Kyle Handley

Professor of Economics at @UCSanDiego @GPS_UCSD. Trail runner, gravel biker, news reader, international economist, tweets on all of the above.

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@mattkahn1966 is it covered by Mills Act, because it might not be long. for this world otherwise.

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The missing Michigan counterpart is Meijer, but when I lived in Michigan, Costco was still cheaper than Meijer because Meijer is kinda the wal-mart of Michigan. But you are right that Woodman's is amazingly cheap in Wisconsin (and they have an ESOP, which is unheard of in this space).

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@BachmannRudi George Orwell was already onto this in 1945

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@stevemagness Nice anecdote about Lindsey Gallo. She is now a professor at Michigan and we were colleagues for about 6 years before I moved to UCSD.

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@stevehou @Silicon_Data @carmenli Congrats! Sounds like a great opportunity.

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I would argue this because it's not a math field test. Its a general math aptitude test that isn't much different from the SAT. Most econ phd programs (and I assume other quant disciplines) also don't look at the verbal unless it is unusually low. If you want to know upper level math capability, you need to require the subject tests or you look at grades in upper division math courses.

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FWIW, I now regularly take points off when my students submit papers with GPT generated citations that are wrong and I warn them in advance that is the standard (similarly, it’s their problem if AI plagiarizes and doesn’t cite anything). So even if they are AI generated, it’s odd for a professional academic to get citations wrong like this. The typical working paper citation error is wrong date

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Bonus appendix tweet: the supplement includes a table of accession dates to all the MECRs and NATO back to 1950. 8/7
https://t.co/5EWFh7jQzA

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Are export controls just trade barriers?

Not necessarily.

In a new AEA P&P paper, Jingting Fan (CKGSB), Nuno Limão @georgetownsfs , and I study multilateral export control regimes since the Cold War.

We find that coordination among members is associated with substantially higher bilateral trade. 1/7

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The May 2026 issue of AEA Papers and Proceedings (116) is now available. https://t.co/UE6apaDKZk

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Paper is: Multilateral Export Control Regimes and Aggregate Exports
Jingting Fan, Kyle Handley, and Nuno Limão.
https://t.co/97dxZlO2Gk. 7/7

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Teaching my @GPS_UCSD students how to get the LLM in R stats to interpret macro data from FRED data API @stlouisfed. Once we got that working, I changed the prompt to write in the style of Game of Thrones.

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Interesting policy development: temporarily eliminating beef import tariffs to reduce prices appears to imply the Trump admin does believe tariffs raise prices. Free trade for the win!

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We encountered this missing instruction context a lot this year in 6th grade. There are lots of catchy names for things that are supposed to convey the instructions. It was driving me crazy on factorization, but then they finished that unit.

I totally get the push to use different mental tools to solve problems. So we’ll be admonished not to have our kids do long division the old way we learned, okay fine. But then your kid will correctly solve a problem using a tool they were taught and it will be marked wrong, e.g. because they didn’t use “Big 7” method.

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Maybe we should all just muddle though like the old times. And if everything is fine, we cancel the Canvas subscription and move on.

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Education tool Canvas hacked, multiple US college newspapers report https://t.co/ZlqKPTSo9b https://t.co/ZlqKPTSo9b