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Ha Luong

@luongthuha.bsky.social
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Postdoctoral researcher @UC3M. PhD @ubeconomics. Gender, Development, Health & Labor Economics. (Occasionally) Sports Journalist @VietnamTV. haluong.weebly.com

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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 11/02/2026
In case folks are looking for a convenient way to containerize their claude code instances, here's a way to use Docker on your mac machine to isolate YOLO-ing claude instances. github.com/paulgp/claud...
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GitHub - paulgp/claude-container
Contribute to paulgp/claude-container development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Jessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
It's time for the best day of the year. . .my recap of cool young researcher! #econtwitter #econsky I featured 45 different researchers this year - read their papers, cite them, look out for them! Post part 2 tmrw w/ more about how I got started on this / how it's going
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Judit Vall Castelló @juditvall.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
bse.eu/research/are... Check out our new working paper that investigates whether types of cancers that affect more strongly women than men are receiving less research funding from European Institutions! 👇👇👇 With @luongthuha.bsky.social and @lidiafarre.bsky.social @ubeconomics.bsky.social
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Are Female-dominated Cancers Underfunded? | Barcelona School of Economics
Read or download BSE Working Paper 1509, "Are Female-dominated Cancers Underfunded?" by Lidia Farré, Ha Luong, Judit Vall
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Ha Luong @luongthuha.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
#EconSky To everyone going to AEA 2026 in Philly, is anyone interested in watching the game of 76ers and Nuggets on 5th Jan?
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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 02/11/2025
Dropping a beta version of this page while everyone is up and processing baseball! This tool lets you search the full text of papers from the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal series, and over 30,000 NBER working papers. paulgp.com/econlit-pipe...
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Economics Literature Search
Full-text search across 15,000+ papers from top economics journals and NBER working papers. Track how empirical methods have evolved over time.
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Ha Luong @luongthuha.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
I am very excited to share our new working paper "College Access and Domestic Violence". This is a joint work with Sudhir Singh from University of Rochester.
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Grant McDermott @gmcd.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
To borrow another example, taken from the `dbreg` README: github.com/grantmcdermo... Here I am running a fixed-effects regression on 180 million(!) row parquet dataset... and it completes **< 2 seconds**... on my laptop 🤯 This is powered by @duckdb.org under the hood. #rstats #econsky
Running dbreg::dbreg() on a full year of NYC taxi data... and it takes less than 2 seconds.

dbreg(
   tip_amount ~ fare_amount + passenger_count | month + vendor_name,
   path = "read_parquet('nyc-taxi/**/*.parquet')", ## path to hive-partitioned dataset
   vcov = "hc1"
)
#> [dbreg] Estimating compression ratio...
#> [dbreg] Data has 178,544,324 rows and 24 unique FE groups.
#> [dbreg] Using strategy: compress
#> [dbreg] Executing compress strategy SQL
#> 
#> Compressed OLS estimation, Dep. Var.: tip_amount 
#> Observations.: 178,544,324 (original) | 70,782 (compressed)
#> Standard Errors: Heteroskedasticity-robust
#>                  Estimate Std. Error  t value  Pr(>|t|)    
#> fare_amount      0.106744   0.000068 1564.742 < 2.2e-16 ***
#> passenger_count -0.029086   0.000106 -273.866 < 2.2e-16 ***
#> ---
#> Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
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Ha Luong @luongthuha.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
An amazing workshop by my colleague Dan Rees at UC3M and Mark Anderson at Montana State. You will learn about how to write an applied paper, publication process, etc. If you are from low income countries, you only need to pay 1$. DM me for more info & to get the discounted fee!
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J-PAL North America @j-palna.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Some states ban employers from asking job candidates their salary history, but candidates may voluntarily disclose them. In a randomized audit study @amandayagan.bsky.social @laurakgee.bsky.social, & Bo Cowgill explored how salary disclosures affect salary offers. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
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Salary History and Employer Demand: Evidence from a Two-Sided Audit
(July 2025) - We study how salary disclosures affect employer demand using a field experiment featuring hundreds of recruiters evaluating over 2,000 job applications. We randomize the presence of sala...
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Jessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
This week's cool young researcher [late, post-conference edition!] #econtwitter #econsky is @luongthuha, currently post-doc @EconomicsUc3m who works on topics related to gender, development +health
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NBER @nber.org · 21/06/2025
Using data on 2.5 million great-grandchildren linked to great-grandfathers (1850–1940) to find strong economic persistence across 4 generations, from Zachary Ward, @kaseybuckles.bsky.social, and Joseph Price www.nber.org/papers/w33923
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NBER @nber.org · 21/06/2025
To help researchers navigate social desirability bias, this study assesses commonly-used approaches and offers practical guidance on selecting the most suitable tools for different contexts, from Bursztyn, Haaland, Röver, and Roth www.nber.org/papers/w33920
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Ha Luong @luongthuha.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
I have loved math since I was a child, but it was not until I started teaching that I realized how challenging—and rewarding—it can be. I'm glad that some students have found it helpful along the way.
