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🧵1/ Our first meta-science paper (with 350+ coauthors) is published today in Nature. It presents one of the largest-ever reproducibility projects in economics & political science.

Here’s what we found 👇

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⏳ Only 2 days left! The submission deadline for the James MacKinnon 75th Birthday Conference is this Sunday, March 15. A great chance to celebrate his monumental impact on econometrics, from bootstrap inference to non-nested hypothesis testing.

Submit: editorialexpress.com/cgi-bin/conf... 🧵

Evaluating “Effectiveness” under the Policy on Results Evaluation units provide essential information for administrators of public programs. Canada's 2016 Policy on Results emphasizes evaluating “effectiveness,” with a focus on outcomes. However, it is u...

New pub in @canadianpublicadmn.bsky.social 🥳 Federal eval. reports are increasingly interpreting "effectiveness" in terms of implementation rather than outcomes, despite the Policy on Results pushing the opposite—highlighting a real need for more flexible, "right-fit" eval. policy. Happy reading! 🔓

It's ironic to see a discipline care **so much** about unbiasedness (causal inference!) at the level of a single test but then have a research production system and culture that is basically a ferocious bias generation machine. This is not good.

Associate/Full Professor and Canada Impact+ Research Chair - Office of the Deputy Provost (Academic Operations and Planning) About the Position Carleton University invites applications from outstanding researchers for Canada Impact+ Research Chairs at the rank of Associate or Full Professor. The Canada Impact+ Research Chai...

Carleton's looking for outstanding researchers working and residing outside of Canada to join our faculty at the Associate or Full Professor rank as a Canada Impact+ Research Chair. Expertise in a wide set of research priority areas is welcome (see the ad!). Applications are due January 29th.

Another fantastic year with this group! Big thank you to @slaszlo.bsky.social and Gabrielle Vasey for organizing this year.

This was such a fun project to work on! Very excited to see it out in the world. Link to the article here (open access 🤩): journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

So excited to share this article we recently wrote for
@voxdev.bsky.social! The TLDR: having regular discussions with community members helped improve student learning and enrolment. Full paper here (open access!): academic.oup.com/wber/article...

There's still time to register for the two keynote lunches at #CEA2025! Get your tickets here: www.economics.ca/event-5852688

Attention #EconSky #CanadaEcon: CEA has a new reception this year! Come join us for the CWEC/CFEC (@cdnwomenecon.bsky.social) reception on Thursday, May 29th (tomorrow)—right after Embrace Day! There will be snacks 🤩

All Embrace Day and CEA conference attendees are welcome. See you there!

Happy election day, Canada! 🇨🇦 If you haven't already done so, this is a friendly reminder that voting is incredibly easy here. It took so little time that @chrisbaileyauth.bsky.social had time for a little post-vote coffee date after👏

Great news! Will the bike lanes run the entire length of Gladstone?

A little reminder for Canada #econsky: the CWEC/CFEC luncheon ticket at #CEA2025 has to be booked separately from your conference registration! www.economics.ca/event-5852688

This year's keynote speaker is @shellyjlundberg.bsky.social and we could not be more excited to host her! 🥳

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Congratulations! Great news all around!! 🥳

🚨 #EconSky PhD students working in Applied Micro:

Submit your paper for the 4th Workshop, co-organized by @cmichaudleclerc.bsky.social, Priya Mukherjee, and me!

Plus, we have two amazing keynotes this year: @econsandy.bsky.social and Rema Hanna.

📣📣AWARDS NOMINATION📣📣We are accepting nominations for the SYLVIA OSTRY and the Early Career Researcher Awards. See our website here www.economics.ca/cwec-awards for more information. The deadline to submit CWEC.CFEC@gmail.com is March 15, 2025

So sorry to hear! Get well soon, Lindsay!

I'll kayak in this summer to do a proper comparison 😉

@carletonu.bsky.social looks even better on skates! What a dreamy way to commute.

Naked Economics by Charles Wheelan always comes to mind here! I’ve recommended this to many people, and have gotten lots of great feedback. It’s intuitive, comprehensive, and also really fun to read.

At our last departmental meeting, we had a vigorous discussion about the School's current and future social media presence.

Happy to say, the School has joined Bluesky! Check us out @carletonsppa.bsky.social and take a peek at the SPPA Starter Pack below.

I'm thrilled to see this site building a serious community of researchers, writers and policymakers focused on education policy and economics.

Below are links to 3 Starter Packs I've made to help you connect with such folks.

Please let me know if I've missed you. The volume of requests has been 😮

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Calling econ JMCs: Don't forget to sign up for this year's job market pitch session to practice and get feedback on your pitch! Open to all PhD students in Canadian departments, or who are CEA members. 📉📈

An exciting position on the econ job market this year! Québec City is beautiful, plus you would get great colleagues (like @cmichaudleclerc.bsky.social)! ☺️

The Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics invites submissions for the collection #Textual #Analysis in #Economics and #Finance. link.springer.com/collections/...

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