David A. Jaeger (econ)

You could live here too! A new Senior Lecturer/Reader position to teach in our new Master of Public Policy Programme. Come build something great with me in a beautiful place!

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Good morning, sunshine! This is certainly a nice change…

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Keynotes by @corinnelow.com, Imran Rasul, and ESPE President Adeline Delavande.

As President-Elect I have the honor of being program chair.

There's a little less than a week until 1 February, when submissions to this year's ESPE conference in Helsinki (11-13 June) are due!

More info here: espe2026.org

Submit papers here: app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/79627...

One week to go to submit to what I promise will be an outstanding and fun conference.

@lindseymacmillan.bsky.social, @nilsbraakmann.bsky.social, and I look forward to reading your paper!

Good evening, Crail.

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Good morning Crail and the Isle of May!

You could live here, too. Job positings in the comments.

Finally closed my Spotify account. Good riddance.

The Business School at St Andrews has posted a nice piece about the Master of Public Policy Programme. Not my favorite picture, tbh, but a few good quotes from yours truly. Econ graduates should also find the programme to be of interest.

businessschoolnews.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2026/01/08/c...

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@corinnelow.com and Imran Rasul will give keynote addresses and Adeline Delavande will give the Presidential Address. I'm the program chair.

Looking forward to seeing you in Helsinki!

Four weeks & a day left to submit a paper to the fantastic European Society for Population Economics meetings in Helsinki, 11-13 June 2026. ESPE is a friendly and useful place to present, with great social events.

More info: espe2026.org

Submit a paper: app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/79627...

Good morning, Pittenweem!

well, 2026 is off to a great start. unfathomable.

Good morning, Crail!

Prof Steve Machin (LSE) will give the keynote.

And at £400 for two nights accommodation and all meals, it's a bargain! @nilsbraakmann.bsky.social , @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social , and I are the program committee, and we're all nice people. So why not submit today?

Your marking is done. Family visits are over. The excesses of New Year's Eve have been salved w/ aspirin and sleep. Next semester hasn't started yet. Thus... the perfect time to submit a paper to the Fifth Annual SaNE in Applied Microeconomics!

applied-microecon.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/sane-worksho...

Happy New Year, Crail! Frohes neues Jahr!

Happy New Year‘s Eve, Crail! Here’s to a great 2025 and an even better 2026! Guten Rutsch ins neue Jahr!

If there was a test involving the unobservables, I think it would be different.

Problems with Instrumental Variables Estimation when the Correlation between the Instruments and the Endogenous Explanatory Variable is Weak We draw attention to two problems associated with the use of instrumental variables (IV), the importance of which for empirical work has not been fully appreciated. First, the use of instruments ...

That was even true before the paper got published, so we changed the title on the published version:

www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Because it’s about unobservables, with no direct test statistic, unlike weak instruments and finite sample bias.

The Cure Can Be Worse than the Disease: A Cautionary Tale Regarding Instrumental Variables Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

Yeah, that’s been known for at least 30 years.

www.nber.org/papers/t0137

Here's a link to the MPP programme: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/eco...

Are you interested in studying Public Policy at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social ?

There are two scholarships available for Palestinian students:

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