Since I am placement director for ND's Econ Department, let me tell you about our job market candidates this year (in alphabetical order). It's a fantastic group of young economists, please do not hesitate to contact me for any questions. They are all listed here: economics.nd.edu/graduate/stu...

The newest AEJ: Policy @aeajournals.bsky.social, "High Schools Tailored to Adults Can Help Them Complete a Traditional Diploma and Excel in the Labor Market" by David Phillips @phillipsecon.bsky.social, Patrick Turner, and former @LEOatND pre-doc Becca Brough www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

The November 2024 issue of AEJ: Economic Policy (16, 4) is now available online at aeaweb.org/issues/782.

The AEA has released data on econ job openings for 2024 (as of Oct. 27). Compared to 2023: - Total openings down 9.3% - US academic openings down 11.7% - US adjunct/visiting openings up 4.0% Lots more info available here, including non-US openings: #EconSky www.aeaweb.org/joe/communic...

Henry Downes visited us at Miami a few weeks ago and gave a really impressive seminar on his JMP! Check him out if you are hiring in labor, public, history, and/or demography. henrymdownes.com

I’m telling you, Henry is fantastic—but you don’t have to take my word for it! 👇👇👇👇👇👇

One thing we do that I think is kind of crazy is throw students into their own research after coursework; ie a senior thesis or third year paper. Students almost always flail when this happens. Way better to do an apprentice model: work with others on a paper first, then do your own.

We are thrilled to curate a Special Issue on “Field Experiments to Reduce Inequality” in the European Economic Review! Guest editors: @lergetporer.bsky.social @michelebelot.bsky.social @henninghermes.com @fpeter.bsky.social & @simonwiederhold.bsky.social   Details: tinyurl.com/38hzxdte #EconSky

This is a great line: "like a four year old with access to unlimited postgrad labor, a true scientist will never stop asking 'but why?'"

The deadline is fast approaching for our 2024 Early Career Research Awards. Applications are due Jan. 21. Early Career Research Awards go to researchers within six years of earning a Ph.D. for policy-related research on employment issues. Funding for each award is $7,500. Details at link. 📈📉

Submit for the NBER Children's program's spring meeting, May 2-3. Papers are due March 1. All are encouraged to apply--please share! conference.nber.org/confsubmit/b...

People way underestimate how much of a hit to statistical power results from typical quasi-experimental methods. (the answer is X<=144; poll from the other place since I can't here)

"We also compare observational to experimental research and find that the quality of experimental economic evidence is notably higher." Our profession massively undervalues the advantage that the typical experiment has in statistical power compared to the typical quasi-experiment.

Please share! Applications now being accepted for the 2024 National Research Center on Poverty and Economic Mobility Early-Career Mentoring Institute, co-sponsored by IRP & the UC Davis Center for Poverty & Inequality Research, with additional support from The National Research Center on (1/5)

Snow xkcd.com/2866

Today's job market post by Madeline Duhon uses data from India, Kenya, the USA, and Ghana to show how socioeconomic status can shape differences in parental beliefs about child academic achievement blogs.worldbank.org/impactevalua...

Out in the December edition of AER: Insights, "Hiring Frictions and the Promise of Online Job Portals: Evidence from India," by our own Nilesh Fernando @nileshfern.bsky.social and Niha Singh (along with Gabe Tourek): www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

I am putting together an ASHEcon session focused on health behaviors and RCT's, broadly defined. We have 3 discussants and 2 papers lined up. We are looking for one more paper, please reach out to me ([email protected]) if you have something that could fit. #EconSky

Here it is! Our new standing RFP for causal research proposals on crime/CJ! This replaces our previous practice of invite-only submissions for most research. Please share with your networks, including PhD students. craftmediabucket.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/Caus...

📢Please share! 📢As the National Research Center on Poverty and Economic Mobility, IRP, in collaboration with ASPE’s Office of Human Services Policy, is currently accepting applications for 2024-26 extramural large research grants for up to $50,000. (1/4)

In our new NBER WP, we estimate historical intergenerational mobility for men **and women** using hundreds of millions of census-to-census links from the Census Tree. 🧵 👇https://www.nber.org/papers/w31918 with Zach Ward, Joe Price, & Haley Wilbert

Academics everywhere: Let me just submit this manuscript before the start of the holidays, summer, or new semester. But also How dare the editor of this journal send me a review request just before the start of the holidays, summer, or new semester.

Out in @nber.bsky.social today, "Family Trees and Falling Apples: Historical Intergenerational Mobility Estimates for Women and Men," from our own @kaseybuckles.bsky.social and graduate student Haley Wilbert, along with Joe Price and Zach Ward. www.nber.org/papers/w31918

A beautiful, intimate portrait of my friend, co-author and, even, boss Eric Sims who will be awarded the Sheedy Excellence in Teaching Award next week. @ndecon.bsky.social al.nd.edu/news/latest-...

Forthcoming in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, "Eviction and Poverty in American Cities" by our own Robert Collinson, along with Humphries, Mader, Reed, Tannenbaum, and van Dijk. academic.oup.com/qje/advance-...

Econ obsesses about OVB & assumes away measurement error. Psych vice versa.

The open letter from 400+ IZA fellows to the Deutsche Post Foundation in response to the new leadership announcement at IZA is online: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Come work with me! You’ve done research, love talking about it, and care deeply about making a difference. You’ve also figured out that you’d rather contribute to a team in a different way than the PhD to professor path. Maybe a job for you (jobs.nd.edu/postings/32575). Ends Nov 15.

Come work with me! You’ve done research, love talking about it, and care deeply about making a difference. You’ve also figured out that you’d rather contribute to a team in a different way than the PhD to professor path. Maybe a job for you (jobs.nd.edu/postings/32575). Ends Nov 15.

Teachers matter a ton, but so do school counselors. Counselors can have big impacts on educational attainment, particularly for low income students. Thrilled to see Christine Mulhern's important work published this morning in the AER. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Proposal: for every null result an empirical economist publishes, they get one chance to eliminate a referee report before the editor sees it.

I’ve been trying to make this happen in one form or another for almost 7 years, and it’s finally out. Data on income inequality and mobility within detailed demographic groups, nationally and at the state level, designed with researchers and the public in mind. www.minneapolisfed.org/institute/in...

#Econsky, specifically #JMCs in #Economics. In the recent #CSWEP newsletter we announced a new initiative: organized practice job market interviews (the "elevator pitch" portion) at the upcoming #SEA. Interested candidates: the details on page 18: www.aeaweb.org/content/file...

One thing I don't think is clear enough to job market candidates is that search committees think *lots* of you are great, they just only have one spot.

Quick Stata tip: keep if inlist(state, "AL", "AK", "AZ") is the same as: keep if state=="AL" | state=="AK" | state=="AZ" And: keep if inrange(distance, 10, 91) is the same as: keep if distance>=10 & distance<=91

Cool job alert: jobs.nd.edu/postings/32067 @LEOatND is hiring for 3 research associate positions -- 1 starts now, & 2 start in the summer. Use your analysis/coding/mgmt skills to fight poverty through rigorous research, identifying promising programs & policies! Posting closes 10/6

Wow just read the best freaking post by @economeager.bsky.social This is literally the most important advice. This should be framed and posted in every department. The hammer hits people into the anvil too often. rachaelmeager.substack.com/p/finish-you...