Sociology: you can’t compare logit or probit coefficients across models Psychology:

Out today: a great handbook for anyone doing #experiments in #development economics. Yes, I have a chapter in it on household behaviour, but I'm recommending it because it has been written and edited by a talented group of economists who know their stuff. #EconSky www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/han...

Let's say you want to include age as a predictor in your model. How do you do that? Here's an illustration of three options -- it's for a paper I'm working on (so if you feel like anything could be tweaked...).

Hello Bluesky 👋 We're the Health in Humanitarian Crises Centre at @lshtm.bsky.social, a network of more than 200 researchers working on 100+ projects around the world to improve the health of people affected by #humanitarian crises 🚑⛑ Follow us for updates on our research, events, blogs & more!

G ARY S. BECKER "Different constraints are decisive for different situations, but the most fundamental constraint is limited time." Read this & use @zotero.org for research (ref management) as it is a life saver helps optimization😀! Thanks to @ikashnitsky.phd for wonderful TIPS! #PhDlife #econsky

1/ Presented my work a Menstrual Research Network UK #MRN #MRNUK #MRNconference2025 at University of East London #UEL 2025 We assess the relationship b/w period poverty #periodpoverty restrictive gender norms and female well-being ( #SRH, #anxiety, & #depression) in Nepal

A Good Day for struggling science, scientists& society!! Statement of Principles from the Editorial Boards of Health Economics Journals “…our collective commitment in the face of recent political attacks on academic independence in the US and around the world” sites.google.com/view/joint-s...

🚨Which causal inference book you should read? A wonderful guideline/flowchart description by Brady Neal @causalbrady #causalinference #causalanalysis #appliedecotrix #econsky #episky #polsky One missed masterpiece is @nickchk.com's #TheEffect Last updated in 2020, would love to see more on it

Powerful empirical opinion !! What US universities contributed to economy alongside immeasurable social values!! We need not to kill universities to understand what is at stake, just look at the contributions!! www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Along with software and and active mind these are essential ’hardwares’ when I write a research piece 📖📝🗒️🖋️✏️📑 #research #researchwriting #econsky

BREAKING: Judge orders Elon Musk & DOGE to restore access of USAID employees, including those on administrative leave, to USAID computer systems. Judge Theodore Chuang, Obama appointee, also bars DOGE from actions related to USAID shutdown. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The world's richest man stole food from the world's poorest children. Now they are beginning to die www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Interesting figure 📊 12% of Articles published in @reveconstudies.bsky.social are by @dacemoglumit.bsky.social I am talking about the March 2025 Issue 😅 @khoavuumn.bsky.social

Hello Guy, in case it's useful, I wrote a piece on precisely your point, why DHS was so valuable for governments www.ggd.world/p/aid-saves-...

I completely re-worked my course "Introduction to Bayesian statistics with brms" and taught it for the 1st time this week. It is meant as a tutorial for ecologists, but should be general enough for other sciences as well github.com/benjamin-ros... #stats #Rstats #brms #Stan #Bayesian

As expected 🚨🚨 This is not a 'review' but rather a blow to research across the world. Respective countries should maintain repositories of their data. By saying this, I am not supporting the cessation of DHS at the main site but am hoping for an alternative solution. #dhs #dhsdata #data #usaid

Time to evict AirBnB from your life, if you have't already.

The Data Foundation just launched #SAFETrack -- share your federal data and evaluation stories anonymously about impacts from recent executive actions. Our system is encrypted, secure, and anonymous -- share impacts on #opendata, #statistics, #privacy, #eval efforts. www.safe-track.org

if a publisher ask for compulsory highlights :)) 😂😂

📢 Calling all religion scholars! 📢Please consider this my personal invitation to submit a paper or organize a session at the upcoming @sssreligion.bsky.social Annual Meeting in Minneapolis this October! Reach out to me or @evanstewart.bsky.social with questions or ideas!

This is how a single unwise person can affect the policy making, specifically child and women health, for the whole developing world!! #DHS #saveDHS #DHSDATA

1/2 #budget2025-26 Yesterday finance minister presented budget for yr 2025-26- The 'rhetoric' was "investing in people"- In which 'People' are they Investing? * Early age children-No *Public School education - No *ICDS=pregnant women, lactating mother, and 0-6 age child - No

Dear #EconSky community, I want to help I’m not super familiar with US federal data, but my #Rstats coding skills are strong and I know how to easily download data from the Internet If you want me to help you keep copy of US federal data, please DM me or email me Repost appreciated

1/2 True!! This is what Dr. Paul Farmer advocated & proved decades ago. "Compared to a group that received only free care, those receiving the full support package had substantially better treatment outcomes: no deaths and a 100% cure rate." shorturl.at/He6T7

Need high resolution daily air pollution data for India? We've got you. Great new work led by Ayako Kawano developing satellite+ML-based measures of PM2.5 going back decades, and using it to evaluate recent progress in improving air quality. www.science.org/doi/full/10....

