Just a couple more days to apply for the REStat fellowship. #EconTwitter

#econtwitter is there a good primer/guide to having chatgpt or claude (or some AI) convert very basic stata code into something that will generate latex tables? cc John Horton

Happy to see this important paper in print! direct.mit.edu/rest/article-a…

#econtwitter (especially historians) - I've been reading about the Dutch East India Company, and came across the following anecdote (see pic) but unable to find any details on the story (or a cite-able reference). Any references would be very much-appreciated.

PSA: If you own Vanguard mutual funds and are as inattentive to their emails as I am, you may find yourself paying maintenance fees unless you go through the trivial process of converting to a "brokerage" account. The fees themselves are *not* trivial.

Call for papers for the NBER Political Economy on Nov. 15, 2024. The organizers of the meeting will be M. Gentzkow, P. Giuliano & D. Yang. If you are interested in presenting a paper, please upload a pdf file through this link by Sep. 10, 2024. conference.nber.org/confsubmit/bac…

I'm looking for examples of consumer advertising from earlier eras that has a "social responsibility" message to it. Earlier = 1960s and earlier. Please RT especially if you have marketing friends/colleagues, as I don't think this is one for #econtwitter...

Surveying politicians and citizens in Colombia, Italy, and Pakistan finds both groups express beliefs that corruption is common but undesirable — a shared dilemma, from @rfisman, Matteo Ferroni, and @mgoldenprof nber.org/papers/w32825

I'm filling in for my son in a fantasy football league this year. Assume I know nothing about football (roughly accurate) - any suggestions? Devin Pope ?

There has to be a great paper idea in here somewhere. In general, corruption in U.S. city politics is understudied...nytimes.com/2024/08/29/us/…

🚨New Paper Alert!🚨 Voters dislike when politicians engage in corrupt behavior. But how do politicians themselves perceive and judge corruption? My new paper with Ray Fisman and Miriam Golden looks at this question. 🧵1/12

BREAKING! @FrancescaGino's ridiculous defamation lawsuit against Data Colada from last year has been dismissed by the court! This is an important victory.. if this had been allowed to move forward it would have had a chilling effect on whistleblowers! storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…