📢 New paper accepted at Economics of Education Review by Bedoya, Hoyos & Estrada: "Rule-based civil service: Evidence from a nationwide teacher reform in Mexico" #EconSky #EconomicsOfEducationReview @ckcarruthers.bsky.social @tyleransom.bsky.social @sandramcnally.bsky.social 1/N

Call for papers -- Wages, Employment and Inequality, part IV. Uppsala Sep 4-5. Keynotes @simonjaeger.bsky.social & Anna Salomons. Also confirmed Alexander Willén and Lena Hensvik. Its the 4th time I do this with @tuomaskosonen.bsky.social, great fun every time - join us! verotutkimus.fi/en/wei-2026/

📢 New paper accepted at Economics of Education Review! Assaad, Aydemir, Dayıoğlu and Kırdar: “Wage returns to human capital resulting from an extra year of primary school: Evidence from Egypt” 1/N #EconSky #EconomicsOfEducationReview

📢 New paper accepted at Economics of Education Review! @simonbriole.bsky.social “From teacher quality to teaching quality: Instructional productivity and teaching practices” 1/N #EconSky #EconomicsOfEducationReview

4th Workshop on Education Economics and Policy (WEEP) to be held 7th-8th September in Trondheim, Norway. sites.google.com/site/prgreen... Keynotes: Elizabeth Cascio (Dartmouth) and Björn Öckert (IFAU) Call for papers open soon Funded by EduGAP project samforsk.no/prosjekter/e... #EconConf

Female presenters are interrupted 10% more I wrote about the new seminar dynamics paper in the AER here: open.substack.com/pub/hanshenr... #econsky

⭐New paper!⭐ About generative network modelling - a key approach for understanding network structures. First half: We give a general introduction to generative network models Second half: We consider their use in animal behaviour research www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🌟New paper!🌟 Very happy to have been part of this fun project with @delphinedemoor.bsky.social and coauthors.

Super important work by @profsimonb.bsky.social and the team 👍 How do we make sure kids get access good school? Check this ⬇️ work analysing policy alternatives!

This week I read the forthcoming paper in AEJ: EP by Bowden, Rodriguez, Weingarten studying how a more lenient grading policy affected student behavior and outcomes As the table shows - pre: min effort for D -> 69 points - post: min effort for D -> 60 points #econsky 1/N

🚨 @andrealanauze.bsky.social & I are organizing the 2nd women & femme-id ppl in enviro econ workshop ♀️🌱📈 #EconTwitter Key dates: submit full paper or long abstract by Dec 3 Workshop: 9-10 April, in Venice, Italy Thx to @cagewarwick.bsky.social for 💰 & @cepr.org for support Link in 🧵 👇

2 new papers on smartphone use First, a new NBER working paper on Florida, suggesting that phone bans in school in the short run lead to worse outcomes, but improved outcomes in the longer run 1/2 #EconSky

👇#EJME 25/26 Mock Interviews: Recruiters needed! ℹ️on how to sign up: www.eeassoc.org/news/call-re... @david-schindler.de @eayeconomists.bsky.social @ecqe.bsky.social @resmedia.bsky.social

New Research I came across this week #EconSky 1: Teaching negotiation skills to 8th graders in Zambia leads to better outcomes 10y later, with high returns! Paper: www.nber.org/system/files... 1/3

New cool study by @scandersen.bsky.social and @tsguul.bsky.social in JPART on how teachers use information from school tests to adjust their teaching. See more here: hanshenriksievertsen.substack.com/p/do-teacher... #econsky @ingoisphording.bsky.social

Do school meals work? No: according to a new meta study by Sara Ayllón and Samuel Lad summarizing results from 42 studies. I discuss that study in slightly more detail here: hanshenriksievertsen.substack.com/p/the-causal...

Junior workshop 📢 Please spread the word: @lergetporer.bsky.social @dynarski.bsky.social @joshua-goodman.com @peterbergman.bsky.social @imbernomics.bsky.social @hhsievertsen.bsky.social @cedr.bsky.social @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social @lnavarrosola.bsky.social @gzamarro.bsky.social

Here is my favourite grant application trick: write the first drafts in British English. Now, the night before the deadline I can just change all the “ou” to “o” to be within the character limit🥳

Anyone teaching Ed Policy or Econ of Ed this fall? Looking for ideas to keep the class current when everything is in constant flux.

My 3-hour blog post outperforms my 6-year papers New substack: hanshenriksievertsen.substack.com/p/effort-and... #econsky

Last chance to set your #FPL team ! - here are some of today's biggest changes in ownership

Any econs want to join our #econsky Fantasy Premier League season? Someone has to beat the two-time champion @proflivingston.bsky.social Signup here: fantasy.premierleague.com/leagues/auto... League Code: vl9rhl @hhsievertsen.bsky.social @danielepaserman.bsky.social @johnlist.bsky.social

In Denmark, new mothers are quasi-randomly assigned to mother groups by nurses. This new paper shows that being assigned to a group with a depressed peer decreases mothers self-reported mental health + increases mental health care uptake. Fascinating!

