#Estimates

An Open Letter 😷

AnOpenLetter001

[Thread] India is performing worse than Bangladesh? 1/ a part of recent IMF report is being quoted to show that India's per capita GDP is less than even Bangladesh. here

Longolian Beef

ZakattackL

#WisconsinPrimary, A ThreadStill fired up about this #PandemicPrimary , so instead of being angry on twitter, I decided to do the thing I have a degree in, mathematics. So, here

Hugh Lewis

ProfHughLewis

It is possible to estimate re-entry risk even if no detailed spacecraft/rocket stage breakup analysis is available. E.g., one may assume that any surviving fragments are dispersed in a rectangular

Bill Ackman

BillAckman

Initial antibody results just in from San Miguel County. PCR tests had shown just 8 positives out of 8,000 residents 1/1000.Initial antibody tests on 986 show 8 positive, 23 borderline,

Arvind Subramanian

arvindsubraman

1/ The India-vs.-Bangladesh GDP per capita comparison (post @IMFNews WEO) has sparked anxiety & acrimony But wrong numbers being compared NO, on more appropriate metric, India has not been

Lionel Page

page_eco

Important news for Australia:The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine estimates that R is already below 1, following the shutdown (right graph). It is much better than the numbers

Sehrish Khan

sehrish1khan

Man breeds snake with 3 smiley face emojis on its body and sold it for over Rs.0.94 million... According to Justin Kobylka, a snake breeder, he was attempting to breed

Andrew Morral

AndrewMorral

Today, RAND’s Gun Policy in America initiative released several new studies:- An expanded/updated second edition of “The Science of Gun Policy.” - Estimates of state household firearm ownership over 35

Max Roser

MaxCRoser

Two months ago India confirmed 11,300 cases per day.This shows the rise of confirmed cases since then.A straight line on a logarithmic axis tells you that you are looking at

Amy C🍩🍩pes

coopesdetat

Some really interesting stuff in this thread. Suggests even a 40% COVIDSafe uptake (in and of itself an undersell according to some) may be more difficult to achieve than seems

Remy Levin

RemyLevin

I guess I have to do a response to the response now, because that's how arguing on the internet works. I'll keep it brief, given that I made most of

David Paton

cricketwyvern

A new national lockdown would have devastating effects on the economy, businesses, jobs, isolation, loneliness, mental health.Even if infections were increasing rapidly, it would not be a proportionate response. But

Katherine Michelmore

michelmorek

@jacobsgoldin and I have a new working paper that looks at which children benefit from the Child Tax Credit and which do not.Ungated version here: http://papers.nber.org/tmp/63325-w27940.pdfA thread on some of

Tony Wilson

tonywilsonIES

So right in time to announce new help for long-term unemployed - evidence from @DWP that the Work Programme had pretty big positive impacts. H/T @AdamCoutts. Quick thread.https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-work-programme-impact-

Nick🇬🇧🇪🇺

nicktolhurst

+UPDATE+Govt papers circulating in Whitehall claim that much of the recent development in Medway/Kent region as part of the Thames Gateway Project is “nonsensical”......as rising sea levels will require “an

Mostly Borrowed Ideas

borrowed_ideas

1/ Thread: $ETSY 3Q’2020 updateA month ago, I published a deep dive on $ETSY. At that time, I hoped ETSY will make a complete mockery of my reverse DCF, and