Reposted by Johannes MatzatJohn Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Lots of talk on X today about rethinking the results produced by close elections RDDs. So, I thought I'd drop a few recent articles about issues that arise in this space so that folks can have them all in one place. 1/N 55710
Reposted by Johannes MatzatStefan Müller @stefanmueller.bsky.social · 20/02/2025Big fan of Paper Picnic 🧺 Every Friday night, it pulls new articles from over 60 political science & economics journals. If you sign up to the mailing list, you receive a weekly email with a list of all new papers, sorted by journal. Excellent work, @moritzmarbach.bsky.social! paper-picnic.compaper-picnic.comPaper Picnic 🧺: HomeA weekly basket with the latest published research in political science. 14918
Reposted by Johannes MatzatVincent Pons @vinpons.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Very happy to share our paper on the “Causes and Extent of Increasing Partisan Segregation in the U.S.” with J. Brown, E. Cantoni, @ryanenos.bsky.social & E. Sartre! 👇👇👇 Quick thread on what we do and find (1/10) 21611
Reposted by Johannes MatzatChris Marsicano @chrismarsicano.com · 21/01/2025Fascinating new @nberpubs.bsky.social working paper from @edankaplan.bsky.social, Cody Tuttle and Jörg Spenkuch that shows long-run effects of busing to desegregate schools in KY in the '70s: • ⬆️ Alignment with the Democratic Party • ⬆️ Support for redistributive programs • ⬇️ Belief in a "just world" 02311
Reposted by Johannes MatzatSarah Langlotz @langlotzsarah.bsky.social · 17/01/2025We're looking for research assistants! Whether you enjoy diving into data or handling organisational tasks, consider applying. Both skills are highly valued! 032
Reposted by Johannes MatzatThe Quarterly Journal of Economics @qjeharvard.bsky.social · 12/01/2025#QJE Feb 2025, #6, “LinkedOut? A Field Experiment on Discrimination in Job Network Formation,” by Evsyukova (@yuliaevsyukova.bsky.social), Rusche (@felixrusche.bsky.social), and Mill (@econmill.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...doi.orgLinkedOut? A Field Experiment on Discrimination in Job Network Formation*Abstract. We assess the impact of discrimination on Black individuals’ job networks across the United States using a two-stage field experiment with 400+ f 23017
Reposted by Johannes MatzatPedro Sant’Anna @pedrosantanna.bsky.social · 30/12/2024Here are the first five sets of slides: 01 Introduction: psantanna.com/DiD/01_Intro... 02 Classical 2x2 setup: psantanna.com/DiD/02_two_b... 03 Clustering issues: psantanna.com/DiD/03_Clust... 04 Functional form: psantanna.com/DiD/04_Funct... 05 Covariates: psantanna.com/DiD/05_Covar...psantanna.com 50731181
Reposted by Johannes MatzatSimon Jäger @simonjaeger.bsky.social · 24/12/2024How do unions and collective bargaining work around the world? And how do they affect the wage structure? A new paper with Suresh Naidu and Benjamin Schoefer @schoefer.bsky.social out NBER WP today and prepared for the Handbook of Labor Economics. Thread below. 👇 412442
Reposted by Johannes MatzatFilipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 27/11/2024This is a remarkable paper. Substantively, it convincingly argues that what looks like weak state capacity is often *captured* capacity. Methodologically, it’s a triumph of mixed qualitative and quantitative approaches. pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/... 510829
Johannes Matzat @matzat.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Results do not replicate [in different environments] and accumulate into a coherent theory because the simple statistical model did not fit the complex causal process. External validity - not only an issue in econ ... 110
Reposted by Johannes MatzatThiemo Fetzer 🇪🇺🇺🇦 - same handle elsewhere @trfetzer.com · 25/11/2024Here are the more "meta" reflections that I wish to share on this joint work with @jschneebacher.bsky.social and Christina Palmou. The paper title is quite plain, but I wish to highlight the direction of travel and ultimately, the foundational questions that this work raises around... 1117
Reposted by Johannes MatzatJakob Wegmann @jakobwegmann.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Hello #EconSky! 📢Excited to share my #JMP 📢 It provides a missing piece to understand how people react to income taxation. Tldr: By changing tax pre-payments governments can - with almost no costs - increase perceived work incentives of secondary earners and reduce the gender gap. Thread below👇🧵 26827
