Matt Webb
@mattdwebb
Associate Professor of Economics at Carleton University. Interested in statistical inference, empirical micro, and experiments.
Hey #econtwitter, do you have a binary outcome? Estimate logit models? Want to cluster your standard errors? We've got bad, good, and great news for you. See the thread below, or our new working paper (with @jgmQED and @MortenEcon) for details arxiv.org/abs/2406.00650 1/7
Below is an opinion piece I was asked to write by the Toronto Star comparing the federal parties’ economic plans. apple.news/APxO7nrhwRSSxW…
Excited to open the call for papers for the 40th Canadian Econometric Study Group (CESG) conference. The conference will be in Ottawa on October 17-19, this year's theme is `Credible Econometrics'. For more details, see caneconometrics.ca/annualMeeting/… #econtwitter #cdnecon
We did not want to start the week like this, but here we are. Yet again our chair’s inbox is filled with messages from replicators who have opened “replication” folders only to find names, Social Insurance Numbers, mental-health diagnoses and incomes of study participants. 🧵
What is I4R supposed to do? Honestly, we need help. If a faculty has experience and wants to join us as a I4R co-director to develop guidelines and deal with these emails, please reach out ASAP.
As a prof who just finished assigning grades, I really hope that, for AI’s sake, that AI didn’t help students much.
For higher education, “AI’s takeover [is] a full-blown existential crisis.” “College is just how well I can use ChatGPT at this point.” “I think we are years — or months, probably — away from a world where nobody thinks using AI for homework is considered cheating.” “It isn’t…
Today, many of us gathered in Western to celebrate the life and accomplishments of my friend and coauthor Paul Klein.
Warren Buffett just got a 10 minute long standing ovation after announcing his retirement. Curtain call for the captain. 🥹
🧵New survey paper: "Inference with Few Treated Units" Alvarez (@lafalvarez), Ferman (@bruno_ferman) and Wüthrich Tired of referees saying your standard errors are wrong? This survey will help you understand if you really have a problem — and, if so, how to fix it!
TFW you threaten to fire the Governor of the Bank of Canada and a former Governor takes your job.
Trevor really is the "true neutral" of the Canadian economist party.
Canadian politics explained
A new journal just for publishing reanalyses of published empirical research findings statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/04/16/a-n…