Rstudio makes this actively harder for new students, though, since it doesn't have a file tree on the LHS of the editor like VS Code. Navigating a folder is clunky and students can never really visualize a nested folder full of files. Positron will fix all this though. Can't come soon enough!
** Development econ job market candidates ** The devo group at Princeton is hiring 2 postdocs for 2025-26. Come spend the year with us before starting your faculty job. Nina Buchmann, who deferred her postdoc w/ us until 2025-6, will also be here for the year. www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
I'm feeling this right now doing structural work... There are so many "hidden" tips and tricks for calibration that you are really only going to learn working closely with a senior author on a project. Advisor-advisee relationship just isn't enough to really learn that skill.
How do you deal with moisture and mold? My understanding is that you need a really good (potentially environmentally costly) sealant, and it's hard to construct in wet conditions.
One of the final papers I’m handling at RSUE. Excited to see it published!
🚨 New publicly available dataset on housing regulations across US municipalities With Alex Bartik and Dan Milo, we highlight a novel AI-based method for accurate categorization of regulations in unstructured text, which we use to establish 5 facts about housing regulation:
Any good reviews of Studwell's book? When I was reading it, I wish I had some annotated copy about history and, more to my interest, interpreting his informal reasoning through a structural model. Would be a nice JEP paper or something.