Thanks to Greg Caetano for having me on his new podcast! Here's video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DmP...

Great paper that I teach in my Econ of Ed class. It's well-known that, while No Excuses charter schools are great for test scores, other charters aren't. But this paper shows that plenty of non-No Excuses charters with zero/negative test score impacts might nonetheless be great schools.

NEW: We connected school attendance value-added estimates (for 2022-23 through 2024-25) to statewide survey data on school-based attendance practices. Our goal was to identify effective attendance strategies (e.g., specific practices, organizational systems, staffing, leadership). What did we find?🧵

Had a great time at the FLX Econ of Ed conference this year. Special shoutout to @mariabzhu.bsky.social for organizing, and specifically for having name tags where you can actually read people's names!

For anyone who missed it, here are videos of the talks: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Before the credibility revolution, everything was incredible.

Looking forward to the bunching conference tomorrow and Saturday! There will be explainer talks for people new to these methods. If you want to watch the talks remotely, there's a Zoom link on the program: www.gregoriocaetano.net/resources/Bu...

New preprint! We reanalyze 46 papers that use log-like specifications (ln(Z+1), inverse hyperbolic sine etc). We find widespread non-robustness, and we show through theory + simulation how these models drive spurious significance. 1/ doi.org/10.31222/osf...

My personal rule for IVs is that, if there's really only one reason why Z and Y are correlated, then you should be able to tell me Z and Y, and I'd be able to figure out what X is without you telling me. (1/n)

🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS 🚨 Research In Labor Economics (rle.iza.org) is planning a volume featuring critical analyses of applied economics research. We are soliciting up to ten new papers that rigorously review an applied microeconomics topic, area, or methodology. #econsky

One fun thing about forecasting is having a record of what you find surprising about a paper's results. My biggest surprise about this interesting new paper is that I figured subfield experts would know more than non-experts. But no, apparently they don't.

I am excited to be on the #EconSky job market. My #EconJMP on Nepal's 2002 abortion legalization finds weaker son-biased stopping, more prenatal sex selection (~1 in 75 girls missing), and longer breastfeeding for surviving girls, a clear quantity quality tradeoff. Website: jijeebishabhattarai.com

I am excited to share that I am on the job market. My JMP explores how maternal work hours affect children's cognitive outcomes in India. By exploiting bunching designs, I find that work hours have a positive but small and statistically insignificant effect on children's cognition.

🚀 I’m excited to share that I’m on the #EconSky job market this year! In my #EconJMP, I study how teachers in Finnish upper secondary schools impact students’ socio-emotional skills – and the labor market returns of these effects! (🧵, 1/N)

I am excited to announce I am on the #EconSky Job Market! In my #EconJMP, I find that weighting a teacher's test-score impacts differently across students increases the predictive power of test-score value-added measures for a teacher's impact on high school graduation. Website: casetatro.com

An economist reached out and asked where they might publish a review they'd written. Here's my (certainly incomplete) list of 30+ journals where economists publish reviews. bit.ly/3QfaE6m (Additions welcome with a specific review example!)

Darkly funny how a strong emphasis on unbiasedness via the credibility revolution plausibly ended up making the published literature more biased.

My PhD student Case Tatro has made a very helpful guide to making specification curves in Stata: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTLm... #EconSky #Econ

Nhan Tran and I have a new IZA discussion paper entitled "Do Better Journals Publish Better Estimates?" docs.iza.org/dp17960.pdf