Re-upping my advice about how to write a good title and abstract for an academic paper, appropriately called: "How to Write a Title and Abstract" Feel free to share this thread, which will focus on titles. #EconSky #AcademicSky

Last Thursday I gave this quarter's Paul Heyne Seminar. My talk was about why USAID is great for America and also the world, why we should keep it, and how we can make it even better. A key point is that it is the best brand in the industry, by far.

Hey remember when everyone in econ was doing flowcharts (“directed acyclic graphs”) for like three weeks? That was fun.

What happened to USAID is now slated to happen to the Millenium Challenge Corporation (MCC): www.mcc.gov What I am hearing is consistent with these screenshots! 😤😤😤 The dismantling of US Foreign Aid continues…

The #PAA2025 Karaoke session is no joke! @jkerwin.bsky.social you would have loved this.

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

There are a lot of interesting details for scholars to explore about basically everything, but for practitioners you get the most value out of the basics: — Moderates do better at elections — Free trade makes most people better off — The past was poorer

One more incredibly creative protester ... #HandsOff #SaveOurDemocracy #LFG

🆕 People think it’s easy to contract HIV. That might not be a good thing. Today on VoxDev, @jkerwin.bsky.social (@uwnews.bsky.social) discusses how providing information on actual (often lower) HIV transmission rates helped curb risky sexual behaviours in Malawi: voxdev.org/topic/health...

Here are updated forms for Federal Cuts Tracker Map project, live later this week 🙏🏼 Help share and crowdsource!!! www.linkedin.com/posts/abigai...

All of us owe an enormous debt to the late Susan Watkins, who was the godmother of social science in Malawi. She was an incredible mentor to me. None of this exists without her.

In light of recent cuts to global HIV programs like PEPFAR, today on VoxDev, we are featuring not one, but two, research studies on HIV prevention in Malawi—both of which touch on fatalism: the belief that contracting HIV is inevitable, leading individuals to engage in riskier sexual behaviour. 1/3

I just heard from someone that used this paper in a class they teach. Yay! "How Big Are Effect Sizes in International Education Studies?" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...

Knicks up by 22, Hawks call timeout to discuss the fact that the other team seems to be scoring a lot more than they are.

I don’t think “academia is extremely left-wing” and “academia is full of people who find Matt Yglesias unacceptably right-wing” are actually competing hypotheses at all.

USAID is an incredible brand and source of soft power. Killing it off would be a disaster for US foreign policy and for millions of the world’s poorest people.

All probationary federal employees at NOAA’s EMC that’s responsible for keeping all US weather model systems running have been fired with 1 hours notice. And that includes me and colleagues. We will not go quietly because we care about the NOAA mission to protect the public.

Your slides should avoid having tons of extra junk on them, but the default Beamer themes make that hard. So I made my own .sty file that fixes all the standard issues and put it on my website for everyone to use:

I'm so thrilled to share that I'll be starting as Associate Professor in the Economics department at Macquarie University's Business School in May. Excited for this next step and very much looking forward to getting to know my new colleagues 😊

Are you picking controls for your RCT based on which variables have "significant" differences in your balance table? Don't do that.

🚨 Recently, I took a major decision by withdrawing my name from a series of papers on covid that I coauthored. After realizing that several crucial pieces of information about the design had been withheld from me by the team, I decided to withdraw myself,... 1/3

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What can you do about the assault on USAID? Share this far and wide. Do your part! Please do retweet 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Here’s one answer to this question—more sample size wouldn’t actually help much in Econ RCTs. I find this surprising!

Why don’t we just double the sample size for every study and get 99% power instead of 80%? Seems like it would solve many problems #econtwitter #econsky

@jkerwin.bsky.social coauthors an @nberpubs.bsky.social working paper on secondary schools in Odisha, India. In a randomized intervention, giving teachers discretion did not lower the quality of implementation or induce shirking. #EconSky www.nber.org/system/files...

one reason to post data and code for your papers is that maybe EPA will use that data and code to write a report to congress and define your data as an acronym in the report. very interesting EPA report on water affordability: www.epa.gov/system/files... thx for sharing, @willwheels1.bsky.social!

WE ARE STILL IN THIS. Wipe your tears. This is the difficult business of hope and defying expectation. We do not give up. We run through the tape. Y’all aren’t allowed to throw in the towel until I do. 😉 Big breath. Locked in. Let’s do this.

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

I believe that this innovative technology will solve the bathroom issue

I wonder if it ever bums rage against the machine out that 90% of their listenership thinks their songs are about how guys who own parking lots or whatever shouldn't have to pay taxes

Is there some principled reason why universities never list final exam times in the time schedule?

Helped my parents pick out a new TV and the model they ended up going with (some cheap TCL Fire TV from Costco) had poor reviews mainly because its software is crap. So I took a gamble and decided to see how annoying it would be if I made it be a dumb TV and never got it online and... seems fine?

Question about std errors: In an RCT, treated people are randomly assigned to "pods" and interact (e.g., treatment = WhatsApp group membership). The norm (e.g. Cai-Szeidl) is to cluster on indiv for control group + on pod for treatment group. Why is clustering needed if any ICC is due to treatment?

Petitioning @aeajournals.bsky.social to change the default so that the downloaded article pdf doesn't have the list of papers that have cited the article. (Is there some financial incentive to use the current default? Because I'm sure most people share my preference.)

#AcademicSky #EconSky New journal publisher (Sage) behavior encountered. I'm reading an article and want to store it for later reference. The journal does not allow me to either download a pdf, or print the article "at my current subscription level". Anyway. That's 1 article I won't be citing.

I'd like to present my novel new theory of warfare called Highway-centric operations for consideration as the 6th generation of warfare. othermeans.io/p/war-is-a-h...

It's official. I PASSED MY PROSPECTUS DEFENSE. NEXT STOP: DR. ANNA GIFTY. #phd #econsky #blacksky #bluesky #blackademic

This map @akmckeever.bsky.social shared, which is backed up by a lot of footage I’ve verified today, is wild. The SDF may genuinely control a significant chunk of Syria by next week.

Pretty striking findings! www.parisschoolofeconomics.eu/app/uploads/...

So proud of the great work happening in Minneapolis, which shows that boosting housing supply helps make homes more affordable.

I often say there's lots of low-hanging fruit where research could answer important qs with well-designed studies, but they don't happen bc of poor incentives, neglected areas, etc. @ruben.the100.ci suggested writing a thread of 'studies I would fund in a heartbeat'. So here is an ongoing thread.

> authoritarian caudillo > "just give everyone money" > extraordinarily racist against niche Hispanic nationalities > macho performance > refuse to accept own skin color He truly is the first Latino President

Biased opinion but it is really understudied case study for development economists because it got a lot of the "fundamentals" right (human capital, land rights, industrial policy) and also some good growth episodes.

People who say they are worried about free speech on college campuses but aren’t worried about this person being nominated to head the FBI are a joke

Notre Dame Cathedral has been closed to the public since a fire damaged the landmark in April 2019.

GO BLUE

The last two minutes of Michigan Ohio State have been a blast for anyone who is team no one