economeash.bsky.social
PhD @ University of Florida. I study tax regulation and professional labor. MA econ BS math/BA econ ‘19. 📈📉🧾 email me- enagaraj at ufl dot edu.
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I’ve been trying to do the latter, and it’s hard! “Taken together, the results suggest big important things that many people care about” is a very difficult sentence to write for any paper. How do y’all get there?
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Man understands how to watch cricket
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brother please don’t jinx it, go knock on wood and throw salt behind you
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Fair! He should’ve chosen a different picture and footnoted this stuff appropriately. Was just taken aback by the lack of mention :)
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The debate of consequence isn’t between the nationalists and archeologists abroad - it is between nationalists and the southern states. Dravidian politics for the last 75 years is largely centered on this, and is the only remaining wing that can reliably beat Hindu nationalists.
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This piece misses a big chunk of the debate and frames ASI too simplistically. You’ve used a Proto-Dravidian photo to lead the article but frame ASI as “ye poor conquered natives.” I think the more interesting debate isn’t about the origins of PIE but on the actual age and progress of ASI people.
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Can you search all of the internet or just Bluesky? Can you cite your sources?
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How’d you get there?
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how do you keep getting cooler, it’s honestly unfair
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I can see that being the intention but it doesn't say weekdays, so I have to assume it's the whole week. Anyway, back to bed
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Also thanks to Tyler Cowen for sharing our work on Marginal Revolution!
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idk man, the t-mobile ads make me sad
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I’m not sure if this is about procrastination but that is how I will interpret it
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Thanks for sharing our paper! Here’s the official thread if y’all are interested:
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I'd like to thank my wonderful (& healthily offline) co-authors Mike Mayberry and Scott Rane, as well as Anne Ehinger, Michelle Harding, Leslie Robinson and the participants at the JATA Conference, and the Bretton Woods Ski Conference in getting this paper thus far. Thanks for reading the thread!
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Collectively, the results speak to the opacity of the information environment around tax regulation; the roles of individual regulators in resolving tax uncertainty; and the potential for informed trading through regulatory channels. We welcome feedback on our work!
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We highlight two likely mechanisms for our findings: access and opacity. The association between IRS transactions and tax enforcement outcomes concentrates among firms with high IRS exposure (10-K mentions) and in opaque tax environments (above-median analyst ETR dispersion).
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Using a within-firm design, we show that firms are 24% more likely to decrease their UTB reserves and 14% more likely to have positions go unaudited in the year following an IRS purchase. On the other hand, IRS sales are associated with a 47% higher likelihood of a large, unfavorable tax settlement.
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Quick summary stats: IRS officials trade in a wide range of stocks (661 unique firms in our sample) but do so infrequently, about once a year on average for an official-stock pair. We find that IRS purchases and sales beat the market by 0.7 to 3.5 percentage points up to 120 days after purchase.
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thank you for this
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📌
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agreed, but I think I’m interested in the subjectivity in the “that we want to know the answer to” piece
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yeah the split reviewer thing is real bane
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Third point is interesting. Do you have an example of a mostly empirical paper that was “generative”? Also suppose you generate/collect new data (ht to your muni code GPT WP), are the descriptive results / the data itself - typically enough contribution to move the needle all else equal?
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That’s definitely one reason but that’s not a feature of the question itself. I’m wondering if based on experience with the publication process, he (or you) think some types of interesting questions won’t publish well just by the nature of the question itself.
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What makes an interesting question hard to publish well?
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Congratulations!!
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research engineers / full-time research staff are a thing at norc etc. cc’ing @jacasiegel.bsky.social - do you know if it’s possible to get access to these positions without a PhD?
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And also, migrants aren’t a big part of their business *now*, but in some of the largest deportation scenarios, they could be talking about detaining hundreds of thousands of folks.
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Yep, part of the reaction could be a broad privatization play. But my overall point was that the incoming administration is likely to rely on contractors and not expand state capacity or hire directly.
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Phantom Menace
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goated era of PC games: my go-to are Rise of Nations and Simcity 2004
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Political engagement is a lot lower than we thought - newer generations aren’t more involved in politics, are not more informed and do not have stronger ideological leanings compared to prior generations. The marginal votes that mattered were decided last minute, and were indeed based on vibes.
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matrix list e(b), followed by matrix rename e(b). Idk if there’s an easier way.
www.statalist.org/forums/forum...
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Whoa, kind of unbelievable to see a rogue Studio 60 fan out in the wild