A great paper in JEEM, which shows households in Zambia diversify crops, adopt resilient varieties, and expand land as a forward-looking adaptive response following exposure to drought.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Rolling back the tides: Impact of droughts on crop diversification and cropland expansion
We examine the impact of droughts on crop yields and forward-looking adaptive responses to extreme temperatures such as crop diversification and the a…
"Every AI model has its own strength."
Using voice AI agent to give oral exams to avoid the use of AI is just peak irony.
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Freshwater-Saltwater's unexpected reunification
Amazing things happening on X
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"The order of authors is decided by their Real Analysis grade in undergrad."
You can just use Stata 😏
4 compliers. There are 4 guys who switched because of the IV.
Had a visitor today.
He's already preparing for the Nobel peace prize next year.
When the Editor finally assigned you as Reviewer 2 and you know what to do.
Also me before and after a round of R&R.
(merge) m:m
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Sorry guys it was my 100k unread emails.
Will I get a good income out of doing a PhD? Of course not.
But will I at least also find a stable job that allows me to pursue my research? Also no.
But will I at least be happy doing what I like? Hahaha also no.
Sounds like a terrible career. Where can I find the application?
Paper under review for 6 months at a journal
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The Friends of BLS steering committee is sponsoring a member webinar noon to 1pm ET Thurs, Oct 23.
We aim to build nonpartisan support for a strong BLS & need your perspectives & energy.
Former Commissioners
@ericagroshen.bsky.social, William Beach, &
@erikamcentarfer.bsky.social will...
#EconSkyMy quickest QJE rejection was when I thought about submitting a paper there then got a rejection notice.
You are not a development economists if you haven't read this classic.
I was giving up on bluesky but Klaus brought me back with this.
First year PhD student be like "I can't find interesting research ideas"
The research ideas:
Society of Labor Economists (SoLE) Annual Conference will be May 1-2, 2026 in Denver, Colorado. Submission portal is now open! Deadline for submissions is October 31--don't forget to submit! It will be a great conference! (organized by me and
@jrothst.bsky.social)
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Synthetic Control Method be like
You can make your treatment variable "as-if random" by sorting the variable randomly in your dataset. Follow for more econometric tips.
Does renaming my independent variable as "def_exogeneous_var" make my regressions causal?
Just revisited a previous draft of the paper that I'm working on. July Khoa was a terrible writer.
Does renaming my independent variable as "def_exogeneous_var" make my regressions causal?
It's pretty clear that people are only gay if the marginal benefit is less than the marginal cost of dating men.
>10 years on and i still haven't seen a single question answered with clustering
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God forbid a man trying to keep his job for more than a month.
🔴 EJ Antoni suggests suspending monthly jobs report - Fox Business.
"But did this BLS Commissioner Nominee even have an econ PhD from a top econ program" is the most expected dunk from economists.
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At this point I am not even sure what neoclassical economics even means.
25%
Can finally write about the US would have a better economy if it had a Western institution.
Data-driven synthetic control method be like
Researcher: "We let the data speak for itself."
Earlier that day:
My optimal setup as an applied microeconomist.
PhD student: "I think I will wait another year before going on the job ma..."
Adviser:
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When you are caught starting a new project instead of finishing all of the current ones.
When the hardest proof of the paper "is left for readers as an exercise".
Using time series graphs to make causal claims be like
Seeing too many diff-in-diff reviews and and summary articles but not sure where to start? We propose a new way to synthesize this growing literature using a Review in Reviews approach.