Calling Econ PhD candidates: Applications open: Nuffield Postdoctoral Research Fellowships: econjobmarket.org/positions/11... Deadline: September 30 Recent fellows include Claudia Noack and Christophe Gaillac --- tough acts to follow. If you're ready for a top-tier postdoc, please apply!

Beautiful and simple thread on different ways of visualizing the distribution of one variable. Clear plots, beautiful examples.

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OLS estimation - 2 equally sized groups - But different slops - And different variance in X Who get's more weight? I wrote my second substack post hanshenriksievertsen.substack.com/p/ols-gives-... #EconSky

One to Two Senior Lecturers in Economics #Econsky

What students think working with data looks like. #EconSky

Heya #EconSky #DataSky Moving from Stata to duckdb (thx @alemartinello.com for the push) Wrote my 1st substack post about it (and share code). Read for free and please suggest how I can make it faster. Thanks! hanshenriksievertsen.substack.com/p/moving-to-...

What is hot in Public Econ - emoji verison! ⚡👫 -> 👶 🔫🔫 -> 🧑‍⚖️ 🦊📰 -> 🗳️ 🧮✔️ -> 🙋‍♂️ 🖥️💶 -> 🧾 🙏🚪 -> ⚖️ 🔌🎥 -> 🚔 📏💰 -> 💦 #EconSky

Chloe does amazing work. Join the CEPEO lecture today if you can! I promise it will beat the Tour and the Tennis! #EconSky

Cite the data and cite the programmers!

Tools like #coefplot and #reghdfe have quietly powered a huge share of empirical research. Citing them helps give credit where it’s due. What are some other packages or tools you think are widely used but might be undercited? journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

What is hot in Public Econ? - Divorce -> child outcomes - Shootings -> gun policy - Fox news -> democracy - Fact checking ->fact. knowledge - E-invoicing -> reported sales - Affirmative action ->minority representation - Electronic monitoring -> recidivism - Min. wages -> wage spillover #EconSky

Heya #EconSky, has anyone read the recent @nber.org WP on "Uncertainty in Empirical" Econ by Shorfheide and You? Based on a quick look this morning - this is interesting! - I need more time to read it and someone to discuss it with 1/N

Just accepted in #EconomicsOfEducationReview: “Self-learning at the right level, COVID-19, school closure, and non-cognitive abilities” By Minhaj Mahmud, Yasuyuki Sawada, Mai Seki, & Kazuma Takakura #EconSky 1/N

🚨 One spot just opened up for our Summer School in Health Economics! Top-notch lectures by @jmwooldridge.bsky.social and Stefanie Schurer, presentations, and a great social program are waiting for you. First come, first served – apply now! #EconBluesky #economics @healtheconall.bsky.social

Just accepted in #EconomicsOfEducationReview: “The demand for data analytical skills by gender” By Menghan Shen, Xiangrui Zheng, Tong Wang, & Xiaoyang Ye #EconSky 1/N

Just accepted in the #EconomicsOfEducationReview, "The effect of compulsory education on non-cognitive skills: Evidence from low- and middle-income countries" by @antoniaentorf.bsky.social & Thomas Dohmen 1/N #EconSky

Not feeding into the Bluesky debate but I would love to see more academics sharing papers on here. Revive the ‘ol “here’s a thread about this paper” thing. I think it’s good for the information ecosystem.

Still time to apply to our 9th Potsdam PhD Workshop in Empirical Economics, incl. a lecture series by Jens Hainmueller (Stanford) + keynote lecture by Amanda Agan (Cornell )! We look forward to applications from PhD students & recent postdocs. 📅 Sep 24-25. ⏳ Deadline: June 30. Further details 👇

🚨New research from SIEPR Senior Fellow @tomdee.bsky.social finds that student absences rose amid intensified immigration enforcement, indicating lost learning opportunities. 👇 bit.ly/3I1vGDJ

I wrote a new piece on how much progress has been made in treating childhood leukemia. The answer is: quite a lot! Before the 1970s, fewer than 10% of children diagnosed survived 5 years after diagnosis. Now most are cured and around 85% survive that long. ourworldindata.org/childhood-le...

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Any recommendations for an overview article or book chapter on environmental valuation that is understandable to non-economists?

Hey #football #soccer #data #network experts we want to study the shortest paths between football players (defined by playing in the same match). But I only found data going back to 2012. Any suggestions how to get data further back?

Re-upping my advice about how to write a good title and abstract for an academic paper, appropriately called: "How to Write a Title and Abstract" Feel free to share this thread, which will focus on titles. #EconSky #AcademicSky