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Do Carbon Offsets Offset Carbon?
A new super interesting paper suggests no.
Many Clean Development Mechanism projects are inframarginal and offsets end up increasing CO2 emissions!
By Calel,
@JonathanColmer
, Dechezleprêtre, & Glachant.
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I really wish Alan Krueger was alive today to share this year’s Nobel prize.
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@zeynep
@DinaPomeranz
This is probably the best paper showing the causal link between Fox News content and covid cases and deaths, by Bursztyn, Rao,
@cp_roth
, &
@YanagizawaD
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The secret is out: Beginning this summer, I will be joining
@Columbia
as the endowed Professor of Energy Policy at
@ColumbiaSIPA
.
I’m eager to collaborate with the brilliant minds at Columbia and contribute to our shared mission of driving informed policy change.
I am beyond
Robert Metcalfe (
@RDMetcalfe
) joins SIPA as professor of international and public affairs, with a professorship of energy policy.
Metcalfe, who most recently was a professor of economics at the University of Southern California, studies applied microeconomics, with a focus on
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So happy to see our paper "Measuring the Welfare Effects of Shame and Pride" finally in print at the American Economic Review, with
@lu_butera
,
@DTaubinsky
, & Billy Morrison.
Link:
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The third year that I’m teaching on zoom. It still sucks.
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For economists interested in welfare analysis and causal inference, I highly recommend reading
@nhendren82
& Finkelstein's latest JEP paper
The 'marginal value of public funds' framework is here to stay.
@AEAjournals
@TimothyTTaylor
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When I was in grad school, I read many important
@JPubEcon
papers and one day hoped to publish in it. Now, it’s come full circle - I’m extremely lucky to become a co-editor of
@JPubEcon
. Thank you,
@nhendren82
,
@wwwojtekk
.
Please send your field experimental public econ papers!
We are delighted to welcome four new co-editors to the Journal of Public Economics:
@SarahCohodes
,
@rdmetcalfe
,
@jesspan13
, and
@SeimSeim
. Welcome aboard!
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Life update: happy to announce that I’m permanently moving to USC from BU. I’m sad to be leaving awesome colleagues at BU, but excited to be gaining new ones at USC.
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One day, I’ll write a thread about the enormous amount of luck required and the difficulties faced by being a social class outsider in academia (both in the UK and the US).
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So glad to hear that Catherine Wolfram has been appointed as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Climate and Energy Economics at the US Treasury Department. Outstanding choice and economist.
#econtwitter
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The Journal of Public Economics is rockin'!! Impact factor over 8 and review times down to 8 weeks.
Great job
@nhendren82
&
@wwwojtekk
on taking
@JPubEcon
to new levels.
Public economics more relevant than ever. It is a pleasure to editor with you and the whole
@JPubEcon
team.
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16 years to the day where I had the idea for this paper while I was watching the first game of Euro 2008 and having a few beers. Should have been studying in grad school instead.
#EURO2024
starts today. That's bad news for students whose high-stakes tests overlap with the tournament.
@RDMetcalfe
documents a negative effect of international tournaments (World Cup and EURO) on exam performance. The odds of reaching the achievement benchmark fall by 12%.
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An extremely interesting JMP by Karim Fajury
@USC_Econ
Little causal evidence as to whether higher income reduces the propensity to engage in corruption.
Karim painstakingly gathers a novel dataset on vote buying and uses a RDD on cash transfer program.
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I'm excited to be hiring an economics pre-doc fellow next summer at
@USC_Econ
.
Projects include the welfare impacts of environmental and climate change policies, and the implementation and analysis of large-scale field experiments.
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If you are interested in conducting a PhD in economics, with an interest in applied micro, I thoroughly recommend applying to
@USC_Econ
.
We have over 40 faculty who conduct research in or related to applied micro across many different fields across the school.
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Excited to announce the 2022 Advances with Field Experiments conference in Chicago on June 8-9, 2022. It’s in person!!!!
Keynote speakers: Marianne Bertrand (Chicago), Nicholas Bloom (Stanford) Raj Chetty (Harvard)
#EconTwitter
Sign-up:
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New
@nberpubs
working paper out today:
"Race and Redistribution in the United States: An Experimental Analysis"
with
@jesper_akesson
, Bob Hahn, & Itzhak Rasooly
#econtwitter
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Very excited that our paper on the efficiency and equity impacts of energy subsidies is out today in the American Economic Review.
