Cameron Taylor

Data Science at Netflix
Prev: Economist/ML engineer at Instacart, Econ PhD at Stanford GSB 2022
Interested in Sports and Entertainment

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🧵Excited to tweet about some work recently accepted ✅ by the Review of Economics of the Household on understanding why families take care of foster children! Motivated by the shortage of families for foster children, this paper builds a Beckerian model of foster care.

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I previously tweeted about a few NBA players having strong bounce back seasons. A few more months in and Kawhi and Lauri are continuing very strong! 💪 Russ and LaVine have fallen off. Jrue's had pretty serious injury problems.

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Who keeps it rolling the rest of the year? 👀
The Claw 🖐Lauri 🚀 LaVine 💥 Jrue 🧠 Russ ⚡
#FantasyBasketball | #NBA

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Who keeps it rolling the rest of the year? 👀
The Claw 🖐Lauri 🚀 LaVine 💥 Jrue 🧠 Russ ⚡
#FantasyBasketball | #NBA

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🏀 NBA players bouncing back so far this season from last season (6+ games in):
⬇️ Thread

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5️⃣ Russell Westbrook
💪 4.9 → 7.1 RPG
🎯 FT%: .661 → .727
💎 Fantasy rank: 178 → 76

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@tejfbanalytics Interesting. What about the time series of the distribution? I'd be curious if this is mainly driven by an increase in the propensity of a specific ADOT being very popular or the whole distribution is shifting down uniformly.

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@FieldVisionMi @CMC_22 @TrentW71 Teams with weak left side defensive fronts beware...

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@sbouska2 But still should have overturned the call just to let them play it out.

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@sbouska2 Series was already over. Boston is clearly much better. I couldn't see any way for the Mavs to beat this team 4 times in 7 games.

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@FieldVisionMi @dallascowboys @_CeeDeeThree Jake Ferguson came on really strong last year. Excited to see what happens with him this year.

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@_JasonLT This is a such a great insight. A principled approach with a great counterexample.

Kyrie-Cavs >= Kyrie-Mavs
Young Lebron > Luka now

=> (Lebron, Kyrie) > (Luka, Kyrie) ✅

Seems the first comparisons are not too controversial...

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@FieldVisionMi @_CeeDeeThree @ChicagoBears Show us the same thing for zone!!

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@FieldVisionMi Any specific players that make this the best secondary? Do they have the best "portfolio" of players that fill in different roles? Or the best overall depth?

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@econoflove Check out this tweet (and paper) if you're interested in learning how a model inspired by Gary Becker can inform how we think about families caring for disadvantaged foster children!

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Link to the paper if you're interested in reading more: https://t.co/aCtKmpP1TU

I see lots of other great work on foster care going on in econ - I highly recommend diving in. Lots of big important unanswered questions!

[Cameron Taylor @Cameron47315770]

🧵Excited to tweet about some work recently accepted ✅ by the Review of Economics of the Household on understanding why families take care of foster children! Motivated by the shortage of families for foster children, this paper builds a Beckerian model of foster care.

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A counterfactual finds that a larger (partial equib) increase in fostering comes from reducing consumption of biological children than from (proportionally) increasing subsidies, suggesting there may be opportunity to focus foster care recruiting on this substitutability.