Hello world. I am recruiting a post-doc to work with me and my collabs on an ARC funded project, primarily around public/private health care and health outcomes. More details in the advert. Please share with anyone who might be interested. recruitment.uts.edu.au/OA_HTML/OA.j....

The dataviz equivalent of negative space

Awesome text by Lea Bottmer, Guido Imbens, Jason Weitze and Mary Wooters: "An Undergraduate Course in Causality" hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/uynpjlow... #EconSky 📉📈

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We won't be releasing any additional info on social media until the situation is resolved with lawyers, but will keep releasing reports through our DP series. Here are two 40-page reports completed earlier this year. econpapers.repec.org/paper/zbwi4r... econpapers.repec.org/paper/zbwi4r...

🚨 WE @unswecon.bsky.social ARE HIRING! 🚨 JMC: apply and email/DM for any question! A short 🧵 on @unswecon.bsky.social and why you want to apply and join us in Sydney👇 econjobmarket.org/positionGrou...

This is a terrible policy!

What issue unites Coalition, Labor, Green, teal and One Nation voters? Whistleblower protections. – Kieran Pender in @crikey.com.au Australia Institute research found 86% of Australians want stronger protection for whistleblowers, consistent across all voting intentions. #auspol

@i4replication.bsky.social looking for a co-director to develop guidelines & help reduce the amount of PII that careless researchers release into the wild

"In extremely rare move, Harvard revokes tenure and cuts ties with star business professor" Francesca Gino

The difference between Grok and a DOGE employee is that Grok will acknowledge being reprogrammed by Musk

“Extending‌ ‌previous‌ ‌work,‌ ‌we‌ ‌vary‌ ‌the‌ ‌race,‌ ‌gender,‌ ‌and‌ ‌topic‌ ‌of‌ ‌the‌ ‌constituent’s‌ ‌message, and we‌ observe ‌if elected‌ ‌officials ‌both open‌ ‌and‌ ‌reply‌ ‌to‌ ‌constituents’ messages‌.‌ ‌ We ‌find‌ ‌that‌ ‌Black‌ ‌men‌ ‌are systematically ignored, regardless of the message they send.‌” link.springer.com/article/10.1...

New from me: Everything feels overwhelming. But here is a tangible thing you can do: write a comment to oppose Trump's plan to convert 50,000 career civil servants into political appointees. Deadline is May 23. Please share! donmoynihan.substack.com/p/here-is-a-...

Nice. arxiv.org/abs/2402.04607

ABS to planning to remove the Basic Microdata from the 2026 Australian Census data release and replace it with synthetic data. A major backwards step. Synthetic data will be unable to capture the complexity of interactions the microdata will show. #Census2026 www.abs.gov.au/statistics/r...

Ironic that the author who made the errors gets another pub in the journal, but the replicators do not.

And whether or not this is misconduct should be irrelevant to the editorial decision to publish the comment. Unfortunately, such editorial responses are common in top journals, decreasing the incentives to conduct reproductions and writing up comments.

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A 747-400 has 170 *miles* of wiring.

“First, about half the time I reanalyze a study, I find that there are important bugs in the code, or that adding more data makes the mathematical finding go away, or that there’s a compelling alternative explanation for the results.” davidroodman.com/blog/2025/05...

I think it is worth knowing that the author of the original paper also published a paper in The Economic Journal making very similar claims, that has been quite systematically debunked. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This sure sounds like yet another case of authors explaining away major inconsistencies as "honest mistakes." I’m increasingly convinced our research integrity systems are striking the wrong balance between type 1 & type 2 errors cc @i4replication.bsky.social

Big fan of the quotation marks around "the truth" in the editor's comment #Replication #Transparency

🚨 REPLICATION REPORT UPDATE: One year ago, a tweet by John Holbein alerted me, @ollefolke.bsky.social, and @jopieboy.bsky.social to a paper with a shocking result about Sweden’s law criminalizing the purchase of sex.🧵

This is my cousin's daughter, Nastia. She's 14. Her dream is to be a tennis champion, but she can't train in Sumy (her hometown) because Russian attacks have destroyed the tennis community there. Read her full story in the link and please help her follow her dream. sponsor.me/AnastasiiaNe...