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Raahil Madhok @raamadhok.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
🚨New @nber.org WP🚨 We use data on 42,000 households in #India to study how the agricultural sector copes w/ labour loss. As #farmers move to cities for higher wages, their left-behind families *don't* substitute with increased capital -- they downsize their farms. (1/2)
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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 11/06/2025
Re-upping my advice about how to write a good title and abstract for an academic paper, appropriately called: "How to Write a Title and Abstract" Feel free to share this thread, which will focus on titles. #EconSky #AcademicSky
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Jessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
@luongthuha presents a fascinating pattern that the Juntos cash transfer program in Peru is associated with shifts in gender attitudes toward traditional gender norms, seemingly driven by maternal time allocation
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Ha Luong @luongthuha.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Carlitos is making us believe that we should never ever give up. Vamos Carlitos 🇪🇸
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Ha Luong @luongthuha.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
An exciting lecture of @pedrosantanna.bsky.social in Madrid this morning, and we indeed are living in a fascinating time of DiD!
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Florian Ederer @florianederer.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
The #MeToo movement led to a 10% jump in sex crime reports and the effect lasted over 2 years. ✅ More reporting ✅ More arrests ❌ Not just more crimes ✅ Impact across race & income Social movements can change high-stakes behavior. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Florian Ederer @florianederer.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Why do dictators target the socially isolated? 📢 New theory by @ksonin.bsky.social: Propaganda works best when people are either totally atomized or tightly unified rather than in between. 🎯 Optimal strategy? Don’t focus on influencers. Target the fringes of the network.
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Hans Henrik Sievertsen @hhsievertsen.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
In a new WP @pietrobiroli.bsky.social and coauthors combine an 🍕 time use survey with questions on 1. who is responsible for the organisation of household tasks Answer: women 1/N #EconSky
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UB School of Economics @ubeconomics.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
📚 #PhD Thesis "Essays on Gender Economics" defended by our #alumni Ha Luong on June 17, 2024, is available: f.mtr.cool/jqigknrnoq (Advisors: @juditvall.bsky.social| Lídia Farré). #EconSky #Economics #Research
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Laura K Gee @laurakgee.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Having a great day @uc3meconomics.bsky.social with @danielasola.bsky.social @luongthuha gorgeous day to talk economics with these smart people in Madrid
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NBER @nber.org · 30/05/2025
No impact is found for a monthly unconditional cash transfer on preregistered child development outcomes among 4 year olds among families with low income, from Noble, Magnuson, Duncan, Gennetian, Yoshikawa, Fox, Halpern-Meekin, Troller-Renfree, et al. www.nber.org/papers/w33844
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Judit Vall Castelló @juditvall.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Great dinner of the Codechella Madrid II @amoresi.bsky.social @caterina-muratori.bsky.social @luongthuha.bsky.social @kylefbutts.bsky.social
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VoxDev @voxdev.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
🆕 Teaching teachers to teach: Lessons from a large-scale coaching programme in rural Peru Juan F. Castro (Universidad del Pacífico), Paul Glewwe (University of Minnesota), Alexandra Heredia‐Mayo (IPA), Stephanie Majerowicz (Universidad de los Andes) & Ricardo Montero: voxdev.org/topic/educat...
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Teaching teachers to teach: Lessons from a large-scale coaching programme in rural Peru
Every year, developing countries spend considerable resources on training teachers—yet these efforts often prove unfruitful. New research from a large-scale, pedagogy-focused teacher coaching programm...
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Alice Evans @draliceevans.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Hundreds of books have been written about India's resilient caste system. But if you read on Mauritius, Malaysia or the UK, caste weakens very rapidly among the diaspora, perhaps within two generations. Migration's transformative power is hugely under-appreciated.
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Andrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Misattribution (when someone claims you said something that you’ve never said)–it’s kind of like plagiarism in reverse. statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/05/07/m...
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Misattribution (when someone claims you said something that you’ve never said)–it’s kind of like plagiarism in reverse. | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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Ha Luong @luongthuha.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
I’m happy to share our new working paper, "Are Female-Dominated Cancers Underfunded?", co-authored with my incredible doctoral advisors, @juditvall.bsky.social and @lidiafarre.bsky.social . This paper has evoked a range of emotions, but we hope it sheds light on an important topic.
