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Ben Elsner
@ben_elsner
Prof of Economics & Head of School, @EconomicsUCD; migration & human capital. Proud Bavarian. My son to his friend: My dad's a piano player, and a teacher.
Dublin City, Ireland
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    Ben Elsner
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    Dec 7, 2021
    #EconTwitter Public Good Alert: I have created an online course in #causalinference (my 2020 lockdown project). The course is based on Mostly Harmless Econometrics and @causalinf 's Mixtape, and covers basics of canonical research designs (IV, RDD, DiD, SC) 1/2
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    Ben Elsner
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    Dec 7, 2021
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    and advanced methods (MTE, Staggered Adoption, RKD), plus an intro based on DAGs. Videos are available here: youtube.com/playlist?list=… Slide deck available on my website. Comments welcome! 2/2
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    Causal Inference -- Online Lectures (M.Sc/PhD Level)
    In a series of 23 lectures, this course covers the basic techniques of causal inference. These techniques are commonly used in economics and other social sci...
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    Ben Elsner
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    Dec 7, 2023
    I am very happy to share that I have been promoted to Professor of Economics at @ucddublin. It has been quite a journey, and I'm deeply grateful to family, friends, colleagues, and mentors who provided invaluable support over many years. I'll pay forward for sure. 1/2
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    Ben Elsner
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    Jan 14, 2022
    #EconTwitter 📺📺 I have published the lecture videos of my UG Public Economics course (51 videos). Link here: youtube.com/channel/UCWVc6…. Feel free to share with your students. @ucddublin @EconomicsUCD 1/2
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    Intuitive MetriX – Ben Elsner
    Ben Elsner is a labor economist based at University College Dublin, where he teaches econometrics and public economics. More information here: https://www.benjaminelsner.com/ Follow me on twitter:...
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    Ben Elsner
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    Sep 5, 2022
    2022 has been a pretty rough year career-wise so far. Receiving five nominations for a teaching award makes the outlook a lot better. Grateful to the students who took the time to nominate me and write appraisals 🙏 @ucddublin @EconomicsUCD
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    Ben Elsner
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    Nov 23, 2021
    Very proud of my PhD student @d_zambiasi who successfully defended his PhD yesterday. Congrats for an excellent thesis, and delighted that he will join @UniofNewcastle in January. Well done Dr Zambiasi! @EconomicsUCD @ucddublin
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    Ben Elsner
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    Nov 18, 2022
    🚨📚🏆Very happy to share that I've received one of the Teaching Excellence Awards by @ucdsocscilaw. Great to see recognition for teaching, which is important but often overlooked. @EconomicsUCD @ucddublin More (publicly available) materials to come soon.
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    Ben Elsner
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    Oct 4, 2022
    Replying to @chr_mich
    I use this graph to talk about manipulation in RDDs, also to illustrate that "manipulation" need not be malicious; it's just that people respond to incentives (in that case some intrinsic gain from finishing below a certain time).
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    Ben Elsner
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    Feb 2, 2023
    📣Publication alert! Excited to share our paper "Long-run exposure to low-dose radiation reduces cognitive skills" with Florian Wozny @DLR_en, which was just published in @JEEM_tweets 1/
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    Ben Elsner
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    Oct 2, 2023
    #Econtwitter Research in Labor Economics @RLE_labor will have a special issue on Migration, Human Capital and the Labor Market. We have keynote papers from @giov_peri & @MetteFoged_econ , Catalina, @AmuedoDorantes, Barry Chiswick, @madelinezavodny & Pia Orrenius 1/
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    Ben Elsner
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    Dec 9, 2022
    One year ago, I launched my YouTube teaching channel 📺📺with video series on causal inference and public econ. Doing this was an extremely positive experience for me. A 🧵 #EconTwitter 1/
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    Ben Elsner
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    Dec 7, 2021
    #EconTwitter Public Good Alert: I have created an online course in #causalinference (my 2020 lockdown project). The course is based on Mostly Harmless Econometrics and @causalinf 's Mixtape, and covers basics of canonical research designs (IV, RDD, DiD, SC) 1/2
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    Ben Elsner
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    Sep 17, 2020
    #EconTwitter I’m trying to organize “research speed dating” online, where people are repeatedly randomly matched for 10min talks about research. Has anyone set up sth similar before? If so, on what platform?
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    Ben Elsner
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    Aug 1, 2023
    Exciting times ahead at @EconomicsUCD. I'm super happy that four new fantastic new colleagues are joining us this summer/autumn. This brings us from 29 to 33 faculty members, which makes a huge difference. All of them have exciting research agendas. Short 🧵
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    Ben Elsner
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    Aug 28, 2023
    Very proud of this publication. The inflow of 8 million expelled Germans in West Germany changed policy priorities. More about the paper in the thread by @NPestel83 👇
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    Nico Pestel
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    Aug 28, 2023
    Many years of work and painstaking digitization of historical data have finally paid off: Our "expellees paper" is now finally forthcoming in @JEEA_News! Fantastic collaboration w/ Arnaud Chevalier, @ben_elsner and Andreas Lichter, which started out at @iza_bonn. Summary🧵1/11
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