Forthcoming in the AER: "The Private Provision of Public Services: Evidence from Random Assignment in Medicaid" by Danil Agafiev Macambira, Michael Geruso, Anthony Lollo, Chima D. Ndumele, and Jacob Wallace.
Donβt have time to read our long technical paper on AR LEARNS teacher base salaries and retention? No worries, we now have a short non-technical blog post on it for you π
oep.uark.edu/raising-the-...
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If you use #QuartoPub for any PDF documents for teaching and you need to meet impending PDF accessibility rules, upgrade to v1.9, add format: typst: pdf-standard: ua-1 to the YAML front matter, and it'll work!
Interactive resources With the power of OJS and Quarto, Iβve created a few interactive websites to illustrate trickier statistical concepts when teaching. Check them out (and adapt and copy as much as you want!) With links to three different websites (accessible at the main link in the post)
Finally got around to adding fancy links to my different interactive teaching websites for showing things like p-hacking, p-value interpretations, and (still-in-draft-form) DAGs at www.andrewheiss.com/teaching/ #rstats #QuartoPub #statsky
Given how my university is barreling toward compliance with this (without much plan on how itβll be implemented), this is a welcome add.
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Are you a PhD Student curious about working in topics of health and aging? Do you feel like you may need extra support? I have a program for you!
A one-day mentoring workshop hosted by yours truly and Jetson Leder-Luis (BU) through @nber.org
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π’ Predoc Opportunity
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While it may explain some of the context, this framing also hides that women scientists didn't cozy up to epstein the way men did. They also need funding, no? This is also about being part of a powerful boys club where one can act in despicable ways with impunity. Misogyny is a huge driving factor.
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The annual call for @nber.org nominations has been released, so if you're a researcher hoping to become affiliated, reach out to existing affiliates to get nominated.
If you're an existing affiliate, advocate for talented researchers, particularly those with networks not already full of NBER folks.
My AEA mentoring program mentee is presenting right now in the @aeacsmgep.bsky.social dissertation session. If you are looking for candidate that looks at the intersection of international trade and education, then consider Jose Rojas. #ASSA2026
We're excited to share the application for the next Research Transparency and Reproducibility Training (RT2)! Join us May 19 - 21, 2026 in Berkeley for hands-on training in open science tools and methods.
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Will you incorporate LLMs and AI prompting into the course in the future? No. Why wonβt you incorporate LLMs and AI prompting into the course? These tools are useful for coding (see this for my personal take on this). However, theyβre only useful if you know what youβre doing first. If you skip the learning-the-process-of-writing-code step and just copy/paste output from ChatGPT, you will not learn. You cannot learn. You cannot improve. You will not understand the code.
In that post, it warns that you cannot use it as a beginner: β¦to use Databot effectively and safely, you still need the skills of a data scientist: background and domain knowledge, data analysis expertise, and coding ability. There is no LLM-based shortcut to those skills. You cannot LLM your way into domain knowledge, data analysis expertise, or coding ability. The only way to gain domain knowledge, data analysis expertise, and coding ability is to struggle. To get errors. To google those errors. To look over the documentation. To copy/paste your own code and adapt it for different purposes. To explore messy datasets. To struggle to clean those datasets. To spend an hour looking for a missing comma. This isnβt a form of programming hazing, like βI had to walk to school uphill both ways in the snow and now you must too.β Itβs the actual process of learning and growing and developing and improving. Youβve gotta struggle.
This Tumblr post puts it well (itβs about art specifically, but it applies to coding and data analysis too): Contrary to popular belief the biggest beginnerβs roadblock to art isnβt even technical skill itβs frustration tolerance, especially in the age of social media. It hurts and the frustration is endless but you must build the frustration tolerance equivalent to a roachβs capacity to survive a nuclear explosion. Thatβs how you build on the technical skill. Throw that βwonβt even start because Iβm afraid it wonβt be perfectβ shit out the window. Just do it. Just start. Good luck. (The original post has disappeared, but hereβs a reblog.) Itβs hard, but struggling is the only way to learn anything.
