Once, a colleague told me: "Using a particular dataset is not, by itself, a contribution." I mostly agree. But I also feel that in many papers the main contribution is access to a particular dataset — and it’s often framed that way. 1/7

Dropping a beta version of this page while everyone is up and processing baseball! This tool lets you search the full text of papers from the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal series, and over 30,000 NBER working papers. paulgp.com/econlit-pipe...

probably the best comment I have ever received in a referee report, it opens as this: "I decided that I hate referees who seem to ask for changes just so that they look like they did something, and thus I would just send you this big thumbs up, with two very small comments..."

it is a great relief to see that the main @iza.org activities will proceed under @liser.lu (e.g. world of labour, wp series, summer schools, visiting programs). this is a couple of weeks old news, but many of us were still on vacation. newsroom.iza.org/en/archive/n...

not at all surprising: arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Hi marvellous #econsky! I am new to PSID data. What variables shall I use to merge cross-year individual data to transition into adulthood data?

🚨#econsky ppl🚨 Submit your work to the 2nd International Virtual Conference on Ukraine. "Leading scholars as well as researchers at all career levels are invited..." All details here: www.kth.se/ukraine-conf...

great visibility and network opportunity, submit your papers!

#YEM2025 was a blast, as usual. W keynotes @dkuebler.bsky.social & @neumarkecon.bsky.social. Great papers from participants & the best paper award to @juliaengel.bsky.social.

Over a few days, I have saved a few spare hours for myself. I have >1500 (mostly running) activities on Runkeeper since 2013. I guess I have to use Stata for a non-economic project.

I love #econsky. They bring facts that tell us what we should be paying attention to Going to be some upset companies it it continues

awesome DiD paper (March 17): arxiv.org/pdf/2503.13323 "Difference-in-Differences Designs: A Practitioner's Guide" Andrew Baker, Brantly Callaway, Scott Cunningham, Andrew Goodman-Bacon, Pedro H. C. Sant'Anna

#econsky #EconJobMarket Post-job market suggestion (specifically in Europe). There are two things that I realized too late: 1) you might be willing to change institute type (e.g. uni vs research institute), and 2) you might be willing to change country. Hurray for the flexibility. However... 1/5

However, I feel that after an initial enthusiastic period that lasted a few months, Blusky is not gaining further momentum with #econsky ppl, or? I do not see the sparkling atmosphere as on the other place

This has been an awesome and timely project to work on! Thank you @nickchk.com for organizing this and involve us!

Replacing "I hope this email finds you well" with "Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation." in all emails from now on.

"DPS announced today the difficult decision to close the Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) as of December 31, 2025." The seemingly generalized upgrade from aff to fellow feels like when online games about to shut gift tokens and free gear to the users.

We just released an enormous trove of US labor market data, all compiled from government surveys, now under threat The @epi.org State of Working America Data Library provides comprehensive data on the US jobs and wages, with detailed cuts by demographics, over time and across states data.epi.org

from @lefigaro.fr: 70% french ppl approve quitting X

I am thrilled to share that, coincidentally on the same day, my affiliation with @iza.org has been upgraded to IZA Fellow! As a PhD student, I admired this institute as a beacon in my field and a constant source of inspiration for my studies. I am honored to be part of this fantastic network!

I am happy to join @j-pal.bsky.social as an invited researcher! I am conducting a few rct's in the field, on gender identity and refugees discrimination, in the market for mental health pract services and labour market. I've a few more field exp's on my desk.

Unbundling college: Causal returns to US college majors, minors, and extracurriculars. An audit study of seniors' first-job search, with Carolina Bussotti, John Nunley, and @alanseals.bsky.social. We find: majors matter, zero returns to minors, positive returns to extracurriculars. 1/6 🧵

f you find "M. il figlio del secolo" in English or in your language, you must watch it. Timely, now, yesterday, tomorrow. One of my fav on how extremist movements are born, together with the German movie "Die Welle."

