📢 We are hiring 📢 Please spread the word: We are hiring a 🧑‍🎓 Postdoc (up to 6 years, non-tenure track) at the ifo Center for the Economics of Education! Come join our team as junior faculty: www.ifo.de/en/job-offer... Application deadline: July 22

Kiwis: ever stood in a supermarket aisle trying to work out whether the bigger pack is actually cheaper? Sometimes it’s not. When the larger package is more expensive per unit than the smaller one, it’s called a quantity surcharge. Madhura Banerjee and I looked for these in NZ supermarkets. 🧵

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The submission portal for #AIMOS2026 is now open. Submit your lightning talks, discussion groups hackathons, and workshops now. www.aimos2026.org/submit

1/ Can AI help researchers check whether published social science results actually reproduce? In our new PNAS paper, we tested this directly in the AI Replication Games: 288 researchers, 103 teams, and real replication packages from quantitative social science.

New working paper with Amol Singh Raswan and Chris Udry: "The Sisyphean Pursuit of Evidence for Poverty Traps." A central idea in development economics is that poverty can trap people. We went looking for the cleanest evidence. Here's what we found – and didn't.

Psychology has a whole cottage industry in which people come up with some construct that is essentially "attitudes/beliefs/expectations/feelings about X", and then the central claim is that this construct is a super important determinant of future X outcomes.>

Hi all, I’m hiring a post doc for next year! Heavy focus on building and designing AI for economic mobility in various domains. Please share widely if you don’t mind! utaustin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UTstaf...

📣Help needed! We are trying to reach people outside Europe with our short survey on research graphs! Could you share the link with someone? Take the survey yourself? Thanks in advance!! 🙏🌷🙏 (Europeans still welcome, of course!) supsy.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

❗ Help needed ❗ Please take our 5-minute survey about interpreting research graphs 📈 And please help us share this post with lots of people 🤗 Take the survey here: supsy.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Thank you!!

You can do this right now: Think of a person who wrote a paper you love, whose work influenced or helped you, or has made your professional life better. Search up their email address. Shoot them a quick email of thanks. It means so, so much. This is a rough time of year, share some joy.

I used to think that people use the “weasel word causal inference strategy” (“our analyses show that X is an important predictor of…” followed by conclusions that are clearly causal) for the sake of plausible deniability. But I’m revising that now, because often deniability *isn’t* plausible.>

I've been working on a new tool, Refine, to make scholars more productive. If you're interested in being among the very first to try the beta, please read on. Refine leverages the best current AI models to draw your attention to potential errors and clarity issues in research paper drafts. 1/

🚨I4R is looking to hire postdoc fellows in public health and computer science! The postdoc will join a team of researchers and help mass reproduce studies in leading public health journals or develop AI replicator agents. Info 👇

happy 3²/4²/5² to ask those who celebrate

Wellington Replication Games — Dec 4, 2025 One-day team challenge to reproduce top social-science studies; co-authorship on a meta-paper; virtual welcome. Researchers, postdocs, PhDs — sign up: www.surveymonkey.ca/r/RB6K73Q #OpenScience #Metascience @i4replication.bsky.social

Hey #EAAE2025: Thursday is replication day. First, Anna Dreber's keynote on "Predicting Replication Outcomes" (11am) & our session👇(4pm) feat. ‪@robertfinger.bsky.social‬ @cedricchambru.bsky.social‬ @jensrommel.bsky.social‬ ‪@beta1hat.bsky.social‬ @mabuchner.bsky.social‬ ‪@i4replication.bsky.social‬

Good to see growing support for abduction or 'inference to the best explanation', recently by Spirling and Stewart in @thejop.bsky.social. This is... www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

Reviewers are more likely to approve manuscripts if authors agree to cite their work than those who don't get cited. Thanks to @aidybarnett.bsky.social, @balazsaczel.bsky.social and @econfeld.bsky.social for chatting with me for this story! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Once upon a time, two science journalists had an idea for a blog about retractions. And on Aug. 3, 2010, Retraction Watch launched. And now, 15 years and 6,700 posts later, that work seems more important than ever. Happy 15th anniversary, Retraction Watch.

Interesting read, but worth considering (as the article does) the selection bias introduced by a) who is willing to initiate an adversarial collaboration and b) who manages to compete and publish it.

Our special issue seeks to foster novel theoretical and empirical papers that treat scaling as an object of study in its own right—exploring its methodological foundations, economic incentives, institutional challenges, and pathways to impact. Please spread the word! ideas.repec.org/p/feb/artefa...

Today, scaling has evolved far beyond its origins as a mere objective. It now represents a rich domain for scientific inquiry, demanding contributions from economics and allied disciplines. As such, I am excited to announce a special issue on scaling at the JPE-Micro!

The call for proposals is now up for our long awaited #AIMOS2025 conference in Sydney this November: aimos-inc.github.io/aimos.confer...

