Sitakanta Panda
@stkntp.bsky.social
Interests in political & public economics, labour markets, law and economics, development. Cinema/literature/social science buff. AstProf, IIT Bhubaneswar. https://sites.google.com/site/spandaecon
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You could hardly have more different books on behavioral economics. Chater and Loewenstein regret their part in what they feel has turned into a scam, while Thaler and Imas celebrate how it has gone from victory to victory.
#econsky #academicsky
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#econsky #academicsky
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Divergent views on behavioral economics: books by Loewenstein and Chater, and Thaler and Imas
marketdesigner.blogspot.com
October 22, 2025 at 1:30 PM
You could hardly have more different books on behavioral economics. Chater and Loewenstein regret their part in what they feel has turned into a scam, while Thaler and Imas celebrate how it has gone from victory to victory.
#econsky #academicsky
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/10/dive...
#econsky #academicsky
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New The Effect materials today: introductions to basic coding and data manipulation in R, Stata, and Python. Get the wheels turning on using these languages with data with these intro pages and exercises:
nickchk.com/Coding%20and...
nickchk.com/Coding%20and...
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Introduction to Working with Data: R Version
nickchk.com
September 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
New The Effect materials today: introductions to basic coding and data manipulation in R, Stata, and Python. Get the wheels turning on using these languages with data with these intro pages and exercises:
nickchk.com/Coding%20and...
nickchk.com/Coding%20and...
nickchk.com/Coding%20and...
nickchk.com/Coding%20and...
nickchk.com/Coding%20and...
nickchk.com/Coding%20and...
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“Get it all on record now. Get the films. Get the witnesses. Because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower
September 1, 2025 at 7:23 PM
“Get it all on record now. Get the films. Get the witnesses. Because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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We show:
* LP-DiD is identical to "stacked DiD" (Cengiz et al. 2019); but no need to stack the data
* a simple re-weighted LP-DiD estimate is identical to Callaway/Sant'Anna; but uses OLS & asymptotic inference: much faster.
* slightly modified LP-DiD closely related to of Borusyak et al.
* LP-DiD is identical to "stacked DiD" (Cengiz et al. 2019); but no need to stack the data
* a simple re-weighted LP-DiD estimate is identical to Callaway/Sant'Anna; but uses OLS & asymptotic inference: much faster.
* slightly modified LP-DiD closely related to of Borusyak et al.
July 20, 2025 at 3:12 AM
We show:
* LP-DiD is identical to "stacked DiD" (Cengiz et al. 2019); but no need to stack the data
* a simple re-weighted LP-DiD estimate is identical to Callaway/Sant'Anna; but uses OLS & asymptotic inference: much faster.
* slightly modified LP-DiD closely related to of Borusyak et al.
* LP-DiD is identical to "stacked DiD" (Cengiz et al. 2019); but no need to stack the data
* a simple re-weighted LP-DiD estimate is identical to Callaway/Sant'Anna; but uses OLS & asymptotic inference: much faster.
* slightly modified LP-DiD closely related to of Borusyak et al.
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Paper worth reading: "The Optimality of Majority Rule" by Nina Bobkova.
It offers a new perspective on why simple majority-rule may be best: it not only aggregates information but it also motivates voters to learn about what really matters.
Link: drive.google.com/file/d/1pVVE...
#polecon
It offers a new perspective on why simple majority-rule may be best: it not only aggregates information but it also motivates voters to learn about what really matters.
Link: drive.google.com/file/d/1pVVE...
#polecon
November 16, 2024 at 5:44 PM
Paper worth reading: "The Optimality of Majority Rule" by Nina Bobkova.
It offers a new perspective on why simple majority-rule may be best: it not only aggregates information but it also motivates voters to learn about what really matters.
Link: drive.google.com/file/d/1pVVE...
#polecon
It offers a new perspective on why simple majority-rule may be best: it not only aggregates information but it also motivates voters to learn about what really matters.
Link: drive.google.com/file/d/1pVVE...
#polecon
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"Fox News has substantial effects up and down the ballot. It boosts Republican candidates in House, Senate, gubernatorial, and presidential elections. We show that the mechanism for these electoral effects is that FNC has shifted Americans’ partisanship and ideological preferences to the right."
