Matt Webb

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Matt Webb

Matt Webb

@mattdwebb

Associate Professor of Economics at Carleton University. Interested in statistical inference, empirical micro, and experiments.

Ottawa, Ontario Katılım Nisan 2009
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Matt Webb@mattdwebb·
Hey #econtwitter, do you have a binary outcome? Estimate logit models? Want to cluster your standard errors? We've got bad, good, and great news for you. See the thread below, or our new working paper (with @jgmQED and @MortenEcon) for details arxiv.org/abs/2406.00650 1/7
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Ethan Mollick@emollick·
"Load bearing," "I keep coming back to," "Not X, but Y" A curse of using AI a lot is that you realize how much of the writing around you is just AI, now People who don't use AI have been unable to identify AI prose on sight, but those who use it a lot can spot the tells easily
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Paul Novosad
Paul Novosad@paulnovosad·
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.
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Matt Webb@mattdwebb·
Big weekend at home. My wife is making her professional comedian debut @YukYuksOttawa, and I am seeing her perform live for the first time. Fingers crossed I'm still married on Monday. instagram.com/p/DXIGM7mCWF5/
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I4R
I4R@I4Replication·
📢 We’re excited to launch a new AI project studying how performance varies across disciplines and levels of expertise. This round is open to participants from economics, political science, and psychology.
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alz@alz_zyd_·
"Writing is important because it helps you think" Writing is an inefficient and antisocial way to think. The best way to think is to debate ideas with other smart people. Talking with an LLM pretty much replicates this, and is thus a strictly better way to think than writing
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I4R@I4Replication·
🧵1/ Our first meta-science paper (with 350+ coauthors) is published today in Nature. It presents one of the largest-ever reproducibility projects in economics & political science. Here’s what we found 👇
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Ethan Mollick@emollick·
mdarxiv needs to exist.
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Ethan Mollick@emollick·
The fact that every scientific paper in 2026 is still uploaded only as fully formatted PDFs to academic archive sites that often limit downloads tells you everything you need to know about how quickly the scientific system is adjusting to the potential of AI to accelerate science
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J.J. McCullough
J.J. McCullough@JJ_McCullough·
The story of the Air Canada CEO isn’t that the Liberals are hypocritical about official bilingualism, or that so-and-so Liberal isn’t bilingual enough. It’s that official bilingualism has become a bizarre religion among Canada’s elite, preventing sane, merit-based hiring.
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Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱
Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱@jkenney·
I await Governor General Mary Simon's condolence video in French. Why do the Liberals hold the CEO of Air Canada to a higher standard of bilingualism than their own appointee as Governor General, who hasn't learned French after four years in the role? TBH, I would rather have the CEO of our flagship carrier focusing his scarce time on safety and reliability than language training.
Tristin Hopper@TristinHopper

Air Canada has gone 43 (!) years without a fatal incident. My entire life up to this point has been lived in a country where the flag carrier never got a single person killed in a crash. The record is a totem to what serious people can accomplish. So naturally, Mark Carney is screaming at them to instead focus on nonsense.

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Phillip Heiler
Phillip Heiler@PhillipHeiler·
!! Econometrics Conference alert !! In honor of James MacKinnon's many contributions to Econometrics & his 75th Birthday, we will host a conference June 17-19, 2026 at the Aarhus Center for Econometrics (ACE) @AarhusUni_int @Aarhus_BSS. Submissions are open until April 12.
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Jack Fitzgerald | @jackfitzgerald.bsky.social
Jack Fitzgerald | @jackfitzgerald.bsky.social@FitzgeraldJack_·
New preprint! We re-analyze 46 papers that use log-like specifications (ln(Z+1), inverse hyperbolic sine, etc). We find widespread non-robustness, and we show through theory + simulation how these models drive spurious significance. 1/ doi.org/10.31222/osf.i…
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Matt Webb@mattdwebb·
Additionally, I’m honored to be co-editing a special issue of Econometric Reviews connected to the conference, alongside Silvia Goncalves, Morten Ørregaard Nielsen, & Mikkel Sølvsten. A separate open call for the special issue is coming soon! #EconTwitter #Econometrics
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Matt Webb@mattdwebb·
Hosted by the Aarhus Center for Econometrics (ACE) in Denmark, June 17-19, 2026. Incredible confirmed speakers including Colin Cameron, Russell Davidson, Bruce Hansen, Jeffrey Wooldridge, Mohammad Hashem Pesaran, and many more. More info: econ.au.dk/ace/activities…
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Matt Webb@mattdwebb·
⏳ Only 2 days left! The submission deadline for the @jgmQED 75th Birthday Conference is this Sunday, March 15. A great chance to celebrate his monumental impact on econometrics, from bootstrap inference to non-nested hypothesis testing. Submit: editorialexpress.com/cgi-bin/confer…
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Matt Webb@mattdwebb·
@arindube My three biggest uses: 1) generate slides for a paper i want to cover based on the pdf and tex file on arxiv 2) generate practice exam questions based on previous exams and course notes 3) generate answer keys to assignments and tests
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Arin Dube
Arin Dube@arindube·
I have read a ton from economists in my TL about use of AI in their research workflow. Much less about teaching. Would love to hear what folks' experience has been on that front. (Not problems of students using AI: I mean use of AI in teaching workflow, the good and the bad.)
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Emilia @econemilia.bsky.social
Emilia @econemilia.bsky.social@etjernst·
If I worked at @Stata I would make a Claude code skill like yesterday that references all the documentation that currently lives in PDF files... Otherwise, I think 2026 might be the year that economists actually switch to python.
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Canadian Economics Association
Canadian Economics Association@CanEconomics·
📢The Canadian Journal of Economics is looking for a new co-editor with expertise in International Economics. Interested? Email your CV or nominate someone new to lehrers@queensu.ca. See the CJE page below for more details! 🔗economics.ca/cje-home
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