🌍 2025 #MigrationEconomics Junior Workshop just concluded. 🎯 Goal: give PhD & young researchers an opportunity to share their work in an inspiring space. Thanks to the participants & keynotes for sharing thoughtful discussions ✨ 🏷️ #DevEcon @ucauvergne.bsky.social @cnrs-rhoneauvergne.bsky.social

Honoured to have won the Best Paper Award at the Annual Conference of the European Society for Population Economics! This is the first year of the ESPE PhD Prize, and I am truly honoured to be its first recipient for my paper “University as a Melting Pot: Long-term Effects of Internationalization”.

Honored to have received the Best Paper Award at the CESifo / ifo Junior Workshop on the Economics of Education 2025. I'm incredibly grateful to my advisors, @hesseloosterbeek.bsky.social and @basvdklaauw.bsky.social, and the many brilliant people I've been lucky to learn from along the way.

👇 See the program of our 📢 3rd CESifo/ifo Junior Workshop on the Economics of Education 🚀 Starting on Monday! Keynotes: Alexander Willén & @alexeble.bsky.social What a tough choice from 160 submissions www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/ev... @caterinapavese.bsky.social @cesifo.org @ifoeducation.bsky.social

Just posted updated version of our DID textbook! We now have drafts of all chapters, including the one on general designs! Now you can tell your friends still on X that they are DID-outdated :-) Happy easter for those of you that celebrate it. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

🚨 FINAL CALL: Only two more days left to apply for this exciting position. A PhD in Economics at @econmunich.bsky.social combined with exciting field experiments in the economics of education at @ifoeducation.bsky.social 🤓🤩🚀 Please apply and spread the word 🙏🫶 @cesifo.org @woessmann.bsky.social

Check out our new working paper on researcher variation in economics. Main takeaway: let’s start a discussion on how to properly clean data. Also, a personal milestone: nowhere near the first authors with my surname!

🚨📢 Call for Papers: 3rd Workshop on Economics of Education, Valle Nevado, Chile ⛷️🏂 (Aug 19-22) Submit your paper by March 2nd: uandes.cl/workshop-on-... Confirmed spekers: John Friedman (Brown), Steve Pischke (LSE) Last year's edition👇 youtu.be/Qb3gw1IFjnk?... #EconTwitter

Visiting the University of Bergen to work on my health economics project on medical diagnoses. Big thanks to my hosts, @julier.bsky.social and @julianjohnsen.bsky.social! If you are around, I’d be happy to meet for a coffee or a very expensive Norwegian beer.

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...

Finally presenting in a panel exclusively focused on international students with @morganraux.bsky.social, Michel Beine and Javier Sánchez Bachiller. Great audience at the Conference on Immigration in OECD Countries in Paris

We're organizing a workshop in Amsterdam (26-27 May 2025)! Please submit if you're working on education, skills, or labor markets. The call for papers can be found below, more info on careerproject.eu/CAREER_works.... The deadline for submitting is December 20. Please spread the word ("retweet")

new WP y'all www.nber.org/papers/w33236

Wednesday December 11 at Tinbergen Institute: We host Nobel Prize laureate Guido Imbens for a seminar “Estimating Causal Effect with Panel Data”. For more information: tinbergen.nl/event/2024/1... @tinbergeninstitute.bsky.social

Introducing 2024-2025 Job Market Candidates of Tinbergen Institute! All candidates & their personal websites can be viewed on our website: tinbergen.nl/job-market-c...

Quick econ tip: here's a list of over 100 economics conferences: docs.google.com/spreadsheets.... Curated by @anne-m-burton.bsky.social and @bartonwillage.com.

Hi #EconSky, Not sure if the Starter Pack party's over, but I've made an Econ Starter Pack of Starter Packs! 😄 It's a work in progress, so I may have missed some. Let me know if there's anything to add—DMs are open! Thanks for support @economista.bsky.social! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

I am on the JM 🙌 Let the fun begin with my JMP alert 🚨😎 1 out of 2 of ex-prisoners commit another crime within two years after release. Can prison rehabilitation programs be an effective policy tool for reintegrating inmates into society? Answer below👇 1/8

Great to finally meet Alexander Yarkin at the CEMIR workshop on migration research after connecting online and to discuss his work. Germany hosts so many conferences, but DB train delays and cancellations are a challenge! Thanks to the organizers for a great event!

A spot-on quote from Basit Zafar at the IZA workshop: “It's a new question in economics because we are the last of the social sciences to answer it.” Big thanks to @ingoisphording.bsky.social, Pia Pinger, and the IZA / ECONtribute team for a great workshop!

Great to see the first chapter of my PhD published in the Journal of Public Economics (open access) “Spillovers in Fields of Study: Siblings, Cousins, and Neighbors” with Nadine Ketel, Hessel Oosterbeek, and Bas van der Klaauw doi.org/10.1016/j.jp...

Had an interesting time on the jury for the Econometric Game 2024. It was similar to a replication event: 30 teams worked with the same data and research question. True to the nature of replications, each team ended up with different results.

Just published in Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics “Balancing Study and Work: Heterogenous Impact of the Bologna Reform on the Labour Market” doi.org/10.1111/obes...

