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Davide Viviano

@vivianodavide.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor at Harvard Econ. Previously: postdoc at Stanford GSB and UCSDEcon Phd. Econometrics and Data Science. Website: dviviano.github.io

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VoxDev @voxdev.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
📢Call for Papers: Y-RISE 2026 Annual Conference Dec 17–19, Grand Cayman. Focus: scaling effective policy interventions in global development, with an emphasis on implementation & pilot-to-scale challenges. 📅Deadline: Sept 15 📄Full CFP: ow.ly/gq0W50ZMufa
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Y-RISE Annual Conference: Call for Papers
The Yale Research Initiative on Innovation and Scale (Y-RISE) requests paper submissions for the 2026 Conference on the complexities of scaling up policy interventions in global development. Conference Date: December 17-19, 2026 Location: Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands Submission Deadline: Se...
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Neil Shephard @neilshephard.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Harvard's Statistics Department is advertising for a tenure track professorship: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/16719
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Tenure-Track Professor in Statistics
The Department of Statistics in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) of Harvard University seeks to appoint a tenure-track professor in Statistics in the area of statistics and AI, with an expected ...
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Davide Viviano @vivianodavide.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
In this article we discuss the practice of multiple hypothesis testing, comments welcome!
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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Oliver has chosen the coolest pull quote ever for me… I urge you all to pick up the phone if voxdev ever calls you because they know how to make you sound cool
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deankarlan.bsky.social @deankarlan.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
New working paper with Amol Singh Raswan and Chris Udry: "The Sisyphean Pursuit of Evidence for Poverty Traps." A central idea in development economics is that poverty can trap people. We went looking for the cleanest evidence. Here's what we found – and didn't.
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Noam Angrist @noamangrist.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
So proud to celebrate my father, Josh Angrist, at his Festschrift -- a gathering of people and presentations in honor of his career and legacy. He has influenced so many: generations of Angrists and a rockstar student family tree. An impressive array of causal effects!
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Davide Viviano @vivianodavide.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
New working paper joint with Eliana La Ferrara and Cheaheon Lim on estimating norms complementarities with social spillovers. (Link: bpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/sites.harvar...)
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Alex Chan @alex8chan.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
📣Come work with me @harvard.edu ! Harvard @harvardhbs.bsky.social -RA, **CS, AI, Causal Inference, statistics** (interest in health economics a plus but not necessary), start date: the sooner the better👀 (at least now through summer), remote option alexchan.net #Econtwitter #econra #econ_ra
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Home | Alex Chan, Economist
Alex Chan: Health Economics, Market Design, Experimental Economics, Economics of Discrimination and Diversity
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Y-RISE @yalerise.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Y-RISE Spring newsletter coming soon 🌍 We’re sharing the latest news and research findings from our affiliate network. Subscribe to get it straight to your inbox: 🔗 subscribe.yale.edu/browse?searc... #Econ #GlobalDev #Policy
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Davide Viviano @vivianodavide.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Happy to see this in print!
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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
for this good friday please enjoy esther's latest ted talk saying essentially that the one good thing about having all the wealth concentrated in the hands of like 900 individuals globally is that we know where to go to get the climate reparations youtu.be/OtSwoGuz8sk
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Tax the Rich — and Save the Planet | Esther Duflo | TED
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Neil Shephard @neilshephard.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
With Jake Carlson (jscarlson.github.io) I have written "When are time series predictions causal? The potential system and dynamic causal effects." You can read it at shephard.scholars.harvard.edu/sites/g/file... Comments welcome. It is an epic read.
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Davide Viviano @vivianodavide.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
The conference was fantastic, highly recommend!
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Davide Viviano @vivianodavide.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Very happy to see this paper on estimating dynamic treatments over time in print in Biometrika, joint work with Jelena Bradic link: academic.oup.com/biomet/advan...
