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Rudi Bachmann @bachmannrudi.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

Since I am placement director for ND's Econ Department, let me tell you about our job market candidates this year (in alphabetical order). It's a fantastic group of young economists, please do not hesitate to contact me for any questions. They are all listed here: economics.nd.edu/graduate/stu...

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Students on the Job Market

A list of economics students on the job market

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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

The November 2024 issue of AEJ: Economic Policy (16, 4) is now available online at aeaweb.org/issues/782.

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American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

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Julian Reif @julianreif.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

The AEA has released data on econ job openings for 2024 (as of Oct. 27). Compared to 2023: - Total openings down 9.3% - US academic openings down 11.7% - US adjunct/visiting openings up 4.0% Lots more info available here, including non-US openings: #EconSky www.aeaweb.org/joe/communic...

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Riley Acton @riacton.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

Henry Downes visited us at Miami a few weeks ago and gave a really impressive seminar on his JMP! Check him out if you are hiring in labor, public, history, and/or demography. henrymdownes.com

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Henry Downes - Home

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Kasey Buckles @kaseybuckles.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

I’m telling you, Henry is fantastic—but you don’t have to take my word for it! 👇👇👇👇👇👇

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Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 02/10/2024

One thing we do that I think is kind of crazy is throw students into their own research after coursework; ie a senior thesis or third year paper. Students almost always flail when this happens. Way better to do an apprentice model: work with others on a paper first, then do your own.

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Henning Hermes @henninghermes.com · 22/01/2024

We are thrilled to curate a Special Issue on “Field Experiments to Reduce Inequality” in the European Economic Review! Guest editors: @lergetporer.bsky.social @michelebelot.bsky.social @henninghermes.com @fpeter.bsky.social & @simonwiederhold.bsky.social Details: tinyurl.com/38hzxdte #EconSky

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David Phillips @phillipsecon.bsky.social · 19/01/2024

This is a great line: "like a four year old with access to unlimited postgrad labor, a true scientist will never stop asking 'but why?'"

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Upjohn Institute @upjohninstitute.bsky.social · 16/01/2024

The deadline is fast approaching for our 2024 Early Career Research Awards. Applications are due Jan. 21. Early Career Research Awards go to researchers within six years of earning a Ph.D. for policy-related research on employment issues. Funding for each award is $7,500. Details at link. 📈📉

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Deadline for Early Career Research Awards approaching

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Kasey Buckles @kaseybuckles.bsky.social · 15/01/2024

Submit for the NBER Children's program's spring meeting, May 2-3. Papers are due March 1. All are encouraged to apply--please share! conference.nber.org/confsubmit/b...

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David Phillips @phillipsecon.bsky.social · 18/12/2023

People way underestimate how much of a hit to statistical power results from typical quasi-experimental methods. (the answer is X<=144; poll from the other place since I can't here)

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David Phillips @phillipsecon.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

Totally agree that experiments have drawbacks. But scarce researcher time has to be allocated across methods. And when most applied economists think of advantages of a typical experiment relative to a typical quasi-experiment, "better statistical power" is rarely on their list and it should be.

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David Phillips @phillipsecon.bsky.social · 14/12/2023

"We also compare observational to experimental research and find that the quality of experimental economic evidence is notably higher." Our profession massively undervalues the advantage that the typical experiment has in statistical power compared to the typical quasi-experiment.

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David Phillips @phillipsecon.bsky.social · 14/12/2023

What pops out to me is the dramatic difference in power between experiments and non-experiments in Table 2.

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David Phillips @phillipsecon.bsky.social · 14/12/2023

But they replace Captcha with the montage at the beginning of "Up" and only let you pass if you cry.

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Institute for Research on Poverty @irpwisc.bsky.social · 14/12/2023

Please share! Applications now being accepted for the 2024 National Research Center on Poverty and Economic Mobility Early-Career Mentoring Institute, co-sponsored by IRP & the UC Davis Center for Poverty & Inequality Research, with additional support from The National Research Center on (1/5)

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 14/12/2023

Snow xkcd.com/2866

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David McKenzie @dmckenzie.bsky.social · 13/12/2023

Today's job market post by Madeline Duhon uses data from India, Kenya, the USA, and Ghana to show how socioeconomic status can shape differences in parental beliefs about child academic achievement blogs.worldbank.org/impactevalua...

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Inequality in Beliefs: Guest Post by Madeline Duhon

Human capital Parental beliefs

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Notre Dame Economics @ndecon.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

Out in the December edition of AER: Insights, "Hiring Frictions and the Promise of Online Job Portals: Evidence from India," by our own Nilesh Fernando @nileshfern.bsky.social and Niha Singh (along with Gabe Tourek): www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

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Julian Reif @julianreif.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

I am putting together an ASHEcon session focused on health behaviors and RCT's, broadly defined. We have 3 discussants and 2 papers lined up. We are looking for one more paper, please reach out to me (jreif@illinois.edu) if you have something that could fit. #EconSky

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Jennifer Doleac @jenniferdoleac.bsky.social · 08/12/2023

Here it is! Our new standing RFP for causal research proposals on crime/CJ! This replaces our previous practice of invite-only submissions for most research. Please share with your networks, including PhD students. craftmediabucket.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/Caus...

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David Phillips @phillipsecon.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

Yeah, that's where my knowledge ends...economics needs a book of counter-example utility functions/preference relations...

