Causal inference is all the rage.
But good descriptive research is vital.
This new article lays out an argument for what makes good descriptive research.
Universities are training economists who can build models... ONLY for mechanical, toaster-like problems
Like "Does giving 🐔increase income?"
Press a button (intervention) ➡️ linear outcome
In fact, economists have FAILED to build models for complex, non-linear realities
Universities are training economists who can build models... ONLY for mechanical, toaster-like problems
Like "Does giving 🐔increase income?"
Press a button (intervention) ➡️ linear outcome
In fact, economists have FAILED to build models for complex, non-linear realities
We've got a super exciting new initiative for early career scholars at the journal Economy and Society ! Submit your papers for a £1000 Early Career Paper Prize 2026.
Link below.
📢 Thrilled to share our new article introducing CampaignView—a comprehensive open-source dataset of congressional candidate campaign bios and policy platforms (2018–2022). Paper + data here: campaignview.org & doi.org/10.7910/DVN/JI… 🧵1/4
The course I teach at Cambridge has become exorbitantly expensive and is inaccessible for most people.
So I've decided to share the entire reading list with the public — here, via this thread.
My course is called "Development Economics" and consists of 8 lectures. 🧵
github.com/kylebutts/vsco…
If you are using vscode and stata, you should try out my extension. It uses interactive window which let's you write in a `.do` file but get a notebook type experience.
Studying the long-run output losses of financial crises and global temperature shocks finds that crises are associated with detectable contractions in real GDP for five decades into the future, from @KarstenMueIIer, @chenzix, Mohamed Lehbib, and Ziliang Chen…
We're constantly told how countries are run by the elites.
However, mapping the economic elite has been incredibly tough to do.
But now, a new dataset compiled by 70+ researchers provides data on over 3,500 elites in 16 countries:
Wow! This project looks amazing.
In it, three scientists at Columbia, Michigan, and Maryland introduce VRscores: a measure of the partisan leanings of employers in the United States.
The dataset is constructed by linking U.S. voter registrations to online worker profiles.…
🚨 Exciting news for my fellow sovereign debt nerds! Sharing a new dataset on sovereign external debt crises: haircuts by restructuring & aggregated by debt-crisis spell since 1815. Updated to Dec 2024 & alive. Hopefully useful for research and policy alike!
My article with Steven Pennings just published in Journal of Development Economics -- few national leaders have a large contribution to economic growth. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
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