wanna read this soon!!

Just a reminder that @gmcd.bsky.social and @kylefbutts.bsky.social have made an incredible public good describing how to use data.table and fixest to encourage moving from Stata to R! stata2r.github.io

happy to report I am now a phd candidate 😊😊😊

Man I cannot endorse this abstract more

Rafa’s work has some of my favorite examples of serious economic theory + relevant policy question + super cool data. check it out!

Happy Friday! If you know of a minority job market candidate (newly or soon to be PhD's in econ) have them reach out to me. I organize the CSMGEP Minority Job Market page. If you are searching, then keep an eye out for these candidates. www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/co...

Applied microeconomist being asked about SUTVA violation in their paper:

Deadline is tonight!! Send us your papers and come hang out with us in Boston! Please RS! cc @raffasadun.bsky.social @florianederer.bsky.social @wouterdessein.bsky.social @renatalemos.bsky.social

I started a very small one (for now!) because I'm not sure who all has come over, but happy to keep adding as folks raise their hands! @brendaprallon.bsky.social @vitorpossebom.bsky.social @teodorovicz.bsky.social @daveevansphd.bsky.social tag more people if you know others plz? go.bsky.app/NKR7my

Thinking is difficult! I made a post: open.substack.com/pub/rottenan...

If you're a senior male economist and would be interested in discussing the drafting of an open letter re the newly announced IZA leadership change, e-mail me. Female econs are rightly tired of the burden of such efforts falling on them.

Since August, Manaus in the Amazon has been covered with smoke from forest fires with little public awareness. That’s unfortunate. Rafael Araujo, Teevrat Garg, and I studied what happened when Amazon forest fires went viral in August 2019.

Clean coding was always about collaborating with others, including your future self. Now others include GitHub Copilot. Use proper function signatures and good function and variable names, and Copilot will be better able to help you. As soon as I entered `if`, Copilot could fill in the rest.

A sleepless night + teaching day = I was late to the Nobel news party. Rupi Kapur describes my feelings better than I can express myself. Feeling immense gratitude to Claudia Goldin for paving the way for female economists like me.

since i don’t have a lot of relevant work to share rn y’all just gonna have to take my delightful personality

i tried to wait until later this year, i really tried. but sept 24th is the day i turned on my heater

it’s gonna take me a second to find everyone here… but @economeager.bsky.social made the leap, what else was I supposed to do 😅