Reposted by Johannes MatzatPedro Sant’Anna @pedrosantanna.bsky.social · 19/11/2024A very interesting new working paper by the greats Ashesh Rambachan, Rahul Singh, and @vivianodavide.bsky.social: arxiv.org/pdf/2411.10959 It seems that this is another area where the empirical common practice was "too fast,'' and econometrics is catching up! Cool and empirically relevant stuff! 56220
Reposted by Johannes MatzatGuillaume Blanc @guillaumeblanc.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Going to give this website a try - with a new profile picture! Definitely feels like an econ bubble, but I guess that’s the point. Expect a thread on my newest work, Malthusian Migrations (with @romainwacziarg.bsky.social), soon! 🚨 www.guillaumeblanc.com/files/theme/... 45517
Reposted by Johannes MatzatTodd Jones @toddrjones.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Quick econ tip: here's a list of over 100 economics conferences: docs.google.com/spreadsheets.... Curated by @anne-m-burton.bsky.social and @bartonwillage.com.docs.google.comEconomics Conferences (Compiled by Anne M. Burton and Barton Willage) 1520989
Reposted by Johannes MatzatTodd Jones @toddrjones.bsky.social · 30/11/2023Quick Stata tip: I've written a book that compiles 97 of my Stata tips. You can download "Quick Stata Tips" and the companion .do file for free at toddrjones.com/quickstatati... 38947
Reposted by Johannes MatzatMaximilian Kasy @maxkasy.bsky.social · 08/11/2024A propos of nothing: “Who goes Nazi?” harpers.org/archive/1941/08/who-goe… Observant essay on American high society 1941.harpers.orgWho Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy ThompsonWe've recently updated our website to make signing in easier and more secure 22611
Reposted by Johannes MatzatERC Really Credible Team @ercteam.bsky.social · 11/12/2023We have just released important updates for the twowayfeweights (@cdechaisemartin.bsky.social) package. Improvements: 1) Run time reduced to a few seconds even with very large data. 2) New look for the output. Supported languages: Stata, R. Available also on the SSC.github.comGitHub - chaisemartinPackages/twowayfeweights: || Stata | R || Estimates the weights attached to the...|| Stata | R || Estimates the weights attached to the two-way fixed effects regressions studied in de Chaisemartin & D'Haultfoeuille (2020a), as well as summary measures of these regression... 0146
Reposted by Johannes MatzatJohn V. Kane @uptonorwell.bsky.social · 08/12/2023Hey Stata users, please check out the Stata Gallery run by @asjadnaqvi.bsky.social . Lots of great tutorials on data viz, making maps, working with do files, and more! Highly recommend! 👍 medium.com/the-stata-ga... 01410
Reposted by Johannes MatzatDaniele Girardi @dgirardi.bsky.social · 04/12/2023Public Service Announcement STATA package for Local Projections Diff-in-Diff (LP-DiD) now available LP-DiD is a convenient, general and flexible regression-based framework for DiD (www.nber.org/papers/w31184) Type: ssc install lpdid by @alexanderbusch.bsky.social & me cc @arindube.bsky.socialnber.orgA Local Projections Approach to Difference-in-Differences Event StudiesFounded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an... 23410
Reposted by Johannes MatzatVitor Possebom @vitorpossebom.bsky.social · 16/10/2023Econometrics Thread (#EconSky) Today, I will talk very briefly about a few recent methodological papers that I think are super useful to applied researchers. Basically, below, you will find some new tools that may help you to answer relevant empirical questions. + 39746
Reposted by Johannes MatzatJeremy Trevelyan Burman 🎓 @burmanphd.bsky.social · 08/10/2023Five million documents from the Dutch East India Company will be searchable starting on Wednesday, with an improved version of the database expected next year #archives nltimes.nl/2023/10/08/m...nltimes.nlMillions of archived VOC documents now searchable online, including slavery recordsFrom Wednesday, five million scanned documents from the archives of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) will be digitally searchable at the click of a button thanks to a text recognition project by the... 14632352
Johannes Matzat @matzat.bsky.social · 04/10/2023Hi #econsky! I am Johannes. I am a PostDoc at U Lucerne & Hebrew U. Here to spread your novel data and thoughts on political econ, migration, development, applied econometrics. :) 060