You might not enjoy code as much as Williams does (or I do), but thereβs still value in maintaining codings skills as you improve and learn more. You donβt want your skills to atrophy. As I discuss here, when I do use LLMs for coding-related tasks, I purposely throw as much friction into the process as possible: To avoid falling into over-reliance on LLM-assisted code help, I add as much friction into my workflow as possible. I only use GitHub Copilot and Claude in the browser, not through the chat sidebar in Positron or Visual Studio Code. I treat the code it generates like random answers from StackOverflow or blog posts and generally rewrite it completely. I disable the inline LLM-based auto complete in text editors. For routine tasks like generating {roxygen2} documentation scaffolding for functions, I use the {chores} package, which requires a bunch of pointing and clicking to use. Even though I use Positron, I purposely do not use either Positron Assistant or Databot. I have them disabled. So in the end, for pedagogical reasons, I donβt foresee me incorporating LLMs into this class. Iβm pedagogically opposed to it. Iβm facing all sorts of external pressure to do it, but Iβm resisting. Youβve got to learn first.
Some closing thoughts for my students this semester on LLMs and learning #rstats datavizf25.classes.andrewheiss.com/news/2025-12...
Fantastic opportunity for junior Econ profs!
I haven't felt this seen in a while. Highly recommended!
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This was such a great trilogy!
We're hiring an endowed chair in economic demography--please apply, or pass along to good candidates!
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Weβre hiring an AP in Labor Economics at @iwh-halle.bsky.social & @uni-magdeburg.de β focus on tech & labor.
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yale campus at dusk
Come be my colleague! Yale School of Public Health has an open-rank search for Health Policy & Management. Focus areas are empirical research in health policy, healthcare management or health services research. You still have time! apply.interfolio.com/176891
π’ 5 more days to apply to our AP position in Microeconomics!
Want to live and work in this beautiful mountain valley in HawaiΚ»i? #econsky
The University of Hawaii Economic Research Organization (UHERO) is hiring for 2 TT positions:
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π Are you in the market? Dream postdoc opportunity for environmental economists!
@envdefensefund.bsky.social + @ucsb.bsky.social's @emlab.ucsb.edu are hiring 2-3 postdocs to work on carbon markets, nature-based solutions & resource economics with Chris Costello (emLab Director/EDF Chief Economist).
π¨Economics students! People who know or teach economics students!π¨
The IFS offers summer internships each year. Many of our permanent staff started with one of these. On Monday we're holding an online event to provide more info. Please do come/share.
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My group at the University of Illinois is hiring a tenure-track applied economist.
We're especially interested in environmental/public reduced-form rookies with research that complements our group.
Tell your students to apply! #EconSky
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If anyone has a job market paper they would like me to repost, tag me and I will do my best to do so! Would love to follow what people are working on more closely.
The UMaine economics department is hiring an assistant professor with expertise in applied economics. fa-ewca-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Casey McQuillan: Incomplete and Endogenous Take-Up of Unemployment Insurance. Areas: Labor Economics and Public Finance. Letter Writers: Ilyana Kuziemko (advisor), Dave Lee (advisor), Owen Zidar.
Casey McQuillanβs job market paper studies how unemployment insurance (UI) generosity affects take-up and optimal policy design. esd.wa.gov/media/pdf/42...
Was everybody crying?
Photo shows the title page for an academic paper titled "Driving Inclusion: The Effect of Improved Transportation for People with Disabilities" by Melissa Gentry. The abstract is as follows: People with disabilities face substantial barriers to economic and social participation. I explore the extent to which these barriers are overcome by the availability of reliable and flexible transportation, which may serve as ``reliability insurance'' in case other modes of transit fail. Leveraging the roll-out of Uber, I use a stacked difference-in-differences approach to show that the availability of reliable and flexible transportation leads to improvements in social and economic participation through increased marriage rates and labor force participation, and reduced reliance on public assistance. The reduction in public assistance outweighs expected rideshare costs, lending support to the recent push towards public-private partnerships in the transportation space.
I am excited to announce I am on the #EconJobMarket this year! π My research explores economic barriers for people with disabilities at the intersection of labor, public, and health economics.
My #EconJMP examines how reliable transportation transforms outcomes for this population. π§΅1/6
