Sign in

Moshi Alam

@moshialam.bsky.social
681 followers 220 following 43 posts

Labor, Public, Applied Econometrics 📈📉| AP Clark University | PhD UW-Madison | he\him | 🕸️ moshialam.github.io

PostsRepliesMedia
Moshi Alam @moshialam.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Very happy that my PhD JMP has found an incredible home. This is special as it was part of the process of discovering my interest to understand the equilibrium of unequal outcomes. Many thanks to you all who helped with hours of discussions and encouraged all the way! I hope to pay it forward! ❤️
000
Reposted by Moshi Alam
Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 10/06/2026
jamesbrandecon.github.io/blog/posts_h... So after having GPT-5.4 agents review 4,800 proofs and GPT-5.5 give a second review to a random subset of them, what did we find? To my absolute surprise, if anything the rate of errors in proofs has increased(!) in 2025 relative to previous years.
2275
Reposted by Moshi Alam
Sarah Cohodes @cohodes.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
📣 New NBER Working Paper out today 📣 "The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct" Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
Screenshot of working paper: The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct
17560196
Reposted by Moshi Alam
Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 29/11/2025
Interesting paper highlight that binning can be misspecified in panel settings - this drives misinterpretation of extreme temperature shocks. #linkoftheday www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/1ya6z...
57118
Moshi Alam @moshialam.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Happy new year everyone!! 🎉🙂 Please come to the #ASSA2026 Urban Economics session to hear about our work on identification of Optimal Place-Based Transfers with discussions by @tradediversion.bsky.social and other exciting papers.
010
Reposted by Moshi Alam
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...
paulgp.com
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.
9367109
Reposted by Moshi Alam
Clément de Chaisemartin @cdechaisemartin.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Please RT: I am hiring RAs, for 12-month contracts, starting in June/July or early September 2025. Apply if you’re interested in working on some fun and useful econometrics projects! #EconSky euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/331499
euraxess.ec.europa.eu
Research Assistant ERC REALLYCREDIBLE
Clément de Chaisemartin is looking for research assistants, for 12 months contracts, starting in June/July or early September 2025.
077
Reposted by Moshi Alam
Pedro Sant’Anna @pedrosantanna.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
We from @emoryeconomics.bsky.social are excited to host the "Econometrics in Emory: Causal Inference with Panel Data." 📅 May 2–3, 2025 🔗 econometricsatemory.com We aim to strengthen the relationship between academia and industry researchers so we all learn from each other!
1205
Moshi Alam @moshialam.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
It was a pleasure to host you @laurakgee.bsky.social ! Loved the talk and our discussions!
020
Reposted by Moshi Alam
Neale Mahoney @nealemahoney.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Healthcare jobs have grown 2x faster than the overall labor market since 1980 Healthcare overtook retail to become largest industry by employment in 2009 New working paper w/ @gottliebecon.bsky.social, @kevinrinz.bsky.social and @victoriaudalova.bsky.social on the rise of healthcare jobs
12915
Moshi Alam @moshialam.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Very useful thread 🧵!
020
Reposted by Moshi Alam
Jeff Denning @jeffdenning.com · 24/02/2025
How are parents affected by their kid going to college? How are they affected when their kid gets a scholarship or grant? New working paper with @palaashbhargava.bsky.social @econsandy.bsky.social @odedgurantz.bsky.social and Rob Fairlie www.nber.org/papers/w33497
12313
Reposted by Moshi Alam
Barbara Biasi @barbarabiasi.com · 19/02/2025
Super happy to see this accepted! academic.oup.com/qje/advance-...
academic.oup.com
What Works and for Whom? Effectiveness and Efficiency of School Capital Investments Across the U.S.*
Abstract. This paper identifies which investments in school facilities help students and which and are valued by homeowners. Using novel data on school dis
614021
Reposted by Moshi Alam
NBER @nber.org · 18/02/2025
Reviewing the theory of monopsonistic wage setting, its empirical implications, and some puzzles the framework has struggled to explain, from Patrick M. Kline www.nber.org/papers/w33467
0234
Reposted by Moshi Alam
Marcella Alsan @marcellaalsan.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Excited to share results from a 4-year first-ever RCT across US jails. We (Crystal Yang & I) find that death rates are much higher in jails than officially reported & health care accreditation improves staff coordination, quality & save lives. www.nber.org/papers/w33357
nber.org
The Hidden Health Care Crisis Behind Bars: A Randomized Trial to Accredit U.S. Jails
Founded 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...
