#Counterfactual

Shruti Rajagopalan

srajagopalan

I agree with everything Ruchir Sharma writes in this op-ed. But I still think it's only part of the lockdown story. 1/nhttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/30/opinion/sunday/india-coronavirus-lockdown-inequality.html Not having severe restri

Colin J. Carlson, Ph.D.

wormmaps

I think it's easy to assume more of this is riding on "access and cooperation" between China and the WHO / other countries than history would suggest is actually true

Per Bylund

PerBylund

#Economics has lost its way and made the study both impotent and of lacking relevance. It is easy to see how and why if we first recognize that proper economic

BK

BarretK

What do the latest #IMF World Economic Outlook projections tell us about the #Cypriot economy. A thread. There’s a few stories appearing in the IMF’s latest set of projections. Let’s

Louis

LouisRedux

Just so we're not forgetting this:The "conservative" mindset (i.e. one that pervades conservative politics in all of its forms, globally) is one of fear.The fear that their "things" will be

Rory Tierney

rorymtierney

Some thoughts on Covid-19 and health econ. We know that policy choices about the lockdown involve weighing up the economic and social cost against the health benefits. So how do

Robert Ward

robertnward

I really like this whole research stream from @aaronclauset @DanLarremore @alliecmorgan @samfway. May their supplementals be read and their altmetrics counts runneth over. Adding a few notes that are absent

Jeff Denning

JeffDenning

New Working paper with @Econ_Sandy @lisajdettling @sarena_goodman and Lesley TurnerWhat happens when students have access to more student loans?They borrow more, complete more degrees, earn more later in life, and

Kiwi Ting 😷

kiwiting

How has virtual proceeding (VP) in the House of Commons affected MPs participation during the pandemic? A recap of my presentation to #PSA21Conclusions: Women MPs are benefitting more from VPOlder

Return on Capital

CapitalTalk2

1/ I've been writing for http://www.returnoncap.com for about a year, and a personal [but public] investment blog since 2015. Since quite a few people on FinTwit have their own blogs/newsletters,

Rafi

rafi_dot_net

We just had the first shiva for Harris and I'd like to share a bit more about him if folks will indulge me. (Also I have pictures of him now.)

Rex Douglass

RexDouglass

Today I'll be live tweet-reviewing my:20th COVID-19 paper6th paper purporting to be able to show mass-events do/don't spread COVID3rd Dave et al. paper already this quarter using the same bad

Simon DeDeo

SimonDeDeo

Attaching probabilities to beliefs may be a useful tool in Bayesian statistics, but is it meaningful? Consider 538: as their models push above 90% for Biden, they are reaching new

Dr. Erika Varis

ErikaVaris

#acl2020nlp #acl2020en Saunders & Byrne: Reducing Gender Bias in NMT as a Domain Adaptation Problem. Video: https://virtual.acl2020.org/paper_main.690.html, Paper:https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.acl-main.690 Saunders: gender bias

Andrew Flood 👨🏻‍💻📝🕺

andrewflood

Thread on how lethal Covid is using available evidence rather than modelling guesses. One place to start is population fatality rates in hard hit city districts eg in New York

Oren Cass

oren_cass

[Thread.] With @marcorubio and @HawleyMO daring to question how well our markets are serving our society, and what we might do to improve matters, troops are tripping over themselves, and