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Economic historian. Associate Professor at the University of Pittsburgh and Research Associate at the NBER. https://andreas-ferrara.com/

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American Economic Association: JOE Listings - February 1, 2026 - July 31, 2026

I am excited to be hiring two post-doctoral positions at UCLA--please share with your networks. www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing.....

03.02.2026 00:48 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 24 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
Workshop on Forced Migration and Economic Legacies Welcome to the Workshop on Forced Migration and Economic Legacies, in Gothenburg Sweden, 6-7 May 2026. Submission deadline: 28 February 2026

Interested in forced migration and its long-term impacts? This workshop from May 6-7 May at the University of Gothenburg might be for you! Submission deadline is Feb 28, 2026. More information here: www.gu.se/en/event/wor...

29.01.2026 14:04 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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When gender quotas protect the powerful: Lessons from China’s civil service. Guest post by Jiawei Lyu

In today's JMP blog, @jiaweilyu.bsky.social studies impact of affirmative action for men in China's civil service. Women outperform men in the entry exam, so quotas were introduced to balance gender. Fewer women were hired, quality declined, & tax collected fell. blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...?

11.12.2025 15:32 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 3

VoxEU column now up for my paper on "Wars, Taxation and Representation" with @essobecker.bsky.social, @andyferrara.bsky.social and @luigipascali.bsky.social.

Full paper available here:
doi.org/10.1093/jeea...

17.07.2025 12:29 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Recruitment

My research team (w/ @andyferrara.bsky.social, Sam Bazzi, Eric Chyn, Martin Fiszbein, and Thomas Pearson) is hiring a full-time economics postdoc for the 2025-26 academic year! If you know someone who might be interested, see the link below.

22.08.2025 16:10 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2
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Frontline Union Army captains cut desertions and boosted cohesion through leading by example, earning postwar-wage gains and greater recognition, from @andyferrara.bsky.social, Christian Dippel, and Stephan Heblich https://www.nber.org/papers/w34057

26.07.2025 17:00 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

Congratulations Felix πŸ‘πŸŽ‰

03.07.2025 19:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œThe No Club” is now available in Chinese! I got to celebrate the publication while presenting at the ESAWorld meetings in Beijing. It was a pleasure to meet our publisher at China Machine Press and to reconnect with our extremely talented and generous Pitt alumni. What an amazing trip.

19.06.2025 03:30 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks Max, looking forward to seeing you on Thursday/Friday πŸ€“

13.05.2025 08:04 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Credible Answers to Hard Questions: Differences-in-Differences for Natural Experiments This book introduces applied researchers to modern Differences-in-Differences (DID) methods, that they can use to obtain credible answers to hard causal inferen

Slowly but surely coming along: we have a new version of our working textbook on diffs in diffs!

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Chapters 2 to 4, which cover the set up, classical DIDs, and relaxations of the parallel trends assumptions have been thoroughly revised and are now almost finished.

12.03.2025 15:09 πŸ‘ 153 πŸ” 39 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 1
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Linked individual data using WWII Army and administrative tax records show mixed impacts of service on long-run economic outcomes for different racial and ethnic groups, from Sergio E. Barrera, Andreas Ferrara, Price V. Fishback, and Misty L. Heggeness https://www.nber.org/papers/w33382

28.01.2025 18:00 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I would, but now I can't afford coffee anymore πŸ₯²

27.01.2025 02:51 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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🚨 New Working Paper 🚨

w/ @pdavidboll.bsky.social and @jvoth.bsky.social

Do you run regressions on spatial data? Then keep reading!

We present a guide and Stata package for methods by MΓΌller and Watson (2024 ECTA) to deal with Spatial Unit Roots in Regressions.

Link in 🧡 (1/n)

22.01.2025 12:38 πŸ‘ 70 πŸ” 26 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘ congrats Yasir

17.01.2025 15:39 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Excellent news, well deserved! πŸ‘

13.01.2025 16:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The last four decks (at least for now) are here:

11 Problems of TWFE: psantanna.com/DiD/11_Stagg...

12 Staggered DiD (mostly CS): psantanna.com/DiD/12_CS.pdf

13 Challenges when Treatment turns on and off: psantanna.com/DiD/13_On_of...

14 Random Treatment Timing: psantanna.com/DiD/14_Rando...

31.12.2024 18:49 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Pre-Doctoral Fellow/Research Technician Opportunities - Vancouver School of Economics Join the Vancouver School of Economics: Pre-Doctoral Fellow/Research Technician Opportunities The Vancouver School of Economics (VSE) at the University of British Columbia (UBC) is excited to announce...

We’re hiring predocs at VSE with a start date of summer 2025. Come work with me on industrial policy and industrialization past and present. Not your thing? A number of my wonderful colleagues are also hiring! Listing is here: economics.ubc.ca/news/pre-doc...

13.12.2024 23:56 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
American Economic Association: JOE Listings - August 1, 2024 - January 31, 2025

The Economics Department at the University of Pittsburgh is hiring! We have an Open Rank position. You can find details and application instructions here:

www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....

10.12.2024 23:08 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0