Colin P. Adams

Lecturer of Finance @georgiacollege | Ph.D. Candidate in Economics @floridastate

[Colin P. Adams @Colin_P_Adams]

I just created my X account to follow along with "Econ Twitter".

I am a third year Ph.D. student in economics at FSU interested in applied microeconomics, especially crime and public economics.

Find more about me at https://t.co/lO3NXppiNt. I look forward to connecting!

[Colin P. Adams @Colin_P_Adams]

Had a great time at MEAs! Great research and Chicago was amazing.

[Colin P. Adams @Colin_P_Adams]

Just got word that I passed my 3rd year paper requirement! Check out my paper below.

https://t.co/jgE4TokuTC

[Colin P. Adams @Colin_P_Adams]

Could the timing of working paper releases (such as @nberpubs, @IZAWorldofLabor) and publications affect the circulation and number of citations that a paper gets independent of the paper's quality? I explain why I believe so in my most recent post.

https://t.co/kc18bC94pA

[Colin P. Adams @Colin_P_Adams]

The epsilon chance that a sent email is not received from Rubenstein (1989) was realized in this past weekend's F1 race at Las Vegas!

[Fórmula Directa @FormulaDirecta]

🚨 ÚLTIMA HORA: Mercedes no ha sido descalificada tras demostrar que SÍ que envió el email con las hojas del setup de Mercedes y Antonelli

#F1 #LasVegasGP 🇺🇸

[Colin P. Adams @Colin_P_Adams]

Just back from my first conference at #SEA2025. It was great to see so many presentations. Next time I’ll make sure to take more pictures since this is the only one I’ve got and Tampa was beautiful!

[Colin P. Adams @Colin_P_Adams]

Econ related books written by non-economists would be especially helpful to get me thinking of unique ideas

[Colin P. Adams @Colin_P_Adams]

I'm looking for book recommendations to spark research ideas. I’m most interested in crime econ, public econ, and econ of education. Here are some I’ve already ordered (hoping to have a long list for winter break). All recs are greatly appreciated! #econtwitter

[Colin P. Adams @Colin_P_Adams]

I also have @jenniferdoleac's book on pre-order!

[Colin P. Adams @Colin_P_Adams]

I love seeing these "normal distribution in the wild" type posts, but allowing children to mark their height makes this a downward (left if on the number line) skewed distribution. You can see this towards the end

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

You can literally see the normal distribution

[Colin P. Adams @Colin_P_Adams]

The same idea applies to food delivery and meal services like DoorDash and HelloFresh. Many people value their time >$15/hour which these services cost. They should should spend more time on their hobbies, or consider picking up a few extra hours in place of going to the store.

[Colin P. Adams @Colin_P_Adams]

More people should use grocery delivery services. Being able to hire out one-time chores w/o fixed costs using Instacart lets everyday households make better labor-leisure decisions. This was previously unobtainable for most.

I write about this here: https://t.co/6QVxKaN9TE

[Colin P. Adams @Colin_P_Adams]

I still remember frustratingly spending >8 hours on a single page of micro theory notes in my first year. Within a year, I was more comfortable in LaTeX than in Word.

[Khoa Vu @KhoaVuUmn]

When you finally found the missing bracket in your LaTeX equation:

[Colin P. Adams @Colin_P_Adams]

I find this sort of shock fascinating. Social media trends create exogenous shocks where endogeneity otherwise prevails. Researchers may be able to exploit this for causal inference when it otherwise isn’t possible.

I write about this in my recent post: https://t.co/L7Bje2fzzm

[John Arnold @johnarnold]

The gray line indicates when a video showing how to steal Kias and Hyundais went viral. In November, 2022, 65% of cars stolen in Chicago were those makes. Software and hardware fixes were released over the course of 2023. Just incredible data.
via Jeff Asher.

[Colin P. Adams @Colin_P_Adams]

I started a posts section on my website this summer! Posts will continue to be research and teaching oriented.

Check it out here: https://t.co/KTu6mmanPl