Sujey Bhowmik

Migration position at the Inter-American Development Bank #jobs #EconSky : jobs.iadb.org/job/Economic...

let's see what DOGE has been cancelling at the department of education. @stuartbuck.bsky.social went through the list. will link to his post at the end of the thread. i will start with his 4th example: foundational research to understand how american kids are doing at school

Really interesting paper on the impact of radio on women’s empowerment in India

This seems like a really cool paper

Ok, this needs a lot of tweaking and more work, but here's a minimal viable product for

An econometrics paper (Deep Neural Networks for Estimation and Inference)
1. paulgp.github.io/2024/11/06/r...

An economic theory paper (Targeting Interventions in Networks)
2. paulgp.github.io/2024/11/06/r...

This is a good prompt (since I too am rarely asked this question).

For me, I am not a particularly high-powered researcher in terms of math or brilliance. I'm usually decent at translation and clarity. However, academia only rewards this sometimes (not always!). Often, you're just not novel.

/1

31 Oct: Happy Reformation Day ⛪

🧵An overview of some social science research on causes and consequences of the Protestant Reformation (1/N)

Hey #econsky -- asking for a friend... let's say you got a split decision at AER, but ultimately rejected, and the editor suggested revising and transferring to AEJ Policy.

Under what conditions would you take the transfer option to send reports to AEJ:P vs. just submitting to AEJ:P directly?

Screenshot of ungatedresearch.org homepage

ungatedresearch.org is a wonderful public good being developed by Martin Abel and Susie Godlonton.

It's a website with links to the latest ungated version of papers published in several economics journals.

Especially valuable in LMICs where many scholars don't have access to the journals.

Submission: 7th Annual NBER Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy Conference, Page 1 of 2 - MyNBERNBER: National Bureau of Economic Research

Two weeks left to submit your papers/abstracts to the 7th Annual NBER Conference + Publication on Environmental & Energy Policy and the Economy!

Submissions are due October 15.

Upload here & read on for more details on this unique initiative: conference.nber.org/confsubmit/b...

WEEKS.

I’m working with a PhD student who has a paper ready on the climate risks to US drinking water utilities. Science Policy Forum editors hmu.

I've been looking at cover letters / job packets for a bunch of econ PhD folks going on the job market, esp those interested in liberal arts colleges. Love it! I realize, though, that I believe so strongly in one piece of advice that I want to shout it from this particular rooftop:
Use mail merge.

Hi #econsky, could you please suggest some papers on the consequences of poor social capital (e.g., lack of friendships, trust within a network) during childhood? Any correlational or causal studies would be greatly appreciated.. 🙏📈📉

The chip measures the shortest possible route from start to finish and uses that for its calculation which you probably didn’t run.

Strava counts the extra distance when calculating your pace. So, you end up with different time calculations.

Also ask about emergency management plans. When I got on council, I learned that not only did my city not really have an emergency management plan, but the total amount budgeted for emergencies was…$1,000. Seriously. The city manager began taking actions immediately.

🚨New Paper Alert!🚨

Out this week, I survey recent work on the causes of US poverty and build toward new testable theories that can advance policy, including (thread):

AI is revitalizing the fossil fuels industry, and big tech has nothing to say for itself Silicon Valley is helping to accelerate the climate crisis in at least 3 major ways

Silicon Valley is helping to accelerate the #climate crisis in at least 3 major ways www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-is-revi...

Does anyone here know of an Environmental Econ IV paper with replication package and open data access, e.g. air pollution related? Need it for teaching and would appreciate any pointers. #EconSky

Can anyone recommend resources on using Git specifically for academic research papers/projects?

Seems like best practices differ from those for developing an app or a project with A LOT of collaborators. Looking for tips on branches, comments, when to commit, etc.

#econsky

I use three main ways:
1. Backup my laptop (Time Machine since I use a Mac)
2. Local backup of my Dropbox and Google Drive
3. Cold storage for big files I don’t need on my laptop

(Plus run docker images, but that’s just me 🤓)

FACT SHEET: President Biden Announces Billions to Deliver World-Class High-Speed Rail and Launch New Passenger Rail Corridors Across the Country | The White House $8.2 Billion from the President’s Investing in America Agenda to Deliver Transformative Passenger Rail in America President Biden’s Investing in America

To be fair, the existing Biden-Harris climate laws that were already passed invested the largest amount in passenger rail since the creation of Amtrak 50 years ago, including high speed rail. Let’s do more. www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo...

As someone who crosses a major road everyday to get to class, this is pretty scary.

Applied microeconomist being asked about SUTVA violation in their paper:

Really interesting article.

Anecdotally, my prior is there is extreme heterogeneity in why people decide to migrate

I think for people higher in the wealth distribution, the decision to migrate stems from a desire of a better quality of life as opposed to lack of economic opportunities.

Physician–patient racial concordance and newborn mortality | PNAS The racial gap in infant mortality is a pressing public-health concern, and [B. N. Greenwood et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 117, 21194–21200...

Update! 📉📈

Adding an omitted variable to the model in our PNAS paper on physician-patient racial concordance changes the result.

Grateful to Borjas & VerBruggen for continuing to advance the science & to Ted Joyce for his commentary in Related Materials.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

So I want to summarize a lot of treatment effects in a single graph - coefplot, right? - but the counterfactual mean is meaningful so I want display the coefficients at different points. And I want to have Lee bounds as well as a CI… anyone know examples of graphs that do some or all of this?

🚨 New publicly available dataset on housing regulations across US municipalities

With Alex Bartik and Dan Milo, we highlight a novel AI-based method for accurate categorization of regulations in unstructured text, which we use to establish 5 facts about housing regulation:

I know @julianreif.bsky.social has a stata coding guide which is a really good resource.

Does anyone have anything similar for R?

Super interesting paper on "summer drop in female employment"

Most likely driven by school closure. Evidence is from the US but I am willing to bet similar results in most EU countries!

direct.mit.edu/rest/article...

See below for a VoxEU summary of my job market paper! It's on the most successful international environmental agreement to this day, and with lessons for the fight against climate change. #Econsky