Just posted updated version of our DID textbook! We now have drafts of all chapters, including the one on general designs! Now you can tell your friends still on X that they are DID-outdated :-) Happy easter for those of you that celebrate it. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Amen, brother!

Hey BSKY friends! We will be heading out to conduct on-farm interviews with farmers this summer. Any recommendations on tablets/software for fieldwork you've used lately? Bonus points if they can log GPS coordinates! Help me with a repost 🙏

Open call for papers, Risk and Risk Management in the Agricultural Economy. Conference to be held in Cambridge, MA on November 21, 2025. Submit papers by 11:59pm EDT on August 12, 2025. More information: https://www.nber.org/calls-papers-and-proposals/risk-and-risk-management-agricultural-economy

The US Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) website is now offline. Since 1985, FEWS NET has provided assessments of the location and severity of food crises. These assessments are used by gov and non-government humanitarian organizations across the world to allocate aid. static.fews.net

Hello AERE members, please help us make our org better by filling out the survey and have the possibility to win some swag. Also let us know if you’d like to be involved in strategic planning. #EconSky

Excited to share our work that just got published in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics. We examine how extreme heat affects farm-level #agricultural productivity and #adaptation strategies in Nigeria. Here’s a look at what we found ⬇️ (A short thread) 1/10

Long-overdue on 2024 recap of cool young researcher! #econtwitter #econsky My favorite part of social media + it's exciting to highlight a year's worth of exciting researchers. (Given cross-platform posting, won't link to the original 🧵s but direct to researcher sites)

The 22nd Midwest International Economic Development Conference (MWIEDC) will be held at UIUC March 28–29, 2025. Co-hosted by Ag Econ and Econ. Mushfiq Mobarak @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social keynote. Always one of my favorite conferences. Deadline for submissions Jan 8, 2025.

Another edition of "All new work is elaborating on the old": an article in the latest QJE generates TFP estimates for England over six centuries & confirms the Nef Thesis of 1934. Before Crafts, before Wrigley, Nef had said most of it 90 years ago

So excited that the BREAD Asia Conference on Development Economics at NUS Singapore is starting in a few minutes! Please follow the livestream at breadasia2024.com! Program is below, times are in Singapore standard time.

Shout out to @tradecosts.bsky.social and co-authors for their fascinating work on ‘How colonial segregation policies impact land values in Mexico today’ via @voxdev.bsky.social voxdev.org/topic/instit...

Excited to share with you all the National Food Museum 🥗🏛️ — a visionary project that will explore food in all its dimensions. Honored to serve on the museum's Advisory Council. Check out the museums' website for additional information! www.nationalfoodmuseum.org

This year we posted 26 #econjmp posts by PhD students on the market. Here is the list of all of them in case you missed any, plus a link to the @econthatmatters.bsky.social series which has some more - great to see all the exciting work in development blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

Recently accepted in #JEEM: 'Money versus procedures – Evidence from an energy efficiency assistance program' by Bettina Chlond, Timo Goeschl, Martin Kesternich. #econsky www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I shared some insights on chocolate markets and consumption amid the skyrocketing prices of cacao on @npr.org @marketplaceapm.bsky.social #AcademicSky #EconSky You can listen here ⬇️ www.marketplace.org/2024/12/17/c...

🏫When the school year competes with farm work, it becomes a barrier to educating rural children. 🧑‍🌾 But changing the school calendar can help! A summary of research thus far, including my new collaboration in #Madagascar, on the @ifpri.org blog: on.cgiar.org/3P5HNjn @cgiar.org #FCMinitiative

Revoking China's permanent normal trade relations #PNTR status would result in higher prices & lower economic output in the US than otherwise, particularly in agriculture & manufacturing. #PIIECharts #EconSky Learn more: www.piie.com/research/pii...

You've heard of Elf on a shelf, now get ready for...