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David Phillips @phillipsecon.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

(I'm trying to sort out if the symmetry is required by differentiability or just more generally a feature of any preferences that you can represent with a utility function...not immediately obvious to me...)

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David Phillips @phillipsecon.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

Could you formalize this with some weird non-differentiable preferences....like two stage utility function that is Leontief over tasks (diapering, baking, etc.) and and tasks are either perfect substitutes or totally irrelevant within task?

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Institute for Research on Poverty @irpwisc.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

📢Please share! 📢As the National Research Center on Poverty and Economic Mobility, IRP, in collaboration with ASPE’s Office of Human Services Policy, is currently accepting applications for 2024-26 extramural large research grants for up to $50,000. (1/4)

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Kasey Buckles @kaseybuckles.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

In our new NBER WP, we estimate historical intergenerational mobility for men **and women** using hundreds of millions of census-to-census links from the Census Tree. 🧵 👇https://www.nber.org/papers/w31918 with Zach Ward, Joe Price, & Haley Wilbert

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Rachel Franklin 🦚 @rsfrankl.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

Academics everywhere: Let me just submit this manuscript before the start of the holidays, summer, or new semester. But also How dare the editor of this journal send me a review request just before the start of the holidays, summer, or new semester.

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Notre Dame Economics @ndecon.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

Out in @nber.bsky.social today, "Family Trees and Falling Apples: Historical Intergenerational Mobility Estimates for Women and Men," from our own @kaseybuckles.bsky.social and graduate student Haley Wilbert, along with Joe Price and Zach Ward. www.nber.org/papers/w31918

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Notre Dame Economics @ndecon.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

Forthcoming in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, "Eviction and Poverty in American Cities" by our own Robert Collinson, along with Humphries, Mader, Reed, Tannenbaum, and van Dijk. academic.oup.com/qje/advance-...

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David Phillips @phillipsecon.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

Not state, but lots of local transportation programs make SNAP recipients automatically eligible.

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David Phillips @phillipsecon.bsky.social · 17/11/2023

I think it is information. Your average regular person thinks it is dramatically more expensive/hard to get than it is.

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 17/11/2023

Econ obsesses about OVB & assumes away measurement error. Psych vice versa.

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Andreas Peichl @apeichl.bsky.social · 14/11/2023

The open letter from 400+ IZA fellows to the Deutsche Post Foundation in response to the new leadership announcement at IZA is online: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Letter Deutsche Post Foundation

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David Phillips @phillipsecon.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

Come work with me! You’ve done research, love talking about it, and care deeply about making a difference. You’ve also figured out that you’d rather contribute to a team in a different way than the PhD to professor path. Maybe a job for you (jobs.nd.edu/postings/32575). Ends Nov 15.

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David Phillips @phillipsecon.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

[Final asides. (1) Feel free to send me questions; (2) I enjoy the coding and math! But that’s why we need someone with different skills; (3) for job market candidates, this is quite different from research faculty positions (like mine)]

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David Phillips @phillipsecon.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

So if you did a pre-doc or a masters degree, and all the Stata coding and real analysis is not your long-term path. But you’re excited about building evidence, using social science for the good, and you like meeting and talking to all sorts of researchers…check out the link.

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David Phillips @phillipsecon.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

We are including more and more faculty from outside LEO in this work. We need someone who wants to connect with those (really cool!) people, help match them to particular projects, and support that network so that they’re fully integrated into our work.

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David Phillips @phillipsecon.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

Some more details: LEO is a research group in @ndecon.bsky.social. We learn about how to most effectively respond to poverty by doing impact evaluations in partnership with local service providers. This job is our new Faculty Affiliate and Data Manager.

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David Phillips @phillipsecon.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

Mostly because I want to see someone try to implement Becker-DeGroot-Marschak with a bunch of 8 year-olds in costumes.

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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 30/10/2023

Teachers matter a ton, but so do school counselors. Counselors can have big impacts on educational attainment, particularly for low income students. Thrilled to see Christine Mulhern's important work published this morning in the AER. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

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David Phillips @phillipsecon.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

Judge/screener IV papers tend to spend a fair bit of space on this. Often they test if strict judges are strict for all sub-groups or make exceptions for certain groups.

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David Phillips @phillipsecon.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

But it only works if you regularly interrupt half of all conversations with a friendly discussion about how they should cite you. Also giving out tote bags is important.

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David Phillips @phillipsecon.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

When there are multiple equilibria, I always get to select which is realized.

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David Phillips @phillipsecon.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

Proposal: for every null result an empirical economist publishes, they get one chance to eliminate a referee report before the editor sees it.

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Kevin Rinz @kevinrinz.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

I’ve been trying to make this happen in one form or another for almost 7 years, and it’s finally out. Data on income inequality and mobility within detailed demographic groups, nationally and at the state level, designed with researchers and the public in mind. www.minneapolisfed.org/institute/in...

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Income Distributions and Dynamics in America | Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute

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Gina C. Pieters, PhD @ginapieters.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

#Econsky, specifically #JMCs in #Economics. In the recent #CSWEP newsletter we announced a new initiative: organized practice job market interviews (the "elevator pitch" portion) at the upcoming #SEA. Interested candidates: the details on page 18: www.aeaweb.org/content/file...

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