Gustavo Castillo

The overwhelmingly positive response to my recent post about the publication of my paper “The Unit-Root Revolution Revisited”—after 38 years of persistent effort—has encouraged me, a veteran… | Aris S... The overwhelmingly positive response to my recent post about the publication of my paper “The Unit-Root Revolution Revisited”—after 38 years of persistent effort—has encouraged me, a veteran econometr...

As a young econ scholar, it’s hard to place work: journals outside the big houses (Informa, Wiley, Springer Nature, Elsevier, SAGE) still get side-eyed for different reasons. In a recent LinkedIn post Aris Spanos suggested to submit to "less prominent journals". What would you recommend?

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ConfWatcher

ConfWatcher, a new tool to discover economics conferences

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10.06.2025 12:47 — 👍 13    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 1

Carl Sagan in 1986 on the problems with media and science literacy.

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Currently obsessing over econometrics problem sets to be related to readings, that successfully connect theory & empirical exercises, and not eternal. This whilst living in the midst of 'metrics textbooks being re-written and contents re-organized...bad combo, don't recommend.

04.06.2025 07:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

TWFE Event_study plot showing sign reversal

I created a shiny web tool to play around with OL/TWFE so you can teach how this stuff can get so screwy. You can mess with temporal and cohort heterogeneity, treatment timing, whether you have any controls, etc. Share your worst plots! #econsky cannoncloud.shinyapps.io/TWFE_OLS_Pla...

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Today I did my first successful interactive rebase with git. Followed this short tutorial hackernoon.com/beginners-gu..., and all for an econometrics project. Loved it.

17.05.2025 17:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Have you thought/written on something related to Eonomics regarding model-centric paradigm and results? This power-laden discipline adores models, but strives or quick results, albeit, unlike psych, justified by "better research design" but still much adoring p-values and NHSTs.

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