Cortés (Boston University @bostonu.bsky.social), presenting “Understanding the Barriers to Paternity Leave-Taking: Evidence from Japan.” #DHC2025 @exeter.ac.uk @uofebusiness.bsky.social

Last one for today, Tong Liu (NUS) presents their research on "Does environmental information provision deliver? Experimental evidence on the behaviors, health and academic performance of students from China." #DHC2025

Next, Sarah Smith (Bristol) presents an insightful research on "Going back to the high schools: Challenging stereotypes about economics". #DHC2025

Session 2 on Human Capital kicks off with Ronak Jain @jainr.bsky.social (@econ.uzh.ch) discussing how access to 3G internet impacts human capital development. #DHC2025 @uofebusiness.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk @climent.bsky.social @vatsalecon.bsky.social @rabbiatariq.bsky.social

Prof. Imran Rasul (UCL) delivers the 2nd keynote at the 3rd Diversity and Human Capital Workshop at @uofebusiness.bsky.social, presenting their research on firm behavior and worker outcomes during the pandemic in Uganda. #DHC2025

Auguste Debroise (University of Namur) wraps up the session on Discrimination, presenting an interesting work on "The social image cost of motherhood. Evidence from the movie industry". #DHC2025

Next, @greg-veramendi.bsky.social (Royal Holloway, University of London) discusses their research on "The Labor Market Returns to Delaying Pregnancy". #DHC2025

Session 1 on Discrimination begins with Guillermo Woo-Mora (PSE), presenting research on "Skin Tone Penalties: Bottom-up and Algorithmic Skin Tone Discrimination in Football". #DHC2025 @uofebusiness.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk @climent.bsky.social @vatsalecon.bsky.social @rabbiatariq.bsky.social

Honoured to welcome Nobel Laureate Joshua Angrist (MIT) for the first keynote at the 3rd Diversity and Human Capital Workshop at @uofebusiness.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk. Presenting: “Dissertation Paths: Advisors and Students in the Economics Research Production Function.” #DHC2025