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yycwander
yycwander
Well, #yyz has really been extremely satisfied with their privatization. I see you're an academic, are you not interested in the econometric analyses from other jurisdictions on this? Privatizing this
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Chirantan Chatterjee
chiruchat
#VirtualMBATeaching tip: Even with something mathy like #microeconomics, just toss in a #McKinsey report in your slides. You can speak of cool #experiments & #econometric estimation w/big data, but the
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Eric Wall
ercwl
This thread summarizes the latest, most up-to-date econometric findings on the stock-to-flow (S2F) model, which were presented at @ValueOfBitcoin yesterday. Must-read if you're interested in S2F.https://twitter.com/dilutionproof/status/1260491541
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James Lin
jamestwotree
This paper blew up on Twitter. There are economists and historians waging arguments left and right. My take on why historians find this paper so problematic, and what economists who
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Beatrice Cherrier
Undercoverhist
1/ This quote is a 1963 collective statement by 18 economists concluding a week-length discussion of econometrics in Vatican at the request of the Pontifical Academy Science, a story told
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scott cunningham
causalinf
You know what is kind of funny but swept under the rug a lot? Bob LaLonde is his 1986 AER influential evaluation of the NSW program which was an RCT
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Marco Chitti
ChittiMarco
1/ I've always been persuaded that most policymakers have little understanding of the spatial implications of their policies. That because policymaking is mostly dominated by discursive and econometric logics.An example?
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el gato malo
boriquagato
this is not even an analysis.it's a compilation of data tricks and mistaking models for reality.it uses cases without adjusting for testing levels.but worse, it uses a made up baseline.
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Jaime Sevilla
Jsevillamol
Traditional causal inference graphical models make three key assumptions: faithfulness, sufficiency and acyclity (1/n) Faithfulness (aka stability) means that the conditional independences are all implied by its associated causal graph.
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Gautam Gowrisankaran
GGowrisankaran
As we look to understand the coronavirus pandemic, it seems increasingly important to evaluate hospital performance. But, estimating hospital quality is very difficult. Together with @KelliMarquardt, we created Stata code
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Vitor Possebom
PossebomVitor
Econometrics ThreadMarginal Treatment Effects (MTE)Today, I will not talk about one particular paper. I will explain the basics of MTE and will mention the papers that I believe to be
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Sanjay G Reddy
sanjaygreddy
Angus Deaton's article, just published in @TheIndiaForum on 'randomization in the tropics': https://www.theindiaforum.in/article/randomization-tropics-revisited @ramreddy As frequently, I disagree with Deaton on certain points, for instan
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Robert Saunders
redhistorian
Universities should indeed offer "value for money" - but how do we measure the value of education? Every test that comes from government is crassly econometric. We need to recapture
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Beatrice Cherrier
Undercoverhist
On December 6 1916, the evening before his examination on the theory of heat, Kiev polytechnical institute student Jacob Marschak was thrown in jailHe was 18(I don’t know if the
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Leif Fredrickson
LeifFredrickson
I've seen many snarky tweets about this, but a few people are also calling for more of substantial critique. So I thought I'd offer some preliminary thoughts on this informed
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Philippe Lemoine
phl43
Epidemiologists claim that B.1.1.7 is far more transmissible than the historical lineage. In this post, I look at what happened in France and argue that, while B.1.1.7 initially had a
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