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🚨🚨🚨New chapter in my free online book!🚨🚨🚨

#EconSky #TeachBE #SFEM #Stan

jamesblandecon.github.io/StructuralBa...

ESRC CASE PhD Studentship - Lancaster University

Looking to do a fully funded, policy-relevant PhD in economics?

The ESRC has funded another joint CMA PhD studentship, this time with Lorenza Rossi and Stefano Fasani at Lancaster University, on the interaction of market power, price setting and macro dynamics.

Please share widely and apply!

I've decided to collect my DiD materials in a single place.

psantanna.com/did-resources

There, you will find
- 14 lectures of my comprehensive DiD course
- Shorter lectures/talks I have given on DiD
- My DiD R/Stata/Python packages
- Some DiD checklists
- DiD materials from my friends

Enjoy!

Here are the first five sets of slides:

01 Introduction: psantanna.com/DiD/01_Intro...

02 Classical 2x2 setup: psantanna.com/DiD/02_two_b...

03 Clustering issues: psantanna.com/DiD/03_Clust...

04 Functional form: psantanna.com/DiD/04_Funct...

05 Covariates: psantanna.com/DiD/05_Covar...

1/ Dataset alert
📊 I've posted the bank-level data (share of state ownership and 🌍 share of foreign ownership) used in my recent paper published in the Journal of Banking & Finance: "Bank ownership around the world".
Thanks to Thorsen Beck for being a great editor
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With thanks to @simonwillison.net, @martinapugliese.bsky.social, and @tussles-shriek.bsky.social I've got a small example of handwritten lecture notes to markdown working with gpt-4o.

Not perfect, but my starting pic was terrible; the results are impressive given that!

github.com/aeturrell/di...

Now out in GEB ! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

✅ Generalizes Gallice & Monzón(2019) to a multipolar setting.
✅ Explores sequential group contributions to public goods.
✅ Shows how uncertainty encourages conditional cooperation for efficiency.

🚨Paper has been accepted at "Games and Economic Behaviour"🚨

"Efficient Public Good Provision Between and Within Groups" with Jorge Bruno, @rfoucart.bsky.social and Sonali SenGupta.

Ungated version: arxiv.org/abs/2303.105...

If you're teaching R, or statistics, and you want your students to get more practice of data wrangling with "messy" data, you can use the {messy} package to turn the clean data you currently use for examples into more realistic looking data!

#RStats #StatsEd

Another shoe just dropped in the ongoing Dan Ariely scandal: JMR, a top 4 marketing journal, has issued a formal “Expression of Concern” for Mazar, Amir, & Ariely (2008), the infamous Ten Commandments study

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Very cool datasets + packages from Melissa Dell, to use alongside her JEL paper on ‘Deep Learnjng for Economists’ #EconSky 📉📈

HT Kevin Bryan, via the other place

econdl.github.io

📢 Early-Career Behavioral Economics Conference 2025 📢

Check out the call, help spread the word to your early-career colleagues, and submit your wonderful papers!

Hosted by FAIR, Bergen, June 19-20, 2025

More info: sites.google.com/site/ecbecon...

🚨 Are you a female experimental economist with a PhD from May 2021 or later?

Applications for the ESA Mentoring Program are still open (until September 21st): docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

It's intense (read papers/proposals, give/receive feedback once per month) but sooo worth it!

Research Assistant

🚨 RA job alert! 🚨

@jeannebomare.bsky.social and I are hiring a part-time RA starting this fall for a British Academy-funded project on UK inheritance tax (London-based).

Apply here: bit.ly/RA_kings (deadline in 5 days!)

Email me if you have any questions

Neural networks - YouTube Learn the basics of neural networks and backpropagation, one of the most important algorithms for the modern world.

Also 3blue1brown has some amazing videos on Neural Networks, Transformers, GPTs : youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Generative AI for Everyone - DeepLearning.AI

There are some slides here : www.deeplearning.ai/courses/gene...

Outcomes "for online students dropped... both assignments & exams.... online students struggled to concentrate in class & felt less connected to their instructors & peers... detrimental effects for online learning."
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pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/aeri...

Here is a behavioral economics starter pack to easily find researchers in that area on BSky.
(let me know if I should add you)
go.bsky.app/Ku4zvbT

Job Opportunity at Lancaster University: Teaching Associate

If you are finishing or have just finished your PhD in economics and are looking for a temporary teaching position before really going on the market, we have one in a nice little rainy city, and we are friendly hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Front page of Coding for Economists

The first commit was in Nov 2020 (!), it's racked
up 581 github ⭐️s, and it's currently getting 4k users / month, so I would say this is long overdue, but I've finally done a version 1.0.0 of Coding for Economists!
Link 👇
aeturrell.github.io/coding-for-e...

#econtwitter #datascience #econsky

People from developed countries have no clue what we went through to be in this position and how much each missed opportunity hurts us. Sorry for this negative thread, but I had to say this.

My heart goes out to all the job market candidates from developing countries, who worked so hard for so many years, and now might not get jobs because of missing flyouts due to visa appointment issues. And no, Zoom flyout IS NOT equal to in-person.

So tired of these Schengen visa appointments and their so-called policy fiasco! Missed two talks this year already; going to miss another in November and January. I'm done with this Schengen visa BS. Total waste of money and time! Academia is for people with strong passports!

There’s a new version of PyFixest on PyPi with

- very good speed improvements 🚀
- two-way clustering
- cluster jackknife inference for Poisson regression

github.com/s3alfisc/pyf...

It is unseasonably warm and I'm stuck on a level in Coccoon, so I decided to spend the afternoon translating Peng Ding's causal inference book code into python.

github.com/apoorvalal/d...

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