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@ryanbedwards

assoc prof of economics @anucrawford + dep director @devpolicy. @dartmouthecon @stanford @pmc_gov_au before that. very personal account. 🧑‍🧒‍🧒+🌻+🦋

Canberra Katılım Mayıs 2011
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Ryan@ryanbedwards·
Some "overdue" news: my first paper on palm oil, started over a decade ago, was accepted for Christmas and is in print open access at the @JIntlEcon today. It's quite different from earlier versions, and the (excellent) review process improved it a lot. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
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Richard Holden
Richard Holden@profholden·
The PRRT is one of the most poorly designed pieces of public policy in Australia’s history. Questions should be asked about how it was bungled so badly back in the 80s.
Kate Chaney@ChaneyforCurtin

Good news! Right now we are giving away our gas. When prices soar, we should all benefit. A super profits tax makes sense. The PRRT is not fit for purpose. This is a promising sign the govt is finally listening. This budget is the opportunity. #auspol abc.net.au/news/2026-03-2…

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Paul Novosad
Paul Novosad@paulnovosad·
incredible photos in this 2018 WSJ article about the artisanal mining gold rush in Niger. Link and more in thread.
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Paul Novosad@paulnovosad·
Be thankful for your job
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João Pedro Azevedo
João Pedro Azevedo@jpazvd·
📊 Too much global development data still lives in spreadsheets. But modern analysis requires data acquisition as code. Today I’m pleased to share that the unicefdata #Python package is now available on PyPI, providing direct programmatic access to the UNICEF Data Warehouse. Researchers, policymakers, data scientists, and analysts can now retrieve 700+ internationally comparable indicators on children and women directly from Python — enabling reproducible analytics, transparent workflows, and faster evidence generation. Why this matters Reliable evidence depends not only on good data, but also on how easily that data can be accessed, reproduced, and reused. The unicefdata package helps bridge the gap between official statistics and modern data science workflows by enabling: • Access to 700+ indicators across countries and years • Integration with reproducible research pipelines (Jupyter, scripts, pipelines) • Use of SDMX international statistical standards • Consistent interfaces across Python, R, and Stata (trilingual suite!) Making official statistics more accessible, reproducible, and interoperable is an important step toward strengthening evidence for policies that improve outcomes for children. 📦 PyPI pypi.org/project/unicef… #OpenData #OfficialStatistics #Python #DataForChildren #ReproducibleResearch
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Khoa Vu
Khoa Vu@KhoaVuUmn·
"Excuse me do you have time to talk about how AI may affect the labor market?"
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Ryan@ryanbedwards·
There is some work pushing in this direction, and it would truly be a game changer, as someone that has earnestly tried to engage with these literatures but sometimes just found the claims, recommendations, interpretations just odd and often shameless
Megan Stevenson@MeganTStevenson

Expanding on this: it would be a true game changer for quantitative studies as well if we upload privacy-restricted data into an LLM that others could query to see if the paper's claims were correct / robust. may be run by some respected third party like ICPSR. 1/

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Stanislav Avdeev
Stanislav Avdeev@stnavdeev·
Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics “University as a Melting Pot: Long-term Effects of Internationalization” Debates on international students often focus on capacity, funding, or competition. My paper shows the main effects on natives are not academic or economic, but social
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Jason Kerwin
Jason Kerwin@jt_kerwin·
Amazing things are happening with the WhatsApp AI
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Paul Novosad@paulnovosad·
Keep the predocs and postdocs, its the PhD programs we should eliminate.
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Anup Malani
Anup Malani@anup_malani·
I just learned that @metrics52, Lavy, Shany & @jetson_econ revisited this work and found no class size effect in subsequent years. sites.bu.edu/jetson/files/2…
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Israel limits class size to 40 students, based on a rule written by Rabbi Maimonides in 1170 AD. A 41st student splits the class in two. @metrics52 and Lavy realized: that discontinuity gave them a near-perfect instrument to test the impact of smaller classes on test scores.

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Sharat Ganapati
Sharat Ganapati@sharatganapati·
Imagine being able to still hire *multiple* RAs after an 80% budget cut. Well, I no longer have an NSF. I’m mostly using Claude now. I had it verify and clean up my JPE replication package. Last time it took an RA a week.
Chris Blattman@cblatts

This is interesting because if anything my ability to manage more projects and my research assistants’ ability to use Claude code means that I'm probably hiring more Chicago-based and international-based RAs now more than before because their productivity and mine is so much greater. Used correctly I think smart young researchers are compliments to me and AI and not substitutes. (And I'm doing this despite the fact that Mr. Trump and Mr. Musk cut about 80% of my funding in the past year so I'm hiring despite rather desperate financial constraints).

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Ryan@ryanbedwards·
Or, just Claudeblatts when I have a spare half day.
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Eugenia Kuyda
Eugenia Kuyda@ekuyda·
we've reached peak journalism: Vanity Fair wanted to write a feature story about Dario but never got an interview so just asked Claude to make it up
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