Clint Harris
@clintent-to-treat.bsky.social
Economist | Scientist @UWMadison | @PurdueKrannert PhD | I study labor and education using econometrics.
Reposted by Clint Harris
Incredibly proud of this 🤩🥹! So much work and determination behind this publication. What a journey this was! Honored to have done it with you @vickybarone.bsky.social 🚀❤️
Recently accepted by #QJE, “Republican Support and Economic Hardship: The Enduring Effects of the Opioid Epidemic,” by Arteaga (@caroartc.bsky.social) and Barone (@vickybarone.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
Republican Support and Economic Hardship: The Enduring Effects Of the Opioid Epidemic
Abstract. In this paper, we establish a causal connection between two of the most salient social developments in the United States over the past decades: t
doi.org
November 23, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Incredibly proud of this 🤩🥹! So much work and determination behind this publication. What a journey this was! Honored to have done it with you @vickybarone.bsky.social 🚀❤️
Reposted by Clint Harris
ICYMI: New paper for causal effects with panel data, subsuming other approaches. We generate realistic synthetic data based on commonly studied datasets, showing our method substantially outperforms others and providing insight about what in the data-generating process corresponds to gains.
New paper: Triply Robust Panel Estimators (TROP) by @susanathey.bsky.social @guidoimbens.bsky.social Zhaonan Qu @vivianodavide.bsky.social.
arxiv.org/pdf/2508.21536
arxiv.org/pdf/2508.21536
November 23, 2025 at 10:39 PM
ICYMI: New paper for causal effects with panel data, subsuming other approaches. We generate realistic synthetic data based on commonly studied datasets, showing our method substantially outperforms others and providing insight about what in the data-generating process corresponds to gains.
Reposted by Clint Harris
New paper with @instrumenthull.bsky.social and Michal Kolesár on leniency/judge IV designs.
This article is targeted for the Journal of Economic Perspectives, and so we wrote it with the goal of being accessible to a wide range of users, including advanced undergrads!🧵
arxiv.org/abs/2511.03572
This article is targeted for the Journal of Economic Perspectives, and so we wrote it with the goal of being accessible to a wide range of users, including advanced undergrads!🧵
arxiv.org/abs/2511.03572
November 17, 2025 at 3:06 PM
New paper with @instrumenthull.bsky.social and Michal Kolesár on leniency/judge IV designs.
This article is targeted for the Journal of Economic Perspectives, and so we wrote it with the goal of being accessible to a wide range of users, including advanced undergrads!🧵
arxiv.org/abs/2511.03572
This article is targeted for the Journal of Economic Perspectives, and so we wrote it with the goal of being accessible to a wide range of users, including advanced undergrads!🧵
arxiv.org/abs/2511.03572
My belated take on sandwich guy.
1. I think it is assault for someone to throw a sandwich at me.
2. I think it is not assault for a lumberjack to acidentally bop a coworker with some bark while chopping down a tree.
3. I think ICE/etc being injured by someone while working is case 2.
1. I think it is assault for someone to throw a sandwich at me.
2. I think it is not assault for a lumberjack to acidentally bop a coworker with some bark while chopping down a tree.
3. I think ICE/etc being injured by someone while working is case 2.
November 7, 2025 at 4:12 PM
My belated take on sandwich guy.
1. I think it is assault for someone to throw a sandwich at me.
2. I think it is not assault for a lumberjack to acidentally bop a coworker with some bark while chopping down a tree.
3. I think ICE/etc being injured by someone while working is case 2.
1. I think it is assault for someone to throw a sandwich at me.
2. I think it is not assault for a lumberjack to acidentally bop a coworker with some bark while chopping down a tree.
3. I think ICE/etc being injured by someone while working is case 2.
Reposted by Clint Harris
Curious about using census microdata in your research? 📊
Join us for a webinar on IPUMS International, the world’s leading repository of harmonized census data.
🗓️ 12 Nov 2025 | 🕒 15:15–16:30 UK | 💻 Zoom
Register: forms.gle/oqTDNU4Zpn2s...
Hosted by the LSE Historical Economic Demography Group.
Join us for a webinar on IPUMS International, the world’s leading repository of harmonized census data.
🗓️ 12 Nov 2025 | 🕒 15:15–16:30 UK | 💻 Zoom
Register: forms.gle/oqTDNU4Zpn2s...
Hosted by the LSE Historical Economic Demography Group.
Register for IPUMs International Online Session
Please use this form to register for the IPUMs International Session hosted by the Historical Economic Demography Group at LSE.
The session will be on Zoom from 15:15-16:30 UK Time on 12 November 202...
forms.gle
November 5, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Curious about using census microdata in your research? 📊
Join us for a webinar on IPUMS International, the world’s leading repository of harmonized census data.
🗓️ 12 Nov 2025 | 🕒 15:15–16:30 UK | 💻 Zoom
Register: forms.gle/oqTDNU4Zpn2s...