With @jeromevalette.bsky.social & Simone Bertoli, we are thrilled to announce the Call for Papers for the 3rd edition of the Junior Workshop on the Economics of Migration on 23-24 June 2025 @CERDI, Clermont-Ferrand, France. Submit until 23 February 2025 on economig2025.sciencesconf.org

New RePEc feature for Bluesky! Get new paper announcements from NEP in 100 different fields. Find them all on this starter pack bsky.app/starter-pack... and soon the links to the accounts will be at nep.repec.org #RePEc #EconSky

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too many huge cars, in smaller european streets, with pedestrians, bikers, and the like

While phd-ing, I prepared stepwise solutions to exercises in Essential Math. for Econ. Analysis for my TAing. I then uploaded my handwritten notes online; today I checked the stats: it got >11k visits, mostly from India and the US. Post your stuff, you never know who you are going to help (and when)

Hi #EconSky! Join us for the #YEM2025, in Brno, CZ. Topics on Applied Empirical Research, Labor Econ., Exp. Econ. and Behav. Theory Subm. deadline: Feb 17, 2025 Conf. dates: May 22-23, 2025 Keynotes: @dkuebler.bsky.social & @neumarkecon.bsky.social All details on inomics.com/conference/y...

We've significantly updated our paper on modeling + measuring systemic discrimination! Check it out: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ab5yx... (cc @aleximas.bsky.social + @aislinnbohren.bsky.social!) A short 🧵 on what's new...

@econmuni.bsky.social offers 3 postdocs in labor, health, and behav econ. 12-36 months, gross monthly wage 2k-3k EUR. Labor: econjobmarket.org/positions/11... Health: econjobmarket.org/positions/11... Behavioral: econjobmarket.org/positions/11... Deadline Jan 31, 2025. Good luck with the #EconJMP

new WP y'all www.nber.org/papers/w33236

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some updates on the "Italian speaking economists" starter pack

Because...why not? right? 🤌 go.bsky.app/7uZhAYU If you want to be excluded or included, comment or dm me Buona giornata

Work from home increases the employment of disabled individuals, from Nicholas Bloom, Gordon B. Dahl, and Dan-Olof Rooth https://www.nber.org/papers/w32943

We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how: docs.bsky.app/docs/advance... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics

I used to live and work in New Orleans. When I talk with Italians or with Czech ppl--now I work in Brno--I struggle to explain to what ginormous extent personal safety differs. When I praise the level of personal safety here, I am met with confusion "Why? Should not it be normal?" Well, it depends

🚨new wp🚨 edworkingpapers.com/ai24-1088 Why are relatively young students more prone to engage in (in some) risky behaviours? \w Francesco Principe

Given the great success of a post on my X account, which reached almost 13k reads (x.com/LFumarco/sta...), I am now writing a short Stata Journal article, in collaboration with the Jaroslav Groero). This is to increase the package visibility.

hi all #econsky, do you know if there is a ranked list of econ behav / game theory journals? I usually follow ideas.repec.org/top/top.jour... , but I do not find an equivalent list by subject (it is not for me, really: I know journals in these fields, but I would not be able to reasonably rank them)

Referee report for Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1900: “I was prepared to find that his new paper was rubbish; and it turned out to be rubbish of so rank a character that no competent person could possibly take any other view of it.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I assume some grad student is already hard at work on the first resume audit study using an AI job application bot www.404media.co/i-applied-to...

Welcome, new Bluesky users. If you're looking to join the conversations around research in the social sciences, and especially economics, our @aaronsojourner.org has this guide to jump-start your feed. With guidance for both individuals and organizations. 📉📈

here is a specification curve Stata command, from Mingze Gao: github.com/mgao6767/spe... this is really cool. keep your appendix short!

#econsky, is IZA allowing wp updates now? there was a survey about that a few weeks ago, any news?

Practical takeaways for letter writers: - Avg letter has 1153 words; this generally predicts placement and career success. - 10% of candidates are called "top" and this really helps. "standout" or "grindstone" language doesn't really matter (see below) - Check demographic balance on word count/top

cool study: ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/94... sometimes, we focus too much (imho) on identification as being the most important determinant of a publication. however, if there r methodological advances, limitations r clearly stated, and insights r useful, why should we stop the growth process?

Hi #econsky! In what circumstances do you attach to your submitted material the rejection letters, with refs' reports, from other journals? And if you do it, in the submission to the new journal, have you addressed all/some/none of the comments in those previous rejection letters?