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Sam Grant

@sam_grant08

Postdoctoral RA @Strath_Econ, affiliate RA @UrbanBigData. Interested in the economics of crime

 Glasgow, Scotland
Joined May 2020
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Prisons are overcrowded in Scotland, rUK and across much of the world. Our new research shows that supervising offenders in the community DOES help them stop reoffending. Thread on our findings below👇
Markus Gehrsitz (@MGehrsitz) profile pictureMarkus Gehrsitz@MGehrsitzMay 27
🚨New Paper: 🚨Reoffending rates are sky-high across the developed world. Many interventions fail. But our new research suggests one policy does work: supervising ex-prisoners after release cuts reoffending substantially — and the benefits outweigh the costs by at least 2:1! A🧵
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UBDC@UrbanBigData16 Jul 2024
With the call for expressions of interest open until Monday 29 July, Dr. Sam Grant, Research Associate at UBDC, highlights existing and potential applications for the rich @Adzuna dataset to provide fresh insights into UK economic and #LabourMarket trends: ow.ly/Lb8b50SvPyY
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ESCoE@ESCoEorg17 May 2024
Last night’s poster session, including a new ESCoE project from @Strath_FAI @Strath_Econ’s @_CiaraCrummey. Read the recent project blog. tinyurl.com/39vfx7p6 We also had posters from lots of other ESCoE partners including @TPIProductivity and @ONSfocus.
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📢📢After the big success of the sold-out DiD course earlier this summer, @StatHorizons and I have decided to offer another session on 24-27 August, 2021.📢📢 Information: statisticalhorizons.com/semi… Will cover a lot of material! Join us! #EconTwitter #RStats #causaltwitter
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I'm teaching a "data science for economists" course this semester. If you're interested in learning more about #rstats, Git(Hub), programming, databases, cloud computation, ML, etc., I'll be making all of my course material publicly available here: github.com/uo-ec607
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🦶🦶🚨New DiD Paper🚨🦶🦶 What if treatment is continuous not binary? What parameters can you estimate under what assumptions? What about two-way fixed effects regressions? What about staggered timing? Brant Callaway, @agoodmanbacon and I dive in here: arxiv.org/pdf/2107.02637.pdf
Difference-in-Differences with a Continuous Treatment, by Brantly Callaway, Andrew Goodman-Bacon and Pedro H. C. Sant'Anna

ALT Difference-in-Differences with a Continuous Treatment, by Brantly Callaway, Andrew Goodman-Bacon and Pedro H. C. Sant'Anna

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Nick HK@nickchk14 Apr 2021
It's fully-featured and ready to go! The did Stata package allows Stata access to the Callaway and @pedrohcgs R package "did" for estimating difference-in-differences with staggered treatment and covariates. Check it out, and installation instructions, at github.com/NickCH-K/did
GitHub - NickCH-K/did: A Stata package that acts as a wrapper for Callaway and Sant'anna's R did...

GitHub - NickCH-K/did: A Stata package that acts as a wrapper for Callaway and Sant'anna's R did...

A Stata package that acts as a wrapper for Callaway and Sant'anna's R did package - NickCH-K/did

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Oh yes sir 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
The Edinburgh Football Show Podcast (@EdinburghFooty) profile pictureThe Edinburgh Football Show Podcast@EdinburghFooty12 Nov 2020
This should be #Scotland’s new national anthem. Yes, Sir. I can boogie! m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ygb0F-…
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