Correlation doesn't imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively (xkcd).
MPhil Econ Res (Cantab). Predoc @ UChicago, CEHD. PhD Student ZGSE.
📢New WP🚨
“Genetic Endowments, Educational Outcomes and
the Mediating Influence of School Investments”
w/ @PaulHufe & @marcstoeckli
Good teachers help students with low genetic predisposition for education overproportionally
More here:🧵
👉https://t.co/t8NbSzyYw5
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@O_Goss_ @LevyAntoine Why not just
x1 : time to cross intersection x if you cross it first
x2: time to cross x after you just crossed the other direction
Ditto for y1, y2.
Curiously, in my life it's mostly been that Ex1 + Ey2 < Ex1 + Ey1
@Sanjay_Kamat@JEBavido@_BRCooper @PHuenermund Actually, in the Vickrey auction, the (winner with the) highest bid wins but pays the second highest bid.
@CaltechEconThry Depends? If the detective starts at n=1 and knows the location of the prison (z₀) then she will catch the prisoner by setting w₁ = z₀ + (0,1) and wₙ=wₙ₋₁+(1,0) for n=2...6, and w7=w6 + (1,-1) in at most 7 steps. If she does not know where to start, problem is ill-defined.
@ErikwimDuring @MSchularick Judging from half a page of appendix, that's just done for the reader to see that outliers don't have a strong effect on estimated elasticities. Numbers without outl. are presented in the sentence before.
The clever people at @NASA have created this deceptively simple yet highly effective data visualisation showing monthly global temperatures between 1880-2021. Watch until the end...
Learn more here - https://t.co/yvLKEgcIZ7
#ClimateEmergency#ClimateCrisis#climate
Recently published in ReStud: ``Measuring Unfair Inequality: Reconciling Equality of Opportunity and Freedom from Poverty'' by @PaulHufe @RaviKanbur and @APeichl who introduce a new measure of unfair inequality and apply it to data from the US and the EU
https://t.co/CAR8ecxQaO
Let's discuss what's happening in Russia. To put it simply, it's going full fascist. Authorities launched a propaganda campaign to gain popular support for their invasion of Ukraine and they're getting lots of it. You can see "Z" on these guys' clothes. What does it mean? 🧵