One of the many perks of staying around @eui-eu.bsky.social is lectures like this one gets to attend Now the DDDiD—don't do Difference-in-Differences—motto by Guido Imbens lives rent-free in my head (Although I guess I'm yet to find out whether it's gonna be possible to live up to 🤔)

📢 Call for Papers – EUI PEARL PhD & Postdoc Workshop The Florence Political Economy Applied Research Lab is hosting a two-day workshop at the European University Institute. June 8–9, 2026. We'd love to see your work! [1/3]

2+ years in the making, and our paper “Fear, soft propaganda, and the demand for government intervention” is finally out in the European Economic Review 🎉 Thanks to @nikitaz.bsky.social, @timfrye.bsky.social, Koen Schoors and Katya Borisova for being amazing coauthors 🔻Old thread + new link below

Meet today’s JMC in our 2025 Econ Job Market Vlog: Vladimir Zabolotskiy (@zabolotskiy.bsky.social Free University of Bozen-Bolzano), whose research focuses on Political Economy 🎥Check out his JMP video to learn more about his work: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tlb-... #econsky #econjobmarket

Finally, someone has solved a real problem with AI! No more having to take a paper in the format for a journal that rejected you, and reformat it for a new journal. Well done!! formatmypaper.com

Happy to have made it to #EPSA2025 in beautiful Madrid! If you are there and undecided where to spend the second sesh today—drop by our panel on authoritarian rule, protest and legitimacy in 1A.13 at 11:20. Excited to present our paper on war and propaganda as part of this excellent lineup!👇

🚀 New dataset & working paper out! I’m thrilled to share “The Extended Ethnographic Atlas” --> an open, massively expanded version of Murdock’s classic Ethnographic Atlas (EA). What’s new?

What do tax cuts for the rich do? They increase inequality. They have no effect on economic growth or unemployment. "Our results provide strong evidence against the influential political–economic idea that tax cuts for the rich ‘trickle down’ to boost the wider economy."

🚨 New working paper: War, Propaganda, and Russian Fatalities in Ukraine @ifomichev.bsky.social and I study how Russian fatalities in the Russia–Ukraine war affect engagement with propaganda on social media in soldiers’ hometowns. Here's what we find 🧵 #workingpaper #ukraine #russia #propaganda

I created a shiny web tool to play around with OL/TWFE so you can teach how this stuff can get so screwy. You can mess with temporal and cohort heterogeneity, treatment timing, whether you have any controls, etc. Share your worst plots! #econsky cannoncloud.shinyapps.io/TWFE_OLS_Pla...

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....

Me and @ifomichev.bsky.social deciding who's the first author in the only appropriate way

🔔 New Working Paper “Fear, Soft Propaganda, and the Demand for Government Intervention: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Russia” ✍️ Ekaterina Borisova @timfrye.bsky.social Koen Schoors @zabolotskiy.bsky.social @nikitaz.bsky.social 🔗 to the paper: www.cesifo.org/en/publicati...

🚨 Ever wondered how fear and misinformation shape demand for government intervention? Our new @cesifo.org working paper provides some evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia. Check out the link and a short thread below! 🧵 #workingpaper #covid #covid19 #russia www.cesifo.org/en/publicati...

Mediazona has confirmed the names of 100,001 Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine—a milestone of immeasurable suffering hidden by the Russian government. This is still an undercount, of course: volunteers have 10,000+ more obituaries to review en.zona.media/article/2022... 1/4

Excited to be (finally) presenting my work @unibz.bsky.social – it's been long overdue; and cherry blossoms on the piazza Università are definitely a nice touch to already wonderful workshop

We think our data is an appealing way to measure attitudes on gender, particularly in countries not often surveyed. If you're interested in working with this data, download it here: data.humdata.org/dataset/cros... The paper (out soon in AEA P+P) is available here: drew-johnston.com/files/cross_...

If you're wondering what happens when a democracy slides into authoritarianism, here it is! truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

It's not >all< about German division and Communism. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=... @lukasmergele.bsky.social @woessmann.bsky.social

We streamlined six new DID-like estimators and created this tutorial for implementation in R. yiqingxu.org/packages/fec... Hope you no longer need to spend months figuring out what these estimators are and how to use them.