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So, John and I have gone for it. We are announcing the Virtual Advances with Field Experiments Seminar Series. Every Wednesday at 12pm ET. Sign up here: Our inaugural speaker is
@sdellavi
presenting his great paper on "RCTs to Scale" with
@ElizabethLinos
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To juniors: if you have great field experimental papers in public economics that you want quick decisions on, please send them to
@JPubEcon
as I’d love to see them.
I’ll do my best to turn them around quickly and fairly.
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To all European econ masters students and research assistants applying to PhDs this year: please let me know if you’d like to discuss what an econ PhD in the US entails.
There are plenty of pros and cons that I had zero idea about when I was an econ masters student in the UK.
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If you are applying to the
@USC_Econ
PhD program and are interested in applied micro (development, environmental, IO, labor, political economy, urban), please state what areas you'd like to work on and what professors you'd like to work with.
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The Journal of Public Economics’ 2022 impact factor is 9.8!
@JPubEcon
is going from strength to strength.
Please submit your best experimental work in public economics.
@wwwojtekk
@nhendren82
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Any applied micro JMCs interested in a post-doc at
@USC_Econ
. Email me your CV and JMP.
We have a position that isn’t on AEA JOE.
#EconTwitter
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As a 1st gen, I must say a lot of it is simply luck and persistence. I was very lucky to find incredible mentors that were willing to take a bet on me. I did not get into the profession the traditional way and I worry that the homogeneity of paths will lead to a narrower Econ.
First gen: Please do not give up. You are not alone. I'm first gen and so are many others that you would not expect. And don't let anyone ever tell you are "disadvantaged." That's BS. You bring so much to the table, our profession needs you.
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The results from this vaccine on kids in the UK is quite incredible.
“The HPV immunisation programme has successfully almost eliminated cervical cancer in women born since Sept 1, 1995.”
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We just released our new working paper on the impact of smart thermostats on energy use.
with
@Econ_4_Everyone
@ChrisMClapp
Alec Brandon & Mike Price
@nberpubs
#EconTwitter
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📢Hiring alert!
I am seeking a pre-doc
@USC_Econ
to support a range of field experiments, and in particular a project with
@nhendren82
on improving the welfare measurement of public policies.
Join us in LA for an incredible environment of economists.
Please RT
@econ_ra
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The
@nberpubs
Environmental and Energy Economics Summer Institute kicks off on Monday, with an incredible line-up of papers:
I'll be presenting our paper on flood risk on Tuesday morning (w/
@FairweatherPhD
,
@mattkahn1966
,
@S_Olascoaga
).
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Job market update: we have just been giving the green light to hire a junior slot in Empirical IO
@USC_Econ
.
We will release the job ad very shortly. Please encourage your students whose primary or secondary field is empirical IO to apply.
#econtwitter
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We just updated our persistence of social norms paper. New things added:
- full research design;
- robustness of results; and
- implications for the literature.
@Econ_4_Everyone
@pauljferraro
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Do smart thermostats deliver energy savings?
Our field experiment suggests no.
Reason: Humans don't behave like engineers predict.
Watch
@ChrisMClapp
present our work right now:
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Added some more speakers to the virtual Advances with Field Experiments series (all 12pm ET):
May 6
@sdellavi
May 13 Michael Kremer
May 20
@ImranRasul3
May 27 Janet Currie
June 3 Leo Bursztyn
June 10
@jacobsgoldin
June 17
@tedmiguel
June 24
@HuntAllcott
July 1
@nhendren82
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Pic from last night’s dinner at the Advances with Field Experiments conference.
#afe2022
@UChi_Economics
@Econ_4_Everyone
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If you are interested in doing a PhD in environmental/energy economics, you should definitely apply to
@USC_Econ
@USC
.
We have amazing faculty conducting research in this area, including
@mattkahn1966
, Paulina Oliva,
@amb396
,
@bassi_vittorio
, Marianne Andries.
#EconTwitter
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We are hopeful that the Advances with Field Experiments conference will be in person on September 23-24, 2021
@UChi_Economics
SAVE THE DATE!
Three keynotes are:
Marianne Bertrand
Nick Bloom
Raj Chetty
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But in the meantime, I’d like
say that my main stroke of professional luck has been meeting three inspirational first-gen mentors: John List, Bob Hahn, &
@profpauldolan
. They gave me a chance and I am so grateful for their interest in me and my research.
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Celebrate the small wins!
Our social norms tax compliance paper finally reaches 1000 cites! Thanks to everyone who has cited this work.
There is impactful work outside of the top 5 journals.