From viewers to voters: Tracing Fox News’ impact on American democracy
This paper provides a comprehensive assessment of the effect of Fox News Channel (FNC) on the mass public’s political preferences and voting behavior …
www.sciencedirect.com
November 18, 2024 at 1:32 AM
"Fox News has substantial effects up and down the ballot. It boosts Republican candidates in House, Senate, gubernatorial, and presidential elections. We show that the mechanism for these electoral effects is that FNC has shifted Americans’ partisanship and ideological preferences to the right."
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Do you or your students ever have to clean data in
Stata? If so, I wrote a tutorial for @asjadnaqvi.bsky.social 's amazing "Stata Gallery". I cover the most essential techniques: generating, replacing, recoding, rescaling, encoding, destringing & lots more! polisky medium.com/the-stata-ga...
Stata? If so, I wrote a tutorial for @asjadnaqvi.bsky.social 's amazing "Stata Gallery". I cover the most essential techniques: generating, replacing, recoding, rescaling, encoding, destringing & lots more! polisky medium.com/the-stata-ga...
Cleaning Data in Stata
An introduction to essential Stata commands for generating, recoding, and rescaling variables.
medium.com
December 24, 2023 at 4:46 AM
Do you or your students ever have to clean data in
Stata? If so, I wrote a tutorial for @asjadnaqvi.bsky.social 's amazing "Stata Gallery". I cover the most essential techniques: generating, replacing, recoding, rescaling, encoding, destringing & lots more! polisky medium.com/the-stata-ga...
Stata? If so, I wrote a tutorial for @asjadnaqvi.bsky.social 's amazing "Stata Gallery". I cover the most essential techniques: generating, replacing, recoding, rescaling, encoding, destringing & lots more! polisky medium.com/the-stata-ga...
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Ever wondered how discrimination affects job networks? In our two-stage experiment on LinkedIn, we provide insights into the question, causally studying the effect of discrimination on Black individuals' job networks in the U.S.
December 19, 2023 at 1:11 PM
Ever wondered how discrimination affects job networks? In our two-stage experiment on LinkedIn, we provide insights into the question, causally studying the effect of discrimination on Black individuals' job networks in the U.S.
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Very cool paper by @ethanbdm.bsky.social on how strategic partisan behavior by politicians can cause voters to underestimate common ground
In the model voters understand the model... In reality of course they likely don't, which likely exacerbates these misperceptions
www.nber.org/system/files...
In the model voters understand the model... In reality of course they likely don't, which likely exacerbates these misperceptions
www.nber.org/system/files...
November 18, 2023 at 1:38 PM
Very cool paper by @ethanbdm.bsky.social on how strategic partisan behavior by politicians can cause voters to underestimate common ground
In the model voters understand the model... In reality of course they likely don't, which likely exacerbates these misperceptions
www.nber.org/system/files...
In the model voters understand the model... In reality of course they likely don't, which likely exacerbates these misperceptions
www.nber.org/system/files...
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🚨 New WP:
"Religion and Growth"
w/ @jaredcrubin.com & Ludger Woessmann
We use the elements of a macroeconomic production function—physical capital, human capital, labor, and technology—to frame the role of religion in economic growth.
👉 (pdf) www.monash.edu/__data/asset...
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"Religion and Growth"
w/ @jaredcrubin.com & Ludger Woessmann
We use the elements of a macroeconomic production function—physical capital, human capital, labor, and technology—to frame the role of religion in economic growth.
👉 (pdf) www.monash.edu/__data/asset...
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October 3, 2023 at 8:31 PM
🚨 New WP:
"Religion and Growth"
w/ @jaredcrubin.com & Ludger Woessmann
We use the elements of a macroeconomic production function—physical capital, human capital, labor, and technology—to frame the role of religion in economic growth.
👉 (pdf) www.monash.edu/__data/asset...
🧵1/X
"Religion and Growth"
w/ @jaredcrubin.com & Ludger Woessmann
We use the elements of a macroeconomic production function—physical capital, human capital, labor, and technology—to frame the role of religion in economic growth.
