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🇬🇧 PhD @MITEcon ➡️ postdoc @briq_institute ➡️ AP @UBC . Interested in devo, PE, behavioural, and sweet foods. R2: ''high on cuteness and low on depth''

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Matt Lowe

6 months

I have a fantastic behavioural/dev/labour student on the market: Deivis Angeli ( @deivisangeli ) While a vast literature measures labour market discrimination, Deivis studies the effects of *perceptions* of discrimination on jobseeker behaviour. [1/8]

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Matt Lowe

2 years

We have been planning this new paper for a long time, excited to finally get it out: (with Stephanie Lo, @femonomics , @sararlowes )

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Matt Lowe

4 years

A classic question in development economics is whether (and what types of) poverty traps exist. This new paper by Balboni, @orianabandiera , Burgess, @maitreesh , @anton_heil finds evidence for poverty traps in Bangladesh. Let me try to explain... [1/N]

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Why did no-one tell me stata would make a noise if I use the command 'beep'? Now I know when my do-file is done. THIS IS A GREAT DAY

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4 years

🍎Good news from India🍎 One worry has been that India's strict lockdown would lead to more deaths from starvation than from COVID-19. But one positive sign is that by the end of May food supply chains had largely recovered. Thread: [1/N]

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👩‍🏫Results from a pedagogical experiment👨‍🏫 In my grad behavioural-devo class I had PhD students write up a 1/2-page research idea every week. I like this approach, so I will try to explain and evangelise: [1/N]

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4 years

Love this paper on caste identity and labour supply by Suanna Oh (): almost half of the workers refuse to do a 10-minute caste-incongruent task even when offered 10x their daily wage!

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India's lockdown has led to ~50% drop in fruit and vegetable volume at Azadpur wholesale market in Delhi (Asia's largest wholesale fruit and veg market), though some signs of recovery. More from work with @BenRothEcon , @nadhanael : [1/N]

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5 years

🚨 Revised JMP on intergroup contact 🚨 Some (me) wondered whether this day would ever come. To celebrate I'd like to tell a story about cricket, caste, and different types of intergroup contact. Are you sitting comfortably? 1/N

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Matt Lowe

4 years

I am a British citizen living in Canada and today I got $1200 in the post from Donald Trump. I left America in summer 2018. The targeting isn't great is it?

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Matt Lowe

2 years

Why are there so many small-scale vendors in developing country cities? Some new evidence with Banerjee, @GregFisch , @deankarlan , @BenRothEcon : 1/

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Matt Lowe

8 months

We socialize our children by sending them to schools, camps, clubs, and churches. How do these settings mould adolescent behaviours and attitudes? Our new field experiment tests whether youth camps create inclusive teens in religiously-divided India. 1/14

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(PDF) Creating Cohesive Communities: A Youth Camp Experiment in India

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Matt Lowe

4 years

I gave a short lecture this morning on "Coronavirus in developing countries". The tex and pdf files are posted at if anyone would like to use them. Overview below... [1/7]

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Night Lights and ArcGIS: A Brief Guide (last updated 2014: use at your own risk) Coronavirus in Developing Countries lecture (posted April 1, 2020) Impact of India’s Lockdown on Food Supply (updated...

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🧑‍💻A Stata collaboration tip 👩‍💻 A simple trick so you don't have to keep changing file paths in shared do-files: every time you start Stata, it automatically runs commands in your 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗲.𝗱𝗼 file. [1/N]

Stata | FAQ: profile.do

How can I automatically execute certain commands every time I start Stata?

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Matt Lowe

4 years

💡How to generate ideas💡 @ubcVSE students have started to ask me how to generate research ideas, now that they are moving to 2nd or 3rd year. I don't know whether I answer this question well, but here is what I tell them: [1/N]

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Matt Lowe

4 years

Do any economists out there have the last name "Behold"? I would like to write a paper with them with unequal contributions such that I have to be first author H/t @politicory

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Matt Lowe

4 years

Today my sister asked me if I am a professor. If my own family don't visit my website, who will??

