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Jan Ditzen
@janditzen.bsky.social
A hillwalking economist working on panel time series with a love for coding econometric methods.

Assistant Professor at University of Bolzano.
Co-Editor Spatial Economic Analysis

www.jan.ditzen.net

Stata projects: https://github.com/JanDitzen
Nothing to read for your summer holiday? Then have a look at

"Interactive, Grouped and Non-separable Fixed Effects: A Practitioner's Guide to the New Panel Data Econometrics"

The paper is available here:

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July 25, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Cite the data and cite the programmers!
Tools like #coefplot and #reghdfe have quietly powered a huge share of empirical research. Citing them helps give credit where it’s due.

What are some other packages or tools you think are widely used but might be undercited?

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July 10, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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Our contribution to the collection are two articles!

"Behavioural theory and regional development: nurturing cultures of possibility"
doi.org/10.1080/0034...

"The geography of interregional FDI activity in Europe: uneven distribution and determinants"
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May 7, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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🚨New Article🚨

"Spatial clusters of poverty among rural women in Nigeria: analysis and underlying predictors" by Tolulope Rachael Jerumeh.

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May 7, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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🚨New Article🚨

"Asymmetric spatial effects of unemployment on health outcomes" by Min Lin & Han Lin.

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May 7, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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🚨New Article🚨

"A theoretical analysis of the elasticity of per capita income in relation to population density" by José Pedro Pontes.

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May 7, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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🚨New Article🚨

"Irish milk distribution models with space price equilibrium" by Morton E. O’Kelly.

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May 7, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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1/29 Ich weiß ich wiederhole mich. Aber aus gegebenem Anlass (bzw. aus gegebenen Anlässen) ein Thread zu der Frage, ob wir nicht mal etwas mehr nüchterne strategische Analyse statt Panikmache bräuchten.
May 1, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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🚨New Article🚨

"Fast two-stage variational Bayesian approach to estimating panel spatial autoregressive models with unrestricted spatial weights matrices" by Deborah Gefang, Stephen G. Hall & George S. Tavlas.

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April 22, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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🚨New Article🚨

"On the political and socioeconomic geography of violence: Spatial heterogeneity and scale effects in Brazil" by Carlos Mendez & Mehak Sachdeva.

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On the political and socioeconomic geography of violence: Spatial heterogeneity and scale effects in Brazil
Using a geographically weighted regression (GWR), Ingram and Marchesini da Costa (2019. Political geography of violence: Municipal politics and homicide in Brazil. World Development, 124, 104592. h...
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April 3, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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We are pleased to announce an experiment intended to stimulate academic discussion and exchange, centered on papers published in Econometrica 1/5
March 27, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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🚨New Article🚨

"Spatial dynamics and price determinants in the local gasoline retail market: evidence from Greater Santiago" by Pablo A. Henríquez, Jose Acuña & Valentina Apablaza.

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March 24, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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What is the paper all about?
🚨New Article🚨

"Working from a new home? Remote-work potential and urban out-migration in Sweden" by Miquel Correa.

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March 18, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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dropbox is one of the most useful Stata commands there is, if you work on multiple computers or with collaborators. And it just got even better! Many thanks indeed to Raymond Hicks @arpie71.bsky.social

#econsky
Version 2 of my dropbox command is out. This tool locates a user’s Dropbox folder automatically and adds an option to search a secondary drive before moving to the primary one. Installation instructions at github.com/arpie71/drop.... (Thanks to
@kevinhorourke.bsky.social for suggesting changes)
GitHub - arpie71/dropbox
Contribute to arpie71/dropbox development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
March 6, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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🚨New Article Online🚨🚨

"Is agglomeration really crowded? The impact of urban spatial structure on return migration decisions" by Yue Zheng, Qiaoru Wang & Tingyu Liu.

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February 6, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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🚨🚨New Article Online🚨🚨

"Multiscale geographically weighted quantile regression" by
Allaa H. Elkady, Abdelnaser S. Abdrabou & Amira Elayouty.

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February 3, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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Interested testing for and estimating structural breaks in panel time series models with interactive fixed effects?
The paper "Multiple Structural Breaks in Interactive Effects Panel Data Models" with Y. Karavias and J. Westerlund was accepted at JAE (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...).
Multiple Structural Breaks in Interactive Effects Panel Data Models
This paper develops new econometric methods for multiple structural break detection in panel data models with interactive fixed effects. The new methods include tests for the presence of structural b...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 22, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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🥊 Ready for the 3rd Bolzano Workshop on Historical Economics!
From the majestic South Tyrolean Alps, where economics meets history in a knockout bout of ideas. Electrifying debates and brilliant scholars await.
The final program is now available—explore the highlights! @essobecker.bsky.social
January 16, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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“Making my way back to the train station, I couldn’t square what I had just heard with the world I was seeing around me: People were out and about, continuing their daily lives as if nothing was wrong. “Why does no one seem worried?” I wondered.”

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When It Comes to Security, Europe Is Whistling Past the Graveyard
Europe’s security situation is only getting more alarming, and yet efforts to address it are losing steam. The problem has a clear parallel.
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January 8, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Ian White, Professor of Statistical Methods for Medicine at the MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, has been awarded the 2024 Stata Journal Editor's Prize for his outstanding contributions to the journal.

Congratulations Ian! 🎉 Read more about the award 👉 https://buff.ly/3BGCUKU
January 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Check out "require: Package dependencies for reproducible
research" in latest Stata Journal @statacorp.bsky.social by @scorreia.com and M. P. Seay. #EconSky

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January 7, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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A long journey comes to an end: My paper with Melanie Krause on "Regional Dependencies and Local Spillovers: Insights from Commuter Flows" has finally found a home in the Journal of Regional Science. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Regional Dependencies and Local Spillovers: Insights From Commuter Flows
A region's growth trajectory is influenced by the economic circumstances of other regions in its proximity. While proximity is often understood in a geographic sense, economic connectivity can take m...
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January 7, 2025 at 8:50 AM