Health economists: deadline is tomorrow to submit to the Highland Health Economics Symposium (June 4-6, Oban, Scotland). Submit papers to [email protected]. More details here: drive.google.com/file/d/1w3Ou...

Seeking public data sets for a student's research project! They're exploring how migration influences education and labor market outcomes. Any suggestions for easily accessible data?

Gifts arrived early this year. Happy to share that our paper (with @ajhollingsworth.bsky.social, @mthomasson.bsky.social, and @anthonywray.bsky.social) - The Gift of a Lifetime: The Hospital, Modern Medicine, and Mortality - is now conditionally accepted (subject to data replication) in the AER.

With Jérôme Valette, we are thrilled to announce the Call for Papers for the 2nd Junior Workshop on the Economics of Migration on 25-26 June 2024, LISER, Luxembourg. Keynotes: @gathmannch.bsky.social, @olofaslund.bsky.social & H. Rapoport Deadline 25 February 2024 economig2024.sciencesconf.org

Call for papers!! 2nd Workshop on Economics of Education, Valle Nevado, Chile (ski resort an hour from Santiago. 20-23 August 2024 Keynote speaker: Miguel Urquiola Submission deadline: March 1st, 2024 www.uandes.cl/workshop-on-... 2023 edition: andresbarriosf.github.io/workshop.html #EconSky

14th International Workshop on Applied Economics of Education (IWAEE) - call for papers open. 23rd to 25th June, 2024 - Catanzaro, Italy Keynotes: @dynarski.bsky.social, Brian Jacob and Sarah Turner. Submissions via iwaee.org Deadline end february

My ERC team has created an account where they will share updates of the Stata and R packages they are working on, follow them! bsky.app/profile/erct...

Hey #EconSky! Submissions are now open for the 12th edition of the Warwick PhD Conference! A great opportunity for PhD students at all stage to present their papers and meet colleagues from other institution! You can find the call for paper here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/econ...

*Call for papers* #AIEL - Padua workshop "The Economics of Human Capital" to be held in Padua on 14-15 March 2024. Two keynote talks by Margherita Fort and Kjell Salvanes. Submissions by 15 December 2023 via www.aiel.it - come and join us! www.aiel.it/Files/Admini...

📢 Junior #migration economics seminar call for papers: Spring 2024 series 👉 Who? juniors (max. 2 years post-PhD) 🗓️ When? submit by January 26th, 2024 📜 What? Full drafts related to migration ✉️ Where? to [email protected] More info: sites.google.com/view/the-eco... 📈📉 #EconSky

Call for papers!!! COMPIE 2024 conference - (COunterfactual Methods for Policy Impact Evaluation) - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 24-26 June, 2024 Call for papers: knowledge4policy.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/… Local organization with Bas van der Klaauw and supported by Tinbergen Institute.

🚨Conference alert! 📈📉 Katharina Werner (ifo) and I, together w/ CESifo, are organizing a workshop on Funding Education at the 2024 Venice Summer Institute in beautiful San Servolo (ITA). Keynotes by @dynarski.bsky.social & @peterbergman.bsky.social Send us your best work! tinyurl.com/mbhwup7e

100x performance improvement for the Callaway-Sant'Anna DiD estimator. Super impressive. github.com/TsaiLintung/... #EconSky

Join us in Scotland for the 3rd Annual Scotland and Northern England Conference in Applied Microeconomics, 7-8 May 2024, in Crieff. The inimitable @dynarski.bsky.social is our keynote. Submissions from all welcome! applied-microecon.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/sane-worksho...

We have a new working paper: “The (Un)importance of School Assignment”. 1/9 www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/wuizq...

A checklist for difference-in-differences practitioners www.jonathandroth.com/assets/files... from Roth, Sant’Anna, Bilinski, & Poe (Section 6 includes discussion of triple differences, changes-in-changes, and more.)

One for the JMCs: what are the alternatives to an academic job? Also, your job mobility does not end after the PhD, so you are not stuck with your initial placement if you don’t like it! pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...

🚨Volume 7 is out! Handbook of the Economics of Education Edited w/ Rick Hanushek & Steve Machin Great overview chapters on cutting-edge topics in the economics of education by top scholars Have a look! 👉https://www.sciencedirect.com/handbook/handbook-of-the-economics-of-education/vol/7 1/7

Econometrics Thread (#EconSky) Today, I will talk very briefly about a few recent methodological papers that I think are super useful to applied researchers. Basically, below, you will find some new tools that may help you to answer relevant empirical questions. +

Since Colin Green is (as far as I know) not here yet here is some preliminary information about one of the best education economics conferences. Keynotes by @dynarski.bsky.social and Sarah Turner #econsky

EALE 2023 in Prague was stunning. Starting my piggy bank for Bergen next year - hope it comes with a discount on raincoats

Starting today. Don’t miss out

Next week's class on shift-share IV and related methods is getting full! Register here: www.mixtapesessions.io/session/shif...

It was a challenge navigating the Dutch setting without knowing the language (nu spreek ik een beetje Nederlands). This is my first, but certainly not the last, project using Dutch data. Feedback is highly appreciated! Check out our working paper here: stnavdeev.com/Spillovers.pdf