Reposted by Brenda PrallonPaul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 04/12/2024Just a reminder that @gmcd.bsky.social and @kylefbutts.bsky.social have made an incredible public good describing how to use data.table and fixest to encourage moving from Stata to R! stata2r.github.iostata2r.github.ioTranslating Stata to RLearning R coming from Stata 1226968
Brenda Prallon @brendaprallon.bsky.social · 26/11/2024happy to report I am now a phd candidate 😊😊😊 050
Reposted by Brenda PrallonPaul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 25/11/2024Man I cannot endorse this abstract more 12355101
Brenda Prallon @brendaprallon.bsky.social · 11/11/2024Rafa’s work has some of my favorite examples of serious economic theory + relevant policy question + super cool data. check it out! 121
Reposted by Brenda PrallonJose Fernandez @uoflecon.bsky.social · 13/09/2024Happy Friday! If you know of a minority job market candidate (newly or soon to be PhD's in econ) have them reach out to me. I organize the CSMGEP Minority Job Market page. If you are searching, then keep an eye out for these candidates. www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/co...aeaweb.orgCSMGEP: Minority Job Market Candidates 2024-25 12518
Reposted by Brenda PrallonKhoa @khoavuumn.bsky.social · 21/09/2024Applied microeconomist being asked about SUTVA violation in their paper: 014122
Reposted by Brenda PrallonDaniela Scur @danielascur.bsky.social · 20/09/2024Deadline is tonight!! Send us your papers and come hang out with us in Boston! Please RS! cc @raffasadun.bsky.social @florianederer.bsky.social @wouterdessein.bsky.social @renatalemos.bsky.social 044
Reposted by Brenda PrallonDaniela Scur @danielascur.bsky.social · 01/09/2024I started a very small one (for now!) because I'm not sure who all has come over, but happy to keep adding as folks raise their hands! @brendaprallon.bsky.social @vitorpossebom.bsky.social @teodorovicz.bsky.social @daveevansphd.bsky.social tag more people if you know others plz? go.bsky.app/NKR7my 9249
Reposted by Brenda PrallonRafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 17/11/2023Thinking is difficult! I made a post: open.substack.com/pub/rottenan...open.substack.comThinking is difficultOngoing twitter death throes and some issues in applied stats 45112
Reposted by Brenda PrallonJoshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 10/11/2023If 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. 314848
Reposted by Brenda PrallonFrancisco Costa @franciscocosta.bsky.social · 08/11/2023Since August, Manaus in the Amazon has been covered with smoke from forest fires with little public awareness. That’s unfortunate. Rafael Araujo, Teevrat Garg, and I studied what happened when Amazon forest fires went viral in August 2019.t.coWildfires in dry Amazon rainforest choke Manaus city | ReutersClouds of dense gray smoke from dozens of wildfires in the Brazilian Amazon, many of them illegally started, have hung over the region's capital city Manaus, making the air increasingly unbreathable. 151
Reposted by Brenda PrallonMiklós Koren @koren.mk · 01/11/2023Clean coding was always about collaborating with others, including your future self. Now others include GitHub Copilot. Use proper function signatures and good function and variable names, and Copilot will be better able to help you. As soon as I entered `if`, Copilot could fill in the rest. 193
Reposted by Brenda PrallonN. Meltem Daysal @meltemdaysal.bsky.social · 09/10/2023A sleepless night + teaching day = I was late to the Nobel news party. Rupi Kapur describes my feelings better than I can express myself. Feeling immense gratitude to Claudia Goldin for paving the way for female economists like me. 0226
Brenda Prallon @brendaprallon.bsky.social · 03/10/2023since i don’t have a lot of relevant work to share rn y’all just gonna have to take my delightful personality 000
Brenda Prallon @brendaprallon.bsky.social · 24/09/2023i tried to wait until later this year, i really tried. but sept 24th is the day i turned on my heater 020
Brenda Prallon @brendaprallon.bsky.social · 22/09/2023it’s gonna take me a second to find everyone here… but @economeager.bsky.social made the leap, what else was I supposed to do 😅 160