Very glad that
@JPubEcon
took on this paper.
@Econ_4_Everyone
@mhallsworth
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Dear PhD committees, please stop giving students exploding offers.
Most unis are signed up to the April 15 resolution and most students who are competitive are bound by it.
Context: one of my students got an aggressive one from a top European school.
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***Fatalism, Beliefs, and Behavior During the COVID-19 Pandemic***
New paper, so comments are very much welcome!
We show that people's beliefs about the infectiousness of the virus (R0) affects people's willingness to socially distance.
/thread
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Really cool paper by
@bryleonard
, who is bringing
@jmwooldridge
to the environmental economics crowd at the occasional
@emLabUCSB
workshop.
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Very honored to receive the Reidy Family Career Development Professorship at Boston University. Thank you to those who have helped me on this journey.
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Big news! We are bringing the Advances with Field Experiments to London this year!
@Econ_4_Everyone
and I are excited to partner with
@Sefi_Roth_
@LSEnews
to do this.
So grateful to have amazing keynotes of
@Susan_Athey
@orianabandiera
& Noam Yuchman.
Excited to announce that we are taking our field experiments conference to London! The 2024 Advances with Field Experiments (AFE) conference will take place at the London School of Economics, September 5-6, 2024.
@RDMetcalfe
and I were lucky to again secure outstanding keynote
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Currently writing a few papers with clear null effects with mechanisms, so I'm interested in how previous authors have framed nulls.
What is everyone's favorite paper where the null is the main result and is contrary to people's priors?
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Hold the dates for the Advances with Field Experiments 2023 conference: September 21st and 22nd at
@UChi_Economics
.
Keynotes:
@I_Am_NickBloom
,
@S_Stantcheva
,
@UriGneezy
@Econ_4_Everyone
and I will send out the call for papers very soon.
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Interested in economics & climate change?
Come work with me
@USC_Econ
on applying public economics and modern experimental tools to the world's most pressing problem.
You will work with me,
@nhendren82
,
@bsprungkeyser
,
@charleshutchy
,
@policyimpacts
and others.
@econ_ra
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Any prospective PhD students interested in public and environmental/resource economics, you should apply to
@USC_Econ
.
We have tremendous financial and social support, and you get to live in the best city in the world. Even
@GarethBale11
agrees!
Rising global GHG emissions is the reason that I work on the microeconomics of climate adaptation. As
@USC_Econ
invests in upgrading our PHD program, we will recruit more students to work with me,
@RDMetcalfe
and Paulina Oliva on adaptation.
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We just finished the program for
#afe2022
.
@Econ_4_Everyone
& I are incredibly excited to be hosting 200(!!!) field experiment papers at
@UChi_Economics
We have sessions in behavioral, cognition, consumer finance, crime, development, digital markets,
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Abhijit Banjeree using our paper to showcase the way field experiments can help us understand the effectiveness of climate technologies.
@JPAL
@JPAL_Europe
@Econ_4_Everyone
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We recently completed a field experiment showing how fake reviews impact on consumer demand and welfare.
For every dollar spent, fake reviews reduce consumer welfare by $.12.
Paper:
Congratulations to
@RDMetcalfe
and co-authors for conducting policy relevant research!
@USCDornsife
@usc
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Very grateful and excited to be the chief economist of
@CentreNetZero
@OctopusEnergy
to design and implement a better energy market for societies around the world.
@OctopusEnergy
and
@g__j
are changing the energy landscape for the better!
📣 Delighted that
@RDMetcalfe
has joined CNZ as our Chief Economist! Rob is a leading global expert in behavioural science & field experiments
🔎 Want to join our growing team? We're
#Hiring
:
#DataEngineer
👉
#DataScientist
👉
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We have 82 papers in five minute videos given by the authors. Check them out, they are excellent. 410 minutes of field experiments!!
#afe2020
#EconTwitter
EIGHTY TWO 5 minute videos presenting results from recent field experiments can now be found on youtube via the
#AFE2020
conference:
Whatay contribution to the public good!
@RDMetcalfe
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Field experiments are back in the White House!
So too is Social & Behavioral Science.
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For those interested in adaptive experiments after
@Susan_Athey
's talk yesterday, definitely take a look at the fascinating paper examining job search interventions for refugees by
@maxkasy
@t8el
@simonrquinn
@caria_stefano
@grantmgordon
@sohashami
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Next week at
@USC_Econ
we host
@YujungHwang3
. Her paper on modeling xenophobic behaviors in the US is terrific and worth a read.
