Is economics self-correcting? Our paper on replications & comments in the AER is now out in Economic Inquiry (in a special issue on replication I4R). There is some interesting material, including a survey of all living former AER editors. 1/n onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Inequality: The Deaton Review. The whole evidence volume of the Review, with clickable links to the remarkable set of commissioned articles across the many dimensions of inequality, is available here ifs.org.uk/inequality/the…

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The great Dario Tortarolo & Thiago Scot are leading the event, so it'll be amazing!

We have received top-up funding for our meta-reproduction and are looking for a few more replication fellows. We pay 2,500 EUR for reproducing a paper that we assign, using a protocol which we also assign. If you are interested reach out via DM or email.

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🚨 Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have announced they are withdrawing from ECOWAS, West Africa's regional and economic bloc, with immediate effect.

All three countries are currently run by military leaders that seized power.

Hey Dropbox when i looked this up i actually wasn't looking for a bunch of intro to CS definitions i was looking for an explanation as to what on earth you could be sending my data to OpenAI for that's so important you set the share toggle to 'on' by default?

📢 Call for papers for the 3rd Workshop on Networks and Development, Naples, 6-7 May 2024, keynote by Matthew Jackson (@StanfordEcon)

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🤷🤷‍♀️New data: SHRUG 2 is out!! Development Data Lab has been working on this for two years, a HUGE update to India’s coolest data platform:
1. Maps of *every* 2011 town and village, with ids
2. All data at every geography (villages, districts, ACs, etc)...
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🚨New working paper!🚨

With Pierre Bachas, Anne Brockmeyer and Roel Dom, we study how firms use tax incentives to lower their effective tax rate (ETR). How do ETRs vary with firm size? And what are the implications for the global minimum tax?

A short 🧵👇[1/6]

the most powerful climate report of the decade was published on monday, after 195 governments fought over the words in its summary for policymakers, and the only media allowed in the room just published its account of who lobbied for what 1/

The EU Court of Justice delivered a ruling on beneficial ownership data this week that could set the fight against corruption back years.

Where do we go from here? Maíra Martini of Transparency International has some ideas in her latest piece.

transparency.org/en/blog/cjeu-r…

We are hiring a Research Manager at Eval-Lab! Join us in this young and growing #impact #evaluation company! #EconTwitter

Very wise words from Mark Miller on working in development. Well worth a read (and read again!) for all development practitionners and researchers, wherever you are in your career!

New paper in the JEEA: Do stricter data-sharing policies reduce p-hacking & publication bias in economics? Apparently yes. Introducing data-sharing policies has led to 31% decrease in t-values; especially excess statistical signifiance. academic.oup.com/jeea/advance-a…

Massive status bias in peer review.

534 reviewers randomized to review the same paper revealing the low status, high status, or neither author. 65% reject low status, 23% reject high status.

Amazing work by Juergen Huber and colleagues. #prc9

What happens when growth and distribution are forced to speak to each other?

Case study of a region 🌎 where official stats said both had exceptionally 'improved'.

Part II out this week: where data gaps meet interpretation dilemmas. 🤔

Part I👇 Part II👇