Emilia Tjernstrom

Cool new working paper worth checking out: "Cross-Validated Causal Inference: a Modern Method to Combine Experimental and Observational Data" arxiv.org/pdf/2511.00727

Reminder, last couple of weeks to get your papers in for a special issue of the WBER on migration and development.

But her emails

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For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:

splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app

"insight" is doing a lot of work here

Baby checking out Jeffrey Wooldridges introductory econometrics textbook

Gotta start'em young!

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Hello world. I am recruiting a post-doc to work with me and my collabs on an ARC funded project, primarily around public/private health care and health outcomes. More details in the advert. Please share with anyone who might be interested.

recruitment.uts.edu.au/OA_HTML/OA.j....

The dataviz equivalent of negative space

An Undergraduate Course in Causality Forthcoming. Now Available: Just Accepted Version.

Awesome text by Lea Bottmer, Guido Imbens, Jason Weitze and Mary Wooters: "An Undergraduate Course in Causality"

hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/uynpjlow...

#EconSky 📉📈

Agreed! Korean sunscreen trends to be great. Interesting to know that sunscreen sold in Australia is tightly regulated and SPF ratings mean different things here!

My absolute pleasure! Welcome!

Hashtag worthit

(merge) m:m

We won't be releasing any additional info on social media until the situation is resolved with lawyers, but will keep releasing reports through our DP series. Here are two 40-page reports completed earlier this year.

econpapers.repec.org/paper/zbwi4r...
econpapers.repec.org/paper/zbwi4r...

I've put in my instructions that I don't want flattery, and I value constructive criticism etc. It's helped. I can dig out the details if you'd like.

🚨 WE @unswecon.bsky.social ARE HIRING! 🚨
JMC: apply and email/DM for any question!

A short 🧵 on @unswecon.bsky.social and why you want to apply and join us in Sydney👇

econjobmarket.org/positionGrou...

This is a terrible policy!

It's pretty bonkers

What issue unites Coalition, Labor, Green, teal and One Nation voters? Whistleblower protections The government's persecution of whistleblowers Richard Boyle and David McBride is unjust, and the public doesn't support it. It's time for much-needed reform.

What issue unites Coalition, Labor, Green, teal and One Nation voters? Whistleblower protections.
– Kieran Pender in @crikey.com.au

Australia Institute research found 86% of Australians want stronger protection for whistleblowers, consistent across all voting intentions. #auspol

And reduce social media use

@i4replication.bsky.social looking for a co-director to develop guidelines & help reduce the amount of PII that careless researchers release into the wild

In extremely rare move, Harvard revokes tenure and cuts ties with star business professor An internal investigation had found that Harvard Business School professor Francesca Gino’s research on why people lie and cheat was based on falsified data.

"In extremely rare move, Harvard revokes tenure and cuts ties with star business professor" Francesca Gino

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The difference between Grok and a DOGE employee is that Grok will acknowledge being reprogrammed by Musk

I think you misspelled "cult"

Unheard Voices: The Importance of Intersectionality in Responsiveness and the Systematic Ignoring of Black Men by Elected Officials - Political Behavior All citizens are not listened to equally, despite the importance of responsiveness and listening to different theories of democracy. We take an ‌intersectional‌ ‌approach‌ ‌to‌ make several novel pred...

“Extending‌ ‌previous‌ ‌work,‌ ‌we‌ ‌vary‌ ‌the‌ ‌race,‌ ‌gender,‌ ‌and‌ ‌topic‌ ‌of‌ ‌the‌ ‌constituent’s‌ ‌message, and we‌ observe ‌if elected‌ ‌officials ‌both open‌ ‌and‌ ‌reply‌ ‌to‌ ‌constituents’ messages‌.‌ ‌ We ‌find‌ ‌that‌ ‌Black‌ ‌men‌ ‌are systematically ignored, regardless of the message they send.‌” link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Here is a specific thing you can do to fight Trump's politicization of public services Plus: what I wrote in Science about the revised Schedule F

New from me: Everything feels overwhelming. But here is a tangible thing you can do: write a comment to oppose Trump's plan to convert 50,000 career civil servants into political appointees. Deadline is May 23. Please share!
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/here-is-a-...

Nice.

arxiv.org/abs/2402.04607