Blane Lewis

Interested in political economy of local elections? We find that Indonesia's local democratic transition had a mostly negative impact on key public spending and service outcomes, especially in districts where clientelistic practices were pronounced. authors.elsevier.com/sd/arti…

Interested in local incumbent elections? In Indonesia I find that re-election of incumbent mayors leads to a large reduction in local capital spending, moderate decline in household service access, and a sharp rise in local governance-related violence. authors.elsevier.com/sd/arti…

thinking about writing a paper the old fashioned way

OMG I appeared in 3 LinkedIn searches this week!

Thank you for considering Elsevier as your publishing partner! If your paper has already been rejected, we kindly ask you to disregard this message, as it may have been sent inadvertently.

Bored on Sunday? Try changing your main email address across 3 dozen various and sundry accounts. Highly recommended experience. 10/10

An editor at the best urban economics field journal has desk rejected my paper which uses a staggered diff-in-diff set up (and @jmwooldridge 's estimator) because the treatment variable is endogenous and "diff-in-diff does not address such endogeneity". Hmm

department of government efficiency department

anybody have any luck implementing @jondr44 's 'honestdid' and 'pretrends' with @jmwooldridge 's estimator as per @friosavila 's 'jwdid'? (Stata versions)

Is there ever anything on y’all’s bingo cards?

I don't know why everybody's complaining about Australian monetary policy. In per capita terms it must be one of the best in the world.

uh oh reviewers have concerns

sure i understand completely. why would a paper on local democratic elections in the 4th largest country in the world be of any "general interest".

I turned off notifications on outlook. Following day I get a notification asking if I really want to turn off notifications on outlook. Bloody hell.

Finally

"This is just for fun. It's my attempt to an Easter Egg within my program. Also, if you are reading this, it means you are lucky, only 0.1% of people using this program will see this message. This program was inspired by challenge post by Scott Cunningham." @pedrohcgs @causalinf

university authenticator apps what could possibly go wrong

“ haven’t read the paper carefully yet” you should just stop right there

I think we can safely assume now that all errors are your own