Assistant Professor at Sao Paulo Schools of Economics (FGV). Ph.D. 2022 at Yale. Passionate about Econometrics, especially Causal Inference. (He/his) https://sites.google.com/site/vitorapossebom/https://bsky.app/profile/vitorpossebom.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/vitorpossebom.bsky.social/post/3kfnsy75w3c27I’m looking for podcast recommendations! Maybe something based on history, like Revolutions: open.spotify.com/show/05lvdf9T7… Or maybe something about economic policy? Like Americas Quarterly (open.spotify.com/show/5PCntXM9L ), but about the economy?03 Dec 2023 17:21 +0000at://did:plc:eb5yycol7rnlctcwk7mdcl46/app.bsky.feed.post/3kfnsy75w3c27https://bsky.app/profile/vitorpossebom.bsky.social/post/3kf6cic23va2a📉📈#Econsky, some of you may be interested in my new working paper about MTE with Duration Outcomes. @pedrosantanna.bsky.social and Santi are amazing co-authors. [contains quote post or other embedded content]27 Nov 2023 13:16 +0000at://did:plc:eb5yycol7rnlctcwk7mdcl46/app.bsky.feed.post/3kf6cic23va2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/vitorpossebom.bsky.social/post/3kf6aio5rrq2s🚨New Working Paper🚨 Was Javert right to be suspicious? Unpacking treatment effect heterogeneity of alternative sentences on time-to-recidivism in Brazil by Acerenza (scholar.google.com/citations?user…), Possebom and Sant’Anna (@pedrosantanna.bsky.social) Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2311.1396927 Nov 2023 12:41 +0000at://did:plc:eb5yycol7rnlctcwk7mdcl46/app.bsky.feed.post/3kf6aio5rrq2shttps://bsky.app/profile/vitorpossebom.bsky.social/post/3kdqwqit5yi2mSometimes, I think that journals do not know that many of its readers have eyesight problems... Elsevier's font size is so small and its line spacing is miniscule.09 Nov 2023 12:16 +0000at://did:plc:eb5yycol7rnlctcwk7mdcl46/app.bsky.feed.post/3kdqwqit5yi2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/vitorpossebom.bsky.social/post/3kdi24qqwfo2lQT with 10 of your favorite novels Ubirajara by Alencar Vidas Secas by Ramos Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Assassin’s Apprentice by Hobb The Final Empire by Sanderson Percy Jackson and The Lightening Thief by Riordan I tried to focus on the novels that marked my life in some way. [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 Nov 2023 23:23 +0000at://did:plc:eb5yycol7rnlctcwk7mdcl46/app.bsky.feed.post/3kdi24qqwfo2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/vitorpossebom.bsky.social/post/3kdgvuyqdxe2mFollowing my theme of comparing academic and fictional writing, are there any similarities between economic papers and world building in fantasy? Are theory papers hard world building (LoTR)? Are empirical work more like soft world building (Narnia)? What about Econometrics? [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 Nov 2023 12:34 +0000at://did:plc:eb5yycol7rnlctcwk7mdcl46/app.bsky.feed.post/3kdgvuyqdxe2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/vitorpossebom.bsky.social/post/3kdc67xab2w2rProbable Causation is an amazing podcast and this interview with Allison Stashko is awesome: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0rfqcCdB5oW4EzYsO2NPBn?si=dXS8nVYzTxaWjk4oW5PHVg They discuss the effect of newly elected prosecutors and police killings in the US. It is based on this paper: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LwnAsRgrsZoF_PM5e6I0RRE-sGBi0a_X/view.03 Nov 2023 15:20 +0000at://did:plc:eb5yycol7rnlctcwk7mdcl46/app.bsky.feed.post/3kdc67xab2w2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/vitorpossebom.bsky.social/post/3kd7khc73ta2nOne of my pastimes is to watch videos about writing fiction. Many things that work when writing fiction also work when writing academic papers! I think this video on editing is quite useful: https://youtu.be/WLAmilJx3Us?si=2YYPnKKjA6J6vkxe. E.g., accept that your manuscript will evolve a lot over time!02 Nov 2023 14:21 +0000at://did:plc:eb5yycol7rnlctcwk7mdcl46/app.bsky.feed.post/3kd7khc73ta2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/vitorpossebom.bsky.social/post/3kd5e37xg7q2tEconometrics Thread (#EconSky): "The Effect of Conviction and Incarceration on Recidivism" Today, I want to talk about two recent working papers: - Kamat, Norris and Pecenco (2023): bit.ly/3QjqdbX - Humphries, Ouss, Stavreva, Stevenson and van Dijk (2023): bit.ly/3Mrrdtp +01 Nov 2023 17:22 +0000at://did:plc:eb5yycol7rnlctcwk7mdcl46/app.bsky.feed.post/3kd5e37xg7q2thttps://bsky.app/profile/vitorpossebom.bsky.social/post/3kcr7jwxdob22Portuguese uses the same word for gym and academia. But what I discovered to love about going to the gym is the exact opposite of academic life. At the gym, reward is immediate. You finish your series and you are happy that you completed a task. But academic life is all about delayed gratification.27 Oct 2023 21:28 +0000at://did:plc:eb5yycol7rnlctcwk7mdcl46/app.bsky.feed.post/3kcr7jwxdob22https://bsky.app/profile/vitorpossebom.bsky.social/post/3kcjewr6bpx23I’m thinking about getting a tablet to read or annotate papers. If I can attach some sort of keyboard to work in a plane, it is even better. Do you have any recommendations?24 Oct 2023 18:44 +0000at://did:plc:eb5yycol7rnlctcwk7mdcl46/app.bsky.feed.post/3kcjewr6bpx23https://bsky.app/profile/vitorpossebom.bsky.social/post/3kchofc25ey2kEconometric Thread (#EconSky): Today, I will briefly discuss a few recent papers expanding the synthetic control method (SCM). I will talk about three WPss: Abadie + L'Hour (2019), Grossi, Lattarulo, Mariani, Mattei + Oner (2020); Cao + Dowd (2019) and Cattaneo, Feng, Palomba +Titiunik (2023).24 Oct 2023 02:28 +0000at://did:plc:eb5yycol7rnlctcwk7mdcl46/app.bsky.feed.post/3kchofc25ey2khttps://bsky.app/profile/vitorpossebom.bsky.social/post/3kcbz72tw442kSometimes, academic life has its perks. Visiting the Federal University of Paraíba (https://sigaa.ufpb.br/sigaa/public/programa/portal.jsf?id=1875) was a wonderful experience. Their students and faculty are doing super cool research on relevant topics for Brazilian policy makers.21 Oct 2023 20:25 +0000at://did:plc:eb5yycol7rnlctcwk7mdcl46/app.bsky.feed.post/3kcbz72tw442khttps://bsky.app/profile/vitorpossebom.bsky.social/post/3kc3xkzelvn2hThere are many interesting papers in this thread. [contains quote post or other embedded content]19 Oct 2023 10:40 +0000at://did:plc:eb5yycol7rnlctcwk7mdcl46/app.bsky.feed.post/3kc3xkzelvn2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/vitorpossebom.bsky.social/post/3kc2ob3sbql22I asked Bing’s Dall-E to illustrate my paper in a steam punk style! Any thoughts on the results? [contains quote post or other embedded content]18 Oct 2023 22:21 +0000at://did:plc:eb5yycol7rnlctcwk7mdcl46/app.bsky.feed.post/3kc2ob3sbql22