Hosted by the LSE Historical Economic Demography Group.
Join us for a webinar on IPUMS International, the world’s leading repository of harmonized census data.
🗓️ 12 Nov 2025 | 🕒 15:15–16:30 UK | 💻 Zoom
Register: forms.gle/oqTDNU4Zpn2s...
Hosted by the LSE Historical Economic Demography Group.
Reposted by Clint Harris
Econ of Ed (and other) friends: what are the best studies linking in-college interventions to labor market outcomes? Especially interested in those that improve outcomes via different mechanism than completion. E.g. if a college wants to improve earnings of grads, what should they do?
October 28, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Econ of Ed (and other) friends: what are the best studies linking in-college interventions to labor market outcomes? Especially interested in those that improve outcomes via different mechanism than completion. E.g. if a college wants to improve earnings of grads, what should they do?
If California has a true, justified belief that something causes cancer, then it must actually cause cancer.
If it does not, saying that it is known to the State of California to cause cancer is a Lie and should be treated as false advertising.
If it does not, saying that it is known to the State of California to cause cancer is a Lie and should be treated as false advertising.
What substances are know to the State of California to NOT cause cancer?
November 2, 2025 at 6:39 PM
If California has a true, justified belief that something causes cancer, then it must actually cause cancer.
If it does not, saying that it is known to the State of California to cause cancer is a Lie and should be treated as false advertising.
If it does not, saying that it is known to the State of California to cause cancer is a Lie and should be treated as false advertising.
My favorite thing about being an academic is realizing how obvious things are after wracking my brain about them for several years.
October 30, 2025 at 7:13 PM
My favorite thing about being an academic is realizing how obvious things are after wracking my brain about them for several years.
Reposted by Clint Harris
Econ job market candidate intros.
Candidates, communicate:
1) your name, program, & fields,
2) image of JMP title & abstract + Alt Text,
3) #EconJMP, &
4) a link to your website.
Employers, browse & interact respectfully.
Everyone else, shhhh.
📉📈
Candidates, communicate:
1) your name, program, & fields,
2) image of JMP title & abstract + Alt Text,
3) #EconJMP, &
4) a link to your website.
Employers, browse & interact respectfully.
Everyone else, shhhh.
📉📈
September 15, 2024 at 3:29 PM
Econ job market candidate intros.
Candidates, communicate:
1) your name, program, & fields,
2) image of JMP title & abstract + Alt Text,
3) #EconJMP, &
4) a link to your website.
Employers, browse & interact respectfully.
Everyone else, shhhh.
📉📈
Candidates, communicate:
1) your name, program, & fields,
2) image of JMP title & abstract + Alt Text,
3) #EconJMP, &
4) a link to your website.
Employers, browse & interact respectfully.
Everyone else, shhhh.
📉📈
Worst case bounds uninformative again.
October 24, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Worst case bounds uninformative again.
The Rubin Causal Sermon on the Mount says thus.
For binary sin indicator D and circumstances Z, a person is guilty of D if D(z)=1 for any z in the support of Z.
Blessed are the never-takers.
For binary sin indicator D and circumstances Z, a person is guilty of D if D(z)=1 for any z in the support of Z.
Blessed are the never-takers.
October 24, 2025 at 10:37 PM
The Rubin Causal Sermon on the Mount says thus.
For binary sin indicator D and circumstances Z, a person is guilty of D if D(z)=1 for any z in the support of Z.
Blessed are the never-takers.
For binary sin indicator D and circumstances Z, a person is guilty of D if D(z)=1 for any z in the support of Z.
Blessed are the never-takers.
Reposted by Clint Harris
the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes
NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.
October 21, 2025 at 8:27 PM
the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes
Reposted by Clint Harris
Very straightforwardly detained by secret police for speech. I honestly don't know what establishment figures are telling themselves any more to avoid cognitive dissonance over this shit.
ICE arrested comedian Robby Roadsteamer for singing a parody of Rod Stewart’s “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy” in a Jeffrey Epstein the Giraffe costume outside their facility.
He sings “If you hate brown people / and you are a Nazi” and ICE thugs grab him and drag him into detention. No violence—just speech.
He sings “If you hate brown people / and you are a Nazi” and ICE thugs grab him and drag him into detention. No violence—just speech.
October 15, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Very straightforwardly detained by secret police for speech. I honestly don't know what establishment figures are telling themselves any more to avoid cognitive dissonance over this shit.
Exclusion is just one weird guy in the SUTVA party trying to follow his cool friends into the club.
October 16, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Exclusion is just one weird guy in the SUTVA party trying to follow his cool friends into the club.
If there is anything that can be called Christlike, it is giving generously to people even as they kill you.
No comment on how prevalent this attitude is or should be among LDS members, it's just really remarkable.
No comment on how prevalent this attitude is or should be among LDS members, it's just really remarkable.
After the heinous shooting at an LDS chapel in Michigan over the weekend, a member of the church set up a fund for the shooter's wife and children.
