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David Slichter @davidslichter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If you enjoy the idea of being employed, you might be interested in our Assistant Professor in Applied Microeconomics position: www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing.... We're open to both advanced APs and fresh PhDs.

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American Economic Association: JOE Listings - August 1, 2026 - January 31, 2027

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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It only took us 5 years, but I4R finally has a newsletter. 🎉 We’ll use it to share new studies, Replication Games, research, events, podcasts, and other updates from the Institute for Replication. Subscribe here: www.i4replication.org/newsletter

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Todd Pugatch @toddpugatch.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

1st @aefpweb.bsky.social EdDev mtg of the academic year, this F Sep 11 11am US eastern! Presenters: -Pepi Pandiloski, "Nation Formation in the Wild Wild East" -Innocent Akampurira, "The Effect of School Feeding on Education Outcomes" Contact me for Zoom link. Join group (free) at AEFP. Plz RT!

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John V. Kane @uptonorwell.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Compared to "significant effects," null results lead citizens to: --View study as less important --Ask for less info --Be less willing to share it --Think journalists would be less likely to cover the study --See the study as being lower quality & researchers as less competent (😬)

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David Slichter @davidslichter.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Great paper that I teach in my Econ of Ed class. It's well-known that, while No Excuses charter schools are great for test scores, other charters aren't. But this paper shows that plenty of non-No Excuses charters with zero/negative test score impacts might nonetheless be great schools.

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Jeremy Singer @jeremylsinger.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

NEW: We connected school attendance value-added estimates (for 2022-23 through 2024-25) to statewide survey data on school-based attendance practices. Our goal was to identify effective attendance strategies (e.g., specific practices, organizational systems, staffing, leadership). What did we find?🧵

Identifying Effective Attendance Strategies in Michigan

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David Slichter @davidslichter.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Had a great time at the FLX Econ of Ed conference this year. Special shoutout to @mariabzhu.bsky.social for organizing, and specifically for having name tags where you can actually read people's names!

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David Powell @davidpowell.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Before the credibility revolution, everything was incredible.

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David Slichter @davidslichter.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Looking forward to the bunching conference tomorrow and Saturday! There will be explainer talks for people new to these methods. If you want to watch the talks remotely, there's a Zoom link on the program: www.gregoriocaetano.net/resources/Bu...

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Jack Fitzgerald @jackfitzgerald.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

New preprint! We reanalyze 46 papers that use log-like specifications (ln(Z+1), inverse hyperbolic sine etc). We find widespread non-robustness, and we show through theory + simulation how these models drive spurious significance. 1/ doi.org/10.31222/osf...

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David Slichter @davidslichter.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

My personal rule for IVs is that, if there's really only one reason why Z and Y are correlated, then you should be able to tell me Z and Y, and I'd be able to figure out what X is without you telling me. (1/n)

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David Slichter @davidslichter.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS 🚨 Research In Labor Economics (rle.iza.org) is planning a volume featuring critical analyses of applied economics research. We are soliciting up to ten new papers that rigorously review an applied microeconomics topic, area, or methodology. #econsky

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David Slichter @davidslichter.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

One fun thing about forecasting is having a record of what you find surprising about a paper's results. My biggest surprise about this interesting new paper is that I figured subfield experts would know more than non-experts. But no, apparently they don't.

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Jijee Bhattarai @jijeebisha.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

I am excited to be on the #EconSky job market. My #EconJMP on Nepal's 2002 abortion legalization finds weaker son-biased stopping, more prenatal sex selection (~1 in 75 girls missing), and longer breastfeeding for surviving girls, a clear quantity quality tradeoff. Website: jijeebishabhattarai.com

From Prohibition to Choice: The Impact of Abortion Legalization on Fertility and Child Investments in Nepal

In societies with son-preference, the transition from high fertility to low fertility is often accompanied by a skewed sex ratio at birth. How expanding reproductive autonomy in such societies changes fertility
and early-life investments in children remains unclear. We study this question in the context of Nepal by evaluating the impact of the 2002 abortion legalization. Using a triple-difference design comparing girls
and boys across firstborn-sex families before and after the reform, we find that the abortion legalization substantially reduced son-biased fertility stopping: the gap in the number of children between firstborn-girl
and firstborn-boy families fell by nearly three-fifths, while the probability that a girl is missing due to sex-selective abortion rose by 1.8 percentage points. A back-of-the-envelope calculation implies that roughly
1 in 75 girls is missing from post-reform birth cohorts. On investments, daughters in firstborn-girl families gained about two months of breastfeeding, closing most of the pre-existing deficit. Taken together, the policy response to abortion legalization in a son-preferring society indicates a quantity-quality trade-off: lower cost of achieving desired family size and sex mix can lead to intensified prenatal selection against
girls and increased early-life investments in those who are born.

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Anushka Mullick @anushka95.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

I am excited to share that I am on the job market. My JMP explores how maternal work hours affect children's cognitive outcomes in India. By exploiting bunching designs, I find that work hours have a positive but small and statistically insignificant effect on children's cognition.

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Jerry Montonen @montonenjerry.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

🚀 I’m excited to share that I’m on the #EconSky job market this year! In my #EconJMP, I study how teachers in Finnish upper secondary schools impact students’ socio-emotional skills – and the labor market returns of these effects! (🧵, 1/N)

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Case Tatro @casetatro.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

I am excited to announce I am on the #EconSky Job Market! In my #EconJMP, I find that weighting a teacher's test-score impacts differently across students increases the predictive power of test-score value-added measures for a teacher's impact on high school graduation. Website: casetatro.com

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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

An economist reached out and asked where they might publish a review they'd written. Here's my (certainly incomplete) list of 30+ journals where economists publish reviews. bit.ly/3QfaE6m (Additions welcome with a specific review example!)