If you have a sample of size n with mean M and you want to compute the new mean M* after adding an additional observation x, a numerically stable formula is M* = M + (x - M)/(n + 1) This minimizes inaccuracies due to dividing large numbers because (x - M) tends to be small.

People, just stop doing Frontiers special issues. Find a nice diamond open access journal, and self-publish and collaboratively peer review the set of papers you all want to write. Do not give Frontiers money. They add no value. If anything, they hurt your reputation. MDPI is of course even worse.

Fully vaccinated #children in South #Africa who suffered #undernutrition had much lower levels of antibodies against #measles, i.e. #nutrition may affect #vaccine protection. Addressing child #hunger could help prevent viral outbreaks: www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/cha... #vaccination

There is concpt of starter packs bsky.app/profile/skyp... Find relevant ones here-

Great points and more importantly easily doable as one needs to share what (s)he knows. I think here Say’s law is still valid. If you help someone, (s)he will tell ‘someone’ that you are reachable & helpful then ‘someone’ will reachout & will also tell to someone ♾️ +

Check out "require: Package dependencies for reproducible research" in latest Stata Journal @statacorp.bsky.social by @scorreia.com and M. P. Seay. #EconSky journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

An amazing story that illustrates the struggles with long-term care access in the US : "we need to move beyond our prevailing cultural fixation on family responsibility,...reinforced by the desperate knowledge that there are no other options" doi.org/10.1377/hlth...

A Happy and Healthy 2025 to you all! Be safe, caring, and true.

Here are the first five sets of slides: 01 Introduction: psantanna.com/DiD/01_Intro... 02 Classical 2x2 setup: psantanna.com/DiD/02_two_b... 03 Clustering issues: psantanna.com/DiD/03_Clust... 04 Functional form: psantanna.com/DiD/04_Funct... 05 Covariates: psantanna.com/DiD/05_Covar...

The IDS website just got a revamp! check it the section on the Food Equity Centre here: www.ids.ac.uk/programme-an...

A stunning growth and GDP per capita (PPP int. $) story of China and South Korea. Converging #realgdpgrowth and diverging Per Capita GDP (PPP Int. $) Kindly suggest some readings to understand it.

Hey all, One of the cleverest papers i saw during PhD was this one from Brent Moulton. We have all done this a million times. Brent is on BlueSky. Look him up. Salute Brent. scholar.google.com/citations?vi... @brentmoulton.bsky.social

Big news from Finnish publication forum. Almost all MDPI and Frontiers journals will be downgraded to level 0 and thus are not considered as properly peer reviewed trustworthy scientific journals. julkaisufoorumi.fi/en/news/chan...

Wise words from C. Thi Nguyen for a world chasing measurements. issues.org/limits-of-da...

1/ This very important paper by Tim Conley and Morgan Kelly is now forthcoming. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Fascinating paper on where 6000 global elites went to college. Billionaires, CEOs, heads of state, central bankers, etc. In a word: Harvard. Fully 10% of global elites went to Harvard. Elite US schools are over-represented (23% IvyPlus), but nobody comes close to Harvard. 🧵

Dear academics!! Indian govt approved a scheme "one nation one subscription" for providing access to journals. The expected ANNUAL outlay is INR Rs. 2,000 crores. Are there other examples of state-based provisions of the journal? Do you see any implications other than having access...

265/ @mukeshpunia.bsky.social is assembling a first generation academics starter packs, and is short economics representation. (Unsurprisingly , given @annastansbury.bsky.social paper showing economists self propagation tendency). bsky.app/profile/muke...

NEW: I’ve added people to my #firstgen #starterpack which features accounts with #firstgen Unfortunately, there are not enough first-gen economists here. May propose a hypothesis on #socialmedia mobility among #firstgen? 🤔 Please share! go.bsky.app/CjvYdK

Hey #Econsky 📉📈 & followers! Don't miss two Health Economist starter packs that @abfriedman.com & I have created to bring a community of economists working or adjacent to health topics. Follow all to keep on top of our amazing research! go.bsky.app/6S4Q9Mn

Reupping my one the favourite readings of this year #econsky #econresesrch #doingeconomics

Such a wonderful book to read and understand the journey of humanity Attaching two shoots 1. Family Tales- essence of part one. How world escaped Malthusian epoch 2. Migration, diversity, and development A must read!!! By Oded Galor

📣 New publication! "How Do Gender Norms Shape Education and Domestic Work Outcomes? The Case of Syrian Refugee Adolescents in Jordan" in Journal of Development Studies w/ Ragui Assaad and Isabel Pastoor www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #EconSky