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📣 Submit your crime paper by Feb 14. 🔸 4th Workshop on the Economics of Crime for Junior Scholars 🔸 29-30 May, 2025 🔸 Quattrone Center, UPenn 🔸 Keynote: @amandayagan.bsky.social 🔹 Send your paper to: [email protected] @emmarackstraw.bsky.social

🚨 New Early-Career Opportunity for Causal Research on the Criminal Justice System 🚨 @russellsagefdn.bsky.social and @arnoldventures.bsky.social will fund up to $100k. Open to US-based Assistant Profs. Grant Deadline: April 3, 2 pm ET More info: www.russellsage.org/special-init...

LAC-PaL Virtual Seminar schedule for Spring 2025 is here! 🎉 Join us every first Friday of the month from 12:30-1:30 pm ET. More info: sites.google.com/view/LAC-PaL #econsky

Virtual Econ of Public Policy Seminar (VEPPS) continues on Mon 12/16 at 2pm ET with @sakshibhardwaj.bsky.social "Income During Infancy Reduces Criminal Activity for Fathers and Children: Evidence from a Discontinuity in Tax Benefits" More info: www.lucieschmidt.com/vepps-seminar #EconSky

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Very interesting thread and discussion in the comments

It’s WALES submission/registration time again! One of the best days of the late-winter if you’re a labor-adjacent economist around DC - check it out!

Agree with this even if I don't always follow it myself 🙈

Applications are open for our 2025 Graduate Student Summer Associate Program, a paid internship that pairs students with RAND mentors to collaborate on research projects. 🗓️ Apply by December 2. www.rand.org/jobs/summer-...

For those attending APPAM this coming week: Join Arnold Ventures, the Russell Sage Foundation, Equitable Growth, & the Policy Academies for a big, fun, joint reception on FRIDAY 11/22, 6:30-8:30, at Fogo de Chão (very close to the conference hotel). 🥳 pages.equitablegrowth.org/2024-APPAM-R...

#econJM candidates, as you're cramming in those 11/15 apps, don't forget Hoover Fellow apps are due Monday 11/18! --> Up to 10 years. 100% own research time - no teaching, no splitting time on other projects. Great pay. Great location. Friendly colleagues. #econsky

Education scholars heading to #APPAM2024 - @christocleve.bsky.social and I are organizing an informal happy hour meet up Thursday night 11/21 at The Brass Tap, 7pm! Would love to reconnect with folks while we're all together next week. Please amplify and feel free to invite others!

💯 oftentimes, the tables in your presentation shouldn't be exact replicas of the tables in your paper. You have more space on a page - no one will be able to read that same table on a presentation slide. Even better, include figures over tables in your presentation slides.

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For those who don't have research funds, free LLM/AI tools like Claude, Perplexity, and ChatGPT are good alternatives.

A few weeks ago, I spoke on a panel about publishing at the CSWEP’s CeMENT workshop. I wanted to briefly share some of that advice here.

The Race and Stratification Working Group at NBER will have its annual meeting on Friday, April 4, 2025! Dania Francis, Vicki Bogan, Ellora Derenoncourt and I are organizing the program. Submit your paper before the December 19, 2024 deadline! conference.nber.org/confsubmit/b...

🚨 Great mentoring opportunity for scholars in low/middle-income countries 🚨

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Submit your papers for the spring 2025 NBER Gender in the Economy meeting! The theme is "Women in the Digital World". Submission Deadline: 12/9/24 Meeting: 2/28/25 in Cambridge www.nber.org/conferences/...

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Deadline is today!

Ok, this needs a lot of tweaking and more work, but here's a minimal viable product for An econometrics paper (Deep Neural Networks for Estimation and Inference) 1. paulgp.github.io/2024/11/06/r... An economic theory paper (Targeting Interventions in Networks) 2. paulgp.github.io/2024/11/06/r...

It's turning out that buying several Costco-sized bags for Halloween came in real handy #electiondaytomorrow #stresseating

Me: Bought Halloween candy from Costco for trick or treaters One hour later: Broke into Halloween candy meant for trick or treaters

🔔 A reminder that the deadline to submit abstracts (max 500 words) is next FRIDAY NOV 8 🔔 You do not have to be at a LAC to present! But at least one of the co-authors must be at an LAC.

Open call for applications, Post-Doctoral Fellowship on Wealth and Income Inequality. Submit applications by 11:59pm EDT on December 5, 2024. More information: https://www.nber.org/career-resources/calls-fellowship-applications/post-doctoral-fellowship-wealth-and-income-inequality

Open call for applications, Post-Doctoral Fellowship on the Economics of Crime. Submit applications by 11:59pm EDT on December 5, 2024. More information: https://www.nber.org/career-resources/calls-fellowship-applications/post-doctoral-fellowship-economics-crime

Funding opportunity for PhD students 🚨 RSF Dissertation Grants for research on behavioral science, employment, race/ethnicity, immigration, or inequality Application Deadline: February 1, 2025 www.russellsage.org/research/fun...

For Bluesky-Curious Econ Lovers, a Quick Start guide to plugging into the economics community here. It aims to lower the costs & boost the benefits for folks to engage here. If it seems useful, please share it here & especially on X. 📉📈 #️⃣#️⃣ aaronsojourner.org/for-bluesky-...

🚨 Call for Papers 🚨 The Liberal Arts Colleges Public and Labor Economics Virtual Seminar series is soliciting papers for Spring 2025. Submit your extended abstracts by Fri Nov 8: forms.gle/gpWhwmfxqBA2... More info on our website: sites.google.com/view/LAC-PaL

🎉 The Liberal Arts College Public and Labor Economics (LAC-PaL) Virtual Seminar series is starting on Friday May 3rd from 12:30-1:30 pm ET 🎉 Sign up to receive meeting link and future announcements: forms.gle/fNuNfdn7PfaX... Full schedule here: drive.google.com/file/d/1ts3j...

Job Posting at the DOJ - looking for a data analyst, must be US citizen, deadline is March 13 www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewD...

Are you a labor(ish) economist in the great DC area? Save the date for WALES 2024, this year organized and hosted by Seth Gershenson and AU SPA. Paper submissions due in 2 weeks (March 15). Apply + spread the word! I look forward to seeing many of you there!

REMINDER: DEADLINE IS THIS FRIDAY!

🚨 Call for Papers 🚨 The Liberal Arts Colleges Public and Labor Economics Virtual Seminar is starting Spring 2024! First Friday of every month from 12:30-1:30 pm ET. Submit your extended abstracts by March 1: forms.gle/Z6uAv4GaGyjk... For more information: drive.google.com/file/d/1PFZD...