Daniele Girardi
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Economist at King's College London.
https://danielegirardi.github.io/
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Our Local Projections Difference-in-Differences (LP-DiD) paper is out in the Journal of Applied Econometrics. LP-DiD is a convenient, flexible and computationally fast framework for estimating DiD using simple well-specified regressions.... [1/4]
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Jeet Heer
2 days ago
The smear campaign against Mustapha Kharbouch -- falsely accused of the Brown shooting and MIT murder by powerful politicians, pundits and plutocrats -- is a prime example of how pervasive racism has become. It's also a story largely ignored by the mainstream media
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Islamophobic Elites Lied to Destroy the Life of a Palestinian Brown Student
Plutocrats, pundits, and government officials joined together in a racist smear campaign against a queer Palestinian student at Brown University.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/islamophobia-brown-school-shooting/
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Jonathan Hopkin
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Ashamed of this government
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Jo Michell
3 days ago
Remarkable how little coverage this is getting.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
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Palestine Action hunger strikers are ‘dying’ in prison, UK doctor warns
Hundreds of doctors, dozens of MPs and thousands of everyday Britons call on the justice secretary to intervene.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/18/palestine-action-hunger-strikers-are-dying-in-prison-uk-doctor-warns
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Naomi O'Leary
4 days ago
A brave survivor speaks on the record. Sami al-Saei, 46, used to be a freelance journalist in the occupied West Bank. He was arrested after working with reporters to arrange interviews with armed groups and was detained without being charged for 16 months.
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Palestinians tell BBC they were sexually abused in Israeli prisons
Two men say they experienced the kind of abuse highlighted in recent reports on Israel's treatment of prisoners, which Israel denies.
https://bbc.com/news/articles/c8dy8r7lq0go?at_format=link&at_campaign_type=owned&xtor=AL-71-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Bbbc.news.twitter%5D-%5Bheadline%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D&at_campaign=Social_Flow&at_medium=social&utm_social_post_id=628661901&at_bbc_team=editorial&at_ptr_name=twitter&utm_social_handle_id=742143&at_link_origin=BBCWorld&at_link_id=A3E6E04E-DD26-11F0-838A-EC19DA4F5A75&at_link_type=web_link
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For more information:
github.com/danielegirar...
The -lpdid- command implements the Local Projections Difference-in-Differences estimators presented in
@arindube.bsky.social
, Girardi, Jorda’ & Taylor (2025)
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Coauthored with
@alexanderbusch.bsky.social
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GitHub - danielegirardi/lpdid: Implementing Local Projections Difference-in-Differences (LP-DiD) estimators
Implementing Local Projections Difference-in-Differences (LP-DiD) estimators - danielegirardi/lpdid
https://github.com/danielegirardi/lpdid/
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Key new features of LPDID: * New [oneoff] suboption to deal with 'shock' treatments lasting 1 period by construction (eg, hurricanes) * Reweighted estimator w/ covariates (or additional FEs) now *much* faster * Reweighted estimator w/ covariates now compatible with wild bootstrap standard errors
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Public Service Announcement: 🚨New updated version (1.0.2) of -lpdid- STATA command now available🚨 Update the command by typing ssc install lpdid, replace directly in STATA Then look at the updated help file help lpdid See below for the key new features...
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Michael Clemens
6 days ago
The International Monetary Fund asked me to review the literature on migration economics to draw lessons for low-income countries. In a new
@iza.org
paper, I argue that policy for the 21st century must discard four outdated ideas.
www.iza.org/publications...
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Public Service Announcement: 🚨New updated version (1.0.2) of -lpdid- STATA command now available🚨 Update the command by typing ssc install lpdid, replace directly in STATA Then look at the updated help file help lpdid See below for the key new features...
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G Elliott Morris
8 days ago
What the Democrats can learn from the UK Labour Party's complete implosion after moving right on immigration
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-cost-o...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
7 days ago
Short version: chasing the hardline party’s voters without any real principles of your own makes you lose your own base and convince fence-sitters to support the hardline party, not you.
