Joshua Weidmann
@joshua_weidmann
Predoc @HarvardEcon. Prev. @UniKonstanz and @LSEnews. Political Economy. #FirstGen http://joshuaweidmann.bsky.social
Interested in using intermediate outcomes to better understand causal mechanisms and predict long-term impacts of interventions? Join Prof. Chetty and Prof. Kosuke Imai at the NBER Methods lectures: 📅 Thursday, 7/24, 3 pm 📍 Cambridge, MA for NBER SI attendees, or virtually ⬇️
Forthcoming in the JEL: "Difference-in-Differences Designs: A Practitioner’s Guide" by Andrew Baker, Brantly Callaway, Scott Cunningham, Andrew Goodman-Bacon, and Pedro H. C. Sant'Anna. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…
I have a predoc opening! This position will involve working with historical U.S. local newspaper data to understand Americans' varied perspectives on key issues across a century. Applicants can upload materials here (the listing describes a different project - sorry, I was…
Reviewing the literature on the relationship between culture and political preferences, from Vasiliki Fouka and Marco Tabellini nber.org/papers/w33786
Join my outstanding research team in Zurich as a #predoc research associate! We conduct empirical analyses of labor markets, globalization, technology and politics. More info and link to application: 🔗ddorn.net @econ_ra @predoc_org @econ_uzh
New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP20233 Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson: The Identification of Historically Contingent Causal Effects Davide Cantoni @ECONMunich, Noam Yuchtman @OxfordEconDept ow.ly/59QW50VSlh7 #CEPR_DE #CEPR_EH #CEPR_MG #CEPR_PoE #EconTwitter
I'm hiring a predoc - more info here: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14905 #econtwitter
James Robinson (@HarrisPolicy) and I are hiring one or more predocs starting Summer '25. Come work with us on political economy, economic history, and AI. Link: uchicago.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External… @predoc_org
We have a late predoctoral fellowship opening in the Reimagining the Economy Project @Kennedy_School. Join Dani Rodrik and me to work on place-based and industrial policy next year. hks.harvard.edu/centers/wiener…
Was ist die beste strategische Analyse zur AfD-Verbotsverfahrens-Debatte, die ihr gelesen habt?
Looking forward to visiting @UChicagoPoliSci to talk about international #redistribution and natural #disasters: Tue, April 29, from 3:30-4:50pm. #politicalscience #climate @UniCologne @WiSoUniCologne
Fantastic first day at #COMPTEXT2025. Really enjoyed spreading the word about small & efficient LLMs 🌱✨🦙 in our workshop (w/ Julia Romberg) today. Many thanks to everyone who joined us 💚. Excited for more packed conference days ahead 🚀
Afternoon workshops at #COMPTEXT2025 wrapped up with in-depth sessions on narrative analysis, platform access (DSA), concept measurement, and LLM training. Thanks to instructors Maria Antoniak, @dscheykopp, @hauke_licht,@chklamm and all participants for a great end to the day!
Sharing @UniCologne's Department of Political Science 2025 Speaker Series featuring talks on public policy challenges such as #migration, #climate change, and political #polarization. Looking forward to seeing you! #politicalscience #politics #research @WiSoUniCologne
Congratulations to Stefanie Stantcheva (@S_Stantcheva) of @Harvard, winner of the 2025 John Bates Clark Medal! aeaweb.org/about-aea/hono…
🥁 It's the second half of our 🌱 speaker series this term, and we couldn't be more excited! Next week (Wednesday, April 30 at 5pm CET), @taniseceron will share insights on "Facilitating Information Access Through Language Models". More details tada.cool⬇️
Is twitter interesting and useful? Yes. Just look in the right places.
First - this is more my area of expertise - it is frankly pretty extreme to claim that theoretical arguments can do anything convincing on this issue. The theoretical channels for government investment to be complementary to private investment are so ample that any argument to…
Job offer! We (@gchodorowreich, @ludwigstraub, @xgabaix) are hiring a #predoc to join us at Harvard, starting summer 2025. You'll work on a range of macro and/or finance projects with us. Apply here: rb.gy/8ghunc @econ_ra @predoc_org
Meet @Schuermann_L, one of our Visiting Scholars from @WZB_Berlin. Join him next week for a seminar on “Empowering Voices Beyond Ballots? Representative Claims by Non-Elected Political Actors.” 🗓️April 16 ⏰ 2:00 - 3:15pm 🔗 ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2025/04…
Recently accepted by #QJE, “Structural Estimation Under Misspecification: Theory and Implications for Practice,” by Andrews, Barahona (@NanoBarahona), Gentzkow, Rambachan (@asheshrambachan), and Shapiro: doi.org/10.1093/qje/qj…