We’re thrilled to announce the first AI and Society Conference 🧠🤖
📍 Bocconi University, Milan
📅 11–12 June 2026
🎤 Keynote by Sendhil Mullainathan
Call for papers open—join us!
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📣 Call for Papers: AI and Society Conference
🗓️ 11–12 June 2026 at Bocconi University
Submit full papers: bocconi.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Keynote by the one and only Sendhil Mullainathan @sendhil.bsky.social
Please share w/ your colleagues and students, we look forward to your submission
My papers arguing that the "Abundance Movement" needs broadening to include place-based jobs policies for distressed places are being released today, with a long paper at the Upjohn Institute & a shorter summary at Brookings Metro.
I am heartbroken by the passing of our colleague Ghazala Azmat. A wonderful economist and AEJ: Economic Policy Board member, she was generous with her time and a vital contributor to many areas within applied economics and economic policy. She will be sorely missed. My heart goes out to her family.
I just heard our wonderful colleague Ghazala Azmat has passed over the weekend, and I am so, so, so sad. She was a lovely, wonderful, kind soul. A brilliant economist who will be dearly missed. RIP my friend. My heart is so heavy. Love to everyone who was lucky enough to know her.
#EconFr le premier papier issue de ma thèse a été soumis hier. Et comme c’est un papier particulièrement instructif pour la réforme du RSA, je vais faire un petit 🧵 et vous raconter ce qu’on y trouve.
Dans le post suivant, vous trouverez le lien vers le papier et les codes de réplication.
Rising credit card defaults are in the news w/ the FT and WSJ running prominent stories
Reasons are nuanced and likely to get lost in the headlines
🧵 on why the rise is largely a hangover from the post-pandemic credit supply increase
Economists love using linear regression to estimate treatment effects — it turns out that there are perils to this method, but also amazing perks
Come with me in this 🧵 if you want to learn about our now-published paper "Contamination Bias in Linear Regressions!"
1/ (Twitter rerun!)
Happy to share that my and @cconlon.bsky.social's micro BLP paper was just accepted at the Journal of Econometrics! jeffgortmaker.com/files/Incorp...
It's our 2nd tied to our PyBLP software, so here's a thread on surprising (to me) benefits of combining methods research with open source work. 1/6
One of us turned 1 and the other got tenure 😃😃
Thanks Pedro!
Link to WP: arxiv.org/abs/2411.10959 and slides dviviano.github.io/projects/pre...
We show how we can estimate treatment effects using remote sensed outcomes without having to correctly specify a model for remote sensed outcomes and leverage arbitrary ML methods. 1/n
I made one for stats papers
This finally might produce enough outrage from macroeconomists to try out bsky...
www.cnbc.com/2024/11/09/e...
"Causal inference is a trivial problem if you know the DAG. Research design is outdated."
season's greetings!
My ERC team has created an account where they will share updates of the Stata and R packages they are working on, follow them! bsky.app/profile/erct...
Probably the most chilling paper I read in 2023, yet essential reading for all of us. academic.oup.com/qje/advance-... #EconSky 📉📈
Jen Doleac is on here! Welcome. Great follow. 📉📈
bsky.app/profile/jenn...
If you're a senior male economist and would be interested in discussing the drafting of an open letter re the newly announced IZA leadership change, e-mail me.
Female econs are rightly tired of the burden of such efforts falling on them.
📈📉A great way to shorten a paper. Change the margins. Some paragraphs will have one-word last lines. Make those go away by writing better. Repeat until you are too tired to be obsessive anymore. Reinstate the original margins. I did this all day. My paper is three pages shorter with better writing
Questions re: IZA decision
- What is the best summary of allegations against Falk?
- How did IZA/briq investigate allegations against Falk? What decisions followed and why?
- How did this recent decision happen? Why did Falk get the job, not Jager?
Anyone have insights?
One of my pastimes is to watch videos about writing fiction. Many things that work when writing fiction also work when writing academic papers!
I think this video on editing is quite useful: youtu.be/WLAmilJx3Us?....
E.g., accept that your manuscript will evolve a lot over time!
Incredibly useful resource: Power analysis collaborative guide docs.google.com/document/d/1...
This is a Bob LaLonde appreciation tweet.
He changed the course of economics and also changed the course of my life. He passed away too young, though his memory is a blessing.
Please add onto the thread with your appreciations of Bob!
Econometric Thread (#EconSky): Today, I will briefly discuss a few recent papers expanding the synthetic control method (SCM). I will talk about three WPss: Abadie + L'Hour (2019), Grossi, Lattarulo, Mariani, Mattei + Oner (2020); Cao + Dowd (2019) and Cattaneo, Feng, Palomba +Titiunik (2023).
Second that, the Remarkable is amazing to replace paper (I used to print too much... And lose far too much notes as well!!). And you can add a small keyboard to it as well to take typeset notes. Very cool tablet honestly!
CREST/ENSAE/Polytechnique is hiring
we have several econ 📈📉 positions at assistant/associate level, any field econjobmarket.org/positions/9867
Our lab results from the merger of the dpts of econ of Polytechnique (France’s 1er engineering school)& ENSAEparis (which trains public statisticians)...
