Today let us read Baydin et al (2018) Automatic Differentiation in Machine Learning: A Survey arxiv.org/pdf/1502.05767

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🆕 Culture and economic development 📢 Today on VoxDevTalks, Natalie Bau (UCLA), @saralowes.bsky.social (@ucsandiego.bsky.social) & @eduardomontero.bsky.social (Harris School of Public Policy) discuss how culture shapes economic policy and, consequently, development: voxdev.org/topic/instit...

Come hear what Larry Katz, Xavier D'Haultfoeuille, Kei Hirano, Francesca Molinari, and Andres Santos think about publishing econometrics in general interest journals! Tomorrow's Chamberlain Seminar: 12pm ET

Highlight of my day was not just having lunch with the amazing Claudia Goldin, but learning she's responsible for my favourite kitchen item: my ice cream scoop. She has not just been an inspiration for my professional life but has also directly, heavily improved my personal life! What a star.

Fellow econ folks! We are hiring! Come work with me and my delightful colleagues at The University of Melbourne! Applications close November 23, 2025 Link: unimelb.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UoM_Ex...

We're hiring a research associate or research manager for a project in the DRC! This is a great opportunity for anyone who is interested in gaining very hands-on research and work experience in a low-income country in partnership with the local government. Also a great preparation for a PhD.

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

This is Douglas. He just got a new stuffed duck friend and is so excited. Thinks he's gonna call them Ducklas. 12/10 (IG: thatgoldendouglas)

This is Finny. He doesn’t go chasing waterfalls. He carefully studies their timing and arrives in advance. 14/10 very impressive (TT: jordancain70)

This is why one should follow the dictionary account

"As if the dancing weren’t enough, when my kids yell 'HEAVY,' I’m expected to pantomime that whatever I’m holding is unbearably heavy. That works fine with a pen. It’s even manageable with a cup of hot coffee. But when holding your best friend’s newborn?"

🚨🚨 Pre-doc Hiring! 🚨🚨 We are hiring pre-docs to start in Princeton in Summer 2026, supporting Pascaline Dupas, @thomasfujiwara.bsky.social @seema.bsky.social and Mica Sviatschi. This is a great opportunity to gain experience in development economics research before applying to PhD programs. Link 👇

🚨postdoc opportunity at UBC🚨 applications are now open for the Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship, due internally Oct. 15 - www.postdocs.ubc.ca/award/killam... I can nominate 1 person and give feedback on that nominee's materials - if interested plz email me by Sept. 10 - join us!

🦘 Australia deviates from the rest of the OECD by not having an official poverty measure (❗) Melbourne Institute's Melek Cigdem-Bayram proposes a comprehensive poverty indicator that tracks numerous aspects of socio-economic deprivation 👇 theconversation.com/we-cant-fix-...

It’s the Sete de Setembro – Brazil’s Independence Day – so it is only right that Coxinha, the emblematically Brazilian chicken croquette, is #RecipeOfTheDay! These, though, are mini versions, much more manageable for making at home. www.nigella.com/recipes/coxi...

You signed them up for too many extracurriculars, forcing them into a Jessie-Spano-from-Saved-By-the-Bell-caliber caffeine habit. You didn’t sign them up for enough extracurriculars, and it’ll be your fault when they don’t get into Stanford.

1. Reaching for your wallet at a farmers' market. 2. Waving to your neighbor on your way to yoga. 3. Gesturing wildly during an argument with your spouse over which Property Brother is which.

My toddler slept for the first time until 6am today since we got back from Australia and I'm afraid to celebrate lest this be a fluke

Excellent, careful work and important results!

Great programme for the CEP/LSE-Warwick Junior Trade Workshop on 22 September @cep-lse.bsky.social @warwickecon.bsky.social cep.lse.ac.uk/textonly/_ne...

