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Love to lie to myself about myself. Economist, lit and guitar nerd, rugby fan, owner of excessive pets.
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It is always mind boggling at how massive @agu.org is every year. This is just one session of the poster room, which changes over twice daily for the duration of the conference. #AGU24

submitted 81 days ago • 7 comments

Incredible - almost performance art

submitted 81 days ago • 29 comments

Maybe one of the reasons there are so many unhinged academics is that in order to keep your job, you’re constantly required to tout yourself as a Scholar of World-Historical Significance, even as your office’s ceiling tiles slowly dislodge themselves to fall on your head.

submitted 85 days ago • 130 comments

Please help me spread the word about this amazing two-year pre-doc opportunity. Research with faculty is optional. Get paid to take classes that prepare you for PhD. Deadline 11/15: stern.nyu.edu/programs-adm...

submitted 95 days ago • 2 comments

Inside me are two wolves:

submitted 98 days ago • 1 comment

As a grant reviewer, what do you really wish people would do/not do? Not big things, like find a significant question/innovative method/be consistent with aims Little things, like bold each acronym the first time it’s used. Add your pet peeves ⬇️ #HiddenCurriculum #Research

submitted 98 days ago • 66 comments

Proud to share my first NBER working paper. 17.5 million Redfin users were randomly assigned to see or not see flood risk on home listing; the treated users went on to make offers on less risky homes. First casual evidence that homebuyers are adapting to climate change www.nber.org/papers/w33119

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Occam's Razor

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Showed my kids Raising Arizona and National Treasure in the same week. They had no idea they were watching the same person.

submitted 454 days ago • 1 comment

WHO AM I? 2-4-6-0-OOOOONNNE!!!!

submitted 455 days ago • 0 comments

Still puzzling over IPW with staggered treatment. A common/convenient thing is to assume timing is random. Can we do better estimating survival probabilities and weight by those instead of static treatment propensities? Anyone seen this done? Someone smarter than me should write this paper. #EconSky

submitted 456 days ago • 2 comments

Using Multiple Outcomes to Improve the Synthetic Control Method http://arxiv.org/abs/2311.16260 When there are multiple outcome series of interest, Synthetic Control analyses typically proceed by estimating separate weights for each outcome. In this paper, we instead propose estimating a common s 📈🤖

submitted 458 days ago • 0 comments

Bonus from smoking the turkey this year: the bone broth has a whole new dimension. Extra bonus: chili from the smoked turkey leftovers and bone broth. WAY better than microwaving thanksgiving again and again and again.

submitted 461 days ago • 0 comments

the old hellsite is dying. the new hellsite struggles to be born. this is the time of posts.

submitted 674 days ago • 21 comments

This meal just cost me $78 at the Newark airport. This is why Americans think the economy is terrible.

submitted 527 days ago • 49 comments

Attempts to censor public library materials are on pace to reach another record high this year, per data from the American Library Association going back 20 years. www.ala.org/advocacy/bbo...

submitted 527 days ago • 2 comments

So, I started to build this feed It’s available here: bsky.app/profile/did:... To be included, please fill this form: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon... Repost appreciated!

submitted 528 days ago • 3 comments

How important do y’all think it was to have an exchange of invite codes in driving this tipping point to blue sky vs to threads or mastodon? Is there something to the personal interaction (and tiny perceived exclusivity) or is it all about features and functionality?

submitted 528 days ago • 2 comments