And now for some Friday links ...
- Nice roundup on the wage penalty for mothers vs fathers across 6 OECD economies in the Economist (hint: it’s really large, and correlates well with population-wide attitudes towards mothers who work; RT @piza_caio).
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#LookLikeAnEconomist: some great news on that front, the next PhD cohort at UC Berkeley is 50% female! (RT @MarthaOlney). Some links to Women in Econ conferences
- The Women in Econ Research #WiEr2019 conference is on April 20 (short notice!)
- The AAEA is organizing a mid-career Developing Multidisciplinary Leaders Workshop at Tufts University, to help post-tenure or equivalent professionals progress in their careers (RT @midwestjoyce)
- Ripe for a RCT? A school in Baltimore reports incredible results after replacing detention with meditation (RT @Noahpinion)
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Some resources to work in R
- online R training material for advanced Stata users by DIME Analytics:
- stepping into Bayes — online tutorials (RT @dataandme)
- New to GitHub? Don’t give up on using GitHub over a merge conflict (as most new git users do)! This GitKraken video explains what they are and how they can be solved through a desktop client (RT @AndradeLuizaC).
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Some recently posted pre/post-docs
- IFAD's Research and Impact Assessment Division (RIA) is looking for three 2-year post-docs as of July 1, 2019, based in Rome — application here.
- Gabriel Kreindler (@thetahat) at Harvard is looking for a full-time pre-doc to work on urban&transport topics in dev countries and prep for grad school.
- Anne Brenøe and Ulf Zölitz at the University of Zurich are looking for one or two full-time research assistants to work on projects in the field of economics of child and youth development.
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