👉 (pdf) www.monash.edu/__data/asset...
🧵1/X
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"Women spend so much more energy being nice to people in the workplace! When will they ever get credit for that?!” This audience question is common in our public talks about research on gender equality in the labor market. Our new paper gives striking evidence on this point. 1/7
October 23, 2023 at 1:41 PM
"Women spend so much more energy being nice to people in the workplace! When will they ever get credit for that?!” This audience question is common in our public talks about research on gender equality in the labor market. Our new paper gives striking evidence on this point. 1/7
#EconSky Besides @BruceWydick's excellent book "Games in Economic Development", what are the other nice books/materials on applications of game theory in development economics (i.e. written from a game theoretic perspective)? I warmly appreciate any leads/ help.
October 11, 2023 at 7:42 AM
#EconSky Besides @BruceWydick's excellent book "Games in Economic Development", what are the other nice books/materials on applications of game theory in development economics (i.e. written from a game theoretic perspective)? I warmly appreciate any leads/ help.
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Econ nobel to the reviewer or editor that got Sala-i-Martin to reduce his number of regressions in the published paper by 2 million. Not the hero economics deserves, but the one we need!
www.jstor.org/stable/2950909
www.jstor.org/stable/2950909
I Just Ran Two Million Regressions on JSTOR
Xavier X. Sala-I-Martin, I Just Ran Two Million Regressions, The American Economic Review, Vol. 87, No. 2, Papers and Proceedings of the Hundred and Fourth Annual Meeting of the American Economic Asso...
www.jstor.org
October 5, 2023 at 9:43 AM
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Katalin Karikó on the status economy of academia. She’s the hero we don’t deserve.
Source: josephnoelwalker.com/147-katalin-...
Source: josephnoelwalker.com/147-katalin-...
![There is a “centre” where the money, the fame, is; most likely your proposal gets funded because it’s on the most favourable topic. Maybe today, RNA is [most favourable]. If you are working with mRNA, maybe that's the centre there.
And then there are people in the periphery. There is no fame, there is no money, no nothing there. The only thing in the periphery is freedom. You can do what you like to do, what you feel is important.
Here’s what a proposal is: why they should give me money. And they should question that. “She came from university nobody knew about.” “She never had a mentor who was famous.”
And somehow it gravitates always to the same people, same circle. They get published there, they get the money. And that's another explanation: I was not famous enough or didn't have anybody who would support me in a way that somebody that’s a famous and well-established scientist stands behind you and says, “Oh, look at this, it’s good.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:h6srr75ahvugj6gts7ql4cpl/bafkreie7jkxonqwgbbcuni4dh54nhodteq24wv4dp6smnvsomdpwpve4we@jpeg)
October 3, 2023 at 8:20 AM
Katalin Karikó on the status economy of academia. She’s the hero we don’t deserve.
Source: josephnoelwalker.com/147-katalin-...
Source: josephnoelwalker.com/147-katalin-...
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New Paper 🔔
We look at the contrasting meanings of merit that elites in the 🇬🇧 and 🇩🇰 deploy when justifying their success. Co-authored with @aaronsreeves @chellersgaard @antongrau
🧵 below…
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We look at the contrasting meanings of merit that elites in the 🇬🇧 and 🇩🇰 deploy when justifying their success. Co-authored with @aaronsreeves @chellersgaard @antongrau
🧵 below…
academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
The Meaning of Merit: Talent versus Hard Work Legitimacy
Abstract. Elites often use merit to explain, justify, and make sense of their advantaged positions. But what exactly do they mean by this? In this paper, we dra
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October 2, 2023 at 9:15 AM
New Paper 🔔
We look at the contrasting meanings of merit that elites in the 🇬🇧 and 🇩🇰 deploy when justifying their success. Co-authored with @aaronsreeves @chellersgaard @antongrau
🧵 below…
academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
We look at the contrasting meanings of merit that elites in the 🇬🇧 and 🇩🇰 deploy when justifying their success. Co-authored with @aaronsreeves @chellersgaard @antongrau
🧵 below…
academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
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Researchers using the RD design often plot the running variable against the outcome. This paper from Korting et al. demonstrates that a researcher's approach to plotting RD data can have major consequences for readers' ability to accurately process statistical info. academic.oup.com/qje/article/...
