It's not too late to register for this week's Mixtape session on empirical Bayes methods -- sign up at the link below to join! Lectures and live coding labs MWF, 6-9pm eastern.

Topics will include teacher/school value-added, employer-level labor market discrimination, individualized treatment effect predictions, connections to machine learning and multiple testing, and more.

Next week I'm teaching a Mixtape Session on Empirical Bayes. Register at the link below if you want to learn about using EB methods to quantify heterogeneity, "borrow strength" to improve treatment effect estimates, and make decisions:.

RT @causalinf: I’ll be posting from time to time about this coming workshops. This one we just finalized and it’s ready. It’s on empirical….

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The slides are available here:

This year's NBER methods lecture on empirical Bayes methods is now available on the @nberpubs youtube page. Jiaying Gu and I enjoyed putting this material together - we hope it's helpful for people who want to use these methods in applied work.

If you guys think all this negative weight stuff is bad, wait until #EconTwitter discovers the James/Stein (1961) result that OLS is inadmissible under squared loss when m>2.

RT @instrumenthull: Michal Kolesár, Chris Walters (@c_r_walt), and I were very happy to have been invited by the Scandinavian Journal of Ec….

RT @instrumenthull: New working paper w/@metrics52, @prof_parag, & @c_r_walt: "Race and the Mismeasure of School Quality". .

RT @BlueprintMIT: How do we measure school quality and why does it matter? School quality measures have far-reaching impacts, influencing s….

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RT @econimate: How does employment discrimination vary across firms?. Patrick Kline (@berkeleyecon), @evankrose (@UChi_Economics) & @c_r_wa….

RT @JPAL_NA: ✏️New blog post✏️.Researchers Patrick Kline, @evankrose, & @c_r_walt discuss their recent @JPAL_NA-funded study documenting sy….

RT @PolicyImpacts: Join us for the Policy Impacts conference, tomorrow (Aug 12) from 1PM-5PM ET. The conference will feature presentations….

Insightful article by @portereduardo on our new study of employment discrimination with Pat Kline and @evankrose:.

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