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Matt Lowe

4 years

@ubcVSE is hiring: Here are 17 reasons why you should apply/come to UBC:

Job Opportunities | UBC Vancouver School of Economics | B.C, Canada

Search through our available faculty and staff job opportunities in Canada, at the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia.

economics.ubc.ca

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Matt Lowe

4 years

Just learned that my mum has been telling people I am "the" Assistant Professor of Economics at UBC. I told her there is more than one but perhaps that wasn't her point

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Matt Lowe

2 years

🚨 A new paper with @MaddieMcKelway 🚨 We ran an experiment in India to see whether a lack of joint decision-making keeps female employment low. [1/N]

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Matt Lowe

4 years

This new JEP by @MarioLuisSmall and the late @devah_pager is extremely helpful for understanding the boundary between economics and sociology in the study of racial discrimination, with some good ideas for how economists can learn from sociologists: [1/N]

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Sociological Perspectives on Racial Discrimination

(Spring 2020) - As in economics, racial discrimination has long been a focus of research in sociology. Yet the disciplines traditionally have differed in how they approach the topic. While some...

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Matt Lowe

4 years

🚨New Paper: Religious Revival and Social Order 🚨 Cultural beliefs are usually slow-moving. Not so with religious revivals: here beliefs change rapidly. [1/N]

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Matt Lowe

3 years

I love this paper, and welcome anyone to join me in lobbying for the title to be: "The Utility of Labour"

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Matt Lowe

1 year

I'm hiring a predoc for 2023-24: for work on intergroup contact, rituals, psychedelics, social media, and mental health. I'm hiring jointly with the inimitable @pbaylis , who does environmental. Link here to apply:

CIDER | Research | UBC Vancouver School of Economics

The Centre for Innovative Data in Economics Research (CIDER), based out of the Vancouver School of Economics, is a hub for data-driven economics research.

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Matt Lowe

5 years

Just got 20+ new followers because @economeager tweeted that we bought yoghurts together. This is influence.

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Matt Lowe

5 years

Fave JMP so far: @jonastun on preferences for competition. Parental choice leads to smaller gender gap in preferences for competition than allowing children to choose for themselves. Why? Paternalistic parents act against what child wants.

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Matt Lowe

2 years

High-speed internet hurts girls' mental health during the age of Instagram. An important paper.

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Jennifer Doleac

@jenniferdoleac

2 years

Elaine Guo JMP: "Social Media and Teenage Mental Health: Quasi-Experimental Evidence" Website:

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Matt Lowe

4 years

This magisterial 3 hour podcast with @karthik_econ shows a degree of policy knowledge and engagement that every development economist should aspire to. Even already knowing Karthik's work, I was blown away.

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Amit Varma

4 years

Indian education has been broken for 73 years. The humanitarian cost of this is incalculable. What are the root causes of this failure? How can we fix it? @karthik_econ joins me in episode 185 of The Seen and the Unseen to share his insights:

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4 years

Fantastic null effect of contact study in Afghanistan. Null effects are *especially* important here because the existing contact literature shows signs of publication bias -- i.e. our literature-prior is that contact tends to work, but the pub. bias may have misled us... [1/4]

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Yang-Yang Zhou 周泱泱

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📢 New working paper w/ @jaylyall_red5 . We ask, can prolonged social contact reduce local residents’ prejudice toward internally displaced persons (IDPs) in a conflict setting? #nulleffects #polisciresearch Link here: (1/7)

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Matt Lowe

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Fascinating JMP by @MaddieMcKelway . Her two-step randomized experiment identifies a virtuous cycle in the self-belief of rural Indian women: Psychosocial intervention ➡️ self-efficacy, employment ⬆️ Employment ➡️ self-efficacy ⬆️

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4 years

Of course it's obvious that large transfers should matter more than small transfers. But the point here is that they are so much more effective that we should prefer to spend $X on large transfers than $X on many small transfers. Welcome back big push development economics. [N/N]

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Matt Lowe

1 year

Amazing new paper on the effects of decentralization by @Jeff_Weaver_ and Veda Narasimhan. They use a population-based RD in India: villages above a threshold get a smaller local government body. [1/5]

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Matt Lowe

10 months

We (me, @Jeff_Weaver_ , @anahitark ) are looking to hire a field intern to help with work measuring untouchability practices in Uttar Pradesh. Full details in the picture, and feel free to help us by RTing!

