#Counterfactual

Pedro H. C. Sant'Anna

pedrohcgs

Here I go, on another #Econometrics related thread.Today, I want to talk about the "debate" related to health policies, economic growth and the 1918 Spanish flu. Everything I have to

Enes Sunel

enessunel

My @voxeu column with @YasinMimir onQuantitative easing in emerging market economies is now up! THREAD 1/nhttps://voxeu.org/article/quantitative-easing-emerging-market-economies#.YGsN6RbxCcI.twitter Before I start; views are mine and @Yasin

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Aelkus

now here is where the fun ends. if you want to be depressed, read the actual comments. and then trace the links in the channel.https://twitter.com/Aelkus/status/1297510964489641984 It's not really a generation

Tangent

Tangent3

Prime Ministers, and their rise to power: a thread.At some point in the career of every PM, there is either a moment, or a combination of factors, which places them

The Cosmist Insurrection, Inc. ™

yungneocon

I know y’all mean well, but When people criticize prison abolition by saying “what about the rapists & murderers?” the respone shouldn’t be “we don’t do anything about rapists &

Venkatesh Rao

vgr

Kinda interesting that the century of American globalization and the century of Chinese globalization both have a pandemic about 25 years in. I’d date the former to the 1893 Chicago

Josh Budlender

joshbudlender

This is outrageous - an RCT cutting off water to tenants in Nairobi "slums" to see if it induces their landlords to pay the utility bill. And reading the paper

Devan Sinha

DevanSinha

Fantasy commentary letter in Lancet (not a peer reviewed study)!It's an unreasonable proposition for most countries like the UK to achieve elimination + constraints of reality negates claimed economic and

Erin Mordecai

morde

Lots of media coverage of the striking numbers on @nytimes front page today, based on a preprint from @ColumbiaMSPH (@Senpei_CU et al), and for good reason. We could have averted

iris soleil delgado

irisdelistmo

I just finished reading Racism: Science & Tools, and thought I'd share a summary of Chapter 12: Why Epidemiologists Must Reckon with Racism. Our field cannot continue to disengage with

Peter Foster

pmdfoster

NEW/EXC Manufacturers now screaming for clarity from Government about how the UK’s new “UKCA” standard (replacing CE Mark) will work after #brexit - this one is a real head-scratcher.

Emily Grubert

emilygrubert

Alright, beautiful people: have been waiting for this for a minute. I’m really excited to share some new research, just posted (open access) at ERL (@iopenvironment): https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ab9335Let’s talk

Tunde Reid-Kapo

tundereidkapo

The Case For a 'Women's Israel'A Female-Only Sovereign State~It's a no brainer that if natal Women had full equality many impossible problems that are of men's making & tearing society

Arnab Datta

ArnabDatta321

THREAD (1/n): With the spate of recent stories and podcasts on automatic stabilizers, I thought it would be worth a thread about a less discussed benefit of automatic stabilizers: as

Joaquin Carbonell

jcarbiv

So proud of everyone involved in this study, 2nd of the @USAID #cashbenchmarking initiative. @AndrewZeitlin and Craig McIntosh, @EDCtweets, @GiveDirectly, @USAIDRwanda, @poverty_action, @CEGA_UC , @LizBrow29385570 and the incomparable @Dani

Pseudoerasmus

pseudoerasmus

Periodic reminder: The so-called "Tudor enclosures" of 1450-1550 are considered largely a myth by specialists in English agrarian history. Second periodic reminder:Enclosures ≠ evictions. This. 1000 times this.https://twitter.com/warde_paul