Is there any way to check if your polling booth has a sausage sizzle out the back, so you can buy your "democracy sausage" sandwich (and perhaps a cuppa) after you vote? Yes there is! The #DemocracySausage provides a searchable map! #auspol #AusVotes25 democracysausage.org

Over 86% of 10,000 simulations show that a bundled agricultural programme in Kenya had a positive societal net benefit. Read the full article w/ @joshdeutschmann.bsky.social, Maya Duru, Kim Siegal & @econemilia.bsky.social to learn more:

The @oneacrefund.bsky.social bundled farm program that provides credit + training + insurance to smallholders, boosted maize yields & profits in Kenya. Our new @voxdev.bsky.social piece discusses why tackling multiple constraints together can unlock big gains If bundling works, how can we scale it?

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Whether it's Hillary Clinton sharing risotto tips on a private server or Pete Hegseth using the nuclear codes as his password on Pornhub, both parties have ignored our nation's security.

Hi #TeachEcon, next week I‘ll teach a hands-on class about AI for literature research and academic writing for undergrads. We‘ll be comparing outputs of different tools. What are tools you think we should be testing? 😊

New paper by Elias Tsakas on belief identification with state-dependent utilities. 2/2 www.restud.com/belief-ident...

Newly relevant amid the White House's ongoing purge of international students: "The Devastating Economic Consequences of Pushing Foreign Students out of the Country" @ucdavis.bsky.social policy brief by top immigration economists Peri+Sparber: globalmigration.ucdavis.edu/devastating-... @piie.com

In terminating hundreds of NIH grants, the Trump administration dumped years of investment down the drain. In my latest @opinion.bloomberg.com column, we analyzed the cancelled projects & talked to scientists to understand just how much the public loses out. It's a lot: tinyurl.com/bdey86su

The Trump admin: "DEI is identity politics run wild." Also the Trump admin: "Every department needs a critical mass of white guys who think climate change is a hoax."

Affirmative action for race? Absolutely not. Affirmative action for that one "economist" who thinks tariffs are good, actually? Now that’s diversity.

There are basically two groups of students being deported: a) those who have engaged in political speech, which has gotten the most attention; b) those who have had minor infractions with the law like a speeding ticket, which is likely the larger group. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-attack...

1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but 2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but 3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So 4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

The Islam - GDRI saga is gaining some traction. retractionwatch.com/2025/04/10/r...

Tenure was created for moments like this. It's there to give you more security & courage to speak out truthfully. Use it or lose it.

People are willing to forgo 15-30% of their wage to avoid hostile work environments. Women report a stronger distaste for exclusive workplaces and environments with sexual harassment and value hybrid work twice as much in the presence of sexual harassment. Collis & @clemvaneff.bsky.social

Kidnapping. Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping. Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking. A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.

Eight people in South Sudan, including five children, died on a three-hour walk to seek medical treatment for cholera after US aid cuts forced local health services to close, the UK-based charity Save the Children said reut.rs/3E9kB27

Where are all the macro peeps explaining the S-I=NX relation? (Serious question, if you know of a good article explaining this, please share)

Australia's major parties would rather kill off our 3rd biggest export market for a dog whistle policy than to limit negative gearing or invest in public housing

today we will all read imbens 2021 on statistical significance and p values, which is a strong contender for having the best opening paragraph of any stats paper pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

At least this guy's wearing a suit

The comms workers who were laid off also include the people who did the following, extremely non-exhaustive list of things: - publicized food and drug recalls - communicated with hospitals to make sure they knew/were looking out for the symptoms of poisoning from a specific contaminant... 4/x

We track program impact through rigorous evaluation, but how do we track our organizational impact? On April 8, join @paddycarter.bsky.social, Aparna Krishnan, & Arianna Legovini with @voxdev.bsky.social as they discuss what impact means in practice. Register here: cepr-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...