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Masha Gessen - "The Movie I Was Afraid to See" (gift link below)
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/o...
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Opinion | The Movie I Was Afraid to See
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/opinion/voice-of-hind-rajab-movie-gaza.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9U8.rcrX.AH02wxoo5gr6&smid=url-share
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Scott Horton
13 days ago
25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.
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Gabriel Zucman
13 days ago
It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US This view is wrong A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵
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Jonathan Portes
13 days ago
"Migrants who came to the UK on skilled work visas in 2022-23 will make a net contribution of £47bn to the public finances over their lifetime, according to new estimates from the government’s Migration Advisory Committee." Not surprising, but some observations (1/n)
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Colin Yeo
15 days ago
Tighter visa rules will cost UK up to £10.8bn
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Tim Bale
15 days ago
"And tonight in 'Cutting off your nose to spite your face'...."
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Tighter visa rules will cost UK up to £10.8bn
Home Office assessment shows impact of latest changes to immigration regime over next five years
https://www.ft.com/content/2b6077ab-8b95-4957-92e9-45f5cf705fb5
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Ken Tindell
15 days ago
Turquoise Labour: Tough on growth, tough on the causes of growth.
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Adam Bienkov
15 days ago
New Home Office impact assessment finds that cutting skilled and social care visas will cost the UK up to £10 billion with a central estimate of -£5.4 billion. It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops
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Jonathan Portes
16 days ago
Government has now - belatedly -published the impact assessment for the changes to skilled worker and care worker visas announced in May. Impact is estimated between -£2 billion and £-10 billion (central - £10 billion).
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https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6937e67eb612700b2cb73679/Spring_2025_Immigration_Rules_Impact_Assessment__Skilled_Worker_and_Care_Worker___003_.pdf
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Stephen Bush
16 days ago
But the good news is, by doing this, we defeated racism in the UK.
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Victor Ray
20 days ago
The first school to market itself as AI free is going to corner the market on people interested in actually learning. And I would not be surprised if rich families and the children of people creating this tech were the first movers.
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Simon Wren-Lewis
22 days ago
Y'days post: The Budget suggests the Chancellor is thinking too much about short term management and too little about long term legacy
mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
What is doubly annoying about this government's focus on how its actions play with voters is that they are terrible at it
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The Budget suggests the Chancellor is thinking too much about short term management and too little about long term legacy
My posts come out on a Tuesday and Budgets are on a Wednesday. Not great timing, which is why in the past I’ve often done special posts on...
https://mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-budget-suggests-chancellor-is.html
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Yair Wallach
22 days ago
200 leading global artists, writers and actors are calling for the release of Marwan Barghouti. An impressive list here.
freemarwan.org/public-figur...
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Global voices call for Marwan's Release - Free Marwan
“We express our grave concern at the continuing imprisonment of Marwan Barghouti, his violent mistreatment and denial of legal rights whilst imprisoned. We call upon the United Nations and the Governm...
https://freemarwan.org/public-figures/
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Chris Osieck
25 days ago
Marwan Barghouti should be released now. As his relatives say, he “represents hope to Palestinians at a time when there are efforts to silence him and make him forgotten.”
