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Associate Professor, Food and Resource Economics Department, University of Florida

Gainesville, FL
Joined September 2015
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We are saddened to announce the passing of Dr. Andrew Schmitz. Our thoughts are with his loved ones at this time. A gathering will be held at the Schmitz Home in Gainesville on Oct. 17th from 5 – 9 PM to celebrate his life. To attend, please reach out to UF/IFAS FRE for details.
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[1:9] A thread on "The varying effects of dollar stores on food access: A machine learning analysis," by Chuck Grigsby-Calage, @ccmullally, @RichardVolpe, Jaclyn Kropp
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Your slides should avoid having tons of extra junk on them, but the default Beamer themes make that hard. So I made my own .sty file that fixes all the standard issues and put it on my website for everyone to use:
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Our paper on distance learning in Nepal is now published in Journal of Development Economics! doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.20…
New paper with Sarah Janzen and @npmagnan shows distance learning boosts women's entrepreneurship in rural Nepal. Findings: -70% higher completion rates vs. traditional training -Equal knowledge & effectiveness Thanks to @NepalHeifer for implementation. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
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Just re-upping this: I currently have more mentors than mentees/students (can probably match another 10-11 students from LMICs who would like feedback on a research paper from a senior scholar.) Fill out the from here if interested! forms.gle/ekvvoEKBLYQMoN2p9
#EconTwitter #econsky: announcement of call for mentors + opportunity for paper feedback for scholars from LMICs (repeating a success from last year)! tl;dr sign up either to submit a paper (if you're a junior scholar from a LMIC) or review a paper (any post-PhD scholar).
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Yesterday I attended the session "Publishing in #Economics" at the #NEUDC2024 with @MelissaLDell (JPE) @afosterri (JDE) @SuriTavneet (REStat) and Laura Schechter (JEBO) and I think everyone should benefit from the amazing insights and advice we received, here is my summary! 1/n
Publishing in Economics. #NEUDC session on Publishing in Economics, moderated by Maddie McKelway & @debi_mohapatra. @MelissaLDell , @afoster, @LauraASchechter, & @SuriTavneet provided insightful and honest advice to researchers on how to navigate the complex world of publishing
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Querer hacer un doctorado en una universidad top es una fuente de ilusión y frustración para muchos. Hoy escribí al respecto. Creo que es algo que nos ayuda a pensar cómo hacer las universidades en LatAm más competitivas. forbes.co/2024/10/22/actuali…
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Morgan Kelly's paper on "The Standard Errors of Persistence" (with T. Conley) is now forthcoming in the @JIntlEcon. The paper is relevant to this year's Nobel Prize in Economics on the importance of institutions for prosperity. 1/
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I think a lot about the '80s and the moral panics that characterized the time. It's no surprise that we've so recently fallen for this immigrants-are-eating-the-pets rumor, a lie often rooted in racism and fear. And one that only aids hate groups. nbcnews.com/tech/internet/tr…
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Just because a term appears many times in your paper doesn't mean you need to invent an initialism or acronym for it. Really. You can just write out the words every time. That's kinder to your reader in almost every case.
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🌿 AERE Scholar Spotlight: Weizhe Weng (@wwengw) 🌿 Weizhe's work focuses on environmental and natural resource economics, valuation of ecosystem services, and water policy. Website: fred.ifas.ufl.edu/about/dire…
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🚨 New paper in the Journal of Development Econ. Are migrants from poor countries relatively high or low productivity workers? What happens to migration as incomes rise? @MariapiaMendola and I note: These are closely related questions with a counterintutive answer (thread)
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"Tariff engineering" is when a company tweaks a product to get a lower tariff rate. The Subaru BRAT of the 1980s got around the 25% "chicken tax" on US truck imports by adding jump seats in the back to qualify as passenger cars. Some more examples: 1/
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Important thread.
Afghanistan has one of the world's highest rates of childhood lead exposure, which causes permanent brain damage. Nearly all children here have significant lead poisoning. Researchers in the US have found the source of the lead. But nobody has told the Afghan public. Thread.
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Today I wanted to do a 🧵 on an evergreen topic but one that lately I've had reason to reflect on: how to write a high-quality response to referees + editors (in economics). tl;dr: detailed + specific; diplomatic; careful cross-references to paper!
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I've posted a review article on deep learning for economists arxiv.org/pdf/2407.15339. The DL literature is vast, and I initially found it pretty daunting to find the parts of it that are most relevant to economic applications. I hope people will find this useful! #econtwitter
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Today we released the first papers from OpenResearch's Unconditional income Study, which gave 1k ppl $1k/mo for 3 yrs & had a N=2k control group This 🧵 is for RCT nerds: how did we measure the cash's fx? Learn about 96% response rates, blood draws, changing a state law & more..
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Interested in issues of political conflict, market inefficiencies, and food crises? Want to study how these connect as part of your PhD work? I've got good news for you! Apply for this scholarship to work with me and @ashaniamar at @USydneyEcon @Sydney_Uni sydney.edu.au/scholarships/b…
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