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For anyone who uses or teaches cost-benefit analysis (CBA) or welfare analysis, I thoroughly recommend reading
@nhendren82
&
@bsprungkeyser
's new working paper comparing CBA to the Marginal Value of Public funds approach.
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Since joining
@USC_Econ
, I’ve been blown away by how good our juniors in micro are. I recommend inviting
@bassi_vittorio
@Jeff_Weaver_
@JlibDoesEcon
@NikzadAfshin
for seminars. All doing brilliant work.
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Day 1 of the Advances with Field Experiments conference gets underway today!
A superb set of morning papers.
#AFE2022
@UChi_Economics
@Econ_4_Everyone
#EconTwitter
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Any economists interested in joining our team, specializing in designing and implementing field experiments with public and private partners?
@Tbehaviouralist
have a few positions open for talented and purpose-driven economists. If interested, plz contact
@jesper_akesson
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Biggest twitter news of 2021:
John List is on twitter!!
@Econ_4_Everyone
is definitely worth following.
John is truly an extraordinary friend, mentor, & colleague.
And he has an incredible track record of making economics more exciting, rigorous, & diverse.
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Very excited to announce that
@orianabandiera
,
@lkatz42
, and Ulrike Malmendier will be our keynotes for the Advances with Field Experiments conference at
@UChi_Economics
on September 23-24, 2020. Please save the date!
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This was the perfect short paper to handle at
@JPubEcon
.
Important question, clean and credible ID strategy, punchy results, and public policy implications.
That can all be done in under 6000 words and the paper can be turned around quick.
"Job displacement costs of phasing out coal", with
@mikesimmonsecon
@GerhardToews
@fernandomaragon
. We use the dramatic collapse of the UK coal industry to estimate the long-term employment outcomes on displaced miners w/ lessons for the energy transition. Soon
@JPubEcon
🧵👇
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Very excited to be giving the keynote at the 10th Atlantic Workshop on Energy and Environmental Economics, June 20-21, 2024.
@XLabandeira
@andreasloeschel
@max_filippini
@MirabelleMuuls
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One of my first jobs was working in the warehouse of a Walmart (called Asda in the UK) to help shelf stacking during the night.
It’s now awesome to come full circle to work with
@Econ_4_Everyone
to run experiments in Walmart to increase productivity and social welfare.
(1/2)
In perhaps the worst kept secret, I have been named
@Walmart
's first Chief Economist. Of course, my home remains
@UChi_Economics
, but I will build an economic team for Walmart. Join me to deepen our economic understanding of markets and change the world with field experiments!
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Experimental studies usually get a great deal of criticism on the external validity margin. Here, John List goes after this criticism with Non est Disputandum de Generalizability
@UChi_Economics
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Had an amazing visit at
@TheChoiceLab
@NHHEcon
. An incredible group of applied micro econs. And Bergen is stunning!
Thanks for having me.
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Given the recent interest in comparing and contrasting the two great papers on contact theory by
@salma_mousa_
and
@hmmlowe
, we decided to have a special advances with field experiments seminar on Sept 9th with both papers.
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So good to be giving a seminar in person again!
And great to be giving a field experimental paper at the site of the first “field” experiment in the US!
The Morrow Plots at
@Illinois_Alma
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Due to popular demand, I will hold a zoom Q&A on the US-Euro PhD system/life differences 8am PT (4pm UK time) on Oct 18th.
If you are interested, please sign-up:
I will be joined by three special guests:
-
@bassi_vittorio
-
@ABergeron_econ
-
@mmorl89
To all European econ masters students and research assistants applying to PhDs this year: please let me know if you’d like to discuss what an econ PhD in the US entails.
There are plenty of pros and cons that I had zero idea about when I was an econ masters student in the UK.
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Also, I am accepting applications outside of the United States.
Please share widely.
I'm excited to be hiring an economics pre-doc fellow next summer at
@USC_Econ
.
Projects include the welfare impacts of environmental and climate change policies, and the implementation and analysis of large-scale field experiments.
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🚨🚨🚨 Call for papers for the 2024 Advances with Field Experiments conference at
@LSEnews
on Sept 5-6.
The keynote speakers are
@Susan_Athey
,
@orianabandiera
, & Noam Yuchtman (University of Oxford).
The deadline for registration and submission is April 1, 2024. Authors will
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We are looking forward to seeing all your field experiment papers
@Econ_4_Everyone
@UChi_Economics
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Day two teaching field experiments.