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Dynamic covariate balancing: estimating treatment effects over time with potential local projections
Abstract. This article concerns the estimation and inference of treatment effects in panel data settings when treatments change dynamically over time. We p
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Davide Viviano @vivianodavide.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Looking forward to this!
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The Verge @theverge.com · 20/01/2026
As Homeland Security’s siege on Minneapolis enters its third week, locals are volunteering for patrol shifts, protesting in the streets, and keeping one another up to date in group texts. Read more from @scottmeslow.bsky.social in Minneapolis:
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It’s worse than it looks in Minneapolis
But locals are organizing to keep each other safe from ICE agents.
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
I would, I think, normally have dismissed or at least shrugged at the Governor’s invocation of MN as a special place with its own ethos and distinct moral identity. But I lived there. And it’s true.
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Davide Viviano @vivianodavide.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Thanks @paulgp.com !
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Neil Shephard @neilshephard.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
New paper on analytic filtering, prediction and smoothing for a class of exponential family models. Interested in comments. We continue to work on this abstract setup with more general weight functions and loss functions --- hope to report results soon. tinbergen.nl/discussion-p...
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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...
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Davide Viviano @vivianodavide.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
New working paper below!
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Maximilian Kasy @maxkasy.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
⏰ We are hiring on the junior market! ⏰ Multiple open positions at the Oxford Department of Economics: econjobmarket.org/positions?sh... 2 positions associate professor open field, 1 position development econ. cc @oxfordecondept.bsky.social
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EJM - Econ Job Market
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Davide Viviano @vivianodavide.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
New Working Paper w/ Aristotelis Epanomeritakis Applications often use experiments with other evidence to estimate counterfactuals hard to identify with a single experiment. Examples include GE effects or external validity. Which experiments to run (and how) in these contexts?
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Golub Capital Social Impact Lab @gsbsilab.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
New paper: Triply Robust Panel Estimators (TROP) by @susanathey.bsky.social @guidoimbens.bsky.social Zhaonan Qu @vivianodavide.bsky.social. arxiv.org/pdf/2508.21536
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Maximilian Kasy @maxkasy.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Looking forward to this week’s booktalks and discussions! Sep 23: MIT Knight Science Journalism program ksj.mit.edu/events/ Sep 24: Harvard Kennedy School (including discussion with Dani Rodrik) www.hks.harvard.edu/events/book-... Sep 25: Yale Law School law.yale.edu/centers-work...
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Law, Economics & Organization Workshop
Discover your passion
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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 20/09/2025
The full order: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... Because this cam out of the blue and sudden: other, similar orders could come out of the blue and sudden. So those on visas will surely consider international travel a potential risk, and opt for zoom calls over flying when possible
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Restriction on Entry of Certain Nonimmigrant Workers
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION The H-1B nonimmigrant visa program was created to bring temporary workers into the United
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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
i just want to convey the depth of my appreciation to our colleagues, in the broad sense, in the american and UK university systems, for continuing to teach the fact that trans people exist even though you are all going to be ceaselessly punished alongside us for it. thank you.
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VoxDev @voxdev.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
🆕 Macroeconomics and climate change 📢 Today on VoxDevTalks, @adrienbilal.bsky.social (@stanford.edu) discusses the research on macroeconomics and climate change – highlighting evidence gaps in mitigation, adaptation, and labour transitions: voxdev.org/topic/macroe...
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LSE Methodology @lsemethodology.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
We're hiring an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science ❗ 📚 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... Apply before 26 October and join an internationally outstanding group of social science methodologists 🌎
we're hiring assistant professor in computational social science, applications close 26/10/2025
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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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Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
#econsky www.thebanker.com/content/38c3...
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Trump’s Fed interference raises alarm among leading economists
Nearly 600 economists sign a letter warning of consequences for inflation and economic stability
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Maximilian Kasy @maxkasy.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Are you on the economics job market this year? Consider applying for the Nuffield postdoc at Oxford: econjobmarket.org/positions/11... It's an excellent opportunity for some extra research time in a great environment! (Econometrics and econ/ML applications particularly encouraged!)
