Macartan Humphreys
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Macartan Humphreys
@macartan.bsky.social
WZB Berlin, Humboldt University, TCD
https://macartan.github.io/
Politics, conflict, inequality, political economy of development, causal inference
Very much looking forward to giving the TIME keynote lecture on the impact of development research in Dublin next Wednesday

Come along if you're in town!

@tcdeconomics.bsky.social @tcdpoliticalsci.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Hi will
If you go to the join page you will see the option to gave memberships honored
September 15, 2025 at 8:42 AM
New @egap.bsky.social grant round just dropped

looking for fresh ideas for open science, design, aggregation, transfer..

Pass it on

Deadline 31 October
August 18, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Looks like the makings of an argument that there is no judicial review even inside the US if it pertains to the deployment of military forces ?
March 18, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Europe retaliates

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/w...

But see @drodrik.bsky.social www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/t...

on why this may be unwise

He puts it so well
March 12, 2025 at 12:00 PM
This graph might cause nightmares for team OLS for #causalinference

Continuous treatment randomly assigned; nonlinear effects

The “average effect” of X on Y is +1 but the OLS estimate is -1. Dang.

So should estimand be blp or ate or none of the above?

macartan.github.io/assets/htmls...
December 18, 2024 at 5:20 PM
@alanjacobs.bsky.social and I are delighted to announce the publication of our new book "Integrated Inferences"

See here: integrated-inferences.github.io for links to:

* The book plus open access version (thanks Cambridge!)
* Accompanying R package on CRAN: CausalQueries

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December 15, 2023 at 7:21 PM