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Our paper on "Demand Estimation with Text and Image Data", joint work with Giovanni Compiani (@GioCompiani) and Ilya Morozov, is now forthcoming at the RAND Journal of Economics. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… In the paper we extract product features from unstructured ... [1/4]

My wife is content to continue her normal hobbies right now and doesn’t need frequent updates on The Situation, which I have been dutifully monitoring. Help! Who am I supposed to give briefings to?

A large UK field experiment—110,000 drivers, 60 percent of public chargers—found that cutting prices by 40 percent increased charging by 117 percent. Consumers respond fast, large grid benefits, from Louise Bernard, Andy Hackett, @rdmetcalfe, Luca Panzone, and Andrew Schein nber.org/papers/w34600

🚨Lecture Notes🚨 I have decided to write lecture notes (grad level) on computational methods in economics, with a focus on ML methods. They can be found here: github.com/Mekahou/Notes Let me know if you think something specific needs to be covered or discussed in more detail.

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Me and Issac were at LSE together. He’s a fantastic student and a great economist. If you can help in any way please do!!

I’ve started an ongoing project to collect all the datasets which economists can use, all in one place, organized by topic. Started with 50, further suggestions are extremely welcome. It will grow considerably.

Difference-in-differences for practitioners from the diff-in-diffs dream team!

'From Under The Cork Tree,' @falloutboy’s star-making sophomore album, also came out 20 years ago today. A look back at the moment when MySpace emo went supernova: stereogum.com/2305803/fall-o…

A permanent tariff reduces trade deficits if the Engel curves for aggregate imports and exports are convex, from Arnaud Costinot and @IvanWerning nber.org/papers/w33709

The 2025 Best Paper Prize has been awarded to Amit Gandhi, Zhentong Lu, and Xiaoxia Shi for their paper “Estimating Demand for Differentiated Products with Zeroes in Market Share Data” econometricsociety.org/prizes/qe-te-b… Congratulations to the authors!

Analytics positions for the Miami Marlins (baseball) statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/04/03/ana…

New tools for precisely estimating the effects of treatments defined by complex formulas, with an application to simulated instruments, from @borusyak and @instrumenthull nber.org/papers/w33594

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The five best popular books you can read to understand economics: 1. The Undercover Economist 2. Mastering Metrics 3. Good Economics for Hard Times 4. The Myth of the Rational Market 5. The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008

Developing a measure to capture the temporal dimension of production and compute it using data from publicly traded companies worldwide, from @pol_antras and Vitalii Tubdenov nber.org/papers/w33499

We are keen to have applicants from those just finishing a PhD or with a MSc and work experience. The CMA is really great for the diversity of work on offer and the chance to not only do impactful work but also to do some really interesting economics. Happy to chat if interested

Great opportunity to join the CMA!!! My team is hiring for an econometrics adviser. We do some really cool work such as recent work on Vodafone/three, Arcelik/whirlpool and some other cases in antitrust and markets. civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cgi?…

Oddly similar on a micro-level, to this more macro-level paper. Basically authors say it's really preventing/avoiding **shrinking** episodes (as opposed to increasing **growth** episodes) that mostly contribute to long-run growth. nber.org/papers/w23343