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Peter Hull
@instrumenthull.bsky.social
Economics Professor at Brown, studying discrimination, education, healthcare, and applied econometrics. I like IV

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New 'Metrics Note! "One weird trick" to characterize compliers / the effective population underlying design-based OLS & IV specifications

Check it out: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/lgba6...
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An Imbens retrospective on experimental v. non-experimental methods — looks like a must-read www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Comparing Experimental and Nonexperimental Methods: What Lessons Have We Learned Four Decades after LaLonde (1986)?
(Fall 2025) - In 1986, Robert LaLonde published an article comparing nonexperimental estimates to experimental benchmarks (LaLonde 1986). He concluded that the nonexperimental methods at the time coul...
www.aeaweb.org
November 6, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Peter Hull, Michal Koles\'ar: Leniency Designs: An Operator's Manual https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.03572 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.03572 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.03572
November 6, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Reposted by Peter Hull
Excited to post a new working paper with @instrumenthull.bsky.social and Michal Kolesár: arxiv.org/abs/2511.03572

Will post a thread on it soon, but if you're interested in judge/examiner designs, I think you'll find this guide very helpful!
Leniency Designs: An Operator's Manual
We develop a step-by-step guide to leniency (a.k.a. judge or examiner instrument) designs, drawing on recent econometric literatures. The unbiased jackknife instrumental variables estimator (UJIVE) is...
arxiv.org
November 6, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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Zero new jobs in the federal government posted on JOE in the past three weeks.
Not surprising given the government shutdown (which began Oct 1), but still grim. At least two-thirds fewer such jobs posted in 2025 than in each of the past six years at this time.
#econjobmarket
October 13, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Thanks BeNA (and Berlin) for a great few days!
October 13, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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📢 Save the date!

Join the BeNA Lecture Series with Peter Hull (Brown University) on Shift-Share & Recentered IV

📅 Oct 9–10, 2025
📍 DIW Berlin

Deep dive into modern econometric methods + a research talk + office hours.

Register by Sep 25, 2025!
labor-research.net/2025/08/29/b...
BeNA Lecture Series on Shift-Share and Recentered IV with Peter Hull - Berliner Netzwerk Arbeitsmarktforschung
Date: October 9–10, 2025 Location: DIW Berlin (Room: Elinor-Ostrom-Hall), Anton-Wilhelm-Amo-Straße 58, 10117 Berlin The Berlin Network of Labor Market Research (BeNA) is pleased to announce a lecture ...
labor-research.net
September 1, 2025 at 11:55 AM
October 3, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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My coauthors and I are hiring a project coordinator for new research on an innovative jail-based rehabilitation paper (IGNITE), building on our recent QJE

Apply at careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/project...
September 26, 2025 at 9:08 PM
My coauthors and I are hiring a project coordinator for new research on an innovative jail-based rehabilitation paper (IGNITE), building on our recent QJE

Apply at careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/project...
September 26, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Reposted by Peter Hull
Come hear what Larry Katz, Xavier D'Haultfoeuille, Kei Hirano, Francesca Molinari, and Andres Santos think about publishing econometrics in general interest journals!

Tomorrow's Chamberlain Seminar: 12pm ET
September 26, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Come hear what Larry Katz, Xavier D'Haultfoeuille, Kei Hirano, Francesca Molinari, and Andres Santos think about publishing econometrics in general interest journals!

Tomorrow's Chamberlain Seminar: 12pm ET
September 26, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Reposted by Peter Hull
New 'Metrics Note! "One weird trick" to characterize compliers / the effective population underlying design-based OLS & IV specifications

Check it out: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/lgba6...
September 3, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Reposted by Peter Hull
The Chamberlain Seminar continues this semester with two exciting online sessions on 9/26 & 10/31! Check out the details below and click below to join our mailing list!

mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/list...
September 8, 2025 at 2:43 PM
The Chamberlain Seminar continues this semester with two exciting online sessions on 9/26 & 10/31! Check out the details below and click below to join our mailing list!

mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/list...
September 8, 2025 at 2:43 PM
New 'Metrics Note! "One weird trick" to characterize compliers / the effective population underlying design-based OLS & IV specifications

Check it out: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/lgba6...
September 3, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Reposted by Peter Hull
Thrilled that @instrumenthull.bsky.social agreed to share his knowledge in Berlin. Sign up now! Let me know in case of questions 👋
September 2, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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Trying my luck here: @jiafengkevinchen.bsky.social, @instrumenthull.bsky.social, and I just posted a question about conditional expectations under a nonparametric completeness condition. Any thoughts & suggestions much appreciated!

stats.stackexchange.com/questions/66...
Can conditional expectation of a non-constant function not depend on a conditioning variable under a completeness condition?
my coauthors and I have been struggling with the following question: Let $(X,Y,Z,W)$ be random variables with support on $\mathbb{R}^{4}$ such that the conditional expectation operator with respect...
stats.stackexchange.com
August 12, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Reposted by Peter Hull
Here's the link with the timestamp!

youtu.be/RpxfvLBqDAY?...
July 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
ICYMI: you can watch the recording here (around the 5h19m mark)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rpxf...
July 25, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Tomorrow (Thu) at 1:45pm ET:

Check out @borusyak.bsky.social's presentation of work w/ Mauricio Caceres Bravo on demand estimation with recentered IVs @ the Frontier Econometric Methods NBER SI. We're honored to have Steve Berry as a discussant!

Should be livestreamed at youtube.com/@nbervideos
July 23, 2025 at 2:20 PM
If you wanna learn more about this, check out @borusyak.bsky.social's presentation next Thursday at the new @nber.org Frontier Econometric Methods day

nber.org/conferences/...
July 15, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Bottom line: if you want your structural estimates to be more robust to model misspecification, be sure to use recentered instruments!

arxiv.org/abs/2504.04056
July 14, 2025 at 4:49 PM