#Estimates

Marina Amaral

marinamaral2

[Trigger warning] "Museu da Loucura" (Museum of Madness), formerly known as Hospital Colônia was a psychiatric hospital founded in 1903. The institution was located in the Brazilian city of Barbacena,

M a r c H o c h s t e i n

MarcHochstein

1/Next week will be one for the books, as @Coinbase completes its hotly anticipated public listing. The @CoinDesk team has fired the first salvos in what’s shaping up to be

Marlos C. Machado

MarlosCMachado

[1/6] Our new preprint is now available on arXiv. We revisit baselines in policy gradient methods and show that they have a much bigger role than simply variance reduction! With

Tomas Hirst

tomashirstecon

The 100% guarantees became necessary because getting loan funding to the worst affected sectors via commercial banks with risk limits required it. The choice over what to do next (allow

Alex Washburne

Alex_Washburne

How many people in the US have COVID? We don’t know, but @inschool4life and I estimate how many people have gone to their doctor with a non-flu influenza-like illness (ILI)

Noah Kaufman

noahqk

It’s Friday so can I interest you in awith a highly incomplete and self-serving history of the “optimal” taxation of carbon dioxide emissions? *proceeds without waiting for answer*Let's do this!

St. Rev ☯️🏴😻

St_Rev

This seems important, and there's a related point that I've only seen mentioned once, in a comment thread on an econ blog.Discussion of R0 tends to treat it as a

Daniel Fluskey

danielfluskey

1. A thread on the @ioftweets and @CFGtweets story today that charities are facing a massive blackhole to their income for the year. The charity sector is in the midst

Prateek Waghre

prateekwaghre

As we gear up to get back to work at 9 AM after a long weekend. Remember that we have unrestricted internet access. Meanwhile, 30th May will mark 300 days

Dr Ellie Murray

EpiEllie

There’s a new paper circulating today about “risk factors” for COVID19 which is getting misinterpreted in a pretty common way: applying conclusions about causation to results obtained via methods designed

el gato malo

boriquagato

one of the checks on COV is all cause deaths. if it were killing an unusually large number of people, you'd see it spike.i pulled data from NCHSD through wk

COVID Impact

CovidSerology

A large Istat survey (64k) of the Italian population finds 2.5% seropositivity rate nationwide. Care homes residents not sampled and overall IFR based on clinically confirmed deaths (35k) comes to

nic carter

nic__carter

Big news! The @CambridgeAltFin cryptoasset benchmarking study is out. Big takeaway: they estimate the number of cryptoasset users at 101m worldwide, up from 35m in 2018, using the same methodology

CCPA-MB

CCPAMB

New research finds MB gov proposed workshare program and $750 million in additional cuts will result in loss of labour income, tax revenue & drop in GDP of $1.2-$1.5billion -

Scott Clifford

ScottClif

New paper w/@gsheag and @SpencerPiston out at APSR. In it, we advocate for pretest-posttest designs in which the DV is also measured prior to the experiment *in the same survey

Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD

Arrianna_Planey

I've been sitting on some thoughts about the perpetual search for useful, universal (quantitative) proxies for structural racism, and what it means when those proxies beg the question, rather than