Douglas Newball

[Khoa Vu @KhoaVuUmn]

Few people know this but in the Cobb Douglas production, the productivity term A stands for Acemoglu.

[Cesar Mantilla @CesarMant]

🇦🇷: No sé economía.
🇪🇸: No sé economía.
🇨🇱: No sé economía.
🇲🇽: No sé economía.
🇨🇴 : No quise presentar la tesis porque me exigían un estudio econométrico, y no creo en la econometría como método de investigación económica.

[Douglas Newball @DouglasNewball]

@petrogustavo Estuvo a un merge m:m de lograrlo :(

[Khoa Vu @KhoaVuUmn]

When you accidentally downloaded the appendix of an econ working paper:

[Cristiano Ronaldo @Cristiano]

Merry Christmas, everyone! 🎄

[Chris Blattman @cblatts]

"It seems there is too much emphasis on generating a defensible results from a hitherto unused data set. I understand the signaling value here, but the social value is not always obvious. I am struck by how often I meet economics graduate students who can reason about programming more effectively than they can reason about the real world."

[God @TheTweetOfGod]

I genuinely don't remember making you all this stupid.

[Jack Shane @Jack_shane2]

What to expect when you are expecting

[Melissa S. Kearney @kearney_melissa]

Somewhere along the way “correlation is not causation” morphed into “until the causal link is proven beyond a reasonable doubt, ideally with a large scale RCT with global external validity, than the correlation likely reflects the impact of some unobserved factor I can’t name.”

[Paul Novosad @paulnovosad]

What kind of childhood makes a top scientist? Is it enough to have all the right traits (brilliance, grit, etc) or do you need the right family too?

And why should we care? A 🧵 on our paper on the Nobel Laureates.

A teaser: the income distribution of the laureates' fathers.1/N

[Khoa Vu @KhoaVuUmn]

"How is this economics"

[Douglas Newball @DouglasNewball]

xd

[Jorge A. Tovar @JorgeATovar]

Y cuándo van a "hacer operativos" para que los ciclistas "vulnerables" dejen de andar en contravía, y no se salten los semen rojo?

[Douglas Newball @DouglasNewball]

@nicolashergosum Listooo, ahora sí

[Douglas Newball @DouglasNewball]

@nicolashergosum Primero tenemos que llegar a la final. Un día a la vez.

[Khoa Vu @KhoaVuUmn]

Flight attendant: Is there any doctor on this flight?

Me: I am but not that kind...

Attendant: A passenger is under the illusion you can infer causality using random effect better than fixed effect...

Me: Say no more.

[J-PAL @JPAL]

A new study from J-PAL affiliates Karen Macours & Rachid Laajaj in Kenya challenges conventional views on agricultural tech adoption. By studying farmers' dynamic learning over multiple seasons, it reveals complexities behind adoption decisions. Read more: https://t.co/88Y4r5gf74

[Chess.com @chesscom]

me whenever I take a break from bullet chess

[Khoa Vu @KhoaVuUmn]

"Controlling for all observable confounders, we find that hand movement has a positive impact on"

[Mateo Amaya Quimbayo @mateoamayaq]

Inflación en 9,2%. Gracias Banrep.

[Khoa Vu @KhoaVuUmn]

But does she have any top-5 publication?