412855
Reposted by Moshi Alam
Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 11/01/2025
#rstats and #QuartoPub PSA: @vincentab.bsky.social's {tinytable} is the absolute best table making package out there for LaTeX output (it natively supports tabularray!), and it's phenomenal for HTML. It has fully replaced {gt} and {kableExtra} for me vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/
PDF table made with LaTeX and tabularray with {tinytable}R code for making the table
717429
Moshi Alam @moshialam.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
What a wonderful, practical and heartwarming thread to wake up to!! 😇
010
Reposted by Moshi Alam
Econometrica @ecmaeditors.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
We use a new machine learning technique to identify the most cost-effective policies to boost immunization demand in India. We evaluated 75 combos of reminders, incentives, and local community ambassadors. The most effective increased immunization by 44%. buff.ly/4j0v3IF
26223
Reposted by Moshi Alam
Andreas Fuster @fuster.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
For those who didn't make it to #ASSA2025: strongly recommend @sendhil.bsky.social's AEA distinguished lecture, available at www.aeaweb.org/webcasts/202... (starting at minute 16)!
aeaweb.org
American Economic Association: AEA Excellence Awards and Distinguished Lecture
0214
Reposted by Moshi Alam
Arthur Turrell @arthurturrell.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Just updated an old repo that's a cookiecutter template for research projects. Now uses uv for Python & Quarto for paper and slides, & has pre-commit + other bells and whistles. Outputs dynamically updated in the paper & slides. Compiling the paper is just "make paper". github.com/aeturrell/co...
github.com
GitHub - aeturrell/cookiecutter-research-project: A cookiecutter for creating research projects
A cookiecutter for creating research projects. Contribute to aeturrell/cookiecutter-research-project development by creating an account on GitHub.
0193
Reposted by Moshi Alam
Laura K Gee @laurakgee.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Curious about Econ & Gender. Check out this session Sat 12:30pm at the Marker Hotel (location currently wrong in the #Assa2025 app) with work by @econprachi.bsky.social @bilgeerten.bsky.social and chaired by @olgashurchkov.bsky.social www.aeaweb.org/conference/2...,
0179
Moshi Alam @moshialam.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Happy new year everyone!!! 🎊 Wishing everyone more happiness and peace in 2025! 😇
020
Reposted by Moshi Alam
Robert Metcalfe @rmetcalfe.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
It’s an extremely tough year for candidates on the economics job market. For those of you who want to carry on doing academic research in a rich policy environment, apply to our position below. I can guarantee a lot of productive projects that have policy impact. #econsky #econjobmarket
1225
Reposted by Moshi Alam
Pedro Sant’Anna @pedrosantanna.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Here 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 Moshi Alam
The Quarterly Journal of Economics @qjeharvard.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Recently accepted by #QJE, “Believed Gender Differences in Social Preferences,” by Exley, Hauser, Moore (@mollymooreplz.bsky.social), and Pezzuto: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
doi.org
Believed Gender Differences in Social Preferences*
Abstract. While there is a vast (and mixed) literature on gender differences in social preferences, little is known about believed gender differences in so
0196
Reposted by Moshi Alam
Alex Imas @aleximas.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
This and the OP is critical for understanding people’s reactions to LLMs, both positive and negative. I’ve seen a bias develop in both cases. In former case, heavy users have a feel for what prompts work and have limited their requests to those categories. This creates impression of robustness 1/n
13511
Reposted by Moshi Alam
Nishaad Rao @nishaadrao.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Rest well, Manmohan Singh! The 13th Prime Minister of India was unlucky in the way he was portrayed, yet stood as a stark contrast to his successor: took open questions from the Press, was dignified in his remarks, and brought in much needed, sensible reforms as Finance Minister in 1991. A good man.
041
Reposted by Moshi Alam
Ben Golub @bengolub.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
We should at a minimum do what Nature does, in which the referee comments and author responses are published along with the paper. Allows the paper itself to be an authoritative artifact while lifting the curtain on the debate that led its creation. (quoting @dholtz.bsky.social ) 4/
1217617
Reposted by Moshi Alam
Ben Golub @bengolub.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
In economics, editors, referees, and authors often behave as if a published paper should reflect some kind of authoritative consensus. As a result, valuable debate happens in secret, and the resulting paper is an opaque compromise with anonymous co-authors called referees. 1/
28547158
Moshi Alam @moshialam.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
💯 I love Quarto! The multi-language support is amazing. Highly customizable and versatile in scope.
020
Reposted by Moshi Alam
Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 20/12/2024
I want to pause to say thank you to all 10,109 of you following. It's a privilege to be in your timelines and I won't forget that. I look forward to learning from you. People here once asked: Can we really rebuild a network like the one we had? I don't hear that question anymore.
