#Data

Jordan Weissmann 🗽

JHWeissmann

For various reasons, I've found myself thinking a lot lately about how the entire American welfare state, or really lack thereof, is supposedly designed to encourage work, and yet our

Michael J. Hicks

HicksCBER

1/n My modest contribution to the #econtwitter minimum wage discussion. I wanted to see where potential employment effects might occur, and used the 60% threshold that @arindube QJE, 2019 paper

Bill Hanage

BillHanage

This is part of a long and excellent thread that is worth reading in its own right. I am almost entirely in agreement. With the exception that I want to

Anshu Sharma🌶

anshublog

Salesforce is a “bad product” the way New York or Miami are “bad cities”. Pristine products and cities look like Brasilia. Perfect and useless. https://twitter.com/sarthakgh/status/1281308538711785472 Lesson 1: that clutter you

Ammar Khan

rogueonomist

What is Raast? An Explainer.It simply allows payments to be processed instantly. Each Bank has its own payment system, like a pipe. Many pipes not talking to each other, or

Evergreen Intel

vcdgf555

A tip for Google Earth & GEOINT enthusiasts.Ever wonder from which direction a satellite took it's photos without actually pouring thru data to find out? There's a quick way that

Gray "serial millennial myth debunker" Kimbrough

graykimbrough

Is it a mistake to be starting my second beer as I join this amazing webcast featuring Jean Twenge telling us about the evils of screen time for kids? I'm

Matt Lowe

hmmlowe

A classic question in development economics is whether (and what types of) poverty traps exist. This new paper by Balboni, @orianabandiera, Burgess, @maitreesh, @anton_heil finds evidence for poverty traps in

Teneika Askew | Analytics & Automation

teneikaask_you

Starting a thread of job opportunities that are still hiring. Each post includes the LinkedIn of the recruiter or hiring manager. Some of the top companies still hiring are Amazon

Prof Shamika Ravi

ShamikaRavi

#DailyUpdate #COVID19India While TOTAL number of cases are rising, the growth rate of ACTIVE cases = 1.3% - so doubling in 54 days (watch for persistence). Also death numbers have

Rachel Thomas

math_rachel

Things to know if you work on medical ML:- Medical data can be incomplete, incorrect, missing, & biased- Medical system is disempowering & often traumatic for patients- Crucial to involve

Undisciplinary

Undisciplinary_

A threadOn an American sociologists' visit to Australian medical schools in the 1970s to see how they taught "behavioural sciences". David Klein (Michigan State) visited UNSW and USyd in 1972

Sunder Katwala

sundersays

This Julian Coman Observer piece calls on the English left to engage with English identity, which I welcome as it is overdue. But a foundational premise of the piece -

Vincent Lee

Rover829

SEOUL, Dec 18 (Reuters) - South Korea reported 1,062 new coronavirus cases on Friday, the second highest since it confirmed its first infection in January, the Korea Disease Control and

Ashish Dhar

Infinitchy

Stuck in Twitter & 'nationalist media' echo-chambers, RW chowkidars refuse to see the writing on the wall. What started as a fake kisan andolan has now become a major talking

Nacho Oliveras

NachoOliveras

DPCM days 8 and 9.HQ of Nacho Industries Inc. will be in Messina for the next 48h.Smallish terrace but high ceilings @PaulSkallas.1/n When Goethe visited it in 1787, the city

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