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Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
I was the AEA's President Elect as the first Trump term began. We worried about government statistics then, and appointed a committee that included members (such as Google's Chief Economist) who might be in a position to help make reliable statistics available if the government went dark. #econsky
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Abhijeet Singh @singhabhi.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Independent reliable statistics are crucial in all modern democracies — and under attack in many parts of the world…
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Michael R Strain @michaelrstrain.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Dr. Erika McEntarfer has devoted her career to public service. She has conducted herself as BLS Commissioner with great integrity. There is no evidence whatsoever that BLS data are politically biased. #econsky
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Davide Viviano @vivianodavide.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Very exciting and opens up many questions on how we evaluate these sources of data!
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Davide Viviano @vivianodavide.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Looking forward to the NBER SI Thursday metrics session next week where we will be presenting work on remote sensed outcomes with Rahul Singh and Ashesh Rambachan. Here is the program www.nber.org/conferences/... and preview dviviano.github.io/projects/pre... Drop by if you are around!
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Mushfiq Mobarak @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
insights.som.yale.edu/insights/whe... "The countries that succeed are the ones that are able to create institutions that attract talent from wherever it happens to be born."
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When Skilled Workers Go Abroad, Their Home Countries Experience ‘Brain Gain’
When skilled workers from poorer countries migrate to wealthy ones, there are benefits for the origin countries as well as workers and the host countries, according to new research co-authored by Yale...
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Maximilian Kasy @maxkasy.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
🔥New #basicincome paper just posted:🔥 "Basic income and labor supply: Evidence from an RCT in Germany" (maybe not the wittiest title, but descriptive...) maxkasy.github.io/home/files/p... Feedback welcome, this is still subject to revisions!
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Noah Greifer @noahgreifer.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Starting to look like I might not be able to work at Harvard anymore due to recent funding cuts. If you know of any open statistical consulting positions that support remote work or are NYC-based, please reach out! 😅
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Davide Viviano @vivianodavide.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Sharing here the slides for the talks given this week: dviviano.github.io/projects/pre... (on using remote sensed outcomes for program evaluation) and dviviano.github.io/projects/val... (on learning generalizability/evidence aggregation)
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Peter Reinhard Hansen @profphansen.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Harvard's past international students include incubator of Moderna, co-founder of Facebook, at least 11 Nobel Prize winners, and 14 heads of state.
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apoorva lal @handle.invalid · 10/12/2024
Fun project on formulating experimentation as an optimisation problem led by Tim Sudijono, who we were lucky to have as an intern this year.
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Davide Viviano @vivianodavide.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
How to design scientific communication when researchers have private incentives in how to conduct a research study (and/or in which statistics to report)? Exciting new project with Ravi Jagadeesan: dviviano.github.io/projects/pub...
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Stefanie Stantcheva @s-stantcheva.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Deeply honored and humbled by this recognition from the @aeainformation.bsky.social. I owe so much to my co-authors, colleagues, mentors, students & many others: support, inspiration, generosity. Endlessly grateful for all I have learned from you & hope to continue contributing to our field
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Econometrica @ecmaeditors.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
How can we design algorithms that maximize social welfare, rather than profits? This paper merges multi-armed bandits and adversarial learning with optimal tax theory and welfare economics. @maxkasy @NicoloCB @Rcolomboni buff.ly/pxPY8nj
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Davide Viviano @vivianodavide.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Congratulations @s-stantcheva.bsky.social !
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Davide Viviano @vivianodavide.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Hi all, Emily Breza and I are currently hiring a full time research assistant for the next a.y. to work at the intersection of econometric methods and development economics. Some topics include meta-analysis, unstructured data and social networks! academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14839
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Pre-Doctoral Fellowship (Prof Breza and Viviano)
The fellow will work on projects for both Breza and Viviano spanning development economics and econometrics. We provide three examples below of projects the fellow may work on. 1. “Meta-analysis and e...
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