This is an amazing program for early-career economists in developing countries. Please share with your networks! (and follow my colleague Chris Barrett — a great public goods provider among many other things)

It's job market season, so we do mock interviews with our PhD candidates. I tried something new: having my students interview me about my paper. This lets them see how it works and lets me demo how to avoid mistakes like droning on and on or not listening to questions or going off on tangents.

Economists love using linear regression to estimate treatment effects — it turns out that there are perils to this method, but also amazing perks Come with me in this 🧵 if you want to learn about our now-published paper "Contamination Bias in Linear Regressions!" 1/ (Twitter rerun!)

Trying to buy a taco after a 25% tariff on Mexico #EconSky

Seeing my work cited 100+ times this year has been a meaningful milestone. Thank you to all who found value in it. #AcademicSky

The amount of literature that I think exists about my *novel* idea vs. The amount of literature that actually exists about the topic.

I am part of the latter group 😂😂😂 #EconSky

Man I cannot endorse this abstract more

If you want to download the 1990-2023 county-level Census Building Permits data... (I'll probably have a blog post about this at some point) h/t @kjhealy.co for the `rvest` code

Podcast w/ the [email protected] Master in Business is now out (Apple, Spotify etc-- MiB is popular! His summary here: ritholtz.com/2024/11/mib-...

From the archives: Have you (like me!) wondered what the ATT means and how it's different from average treatment effects? I use #rstats to explore why we care about (and how to calculate) the ATE, ATT, and ATU #polisky #episky #econsky www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2024/03...

Attending #SEA2024 in DC? Make sure you attend the session “Innovations in Agricultural Policy and Practice: Insights from Empirical Studies” chaired by Elaine Liu ⬇️

Recently accepted in #JEEM: 'The effect of extreme temperatures on evictions' by Dylan Brewer, Sarah Goldgar. #econsky www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

UMN APEC is hiring in ag business! Come work with us, one of the best ag econ depts in the US, excellent colleagues and students. Twin Cities amenities - great for food + 🎸🎹🎻 + 🚲 + 🛶 Apply by December 15 aaea.execinc.com/edibo/JobBoa...

We've just made it much easier to reuse the data on Our World in Data. Here is an overview of our new features: enhanced data downloads and the Chart Data API. ourworldindata.org/easier-to-re...

Here is a test map for a project all done in #Stata. This is fully automated workflow to generate custom maps. Once the code is in a decent place, I will package it up!

For #FarmBill & #EconSky followers gearing up: @chloeneast.bsky.social & I wrote a comprehensive explainer on SNAP work requirements: the rules, the research, and our recommendations. www.hamiltonproject.org/publication/...

😬😬😬 #EconSky

Please don't call what RFK Jr. and Jay Bhattacharya are going to do medieval. It's not medieval. It's nothing like the Middle Ages. People in the Middle Ages were happy to try all kinds of things to not die of the plague and if you'd given them antibiotics and vaccines they would have loved it.

in 1968, the only signs of life found in the Cuyahoga River, according to a water quality survey of 23 different sites, were two solitary fish. at a single sample location: a bluegill, and a goldfish. today, more than 70 different species call the Cuyahoga River home.

You can go to clearsky.app, enter your handle, and find them under the ‘Lists’ tab

I think this (but I haven’t tried it yet) bsky.app/profile/pame...

clearsky.app can tell you lists and blocked by information. But it's running extremely slowly now - maybe due to the huge recent influx of accounts?

Is there a way to know which starter packs are you part of? @bsky.app

This can be useful. It is for subscribers only, though. causalinf.substack.com/p/data-visua...

Remember when everyone was obsessed with sourdough starters during the pandemic? Bluesky starter packs are the same vibe 🙃

@asjadnaqvi.bsky.social is single-handedly making our lives better!

Many commentators say that vigilante groups are never the answer. But they clearly don't know about the masked Ecuadorian trio named “Acción Ortográfica Quito,” who roam the streets at night with a singular purpose: to correct all the spelling and grammar mistakes they find in graffiti.

Can’t wait to see which cabinet position this guy’s going to land 🫠

Honest question: If the election had gone the other way, would most econ folks have stayed on that other site instead of migrating here?