It's raised $150k so far.
Deeply moving.
It's raised $150k so far.
Deeply moving.
October 1, 2025 at 1:38 PM
If there is anything that can be called Christlike, it is giving generously to people even as they kill you.
No comment on how prevalent this attitude is or should be among LDS members, it's just really remarkable.
No comment on how prevalent this attitude is or should be among LDS members, it's just really remarkable.
I would think every country would be 100%.
Measurement error is my Ultimate Concern for this survey.
Measurement error is my Ultimate Concern for this survey.
We asked people in 17 advanced economies what gives them meaning in life.
Americans were much more likely to mention religion as a source of meaning.
www.pewresearch.org/global/2021/...
Americans were much more likely to mention religion as a source of meaning.
www.pewresearch.org/global/2021/...
September 28, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I would think every country would be 100%.
Measurement error is my Ultimate Concern for this survey.
Measurement error is my Ultimate Concern for this survey.
Reposted by Clint Harris
This is fucking horrifying.
A man was just chased and arrested outside of the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago. When legal observers from the National Lawyers Guild asked why, an agent threatened to arrest them too.
September 27, 2025 at 11:02 PM
This is fucking horrifying.
Read the abstract and thought "this would be great for environmental agreements like the Paris Agreement!"
Then I saw the journal - nice catch!
Then I saw the journal - nice catch!
📢 Just accepted in #JAERE! 📢
"Incentivising Efficient Effort When Monitoring Individuals Is Costly" by Ben Balmford, Brett Day, Ian Bateman, and Greg Smith.
Read it here: buff.ly/Sgvs81T
📈📉 #Econsky
"Incentivising Efficient Effort When Monitoring Individuals Is Costly" by Ben Balmford, Brett Day, Ian Bateman, and Greg Smith.
Read it here: buff.ly/Sgvs81T
📈📉 #Econsky
September 25, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Read the abstract and thought "this would be great for environmental agreements like the Paris Agreement!"
Then I saw the journal - nice catch!
Then I saw the journal - nice catch!
Reposted by Clint Harris
Bring back the click-to-cancel rule and a CFPB that would punish such end runs.
I’d put money on Disney throttling access to their subscription cancellation page for a few days - and limiting people at their phone centers - on the hope that people will calm down and forget. So, you know, if you can’t get it working right now, set an alarm and do it in a few days.
September 21, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Bring back the click-to-cancel rule and a CFPB that would punish such end runs.
Not legal advice, but if this happens, cancel it as an unauthorized transaction with your card company.
No one is allowed to charge you for a service you didn't consent to.
No one is allowed to charge you for a service you didn't consent to.
Bring back the click-to-cancel rule and a CFPB that would punish such end runs.
I’d put money on Disney throttling access to their subscription cancellation page for a few days - and limiting people at their phone centers - on the hope that people will calm down and forget. So, you know, if you can’t get it working right now, set an alarm and do it in a few days.
September 21, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Not legal advice, but if this happens, cancel it as an unauthorized transaction with your card company.
No one is allowed to charge you for a service you didn't consent to.
No one is allowed to charge you for a service you didn't consent to.
Disney boycott with 2 nonverbal autistic daughters who love Moana is going about as well as expected.
September 21, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Disney boycott with 2 nonverbal autistic daughters who love Moana is going about as well as expected.
This method looks fantastic for using RD to evaluate effects of policies on inequality, without needing to know the X's that predict inequality.
Hi Bluesky!
I'm excited to share my job market paper (for the 2025-26 market)!
It introduces a new extension of RDD where outcomes are entire distributions: Regression Discontinuity Design with Distributions (R3D).
Thread below 👇 (1/)
I'm excited to share my job market paper (for the 2025-26 market)!
It introduces a new extension of RDD where outcomes are entire distributions: Regression Discontinuity Design with Distributions (R3D).
Thread below 👇 (1/)
September 21, 2025 at 2:54 PM
This method looks fantastic for using RD to evaluate effects of policies on inequality, without needing to know the X's that predict inequality.
Reposted by Clint Harris
Hi Bluesky!
I'm excited to share my job market paper (for the 2025-26 market)!
It introduces a new extension of RDD where outcomes are entire distributions: Regression Discontinuity Design with Distributions (R3D).
Thread below 👇 (1/)
I'm excited to share my job market paper (for the 2025-26 market)!
It introduces a new extension of RDD where outcomes are entire distributions: Regression Discontinuity Design with Distributions (R3D).
Thread below 👇 (1/)
April 9, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Hi Bluesky!
I'm excited to share my job market paper (for the 2025-26 market)!
It introduces a new extension of RDD where outcomes are entire distributions: Regression Discontinuity Design with Distributions (R3D).
Thread below 👇 (1/)
I'm excited to share my job market paper (for the 2025-26 market)!
It introduces a new extension of RDD where outcomes are entire distributions: Regression Discontinuity Design with Distributions (R3D).
Thread below 👇 (1/)