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Matt Lowe

5 years

Now we have an RCT on the policy influence of RCTs. Who wants to do an RCT on the policy influence of RCTs on the policy influence of RCTs with me?

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Robert Dur

5 years

When political leaders learn about the findings of RCTs, do they change their beliefs about policy effectiveness? And do they ultimately implement policies in response to new research findings? Check out this really cool new paper by @HjortJ et al.

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Matt Lowe

4 years

My greatest confusion in academia is how few professors know about Ctrl+L

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Matt Lowe

6 years

basically me and every project I have ever worked on

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We could all learn a lesson from this baby bear: Look up & don't give up.

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3 years

When RCTs become policy!

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Seema Jayachandran

3 years

Today the state of Punjab, India announced it was rolling out @INBreakthrough ’s curriculum—aimed at changing gender attitudes—for 6th to 8th graders statewide. Great effort by @JPAL_SA & Breakthrough to turn evidence into action, and terrific news for #InternationalWomensDay !

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5 years

The best thing about being Matt Lowe with a PhD in Germany is that sometimes I get e-mails that google translate to "Dear Doctor Lion"

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Matt Lowe

3 years

Oh my Ghosh this paper is so good, everyone please read it!

@ubcVSE

UBC Economics

3 years

#EconJobMarket candidate Arkadev Ghosh’s paper implements a field experiment to understand whether the effects of religious diversity on productivity & worker attitudes depend on a firm’s production technology. Profile: 📝:

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Matt Lowe

2 years

We would like to thank @economeager for important feedback, and a few good men for inspiration (including @JoshuaSGoodman ).

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Matt Lowe

5 years

Best thing about being the only professor in your friendship group is that you get called "The Professor" rather than "A Professor"

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Matt Lowe

4 years

Fact #1 : aggregate food volumes fell by over 60% during the first phase of the lockdown, but by the end of May volumes had recovered to 2019 levels. [3/N]

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Matt Lowe

4 years

When starting teaching, should you start from a position of strength: "I am a behavioural economist" Or vulnerability: "Like you, I have never taken a full behavioural course, until now"

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Matt Lowe

4 years

First we had studies on Covid now we have studies on studies on Covid next will be studies on studies on studies on Covid gosh I hope we get the vaccine soon.

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Tomer Ullman

4 years

Covid-study-study: I asked 200 people on Turk about the COVID19 studies they've done. First, by their own estimation, how many COVID19 studies have they done? (notice the logarithmic x axis)

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Matt Lowe

6 months

This is a fascinating paper -- huge anti-transgender discrimination goes away completely after discriminators chat amongst themselves about their decision-making. Totally non-obvious that a chat could have so much debiasing power. Would love to see this tried in other settings!

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Duncan Webb

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Excited to present my JMP: Silence to Solidarity My job market paper studies whether communication between discriminatory people can lead to large reductions in discrimination 🔗 👇for more

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4 years

Slides available at . Heroic research assistance from @pulks_aggarwal , @Toshan15566914 , @DhirSimranjeet . [N/N]

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Matt Lowe

4 years

Whenever you're having a bad teaching day just remember the guy who gave a lecture on his phone without slides while trapped in a lift with his kids

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I had to teach my Introduction to Psychology class today to 300+ students from my cell phone while I was trapped in my apartment building elevator with my two young kids. This has to go down as my most surreal and stressful teaching experience.

