David Lang

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[David Lang @DavidLangEcon]

@ben_golub @KhoaVuUmn interested

[Zeve Sanderson @ZeveSanderson]

Had a great time speaking with the brilliant @JerusalemDemsas about our new working paper on age verification laws (with @DavidLangEcon, @BenListyg, @brennahross, Anna M) and what it means for the tech policy landscape

WP on OSF: https://t.co/DovSvXd6CE

[Zeve Sanderson @ZeveSanderson]

Do age-verification laws for online adult content work? Based on Google search data, not really.

New WP from me and & co-authors (@DavidLangEcon, @BenListyg, @brennahross & Anna V. Musquera) up now on OSF: https://t.co/iZ3Z44h7st

[Brian Heseung Kim @brhkim]

Ed researchers, Common App is hiring for a Data Scientist in our Data Operations team! This is a phenomenal fully remote (forever) job to support and enhance one of the most exciting new data resources in higher education (though I'm obviously biased):
https://t.co/InnfkanHvC

[David Lang @DavidLangEcon]

@annaliese__p @IESResearch Congratulations! so excited to see where this work goes.

[David Lang @DavidLangEcon]

A genetic algorithm in excel is probably one of the most useful problem solving tools out there. So many toy problems can be solved that have practical applications.

[David Lang @DavidLangEcon]

Second this. Also don’t confuse your objective with your constraints.

[Natalia Emanuel @NataliaHEmanuel]

#1 ingredient for a successful job hunt: Job Market Objective Function.

Without your own objective function, it’s scarily easy to accidentally adopt someone else’s goals. Clearly, maximizing someone else’s goals means you’re unlikely to reach your true optimal outcome.

[David Lang @DavidLangEcon]

@_AlvinChristian How do you know they left the state?

[David Lang @DavidLangEcon]

@noah_greifer This sounds awesome. Does it have applications for synthetic controls?

[AERA @AERA_EdResearch]

A new study in @AeraOpen found that gender and intended major are strongly correlated upon college entry and gendered patterns in field of study persist through the undergraduate career. https://t.co/DNYfMbkcQJ