I originally thought this was about econometrics.

A remedial education program in India worked well when teachers were given strict implementation guidelines. It worked just as well when teachers had discretion to adapt. www.nber.org/papers/w33242 by Beg, @annefitz13.bsky.social, @jkerwin.bsky.social, @profalucas.bsky.social, & @kwrahman.com

New @nberpubs.bsky.social working paper: "When Given Discretion Teachers Did Not Shirk: Evidence from Remedial Education in Secondary Schools" with #SabrinBeg @annefitz13.bsky.social @jkerwin.bsky.social @kwrahman.com Title summarizes it. We elaborate in the paper: www.nber.org/papers/w33242

A few weeks ago, I spoke on a panel about publishing at the CSWEP’s CeMENT workshop. I wanted to briefly share some of that advice here.

🚨 New Publication 🚨 Happy to announce that @jeffbloem.bsky.social and my paper, “What I say depends on how you ask: Experimental evidence of the effect of framing on the measurement of attitudes” is published in Economics Letters. Does framing matter when measuring attitudes? Yes. 🧵 (1/14)

📣 New paper! "How do small formal and informal firms in Egypt compare? An analysis of firm characteristics and implications for formalization efforts" w/ @raguiassaad.bsky.social @kwrahman.bsky.social and Maakwe Cumanzala in Review of Development Economics #Econsky #menasky doi.org/10.1111/rode...

Farhan is a dear junior from my school and college (i.e., high school). Farhan is battling vicious stage 4 stomach cancer (adenocarcinoma) and requires financial support for treatment. Kindly requesting to donate whatever you can afford 🙏 gofund.me/fdb346db

🚨🚨This is now available online. 👇👇 #EconSky 📉📈 authors.elsevier.com/c/1hy1X15DRG...

Hawthorne effects www.thefarside.com/2023/10/24/3

Econometric Thread (#EconSky): Today, I will briefly discuss a few recent papers expanding the synthetic control method (SCM). I will talk about three WPss: Abadie + L'Hour (2019), Grossi, Lattarulo, Mariani, Mattei + Oner (2020); Cao + Dowd (2019) and Cattaneo, Feng, Palomba +Titiunik (2023).

I guess I should re-post from the Bird Site "The Rules For Academic Success here": I always get asked for advice about starting/surviving the tenure track. Here are the rules I've found useful. Thought I'd put it out there for the masses... This list gets longer all the time

Just a general rule of life that I keep reminding myself 👇👇👇

Here are 25+ journals where economists publish review papers. bit.ly/3QfaE6m

Here are 50+ journals where economists publish short papers. bit.ly/36qNVfn The list includes examples and my experience with each journal.

Make your axis labels horizontal so people can read them. There’s no excuse anymore, it’s 2023.

I want to shout out my amazing coauthor @DivyaPandey_UMN —keep an eye out for her when she goes on the job market next year. divyapandey.me (14/N)

Think about the chance that you will die within the next decade. Got a probability in mind? Okay—how *sure* are you about it? In a new paper, we show that people express this kind of “ambiguity” or “imprecision”, and that it matters if we want to change their minds. A 🧵 👇 (1/N) #econsky 📈📉

🚨🚨Happy to announce that our (Sabrin Beg and Mahnaz Islam) paper on providing farmers recommendation on fertilizer usage and their behavior got accepted at the Journal of Development Economics. 🥳🥳🥳 Right now I am just too excited. We will share a thread later. #EconSky