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Shosh Vasserman @shoshievass.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

I'm hiring a predoc to work w/ me on empirical IO/applied micro projects starting in Fall '26! Details below and instructions here: shoshanavasserman.com/call_for_pre... International students (who need J1) are welcome & non-econ bgs are fine given interest + curiosity. Please apply :)

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Shengwu Li @shengwuli.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

I need the “Campaign in prose. Govern in econometrics.” t-shirt.

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Steve Berry @steveberry.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

This has potential for academics who miss old Econtwitter.

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Daniel Zhao @danielzhao.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

A cool analysis based on congestion pricing based on traffic passing by the Bloomberg office. Still early obviously but interesting that there's no big shift toward for private vehicles towards more expensive private vehicles (as a proxy for higher income drivers)

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Kristen Broady @kelizbro.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Fellowship Opportunity: The AEA Summer Economics Fellowship allows fellows to spend a summer in residence at a sponsoring research institution. Fellows are typically junior faculty, postdocs or grad students at the dissertation stage. Application deadline: 2/1/25 www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/co...

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Summer Economics Fellows Program

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Phil Haile @philhaile.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

I've gotten a flurry of requests to access my slides on "Models, Measurement, and Language in Economics" (presumably thanks to the great new year's reading list from @rohitlamba.bsky.social). The file is publicly available via my web page, but here is the link: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ntgkb...

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Pedro Sant’Anna @pedrosantanna.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

I've decided to collect my DiD materials in a single place. psantanna.com/did-resources There, you will find - 14 lectures of my comprehensive DiD course - Shorter lectures/talks I have given on DiD - My DiD R/Stata/Python packages - Some DiD checklists - DiD materials from my friends Enjoy!

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Pedro H. C. Sant’Anna

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Zi Yang Kang @ziyangkang.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

1/ My co-author @mitchwatt.bsky.social is on the #EconJobMarket this year. Mitch is an applied theorist interested in market design, IO, and public policy. I happen to know his #JMP and its companion paper very well. 😇 🧵👇 with an overview of both papers. #EconSky

Mitch's JMP: Optimal Redistribution Through Subsidies

Our other paper: Optimal In-Kind Redistribution

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Rachel Leah Childers @donskerclass.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

Since I am suddenly inundated with statistics-oriented followers, I should post again that I am still conducting free weekly open office-hours for anyone in the world with Econometrics questions, Wed 10-12AM Eastern or by appointment. Details and sign up at donskerclass.github.io/OfficeHours....

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Erik Brynjolfsson @erikbryn.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Here's a great starter pack for folks interested in the economics of innovation, competition and IO go.bsky.app/Rchu8QX

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Jeff Gortmaker @jeffgortmaker.com · 29/11/2024

Happy to share that my and @cconlon.bsky.social's micro BLP paper was just accepted at the Journal of Econometrics! jeffgortmaker.com/files/Incorp... It's our 2nd tied to our PyBLP software, so here's a thread on surprising (to me) benefits of combining methods research with open source work. 1/6

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Jonathan Berk 🏠 @berkie1.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

BREAKING: Over 100 Massachusetts cities & towns have now passed zoning reform to allow for multi-family housing near transit in compliance* with their MBTA Communities Law requirements. (*subject to final approval)

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Eva Vivalt @evavivalt.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Think you know about guaranteed income? Prove it: forecast the results of two pilot programs in Chicago and Cook County before they are known: socialscienceprediction.org/predict/r/bf... Accurate forecasts get a prize.

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Unconditional cash transfers in Chicago and Cook County

The regular provision of unconditional cash transfers to individuals is a tactic to fight poverty that has attracted significant interest from researchers and policymakers. Despite this interest, many...

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Ioana Marinescu @imarinescu.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Yes to this PSA: post link to your website in your profile and your #jmp posts #EconSky

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Maximilian Kasy @maxkasy.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Just figured out how to add a bluesky icon to my github website. In case it's useful for anyone here: 1) Download upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co... to /_includes/social-icons

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Shosh Vasserman @shoshievass.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I'm loving all of the paper explainer threads spearheaded by the JMCs. Keep 'em coming!

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Shani Cohen @shanicn.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I am on the job market, which seems like a great opportunity for my first post on here! My job market paper is about failures of contingent thinking -- the act of reasoning about hypothetical events. 1/

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Felix Montag @fmontag.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Check out the great cohort of IO juniors on the market this year and if you are not on the list yet, make sure to sign up!

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Shosh Vasserman @shoshievass.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

There are 64 IO (and IOPLUS) job market candidates on the list so far, all with exciting research portfolios. Check them out!

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UT-Austin Economics @utaustinecon.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

We've made it to Bluesky! Please re-post so others can follows us... 🤘

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Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

And some people think social media platforms enjoy overwhelming market power!

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Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 19/11/2024

I would even add: please shamelessly promote your work One terrific thing I enjoyed on old Twitter was discovering new papers Trust me, you will have an audience if you share your work on Bluesky

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Florian Ederer @florianederer.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Gamers now spend over $20 billion on loot boxes every year. 90% of this revenue comes from just 1.5% of players ("whales"). Regular players enjoy loot boxes for their gameplay complementarity, but whales mostly get loot box value from the direct utility. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Shosh Vasserman @shoshievass.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Jeff has been one of the biggest providers of public goods in my side of economics since before even starting his PhD. He’s now written some great papers, this very interesting jmp, among them. I don’t think he needs the boost, but I hope everyone takes a close look at his file.

