In case folks are looking for a convenient way to containerize their claude code instances, here's a way to use Docker on your mac machine to isolate YOLO-ing claude instances.
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It's time for the best day of the year. . .my recap of cool young researcher! #econtwitter #econsky I featured 45 different researchers this year - read their papers, cite them, look out for them! Post part 2 tmrw w/ more about how I got started on this / how it's going
bse.eu/research/are... Check out our new working paper that investigates whether types of cancers that affect more strongly women than men are receiving less research funding from European Institutions! 👇👇👇 With @luongthuha.bsky.social and @lidiafarre.bsky.social @ubeconomics.bsky.social
#EconSky To everyone going to AEA 2026 in Philly, is anyone interested in watching the game of 76ers and Nuggets on 5th Jan?
Dropping a beta version of this page while everyone is up and processing baseball!
This tool lets you search the full text of papers from the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal series, and over 30,000 NBER working papers.
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11/ A fun fact: I first met Sudhir at NEUDC 2023. After the first day of the conference, we went for drinks with other participants, and his phone ran out of battery — I lent him my charger. And just like that, our coauthorship began! We’re really glad it happened.
10/ That’s all for today — thanks for stopping by! Our draft will be ready soon. All feedback is more than welcome!
9/Our main message: Investments in higher education infrastructure can yield returns that extend well beyond
labor market outcomes.
8/Regarding social norms, the effects of college access even go beyond the household level. Women in treated districts have greater freedom 🕊️
7/The second mechanism has two parts: social norms and empowerment. We first show that women were ⬆️ likely to report that domestic violence is unjustified, they have improvements in ownership and more participation in household decision-making.
6/ Women in treated districts ⬆️ 14.7 minutes more on paid employment work, ⬆️12 minutes on own-used production and ⬇️ 13 minutes on domestic tasks
5/The next question is "Why that is the case?" We provide two sets of mechanisms:
- Changes in Women's Time Allocation
- Changes in Social norms and Empowerment
4/Using RDD, we report that the college expansion program reduced the likelihood of domestic violence by about 4 percentage points (all type of violence). Interestingly, the effect is driven by the younger cohort, who are more likely to exposed to the program.
3/We show that the program indeed increased the number of colleges in treated districts and educational attainment of women rose as a result👩🎓👩🎓👩🎓
2/We examine the effect of a college expansion program India since 2008. The program provided college construction grants to build new colleges in districts with lower gross enrollment ration than the national average (12.4).
1/Education fights domestic violence—but how? We know some effects of compulsory schooling, yet the impact of higher education policies remains an open question.
I am very excited to share our new working paper "College Access and Domestic Violence". This is a joint work with Sudhir Singh from University of Rochester.
To borrow another example, taken from the `dbreg` README: github.com/grantmcdermo...
Here I am running a fixed-effects regression on 180 million(!) row parquet dataset... and it completes **< 2 seconds**... on my laptop 🤯
This is powered by @duckdb.org under the hood.
#rstats #econsky
An amazing workshop by my colleague Dan Rees at UC3M and Mark Anderson at Montana State. You will learn about how to write an applied paper, publication process, etc. If you are from low income countries, you only need to pay 1$. DM me for more info & to get the discounted fee!
Some states ban employers from asking job candidates their salary history, but candidates may voluntarily disclose them. In a randomized audit study @amandayagan.bsky.social @laurakgee.bsky.social, & Bo Cowgill explored how salary disclosures affect salary offers. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
This week's cool young researcher [late, post-conference edition!] #econtwitter #econsky is @luongthuha, currently post-doc @EconomicsUc3m who works on topics related to gender, development +health
Using data on 2.5 million great-grandchildren linked to great-grandfathers (1850–1940) to find strong economic persistence across 4 generations, from Zachary Ward, @kaseybuckles.bsky.social, and Joseph Price https://www.nber.org/papers/w33923
To help researchers navigate social desirability bias, this study assesses commonly-used approaches and offers practical guidance on selecting the most suitable tools for different contexts, from Bursztyn, Haaland, Röver, and Roth https://www.nber.org/papers/w33920
I have loved math since I was a child, but it was not until I started teaching that I realized how challenging—and rewarding—it can be. I'm glad that some students have found it helpful along the way.
🚨New @nber.org WP🚨
We use data on 42,000 households in #India to study how the agricultural sector copes w/ labour loss. As #farmers move to cities for higher wages, their left-behind families *don't* substitute with increased capital -- they downsize their farms. (1/2)
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
@luongthuha presents a fascinating pattern that the Juntos cash transfer program in Peru is associated with shifts in gender attitudes toward traditional gender norms, seemingly driven by maternal time allocation
Carlitos is making us believe that we should never ever give up. Vamos Carlitos 🇪🇸
An exciting lecture of @pedrosantanna.bsky.social in Madrid this morning, and we indeed are living in a fascinating time of DiD!
The #MeToo movement led to a 10% jump in sex crime reports and the effect lasted over 2 years.
✅ More reporting
✅ More arrests
❌ Not just more crimes
✅ Impact across race & income
Social movements can change high-stakes behavior.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....