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Fact #4 : most surprisingly to us, there is no evidence that within a given state, supply chains were hit harder in the districts that had COVID-19 deaths. This suggests that supply chain disruptions are driven more by state policies than by local fears of the virus. [7/N]

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4 years

@nadhanael , @BenRothEcon and I use data from 1800 wholesale markets across India to track food volumes and prices since the lockdown. We (cleverly) distill the data into "Four Food Facts". [2/N]

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4 years

Fact #2 : wholesale prices increased by ~10% during phase one, but have since returned to a downward trend. They are now ~10% 𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟 than before the lockdown. [4/N]

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4 years

These facts together suggest that India is enjoying a broad-based recovery of its food supply chain, though of course this tells us nothing about the demand-side: though food is available, there may be many that cannot afford it due to lack of work. [8/N]

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Matt Lowe

5 years

A four-tweet tale on the advising of Esther and Abhijit: for a thank you gift, @dongheejo68 and I trawled through all MIT PhD Econ theses to map out their advisees. By our count, Esther advised 69 students 2001-18, Abhijit advised 89 1995-2018. 1/4

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The Nobel Prize

5 years

BREAKING NEWS: The 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.” #NobelPrize

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4 years

Today I introduced a topic in class and one student audibly cheered. My lectures are like rock concerts, it's just that only one person in the audience likes the band

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Matt Lowe

6 years

statalist legend Nick Cox at his very best

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4 years

Avoid trolling by using Twitter on Russian holidays:

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Matt Lowe

4 years

Second, a decent habit in grad school is to learn how to generate ideas rapidly, get feedback, kill bad ideas quickly, pick the best idea and push it. Once-per-semester research proposals are helpful, but don't teach this iterative process of the idea-by-idea Hunger Games. [3/N]

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Matt Lowe

4 years

"I'm meant to be famous in West Bengal, my co-authors persuaded me" - Abhijit Banerjee

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Matt Lowe

5 years

Surprisingly, you read this far, so thank you. This is a snapshot of the experiment, read the paper for: (1) Some evidence on the (non-)importance of equal status and a lack of intergroup competition (2) Boring robustness checks (3) A footnote referencing Lagaan 🙃N/N🙃

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Matt Lowe

4 years

It struck me today that the title of my job market paper is so clunky that anytime I have to enter it into some form I have to open the pdf to double-check. One-word titles from now on I think.

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Matt Lowe

5 years

Aiming for top-5 pub

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Kylie Jenner

5 years

reach for the stars baby 😩😩😍😂

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3 years

. @pbaylis and I are hiring a pre-doc for 2021/22! Details here: . The pre-doc will work mainly on environmental and behavioural econ. [1/3]

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Matt Lowe

5 years

My favourite thing about Vancouver so far is that everyone says thank you to the bus driver when they leave the bus, even if they are exiting from the middle and so have to shout "THANK YOU" to be heard

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Matt Lowe

2 years

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Claudio Ferraz

2 years

I guess if @ubcprez has advertised it, it is now public information. I have been holding my breath for some weeks now to say how happy I am that @DrNathanNunn is joining us at @ubcVSE . I can’t think of anyone better to foster work here on development, pol economy and history

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Matt Lowe

3 years

A thought on deception in econ experiments: experimental economists tend to avoid deceiving subjects for at least two reasons: (1) it makes the IRB process quicker, (2) econ referees are thought to dislike deception. [1/N]

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Matt Lowe

2 years

Come work with us! @pbaylis and I are hiring someone interested in any combination of devo/enviro/behavioural, and others are hiring too [1/2]

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UBC Economics

2 years

🚨 NOW HIRING: The Centre for Innovative Data in Economics Research at the VSE is recruiting 5 full-time pre-docs/research assistants to start this summer. A great opportunity for those considering a PhD in Economics. More info here: #EconJobs @econ_ra

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5 years

New academic dream: take seaplane to give seminar

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Felipe Valencia C.

5 years

Best seminar commute ever @UVicEconomics @robgillezeau @MaggieECJones @drdonnalfeir thanks for everything!