📢Our CESifo Conference on Economics of Education is about to start!🤩 This will be so exciting!!!🥳 🔗https://www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/event/2025-09-05/cesifo-area-conference-economics-education-2025 @raffasadun.bsky.social @sandramcnally.bsky.social @christinafelfe.bsky.social @singhabhi.bsky.social …

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*DOG: “You're finally back! I missed you so much!!”

This is extremely cool. www.youtube.com/shorts/nUvXU...

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👇

WE ARE HIRING! 2 Lecturers in Quantitative Social Science. Want a friendly interdisciplinary department in one of the world's most vibrant cities? This just might be for you. Apply by: 10 Oct www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

How does one help a severely jetlagged toddler (Australia to US east coast) to re adjust? Advice please @denewjohn.bsky.social @vicbar.bsky.social @adegendre.bsky.social I'd like to maybe sleep again this year 😭

@vicbar.bsky.social @ralphdehaas.bsky.social @paulinegrosjean.bsky.social & I Matavelli show that adherence to masculinity norms strongly predicts men's labour supply, risk-taking, health behaviours, and support for authoritarian leadership. cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

Conference Announcement: 16th International Workshop on Applied Economics of Education (IWAEE - www.iwaee.org) will be held on the 15th and 16th of June, 2026. More information, including call for papers, to follow

AI PSA: you have to do more than check that the AI-generated citations are real papers. You have to actually *use the citations properly.* Experts are going to notice when you clearly have no idea what is in the papers you cite. The authors, especially, will notice. They are often referees.

Submission deadline for this PEDL young scholars workshop (to take place the day before the Oct 24-25 @theigc.bsky.social/@yaleegc.bsky.social ‬Firms/Trade/Development conference) is Sept 7 (soon!). For researchers post-PhD but untenured (or <=8 years out). Hope to see many of you there.

Me: "YAY conference in Australia!!" Silly people: "Oh but that's so far..." Counterpoint: #SIOE2025 @unswecon.bsky.social

Y'all if you travel with infant/toddlers, this thing is magic and changes everything: www.slumberpod.com I just wish it was also sound proof 😅 (just fangirling over this contraption that lets me have a light on in my hotel room while my 1y10mo old is asleep in his personal blackout tent)

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...

New Post: "For Your Syllabus: Statistical Power" Add content on statistical power to your social science courses. Not just to methods courses. For substantive courses, Bloom's MDE (i.e., 80% power to detect 2.5*SE) is easy to teach and really helpful! www.carlislerainey.com/blog/2025-08...

Being in Australia with all the amazing coffee and only being able to have one a day bc I'm pregnant is torture!

Look at this crocheted crab pouch our lab tech made me ahhhh! 🦀🦑

A great resource to share

Lol seeing a 'winter soup special' at a café in Brisbane and c'mon guys it's 23C

📢 #CallForPapers To honour the memory of Ghazala Azmat, the Economics Department of SciencesPo is creating an award in her name. Junior researchers can submit a paper in economics of discrimination, gender, education & organizational #economics. Submit by 31 August. cepr.org/events/ghaza... #EconSky

Political Science at Western University, Canada is searching for three tenure track assistant professors. There are two ads, one in International Politics (IR or comparative) and one in Comparative or Canadian. Ads are here: www.uwo.ca/facultyrelat...

I'm on Cambridge's 87 bus right now, heading to the Royal Sonesta to hear some great Economics of Education talks as part of the #NBER Summer Institute. I'll try to live post as many as possible, so watch this thread! @nber.org #EconSky

We each find our way through these times As an academic, I am doing this: Uplift those whose research you admire. Diversify the academy. Many ways to do this: -Nominate for awards (did 2 yesterday) -If you are in an academy, nominate to it (did 3 this month) -cite them in a paper and/or talk

Amazing opportunity to work in an excellent place, and Sandra McNally is fantastic. Apply!!!!

Great thread by Nikki, our head of quantitative social science, about her fascinating work on overconfidence

Writing this paper with John Jerrim and Phil Parker got me started on a whole journey about gender differences in over-/underconfidence.