Joe Price

Professor of Economics at BYU. Director of Record Linking Lab. Combining machine learning and family history to create large linked datasets.

[Melissa S. Kearney @kearney_melissa]

I just wrote the most laudatory referee report I’ve ever written and I’m so happy knowing that at some point soon I’m going to anonymously make someone feel really good about their scholarship. They deserve it! 👍���🙌🤗

[Joe Price @joepricebyu]

@Keepapitchinin The BYU Record Linking Lab has linked together census records for those years. The precision for those years are lower than what we get when linking census records in the 1900s but if you need possible matches, these links would provide a place to start.

[Jocelyn Wikle @JocelynWikle]

New paper out! Hey parents, do you spend more quality time with children before or after dinner? For most parents, quality time is highest after dinner. Moving dinnertime earlier can maximize that time.

I had a lot of fun using ATUS data with @joepricebyu and Luke Rodgers.

[Paul Krugman @paulkrugman]

I went to Yale in the 1970s, and it was obvious that there were effectively two schools: the one where children of the elite were invited to join secret societies, and one where nerds got to be nerds 1/

[Tyler Stahle @tstahle15]

Really enjoyed listening to @DianaElder11 and @familylocket on their Research Like a Pro podcast this morning. Fascinating interview with @joepricebyu talking about the BYU record linking lab.

https://t.co/tAVMV2feKi

[Joe Price @joepricebyu]

I'd had students asking about this in class and this was really helpful to read. I drove by a Gamestop with our kids today and wished I had read this before then to tell them about it.

[Joe Price @joepricebyu]

@sportseconprof @causalinf I think Dusty would get my vote too. I love having two brothers that do economics. We should have all discovered our love for economics earlier so we could have talked about it in high school.

[Joe Price @joepricebyu]

@causalinf It was such a great experience to present to your class. Thanks for setting that up. It was also fun to create some links on your family tree.

[Joe Price @joepricebyu]

@Kasey_Buckles @causalinf Reading your note meant a lot to me just now. I hope our Census Tree will create this same experience for lots of people.

[Sandy Black @Econ_Sandy]

Call for papers for NBER Children's Program--you do NOT need to be an NBER affiliate to submit! https://t.co/9mmz93oFEg

[Matt Notowidigdo @ProfNoto]

4) Paul Eliason, @benjaminheebsh, @ryanmcdevitt, & James Roberts study how the acquisition of independent dialysis facilities by larger chains affects patient treatment decisions and health outcomes https://t.co/T0Od7MLYDb

[I'll give a favorite again this year; this is it]

[NBER @nberpubs]

To understand wealth inequality, you need to know how net wealth relates to wealth in the absence of consumption, and where wealth comes from, from Sandra E. Black, Paul J. Devereux, @FannyLandaud, and Kjell G. Salvanes

https://t.co/fDgQIEKP8p

[Zachary Bleemer @zbleemer]

This study complements my work on affirmative action and a recent paper on Texas Top Ten by @Econ_Sandy, @JeffDenning, and @rothstein_jesse: quasi-experimental studies of the medium-run effects of access-oriented U.S. admission policies evince BIG economic mobility potential.

[Rick Hornbeck @Rick__Hornbeck]

For anyone interested, here's my new uncomfortably self-centered #econhistory PhD course syllabus/readings: it has intentional clusters of papers, rather than trying to be comprehensive, and apologies for so many omissions (we'll talk about more). https://t.co/QnPH6PNxHm

[Shelly Lundberg @ShellyJLundberg]

Econ faculty: Do you have great undergrads who want to go to grad school? Do you want to help them get accepted by the best PhD program that's a good fit for them? Not sure how to do that, perhaps because your program doesn't send a lot of students off for Econ PhDs?

[Rick Hornbeck @Rick__Hornbeck]

One of my favorite parts of teaching is emailing to congratulate the students who did much better on the final than the midterm — I highly recommend it.

[Ryan Hill @RyanReedHill]

A short summary of our new WP “Race to the Bottom: Competition and Quality in Science”
Thanks @mattsclancy !

[Cecilia Rouse @CeciliaERouse]

A central focus of the Council of Economic Advisers is to identify the very best programs and policies to put in place to ensure our economy works for all Americans.

[Rich Patterson @Richwpatt]

My paper "Nudges Don't Work When the Benefits Are Ambiguous" with Ben Castleman, Fran Murphy, and Bill Skimmhorn was just accepted at JPAM!

Upshot: Nudges to transfer GI-Ed Benefits only worked among those for whom the benefit was least ambiguous.

https://t.co/IXz8wXxUif

[Joe Price @joepricebyu]

This is a fantastic paper. They use biometric data to create a massive training set. They do a bunch of exercises that should really advance the frontier in record linking.

[Mike Mueller-Smith 🏳️‍🌈 @Econ_Mike]

Doing research with linked administrative records? Want to learn a better way to manage your data integration/buy yourself more statistical power? Check out my new working paper with Matt Gross! https://t.co/ovavjZnyo3