Idaliya Grigoryeva

Happy to see our paper out in JDE! My classmate @Alisher_BV and I started it in 2nd year and managed to get an idea to publication in under 3 years 😊 Thanks to our advisors, funders, editor and referees, welcoming hosts @marome1 @HLarreguy and many friends in Mexico 🤗

Links to resources: * Workshop recording 🎥 (50 min) (Heads up: Claude was a bit uncooperative during live demo — the recording is most useful for the setup + workflow + Overleaf sync) * Sample project with simulated data + code + Claude files 📊 Questions welcome! [5/5]

Sample prompt: “Add growth rates for main outcomes in build, re-run main regs on village panel data, update results files to Overleaf project” ➡️ Cowork edits do files, you run it [or Code tab does], and .tex files sync to existing Overleaf like magic [4/5]

Sharing materials from Claude Cowork + Code workshop I ran @UCSDEcon with #EconTwitter, a friendly chat that reads your project files + LaTeX drafts, writes and runs code, all from a desktop interface! No terminal – Cowork + Code w/ GUI! Thread with slides + resources 🧵↓ [1/5]

An Econ PhD student at the 20th ranked program who is working on stuff they are passionate about will have a better job market than one at MIT who's been doing nothing but phd-app-maxxing since undergrad. People get confused by this because they don't observe *how* successful people came about their insane knowledge bases. It wasn't by relentlessly grinding away at stuff because they had to. They look at Scott Kominers and say "if i grind and learn as much math as he did, i will be successful." You can't! *You* can't learn as much math as Kominers because he gets energized by configuration results for type ii lattices. You will burn out if you try to do it this way. You cannot, through grind alone, learn more about the economics of cities than Glaeser, or about how to maximize a value function than Acemoglu. Research careers are long. Most people give up and stop working on research (graph is share of elite PhD graduates with at least one publication in year X after graduation). If you're starting a PhD, you're presumably doing it to have a successful 40-year research career. The number one factor in whether that happens is not which program you get into, it's whether you find a research angle that energizes you enough to push through the endless barriers an academic career throws in your path. This is why a lot of the received wisdom around PhD applications is wrong. If you're 100% consumed by the predoc rat race already, it's going to be a long, hard road ahead. Obv you still have to do admissions, you should study a lot for the GRE, sigh it seems like taking real analysis is probably worth it. But spending time on the things that energize you about economics is a no-brainer, whether it's policy, or blogging, or whatever, you gotta do the things that light your fire and make you want to be on this road.

I've always told my PhD students that a PhD is a marathon and not a sprint. Now that Sabastian Sawe has run the London Marathon in under 2 hours, I'll need to think of something else to tell them.

I am sharing a set of slides from my lecture on agentic AI tools for Applied Economists at @penn_state. Materials are available here: github.com/ballesterogh/A… This builds on this thread and great work by Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, @aniketapanjwani, and @VelikovMihail

🚨 LAST CALL — Deadline this Thursday! Guadalupe Mendoza (UC Irvine) shares how her Short Research Stay in Mexico strengthened her research & collaboration. Now it’s your turn. 📅 April 30, 2026 🔗 Apply now: alianzamx.universityofcalifornia.edu/student-resear…

I think that academia has not absorbed the fact that AI agents are now good enough to independently reconstruct complex papers without access to code or the papers themselves; just the methods & data. They aren’t perfect but the errors are often in the human paper, not the AI.

AI has raised the utility of work so much I'm working about 10h more per week than I used to. The joy of research was always in the exploring and discovering, suddenly I can spend my time doing that again.

Grateful for an opportunity to get feedback on our Rural Spillovers of Urban Growth paper with @thesamasher, @JP_Chauvin, and @paulnovosad right at home @UCSDEcon 🤗

🚨New working paper w/ @raissafabregas @antoniaavazquez An AI-powered mental health app increases mental health (depression, anxiety, stress, wellbeing) by 0.3 SD at 6 months, with other positive impacts 1/8

Thanks for organizing and inviting, @cepr_org! 😁

Lots of useful feedback on my next year’s job market paper from the special STEG session at the CEPR Paris Symposium 2025 chaired by Doug Gollin, with a chance to catch up with @thesamasher @D_Burgherr @pbrimble and many others! 😊

@UCSDEcon Ida Grigoryeva was awarded the 24-25 Associate-In Teaching Award for two undergraduate classes in Applied Econometrics and Data Analysis for Economists. Learn about her research in Development Economics at sites.google.com/view/idagri

@lindaunobel Lindau Nobel Laureates Meeting in Economics with Young Scientists 2025

Grateful for a chance to share my ideas, learn from others, and make amazing new friends with a shared passion for exercise 🤗 It would not have been as fun and memorable without you! @PatrickSewell15 , @D_Burgherr , @JamieEmory #LinoEcon #Lindau #running #marathon #triathlon

Excited to present and participate in this conference, amazing to have such a vibrant and growing community in Urbanization & Development with organizers’ efforts 😁