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4 years

The killer figure is now upon us. The mapping of productive assets in 2011 to those in 2007 is S-shaped! The paper does more work to convince us this is really causal (recall: the variation on the x-axis here was not randomly assigned). This looks like a poverty trap. [12/N]

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4 years

What does this mean for development policy? Small transfers (e.g. typical microloans) may only have temporary effects. Large transfers are more likely to persistently improve income. [15/N]

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4 years

This is brilliant

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Hilda Hernández

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Food supply to 1800 markets across India has fallen by roughly 60% since the lockdown, with some signs of improvement in recent weeks. More from work with @BenRothEcon and @nadhanael : [1/N]

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3 years

We have a 100% success rate at placing our pre-docs in LSE Econ PhDs (N=1). Our current pre-doc says we are fun to work with, and continued to say this even after we wrote a letter for them. [2/3]

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5 years

Now he can finally pursue higher-risk long-term projects

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5 years

Finally journalists asking the important questions

@ndtv

NDTV

5 years

"Dance to everything, from Taylor Swift, to Rihanna, to Bollywood, to Nigerian pop", Nobel Laureate Abhijit Banerjee on what kind of music gets him going. Watch full interview here:

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Fact #3 : the initial volume shock was larger in states with more coronavirus cases... [5/N]

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Matt Lowe

5 years

🚨Hiring India-based RAs/interns for 2 @JPAL_SA projects🚨 Price Competition Among Market Vendors (w/ Ben Roth) Volunteerism in India (w/ @GarethNellis ) Retweets welcomed 🙂 @econ_ra

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Chris Blattman

4 years

@tage_rai @seema_econ @RFisman @hmmlowe Also, I should add that I think there are two of the best conflict related papers in recent years. I used to think social contact theory was tired and exhausted, and sports and development was overrated. These papers changed my mind.

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I have never met anyone that works so hard to place his RAs well. @Prof_Nishith_P is the real deal as a mentor. Consider applying below!

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3 years

Quarantine back home is just 14 days of learning how to fill the dishwasher correctly

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Matt Lowe

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"Thank you for your truly insightful point -- it has changed the way I think about economics, and I have changed the writing in the paper accordingly. Specifically, see the newly added footnote 57."

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Matt Lowe

4 years

I'm excited to be teaching behavioural development to both undergrads and grads next semester at @ubcVSE ! #econtwitter , any suggestions for recent papers I should teach?

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Matt Lowe

3 years

I slept through a zoom lecture of mine in early-2020. I woke to messages from students asking if this was some kind of Lord Of The Flies classroom experiment, which actually is kind of a brilliant idea. Any others have faculty fail stories?

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early modern boy-actress (they/them)

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Remember how we were joking last week about how nobody knows what timezones anything is in anymore? The session actually started an hour earlier than what I posted here. Really sorry everyone for that screw up and I hope you were not all as late as I was, yikes.

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Should parties or voters select candidates? Political parties in Sierra Leone randomized the process for candidate selection at the race-level(!) By Casey, Kamara, Meriggi

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3 years

Please apply and we can play spikeball together

@ubcVSE

UBC Economics

3 years

📚 Interested in studying economics at the graduate level in Canada 🇨🇦? Join a virtual information session for the MA & PhD programs at the Vancouver School of Economics at UBC! #CdnPSE Monday, October 25 | 11 AM PDT | Register here:

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4 years

A cautionary tale...

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Jeanet Sinding Bentzen

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I recently fell in love with the significance stars and spent hours (100+) on a piece of research. Only recently I looked at the plot behind the stars. Remove one observation and it all went away. Down the drain with the entire thing. If I had only looked at the plot to start😩

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I just finally learned how to make sticky toffee pudding, and feel like I now have a superpower to turn any bad day into a good one.