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Global ‘Free Marwan’ campaign calls for Palestinian political leader’s release
Locked away in prison for decades, Marwan Barghouti is a longstanding advocate for a two-state solution
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/29/free-marwan-barghouti-global-campaign-palestinian-leader
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George Monbiot
22 days ago
1. The European Parliament’s attempt to ban plant-based foods from being sold as “sausages”, “burgers” etc is a direct response to livestock industry lobbying. This is a short thread on how utterly bleeding ridiculous it is. 🧵1/6
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Matt Novak
23 days ago
They were 8 and 11 years old
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Rob Ford
27 days ago
Kinnock voice - "I’ll tell you what happens with impossible promises. You start with far-fetched resolutions....and you end up in the grotesque chaos of a Labour government, a *Labour* government, rejecting visas for homeless 8 yr olds trying to joing their parents"
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Ashwin Kumar
29 days ago
Delighted to see the Chancellor has taken forward the recommendation from Gordon Brown,
@smfthinktank.bsky.social
and
@ippr.org
to increase taxes on gambling. We called for this hugely profitable industry to contribute to ending the two child limit for benefits
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Owen Jones
29 days ago
Where are the headlines about this? The US has turned the life of this French judge into a nightmare - because he applied justice to Israel. This is gangsterism.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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This French judge approved Netanyahu’s arrest warrant. Now Trump is targeting him | Owen Jones
Three ICC judges have been put on a sanctions list with terrorists after approving an arrest warrant for Israel’s prime minister. This is the charade of the ‘rules-based order’, says Guardian columnis...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/26/israel-international-law-donald-trump-us-sanction-judge
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The inaugural article of Reviews of Economic Literature is fittingly titled "It Is Time to Bring Scholarly Publishing Back to the Academic Community" It argues that open access crucially needs to be coupled with a new non-profit publishing model
rel.journals.sup.org/index.php/re...
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Santiago Sanchez-Pages
about 1 month ago
Come work with us in London!
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Rob Ford
about 1 month ago
From
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- thanks to a happy coincidence we have a much more rigorous than usual understanding of the impact of Keir Starmer's "Island of Strangers" speech. As Cowley puts it "It is not obvious this was the intended outcome"
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Yonatan Berman
about 1 month ago
📢 We’re hiring! King's College London Political Economy is recruiting an Assistant Professor (Lecturer in the UK system) in Economics. Apply here:
www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/130885-...
Feel free to contact me for information about the role and our department.
@kcl-spe.bsky.social
@kingsqpe.bsky.social
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Lecturer in Economics | King's College London
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/130885-lecturer-in-economics
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Yanis Varoufakis
about 1 month ago
Since Trump’s ‘ceasefire’, Israel killed 900 Palestinians in Gaza. In the West Bank, 691 Palestinians were kidnapped during 1,503 invasions. If the victims had been Israelis, the Western media would have been (rightly) protesting these pogroms. Now? A guilty silence prevails...
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Yanis Varoufakis on X: "Since Trump’s ‘ceasefire’, Israel killed 900 Palestinians in Gaza. In the West Bank, 691 Palestinians were kidnapped during 1,503 invasions. If the victims had been Israelis, the Western media would have been (rightly) protesting these pogroms. Now? A guilty silence prevails..." / X
Since Trump’s ‘ceasefire’, Israel killed 900 Palestinians in Gaza. In the West Bank, 691 Palestinians were kidnapped during 1,503 invasions. If the victims had been Israelis, the Western media would have been (rightly) protesting these pogroms. Now? A guilty silence prevails...
https://x.com/yanisvaroufakis/status/1989647930274582804?s=20
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Chris Hayes
about 1 month ago
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
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Commercial academic publishing is bad, and getting worse quickly. That's why I support the new journal Reviews of Economic Literature - 100% managed by academics and issued by
@stanfordpress.bsky.social
First article: "It Is Time to Bring Scholarly Publishing Back to the Academic Community"
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Yair Wallach
about 1 month ago
The genocide continues, in slower pace Genocide: "Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part" "[E]ntire neighbourhoods controlled by the IDF have been levelled in less than a month"
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Israel has destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in Gaza since ceasefire
Entire neighbourhoods controlled by Israel have been levelled in less than a month, the images show.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0mxylxw48yo
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Pierre-Louis Vézina
about 1 month ago
CfP🗣️: 7th edition of the Workshop on the Economics and Politics of Migration. 28-29 May 2026, in Rome! Organised by CEPR/King's College/EBRD/Sapienza Keynotes are Paolo Pinotti (Bocconi) and Vicky Fouka (Stanford). Submit your papers:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Deadline 23 Jan. 🤓🔥🍕🍝🍷
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Even worse, open access + for profit publishing is a true disaster. Especially in interaction with AI & fake "paper mills" manuscripts. Maximising open access fees is the new model. It means trying to publish every submission, either at the original journal or another journal of the same publisher.
