At least Pakistani humor and meme game is unbeatable in these otherwise concerning times.

It appears the gods of MWIEDC have decided Pittsburgh is not midwest. How else can I explain getting rejected twice in two years :(

Here are the 25 institutions that receive the most NIH funding (98% of HHS is NIH). Basically, they're large schools with large hospitals. They receive 50% of all NIH funding. Source: ncses.nsf.gov/surveys/fede... (table 26) (Not going to do a whole thread but thought folks might be interested.)

🚨New dataset alert 🚨 In collaboration with a stellar team at Banxico, Harvard, the World Bank, and ITAM, we built a dataset of demographics and labor market variables at the local-labor-market level for Mexico! Download here: www.banxico.org.mx/DataSetsWeb/... #EconSky #Mexico

Our ReStud paper is now in print!

One of pashto music's most under rated songs. Fay khan was way ahead of his time for a music genre still stuck in the past. He came up with such melodies right when WoT was heating up and artists in Peshawar were getting killed daily. Wonder where he is now www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRic...

Nearly 3 decades after his death, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan continues to be the undisputed king images.dawn.com/news/1193061...

📣 Our paper "How to improve education outcomes most efficiently" was recently published in the Journal of Development Economics! Co-authored w/ @daveevansphd.bsky.social Filmer Glennerster Sabarwal Rogers. Rewarding to see this work inform research & policy www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

People are often surprised when I tell them this: both Twitter and Facebook/insta/threads are now specifically engineered to downgrade, hide, suppress real journalism. If this platform is different, that's a huge change

May I add that it is not just students, though they are more vulnerable, but faculty on visas of different types who are also at risk. Please share resources with Chloe if you know of any. #EconSky

Soon I'll be sharing resources on how we can support our international students in higher education going forward. If you have suggestions of things to make sure we include in the resource list please comment, DM or email me! And please uplift this request. #EconSky #AcademicSky

Question about std errors: In an RCT, treated people are randomly assigned to "pods" and interact (e.g., treatment = WhatsApp group membership). The norm (e.g. Cai-Szeidl) is to cluster on indiv for control group + on pod for treatment group. Why is clustering needed if any ICC is due to treatment?

Do folks, who have reviewed economics grant proposals, have anything to add? #EconSky 📈📉

My fantastic student, Priyoma Mustafi, is on the market. You should hire her because she 1- has a very interesting #JMP combining experimental, gender, and development topics 2- is super productive. Already has two R&Rs in top journals 3- is a great colleague sites.google.com/view/priyoma...

Consider the simplest DiD setup with panel data. T = 2, controls X(i) don't change over time. D(i) is the "ever treated" indicator, f2(t) the second period time dummy. W(i,t) the time-varying treatment W(i,t) = D(i)*f2(t). The X(i) appear flexibly to allow selection and heterogeneous trends.

Starter packs are the new pompous Linkedin posts :) 📈📉 #econsky

Fascinating jmp from Morgan Foy at UC Berkeley. "Union members appear negatively selected by teacher value added." Decertifying teachers unions improves student educational outcomes. morganfoy.github.io Adviser is @guoxu.bsky.social

I am not American so I wonder why did I spend last few days explaining a lot M*sk propaganda posts to my Pakistani friends who were inclined to believe him. Such a thankless immigrant life :)

For me: Paper 1 written and sent for review. 9 months later, still no word. Paper 2 (review paper) written and sent for review. Reviewers rejected because they didn't like the way it was organized and I have to rewrite. Paper 3 written and sent for review....reject and reanalyze. Man, I'm done!

At my school: Unit A: You need unit B approval before WE approve that u can APPLY for a grant. Unit B: Fill export control from Unit C bcoz this is an international project to *check notes* work on mental health Unit C: Your laptop will go with you? (I haven't even applied for the grant yet)

I am low key disappointed that this quote tweet(?) got only one like. If you haven't, please go ahead and watch the remade Battle Star Galactica (and apologies in advance for the last season). #syfi #AI

And the links are up! This week, on the econ Nobel, neglected agriculture, cooling as a development intervention and much more! #EconSky www.cgdev.org/blog/economi...

This is vintage @pseudoerasmus.bsky.social thread of old twitter days. It provides a succinct overview of the role "institutions" played (or did not play) in pre- AJR development economics. As an admirer of AR's work, I find this contextualization of AJR very useful.

*HIRING* Come work with RPDE! The development econ group at Princeton is hiring 2 postdocs for 2025-26 to spend the year with us before starting their regular academic positions. Details here: aeaweb.org/joe/listing.... @seema.bsky.social

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DCSWEP and SGE are co-sponsoring virtual mentoring event - Jobs for Economists: Beyond Academia, targeted toward graduate students interested in pursuing non-academic careers in the field of economics. Oct 14 @ Noon EDT. To register, us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... @aeacswep.bsky.social

Ann Arbor is widely considered one of those liberal bubbles, like Cambridge or Berkeley. I sincerely hope the residents there, students included, are raising hell over this.

CALL FOR PAPERS: the Early-Career Behavioral Econ Conf is awesome. I had so much fun when I went in the past. Nice small group who give great feedback Deadline Dec 15 sites.google.com/site/ecbecon... 📉📈#econsky

A Pakistani province introduced incentives to get courts to quickly dispose off divorce cases. Sounds like an interesting policy and maybe there is a study there x.com/voicepkdotne...

Sad day, a day of mourning, a day of great tragedy. Oh Pakistan Cricket what have you done? How are we going to recover from this humiliation?

what the FUCK

🚨 Just accepted at @reveconstudies.bsky.social 🚨 with @yasirkhan.bsky.social We study ordinary people's entry into politics as candidates in a field exp. We show that portraying the job as a prosocial one increases the chances they run & win. Subsequently, policy aligns more w citizen preferences.

``How politics is perceived matters for political selection & policy: when portrayed as enabling pro-social action ordinary people run for office, get elected, and make policies that reflect voter preferences.'' Recently accepted paper, from @saadgulzar.bsky.social & @yasirkhan.bsky.social:

My paper with @saadgulzar.bsky.social now accepted at the Review of Economic Studies #EconSky 📉📈

I crossed the 500 citations mark on google scholar

Looks very useful. Have to teach a capstone course next semester so hopefully this will come handy.

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#econsky I am looking for 2-3 reviewers for a manuscript on the effects of economic growth and urbanization on climate change. Any suggestions?

Six questions with Ted Miguel: I interview @tedmiguel.bsky.social about his views on whether first-year undergrads are useful, on having his worm work overcritiqued, on whether to do a long-term follow up, why more people work in Kenya than DRC, and more. blogs.worldbank.org/impactevalua...

"ILETS Brides for Canadian dream" a whole new angle on investment in girls education just dropped. #Econsky 📉📈 swarajyamag.com/reports/in-p...

Reupping this offer.