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Jeff Gortmaker @jeffgortmaker.com · 18/11/2024

Hey #EconSky, I'm on the job market with an #EconJMP about open source software. OSS is a global public good, widely used and provided by the private sector, but the target of recent industrial policy. Paper: jeffgortmaker.com/files/Open_S... 1/

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Tim Bresnahan @timobres.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Nathan Miller has been appointed Chief Economist of the Antitrust Division. A great appointment. I note with particular pleasure that before becoming an academic, he was a Staff Economist in the Antitrust Division. www.nathanhmiller.org

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Nathan Miller | Professor, Georgetown University, McDonough School of Business and Department of Economics | Economist -- Antitrust Division (U.S. DOJ)

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Katy Milkman @katymilkman.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

This is a fantastic tool if you’re looking for people with overlapping interests (as judged by networks) to follow: bsky-follow-finder.theo.io

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Bluesky Network Analyzer

Find accounts that you don't follow (yet) but are followed by lots of accounts that you do follow.

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Elliot Lipnowski @elliotlip.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Reminder for new users here: Two people are said to have common knowledge of an event E if both know it, 1 knows that 2 knows it, 2 knows that 1 knows it, and so on. Thm: If two people have the same priors, and their posteriors for an event are common knowledge, then these posteriors are equal.

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Shosh Vasserman @shoshievass.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

One of the best things about bsky (imo) is how easy it is for ppl to make network-level public goods. Lots of ppl have been doing this by making starter packs (thank you!) but that just makes it easy to follow ppl en masse. You can also make feeds directly. Plz make more of them, I will subscribe 🙏

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Shosh Vasserman @shoshievass.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Not sure about you guys but it feels like econtwitter is back and I’m really excited about it 😎

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Ben Golub @bengolub.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Look who is here!

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Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 07/11/2024

Good folks of #EconSky, you want to have a look at this tool to find people to follow There’s approximately ~40 econ focused starter packs already, and I expect more to come

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Aaron Roth @aaroth.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Econ has some ML gems. One of my favorite's is Sandroni's sweeping result that no empirical test can distinguish an informed from an uninformed forecaster. I teach it in my ML class: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OAI... But it is presented as negative, when it is in fact a sweeping positive result.

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CIS 6200: Learning with Conditional Guarantees, Lecture 21.

YouTube video by Aaron Roth

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Shosh Vasserman @shoshievass.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Great summary of a cool paper. Live tweeting (skeeting?) is back!

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Ben Golub @bengolub.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

look who's here!

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Ben Golub @bengolub.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

look who's here!

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Shosh Vasserman @shoshievass.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

If you're on the market as an IO or IO-adjacent economist, I really encourage you to sign up. I've heard of people using this list for many things, both during the market (e.g. recruiting) and after (e.g. inviting for seminars). It's an easy way to get some exposure.

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Shosh Vasserman @shoshievass.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

The running list of IO job market candidates for 2024-2025 is live! Fill this out to add your info: forms.gle/upCQ4Ez7sBTP... Running list here: shoshanavasserman.com/io-jmc/

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Shosh Vasserman @shoshievass.bsky.social · 03/10/2024

I'm hiring a pre-doc to work with me on empirical IO/applied micro projects starting in Fall '25! Details below and instructions here: shoshanavasserman.com/call_for_pre... International students (who need J1) are welcome & non-econ bgs are fine given interest + curiosity. Please apply :)

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 13/09/2024

I think we need to follow more accounts, feeds, & lists here than we did elsewhere. The default algos don't push stuff on us. Search "Starter Pack Topic" for whatever Topics interest you & like 2-3X your follows. Pin Lists/Feeds and check em out. bsky.app/profile/aaro...

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Alexander Howard @digiphile.bsky.social · 30/01/2024

The U.S. Department of the Treasury launched the pilot Direct File website for the Internal Revenue Service! directfile.irs.gov. Taxpayers from 12 states can now file federal taxes directly with the IRS for free this season. No flying cars yet, but Americans are getting better digital .gov services

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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 13/01/2024

I'm excited to release the 𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚢𝚝𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 for #RStats ! Convert R dataframes to beautiful tables in HTML, LaTeX, PDF, Quarto, Markdown, etc. Easy to learn; minimalist interface; concise syntax; ultra-customizable tables; and zero dependency. vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/

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Kathleen Weldon @kathleenweldon.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

Also, this Yale project to emulate old software for reading older data is very cool preservica.com/resources/bl...

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 03/01/2024

Hey 📉📈. I set up an #ASSA feed you can subscribe to in order to get all the tweets with #ASSA, #ASSA24, & #ASSA2024 tags.

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Shosh Vasserman @shoshievass.bsky.social · 10/11/2023

5 days left to submit to the NBER IO Winter Session: nber.org/confsubmit/b... A few reminders: - Anyone can submit a paper (you don't have to be NBER-affiliated) - You can submit multiple times (e.g. if your paper didn't get into the summer session) - It'll be at Stanford :)

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Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 10/11/2023

🚨New paper on AI and Zoning with Alex Bartik and Dan Milo We introduce generative regulatory measurement: a new method to use LLMs to parse the underlying meaning of regulatory texts We use AI to figure out what zoning and housing regulations are, and connect them to outcomes

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Shosh Vasserman @shoshievass.bsky.social · 10/11/2023

Nearly 50 ppl have signed up! Spread the word so the list includes everyone :) Last year, lots of ppl said they found it helpful.

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Alexandra de Gendre @adegendre.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

This is one of the features I LOVED of EconTwitter, so glad people have imported to BlueSkye! ❤️🥰 Econ Job Market season is the best time of the year to discover what PhD Candidates are studying and how they do it! 🤩

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