#Estimates

Arindrajit Dube

arindube

I was asked by the UK Treasury to review intl. evidence on minimum wage, with focus on impact at higher levels.My review is now out. It aims to provide comprehensive,

luis carruthers

orthereaboot

The $TSLA 10Q review thread begins. As always, the tweets are not in order of materiality & apologies to those that posted the info already.Today, we will begin on page

Oscar Williams-Grut

OscarWGrut

Government's £1.25bn for startups sounds like a lot but core is just £250m to 'match' venture capital funding — that won't stretch far."VCs are going to have to choose, kind

Dan ‘Frostbeard’ Simon

march1studios

So the prelim autopsy report suggested that #GeorgeFloyd died from complications from hypertension and heart disease.I'm not a doctor, but I have hypertension. Listen: Before I got it under control,

Deirdre Tobias, ScD

deirdre_tobias

Country-level correlation studies like the "lettuce will kill you" preprint provide epidemiologists with a good laugh-cry, & I want to be sure everyone understands why.So why are diet/disease correlations (AKA

Kai Kupferschmidt

kakape

Promised to tweet out a few more thoughts from my reporting on #covid19 clustering and dispersion factor k. So here goes:https://twitter.com/kakape/status/1262876041237991424 Quick recap first: Reproduction number R is an average.

Lettwrs

cantypelettwrs

Hello #LosAngeles ,With the looming evictions, we must talk about homelessness and the LAPD.If you’re afraid; if you’re poor; if you care for those who are defenseless: you are not

Chinmay Tumbe

ChinmayTumbe

"कितने आदमी थे?" बहुत, सरकार | A migration-thread with estimates of India's reverse migration since mid-March 2020, placed conservatively at 30 million or 3 crore or 15-20% of the urban

Gabriel Zucman

gabriel_zucman

An interesting question is "how far can the US go (in terms of extra tax revenue) by raising taxes on the top 1% — and the top 1% only?"Short answer

Ron Henzel Social Distanced Before It Was Cool

ronhenzel

1:On April 11, clinical researcher & epidemiologist at Stanford University’s School of Medicine, Dr. John Ioannidis & 16 of his colleagues produced a study titled, “COVID-19 Antibody Seroprevalence in Santa

Ben Gardiner

BendyGardiner

Results from the first high-quality antibody study for Covid-19 are out, and confirm an IFR estimate of at least 1.1% (confidence interval: 0.5% to 2.5%):https://www.hug-ge.ch/medias/communique-presse/seroprevalence-covid-19-premiere-estimationSadly,

Derek Rhoads

drhoa3

This an interesting topic that Brian is tackling. What is the optical mix of leagues for bestball players. I tried to drudge up some memories from business school to help

Kate Forbes MSP

KateForbesMSP

I've laid the Scot Gov's Budget revision, showing investment of £4bn in responding to Covid. That includes £620m for the NHS, £2.3bn in business funding and £350m community support. We've

Sync is Revealed

CanuckSync

Thread: I'm going to use every gun control argument in the book to ban your motor vehicles. If this tweet sounds ridiculous to you, at least now you can appreciate

Robyn Porteous

RobynPorteous

Since everyone wants to talk economy, let’s. The standard measure of a country’s economy is its gross domestic product (GDP). The GDP is compiled from data collected in a range

Murad Banaji

muradbanaji

Mumbai #COVID19 update. A sad landmark: officially 0.1% of the city have died of COVID-19. The so-called "population fatality rate" of COVID-19 in the city is now at 0.1%. Daily