September 29, 2023 at 1:59 PM
Researchers using the RD design often plot the running variable against the outcome. This paper from Korting et al. demonstrates that a researcher's approach to plotting RD data can have major consequences for readers' ability to accurately process statistical info. academic.oup.com/qje/article/...
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PSA: stata2r.github.io is a *fantastic* website for getting going in R (w data.table & fixest) if coming from Stata. Recently had to do large project fully in R, used data.table because of this website, loved it. Thanks @kylefbutts.bsky.social @gmcd.bsky.social @nickchk.bsky.social!
Translating Stata to R
Learning R coming from Stata
stata2r.github.io
September 24, 2023 at 1:28 PM
PSA: stata2r.github.io is a *fantastic* website for getting going in R (w data.table & fixest) if coming from Stata. Recently had to do large project fully in R, used data.table because of this website, loved it. Thanks @kylefbutts.bsky.social @gmcd.bsky.social @nickchk.bsky.social!
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Polisky. Announcing workshop on 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗩𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗗𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘀. Ursula Daxecker, Andrea Ruggeri, and I are inviting proposals for an in-person workshop at University of Amsterdam in spring 2024. Submission deadline: Friday, September 29 Call & submission info: evap.uva.nl/event/worksh....
September 22, 2023 at 9:07 AM
Polisky. Announcing workshop on 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗩𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗗𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘀. Ursula Daxecker, Andrea Ruggeri, and I are inviting proposals for an in-person workshop at University of Amsterdam in spring 2024. Submission deadline: Friday, September 29 Call & submission info: evap.uva.nl/event/worksh....
Ohmygod 😇... people on earth are getting hyper creative in fleecing others! The Einstein guy was right: human stupidity really has no limits!!
I’ve heard of people falsely accusing others of sex crimes, but this is the first time I’ve heard of someone falsely accusing *themselves* of sex crimes. From today’s newspaper 🧵 /1
September 22, 2023 at 10:06 AM
Ohmygod 😇... people on earth are getting hyper creative in fleecing others! The Einstein guy was right: human stupidity really has no limits!!
Digital tech is meant to be inclusive, plural. Musk & his ilk believe capitalism can buy human freedoms which is nonsense. The way tech progress is happening, no one company can be hegemonic for long. X.com is decaying. Quite the fate of many now obsolete tech. Hope #BlueSky shines in its promise.
September 21, 2023 at 3:35 PM
Digital tech is meant to be inclusive, plural. Musk & his ilk believe capitalism can buy human freedoms which is nonsense. The way tech progress is happening, no one company can be hegemonic for long. X.com is decaying. Quite the fate of many now obsolete tech. Hope #BlueSky shines in its promise.
#econsky Intro time. I work on Pol Econ topics like corruption & governance, political/institutional determinants of economic outcomes, public trust in institutions, elections, public finance. I'm also interested in studying poverty, inequality, and gender bias. I'm an AstProf at IIT Bhubaneswar.
September 21, 2023 at 3:31 PM
#econsky Intro time. I work on Pol Econ topics like corruption & governance, political/institutional determinants of economic outcomes, public trust in institutions, elections, public finance. I'm also interested in studying poverty, inequality, and gender bias. I'm an AstProf at IIT Bhubaneswar.
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One of my most admired neuroeconomists, Camelia Kuhnen, discussing the neuroscience of why people process the same financial information (like current economic indicators) to mean different things.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90931057/is-the-economy-good-or-bad-why-we-cant-agree
https://www.fastcompany.com/90931057/is-the-economy-good-or-bad-why-we-cant-agree
August 7, 2023 at 1:37 AM
One of my most admired neuroeconomists, Camelia Kuhnen, discussing the neuroscience of why people process the same financial information (like current economic indicators) to mean different things.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90931057/is-the-economy-good-or-bad-why-we-cant-agree
https://www.fastcompany.com/90931057/is-the-economy-good-or-bad-why-we-cant-agree