2453
Moshi Alam @moshialam.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Really cool paper—multiple unique data on how job separations occur. #EconSky
000
Reposted by Moshi Alam
Jennifer Doleac @jenniferdoleac.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
If you're a PhD student interested in causal questions related to crime/CJ policy, please email me if you haven't already. (And if you did email me & I didn't respond, please reply to bump your email to the top of my inbox!) I want to make sure y'all are on our radar for future BRIDGE invites.
12314
Reposted by Moshi Alam
Jeffrey Wooldridge @jmwooldridge.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Those who used to follow me on Twitter know that I tediously made the distinction between a model and an estimation method. In one thread, I considered regressions in a treatment effect context: Y on 1, D, X Y on 1, D, X, D*(X - Xbar) It is common to refer to the first as "OLS."
19525
Reposted by Moshi Alam
Ray Fisman @rfisman.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
#econsky Is it possible to get a measure of keyword search frequency (e.g., Google Trends) by city for India, ideally going back 10 years or so? Grateful for any leads.
0189
Reposted by Moshi Alam
Brad Shapiro @btshapir.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Now that I seem to have gotten new followers interested in my editor takes, If you're asked to do a referee report and you're not sure if you have enough time, just quickly reply to the editor that you don't have time. Do not let the request languish. Ghosting a request is the worst option.
37214
Reposted by Moshi Alam
Best of Econtwitter newsletter @bestofecontwitter.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Best of #econtwitter & #econsky - JMPs 2024 special edition, part four www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-ec...
bestofecontwitter.com
Best of #econtwitter - JMPs 2024 special edition, part four
If your thread (or your student’s, or your colleague’s) is missing below, submissions are as always extremely welcome.
123
Reposted by Moshi Alam
Seema Jayachandran @seema.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Using the results shown below and others, we estimate that couples in Germany act as if they value women's earnings at 48 cents on the Euro, compared to men's earnings. In Sweden, it's 80 cents on the Euro. Full paper here: bit.ly/MTO-T
519989
Reposted by Moshi Alam
Grant McDermott @gmcd.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
`etwfe` v0.5.0 is now available on CRAN (and R-universe). grantmcdermott.com/etwfe/ As a reminder, `etwfe` makes it easy to estimate Extended TwoWay Fixed Effects a la @jmwooldridge.bsky.social. Super flexible and good for nonlinear models, recovering heterogeneous TEs, etc. #econsky #rstats 1/3
grantmcdermott.com
510422
Reposted by Moshi Alam
Mallory Avery @mallorave.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
This! Also, there’s evidence that banning the use of AI only seems to deter some people, in this study specifically women: openaccess.nhh.no/nhh-xmlui/ha...
071
Reposted by Moshi Alam
Quantitative Economics @qe-editors.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
We evaluate a large-scale teacher coaching program and develop a framework to estimate treatment effects in a clustered RCT with movement across clusters. The program works despite teacher turnover, raising teachers’ pedagogical skills and student learning www.econometricsociety.org/publications...
093
Reposted by Moshi Alam
AEFP @aefpweb.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
The AEFP early career mentorship program aims to provide support to early-career professionals from backgrounds historically marginalized or underrepresented in fields that center on education finance and policy. Learn more about the program aefpweb.org/mentorsh...
054
Reposted by Moshi Alam
Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
My version of “I have to google how to reshape wide to long every time” is that I use this image whenever I have to think about anything related to Oaxaca-Blinder-Kitagawa. I imagine Group 1 is White, Group 2 is Black, X is education, and Y is wages
Oaxaca-Blinder-Kitagawa
3293
Reposted by Moshi Alam
Peter Hull @instrumenthull.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Here's the punchline -- a "checklist" for researchers hoping to either apply our exogenous-shocks approach or the exogenous-shares approach studied by @paulgp.com and coauthors We pair this with discussion of several real-world papers and how they may or may not fit into the two frameworks
610923
Reposted by Moshi Alam
Khoa @khoavuumn.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
From my recent presentation for the AEFP EdDev group meeting.
39611
Moshi Alam @moshialam.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Yet another unintended consequence failing to account for equilibrium responses. 📈📉
000
Moshi Alam @moshialam.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
This is more of a pedagogical point I’m considering as I prep for my UG econometrics class, but I can’t fully gauge it from an undergrad’s perspective 🤔 Would love to hear from those who’ve taught R or Stata in theirUG ‘metrics class🙏🏽 📈📉 1/2
200
Moshi Alam @moshialam.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Languages unlike statistical softwares give the opportunity to hard code the underlying math that critically helps in understanding the methods. Even if they’re ultimately moved into functions, it helps develop abstract thinking. For Stata, this rarely happens since we rarely (initially) learn mata.
020