You can read the full paper here: www.ifo.de/DocDL/cesifo... Shan, Zölitz & Backes-Gellner (2025). "Disconnecting Women: Gender Disparities in the Impact of Online Instruction" CESifo Working Paper #11997.

🚨 New working paper! 🚨 We ran a field experiment with >1,300 university students randomly assigned to online vs in-person lectures. What happens? Online instruction hurts performance, but only for women♀️📉 with Xiaoyue Shan & Uschi Backes-Gellner www.ifo.de/DocDL/cesifo...

And if you are working in or interested in metaresearch in Australia, we'd love to hear from you! Fill out this brief @aimosinc.bsky.social @ausrepro.bsky.social survey so we can connect like-minded researchers. qualtrics.flinders.edu.au/jfe/form/SV_... 3/3

Join us @rwi.bsky.social & @i4replication.bsky.social as replicator for a meta-reproduction on deforestation. We pay replicators 2,500 EUR. Experience with geocoded data & background in environmental science are assets. 1/2 bit.ly/4ke2p6o

Don't forget to submit your papers to the Labour Econometrics Workshop! The deadline is in two weeks ✌️ Hope to see you in Melbourne! 🌈🏙️ melbourneinstitute.unimelb.edu.au/conferences/...

After a long wait, the working paper for the Many-Economists Project: The Sources of Researcher Variation in Economics. We had 146 teams perform the same research three times, each time with less freedom. What source of freedom leads to different choices and results? papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

New research alert! Our study investigates the effectiveness of human-only, AI-assisted, and AI-led teams in assessing the reproducibility of quantitative social science research. We've got some surprising findings!

Another R&R with @nsalamanca.bsky.social @econfeld.bsky.social and @ulfzoelitz.bsky.social What a week!!!!! 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳

What an incredible 6 months at @iza.org – for me and my family! I’m so thankful for: 🤝 The kind and insightful IZA team who made us feel at home 📚 Inspiring workshops, conferences, and seminars 🌊 A stunning location next to the Rhein, with easy access to other research hubs Thank you, IZA!

We are very excited to welcome @econfeld.bsky.social to our #ResearchSeminar today. He will give a talk on “On the generalizability of sex-differences in risk-attitudes”. The seminar takes place from 14:15 to 15:30 in room S3/4 in the Oeconomicum (building 24.31). janfeld.weebly.com

Now heading to UNSW for ESCoE conference to present « Same-sex teacher effects in education » with @econfeld.bsky.social @nsalamanca.bsky.social @ulfzoelitz.bsky.social — paper here 👉🏽 adegendre.github.io/papers/deGen... — we even made a website with interactive effects ! www.role-model-effects.com

One single study is never enough. Check out this short piece by my friend and coauthor @econfeld.bsky.social on meta-science applied to Econ problems. I love the way he takes the reader by the hand and tell us his humble story.👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 www.wgtn.ac.nz/business/res...

"Other researchers began citing our work as evidence of a universal truth... This interpretation was flattering but misleading." See my discussion on why one study is not enough here: www.wgtn.ac.nz/business/res...

New blog post! If you're a substantive researcher, you mainly do statistics to answer substantive questions. So let's stop putting the statistical model first. www.the100.ci/2024/08/27/l...

Regression: it's not just for causality! Spirling & Stewart argue it’s the tool for uncovering the best explanations. Think of it as detective work—solving the mystery of social data, one regression at a time. github.com/ArthurSpirli...

Job-market candidates: - Download 10 JMPs in your field, read them in ≤5 hours, and rank them from best to worst. Now you know why recruiting committees value readability. - Editing improves paper quality. See RCT: doi.org/10.1016/j.je... (More at www.jdingel.com/teaching/adv...) #econsky

#EconSky, here’s a starter pack about reproducibility and metascience in economics Feel free to suggest me more accounts to add!

That's our paper! Thanks for sharing :)

You might like our paper. Feedback and RT most welcome! @woessmann.bsky.social @lukasmergele.bsky.social @shushmargaryan.bsky.social @elizabethlinos.bsky.social @libertadgonzalez.bsky.social @dprbyrne.bsky.social @chriskarbownik.bsky.social

So happy and excited to release this WP with @econfeld.bsky.social @nsalamanca.bsky.social and @superstudy.bsky.social ! Full thread on paper here 👇🏽

Are teachers *generally* better at teaching students of their own sex?   NO in primary education, YES in secondary education.   A 🧵 generalizability and same-sex teacher effects www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/23...

Check out new Working Paper on how students parents and teachers respond to exposure to minority students in the classroom. Love this project with @nsalamanca.bsky.social @chriskarbownik.bsky.social and Yves Zenou!

Our paper “Re-examining the relationship between patience, risk-taking, and human capital investment across countries” is now out in the Journal of Applied Econometrics. doi.org/10.1002/jae....   This study is one of the many replications part of the recent meta paper by @i4replication.bsky.social