These are the awesome books I recommend to students to stimulate ideas on the range of interesting questions that field experiments can help answer.
@Econ_4_Everyone
@mike_luca
@BazermanMax
@JPAL
The third year that I’m teaching on zoom. It still sucks.
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Another great paper using rideshare data showing the discrimination by the police on stopping non-white drivers.
Novel design where speed, journey, and race are accurately measured.
with
@Econ_4_Everyone
@pradhiaggarwal
@7hoenix
@_ThomasYu
et al.
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🚨🚨Awesome economics pre-doc jobs available at
@USC_Econ
🚨🚨
Come to USC for the glorious environment ☀️, exciting and high-quality economics research, and collegial and friendly community.
Apply by Nov 30, 2021. Start date August/Sept 2022.
@econ_ra
#EconTwitter
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Please submit your abstracts by 1st April for the Advanced with Field Experiments conference.
We are excited to see you all
@LSEnews
.
@Econ_4_Everyone
@Sefi_Roth_
@UChi_Economics
@Susan_Athey
@orianabandiera
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Huge thanks to
@sdellavi
for being the first speaker on our virtual Advances with Field Experiments seminar series. His work with
@ElizabethLinos
will definitely help shape our thinking of scaling up interventions. We will post the video of the talk soon on the AFE website.
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Very excited to have
@Susan_Athey
give tomorrow's virtual advances with field experiments seminar. The talk is titled "Designing Adaptive Field Experiments".
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If you have a great short paper, send it to
@JPubEcon
!
We're excited to announce the creation of a new Short Paper submission option at the Journal of Public Economics!
AERI rules apply, submissions are now open!
See details here:
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The Voltage Effect is out today! Congrats
@Econ_4_Everyone
This book is a perfect companion for:
- any course about causal inference and/or generalizability;
- any organization trying to understand why some products or policies succeed or fail at scale.
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The best frickin' email I have ever sent!
Wonderful hire! I am so very proud of
@RDMetcalfe
and everything that he has accomplished so far.
I still remember vividly the random email I received from that Wales student way back when! Thanks for allowing me on your magic carpet ride Rob...keep changing the world!
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Another study suggesting the horrific impacts of remote instruction on educational attainment, especially for low-income students
@nberpubs
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Want to present your field experimental paper and get awesome feedback from fellow smart, kind, and insightful experimentalists?
Then you should submit your paper to the Advances with Field Experiments 2023 conference at
@UChi_Economics
jointly with
@Econ_4_Everyone
#afe023
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Very excited that our paper on “do water audits work” is released today as an
@nberpubs
wp.
We find that water audits meaningfully conserve water but the welfare increases are not meaningful.
@jesper_akesson
@Tbehaviouralist
@rajatkochhar
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Ten years ago to the day, I gave my first academic presentation on US soil. The conference was 'Advances with Field Experiments’
@UChi_Economics
I was nervous and inexperienced, but I met influential economists—like...
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I couldn’t agree more with this.
And I really enjoy working with and mentoring students who come from non-traditional backgrounds. They usually have interesting and novel ideas and perspectives.
There are a few of us out there.
Reminder that research potential is extremely hard to measure at the PhD admissions stage, and many great researchers come from outside ‘top’ departments.
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Some of the many reasons why I joined USC econ. The excitement, ambition, and quality of research is excellent here. If there are any interested ambitious students in applied micro, DM me.
In late May 2021, the top 5 U.S Economics Departments according to REPEC are; Harvard, MIT, Berkeley, Chicago and Princeton and USC is now ranked
#17
. Sunshine + $ + ambition + good governance => progress
#convergence
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How we took the ideas from our JPE paper and scaled it into a product, aimed at changing the fuel-efficiency market.
@signol_io
@Econ_4_Everyone
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Pleased to announce that we are now welcoming submissions to the annual Advances in Field Experiments Conference
@UChi_Economics
Sept 23-24, 2020.
Keynotes are
@orianabandiera
,
@lkatz42
, & Malmendier
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It's like watching a comedy show.
'Northern Ireland is in the unbelievably special position - unique position in the entire world - in having privileged access not just to the UK market… but also the EU single market'
'Nobody else has that. No one. Only you guys, only here’
Rishi Sunak hails his Brexit deal
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Looking forward to kicking off the 2019 Advances with Field Experiments on Thursday with John List
@UChi_Economics
. Over 180 participants. Draft program:
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Congratulations
@MagratheanTimes
Behavioral and experimental economist turns Labor minister in Austria
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