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Mark A. Hanson
about 1 month ago
More fundamentally, every active scientist has been brought up in a system where The Drain was already normalized. This system hasn't always existed. For-profit publishers are a recent invention. Their value proposition has always been awful, and now they are actively eroding trust in science. 5/n
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Mark A. Hanson
about 1 month ago
For-profit journals are supposed to improve research quality, yet they're perversely incentivized to churn out whatever they can monetize. This was happening before AI (see Strain:
bit.ly/43gJPUM
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Commercial academic publishing is bad, and getting worse quickly. That's why I support the new journal Reviews of Economic Literature - 100% managed by academics and issued by
@stanfordpress.bsky.social
First article: "It Is Time to Bring Scholarly Publishing Back to the Academic Community"
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Stanford University Press
about 2 months ago
The journal Reviews of Economic Literature has published its first article! You can read “It Is Time to Bring Scholarly Publishing Back to the Academic Community” now
@pkp.sfu.ca
#ReadUP
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It Is Time to Bring Scholarly Publishing Back to the Academic Community. | Reviews of Economic Literature
https://rel.journals.sup.org/index.php/rel/article/view/2
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Henry Mance
about 2 months ago
After a video seemed to show Israeli soldiers abusing a Palestinian prisoner, Israel has... arrested the lawyer who authorised the release of the video
www.ft.com/content/0456...
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Israeli military’s former top lawyer arrested over leaked prisoner video
Surveillance footage showed alleged abuse of Palestinian inmate at notorious Israeli prison
https://www.ft.com/content/0456837c-d627-48a2-98ea-c7e9c2494316
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Simon Wren-Lewis
about 2 months ago
This weeks post: How the reaction to a football ban showed how our politicians and media have become trapped in right wing Islamophobic narratives and detached from the majority of voters
mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/10/how-...
Within 5 hours leaders of the 4 main parties had condemned the ban.
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How the reaction to a football ban showed how our politicians and media have become trapped in right wing Islamophobic narratives and detached from the majority of voters
In the weeks before the Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters ban was announced, Conservative party leader-in-waiting Robert Jenrick declared that ...
https://mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/10/how-reaction-to-football-ban-showed-how.html
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Nina Lakhani
2 months ago
Exclusive: In an open letter, Israeli ex-officials, Jewish artists and intellectuals say ‘unconscionable’ actions in Gaza amount to genocide and call on UN and world leaders to sanction Israel via
@jgedeon.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
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Jewish figures across the globe call on UN and world leaders to sanction Israel
Exclusive: In an open letter, Israeli ex-officials, artists and intellectuals say ‘unconscionable’ actions in Gaza amount to genocide
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/22/jewish-notables-open-letter-un-sanction-israel
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Nick Kristof
2 months ago
"That’s the quiet corruption corroding modern philanthropy: the ability to give as a license to impose one’s will. It’s a kind of moral laundering." -- Laurene Powell Jobs
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Essay | Laurene Powell Jobs: Beware of Philanthropists Who Want Control in Exchange for Their Giving
True generosity flows quietly to communities that already know what they need, building capacity not dependency.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/laurene-powell-jobs-beware-of-philanthropists-who-want-control-in-exchange-for-their-giving-721f1cdc?st=4e9UuG&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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AAUP
2 months ago
Reject the ongoing censorship of student media on our campuses! “Administrative efforts to subordinate campus journalism to public relations are inconsistent with the mission of higher education to provide a space of intellectual exploration and debate” —Hank Reichman, in a new Academe Blog post
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JW Mason
3 months ago
Another way of looking at this same picture: The euro zone is a system that use the leverage of a central bank outside the control of national governments to force deep austerity on countries like Spain, which sent them into deep depressions that created fiscal deficits that didn't previously exist.
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