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Royal Economic Society @resmedia.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
🏅Congratulations to Achyuta Adhvaryu, @tmolina.bsky.social , Anant Nyshadham and Jorge Tamayo for winning the 2024 The Economic Journal #RESPrize for '‘Helping Children Catch Up: Early Life Shocks and the PROGRESA Experiment'. Read👉 bit.ly/4ldLHpg #EconSky #RESPrizes
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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 21/03/2025
NBER WP vs. AEA Journal Average number of authors over time:
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UChicago | Stone Center on Wealth Inequality & Mobility @ucstonecenter.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
@ingridrobeyns.bsky.social urged us to grasp today’s wealth concentration by converting the fortune of the world’s richest person into the number of homes it could buy. In Chicago, that is approx. 1.3 million homes – more than all the homes in the city. Watch: bit.ly/3DFoATQ Read: bit.ly/3DJntTa
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Vincent Pons @vinpons.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
We are very happy to publish the "National Elections Database," including the results of 1,023 presidential and 2,962 parliamentary elections conducted worldwide since 1946! www.nationalelectionsdatabase.com with Benjamin Marx and Vincent Rollet
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Overview
National Elections Database
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Alexandra Witze @alexwitze.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
#StandUpForScience Denver. Photo by Jeff Kanipe.
A sign reading We Need NOAA
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Ha Luong @luongthuha.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
The beauty of this job is to have coauthors that you met in a random setting, but then it turned out that it was wonderful to work with them.
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Jason Kerwin @jkerwin.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
USAID is an incredible brand and source of soft power. Killing it off would be a disaster for US foreign policy and for millions of the world’s poorest people.
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Seema Jayachandran @seema.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
"The world must now affirm that human lives matter, no matter where they are." -- Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo in today's FT.
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Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo: Foreign aid can be effective without the US
In the wake of USAID cuts, wealthy nations and individuals must take the reins
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J-PAL @j-pal.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
🧵 1/6 Gender inequality remains pervasive around the world—including in India, where gender norms can limit aspects of girls’ & women’s lives. To address this, the NGO Breakthrough developed a curriculum to promote gender-equitable attitudes & behaviors. What happened next?
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Tal Gross @talgross.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Here is a LaTeX / Overleaf template for academic papers. This document has a bibliography already incorporated and has shells to incorporate multi-panel figures and complex tables. github.com/talgross-bu/...
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GitHub - talgross-bu/Template-for-Overleaf: A LaTeX Template for Economics Papers
A LaTeX Template for Economics Papers. Contribute to talgross-bu/Template-for-Overleaf development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Jason Kerwin @jkerwin.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Are you picking controls for your RCT based on which variables have "significant" differences in your balance table? Don't do that.
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Aureo de Paula @paulaaureo.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
I have a new paper on “Prediction Sets and Conformal Inference with Censored Outcomes” with the great Weiguang Liu and Elie Tamer. Prediction Sets and Conformal… what? I know, I know! Here comes a (very) short thread on what we do in the paper. (1/5)
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Florian Ederer @florianederer.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
This is an amazing 4-page paper by Jay Ritter about how he, a famous finance professor, lost a lot of money trading futures to Fischer Black, another famous finance professor. It should be required reading for anybody trading derivatives.
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NBER @nber.org · 09/02/2025
Investments by families and firms interact in shaping gender gaps in career achievement as well as equilibrium impacts of firm- and family-side policies aiming to reduce such gaps, from Almar, Friedrich, Reynoso, Schulz, and Vejlin www.nber.org/papers/w33438
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Publish What You Fund @publishwhatyoufund.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
You can find information about USAID’s programs using the following sources: www.publishwhatyoufund.org/2025/02/usai... #USAID #ForeignAid
Screen shot of PWYF website showing links to USAID data sources
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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
list of banned keywords
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 01/02/2025
The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here. HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻 archive.org/details/2025...
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Pedro H. Albuquerque @pedrohalbuquerque.net · 31/01/2025
'Ajay Agrawal (University of Toronto), Erik Brynjolfsson (Stanford University) and Anton Korinek (University of Virginia and CEPR) jointly present "The Economics of Transformative AI: A Research Agenda".' @cepr.org @akorinek.bsky.social #ai #EconSky
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CEPR Webinar Series on the Economics of Artificial Intelligence - 1
YouTube video by CEPR & VideoVox Economics
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Jorge Pérez Pérez @jorpppp.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
🚨New dataset alert 🚨 In collaboration with a stellar team at Banxico, Harvard, the World Bank, and ITAM, we built a dataset of demographics and labor market variables at the local-labor-market level for Mexico! Download here: www.banxico.org.mx/DataSetsWeb/... #EconSky #Mexico
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