Graph showing funded providing to Australian Research Council Discovery Projects, and the success rate of proposals, each year since 2002. The success rate has declined sharply since 2020, and is now at its lowest point ever (16.3%). The funding in this graph has been adjusted for inflation to 2023$. Data: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AyITNrCVt7pdLiUzyvC99q7l_X99rCS68r8_3i3h85s/edit?usp=sharing

It's harder to get funding for basic research projects than ever before in Australia.

The @arc_gov_au Discovery Projects scheme now has the lowest “success rate” ever: 16.3%.

Only 1 in 6 grants are funded.

Why? The funding available has plummeted.

Please help, Jason Clare MP❗️

"Sensitivity analyses can remain agnostic about [causal] structure. This is one reason they are useful; they adjudicate debates bc people can agree on validity w/out reaching full agreement on what constitutes plausible causal knowledge."

- Aronow & Savje #statsquotes

arxiv.org/pdf/2003.116...

Economists! We're hiring @UVABatten

The search is in applied (domestic-focused) micro.

We're hiring an assistant prof in public policy and economics. Rookies or advanced assistants welcome.

I'm on the committee, so feel free to shoot me any Q's.

#Econsky

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I was really hoping one of my fav things would replicate here 🤌🏼🤌🏼

Crossposting from @xuyiqing on that other place: a nice meta-analysis of 37 studies published in top PoliSci journals finds that TWFE estimates are highly correlated with imputation-based estimates a la Borusyak/Jaravel/Spiess ....

yiqingxu.org/papers/engli...

Lots of new polisci folks lately!

Find folks to follow by looking through people that have liked the polisky feed. bsky.app/profile/did:...

If you want to post to that polisci feed, you need @profmusgrave.bsky.social to whitelist you (just ask him).

Two helpful docs below.

Looking for friends from the bird site? This is working pretty well on Chrome: github.com/kawamataryo/...