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Matt Lowe

5 years

I've seen the future

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Hans Henrik Sievertsen

5 years

Hi #EconTwitter I finally created a specification chart for a real project🤓🥳 Had: robustness tab w. 6 specifications of main model. Wanted: show 72 robustness checks Solution: specification chart ⬇️ (picture) is how it looks. Thanks for your feedback in June. @causalinf

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Matt Lowe

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A new prejudice reduction paper in Israel: Jewish elementary school kids watched videos of Arab, visually impaired, and immigrant children answering blunt questions about their group (that people might usually be afraid to ask). [1/4]

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Matt Lowe

5 years

Me: who do you love more, grandad or uncle Matt? Niece: grandad! Me: who is your favourite uncle? [she only has one] Niece: grandma! Me: :(

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Matt Lowe

4 years

My solution: PhD students write up a 1/2-page research idea every week. Full marks if make *any effort*. I read them, and give detailed feedback. For really good ideas, I suggest they hand in the same idea next week, with feedback incorporated. [4/N]

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Matt Lowe

4 years

...but the subsequent recovery was unrelated to cases (i.e. the states are recovering in general). [6/N]

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Matt Lowe

4 years

Finally, our guess would be that even as cases continue to rise, the recovery will continue: given that supply chain disruptions seem to have been driven more by policy than local risk mitigation. [9/N]

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Matt Lowe

5 years

Note under door: Hello, I am from the top floor. I am celebrating my birthday today! Me: No way no way no way I'm getting invited Note under door: Please let me know if it is too loud. Thank you very much and have a nice evening. Me: *cries alone*

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Matt Lowe

3 years

One unexpectedly (for me) wonderful thing about being a prof is seeing your students/RAs realise dreams. So proud and excited for you @UgurMertYasar !

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umy

3 years

1. This is going to be a somewhat long flood full of gratefulness and appreciation. I'm thrilled to announce that I got accepted to my dream program, Behavioral Science PhD at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

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Matt Lowe

5 years

Mine was (age 16): Dad: have you considered taking economics A Level? Me: what's economics? Dad: I think it is about employment and inflation and stuff like that, not sure tho Me: ok I'll drop chemistry and do that instead

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Erika McEntarfer

@ErikaMcentarfer

5 years

Economists seem to have two paths to becoming economists: (a) my parent(s) is an economist (b) it was a complete and utter accident, I had no idea economics was something I would be interested in until X happened.

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Matt Lowe

5 years

The plot twist is that this figure was made in stata but looks nothing like it

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Hans Henrik Sievertsen

5 years

Hi #EconTwitter I finally created a specification chart for a real project🤓🥳 Had: robustness tab w. 6 specifications of main model. Wanted: show 72 robustness checks Solution: specification chart ⬇️ (picture) is how it looks. Thanks for your feedback in June. @causalinf

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Matt Lowe

2 years

We are now going through applications -- so please apply soon and not just by deadline day to maximise your chances!

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UBC Economics

2 years

🚨 NOW HIRING: The Centre for Innovative Data in Economics Research at the VSE is recruiting 5 full-time pre-docs/research assistants to start this summer. A great opportunity for those considering a PhD in Economics. More info here: #EconJobs @econ_ra

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Matt Lowe

4 years

Note to self: I should tweet less and say more stuff out loud

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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦

4 years

Me reading a blog post: This is nonsense, who could think this Me hearing the same blog post read to me in a British accent: This is brilliant, how could anyone disagree with this

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Matt Lowe

4 years

You can now send money directly to those hard-hit by COVID-19 in Africa, thanks to @GiveDirectly : It has never been easier to help those in dire need: you can do it with the click of a button, without even getting out of your PJs.

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Matt Lowe

2 years

Incredible

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TCPD

2 years

TCPD-IAS Data Release: TCPD-IAS dataset contains information on the officers of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) from 1951-2020. Data available here:

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4 years

Positive #2 : the quality of the ideas varied a lot, but the each students best idea was solid: feasible, novel. Close to half of the students are continuing to work on their best idea: hopefully easing the transition to third year. [6/N]

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