Ferdous Z. Sardar

PhD in Economics with interests in health and development.

[NBER @nberpubs]

Poor weather when touring a college campus reduces students' likelihood of applying, from Olivia Feldman, Joshua M. Hyman, and @MattMcGann https://t.co/L9dKxnmXNx

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

What does it take to achieve the highest level of human performance? Across athletics, science, chess, and music
@ScienceMagazine
https://t.co/e9EFbJyXQ5

[Ben Golub @ben_golub]

I am super excited to share a new AI tool, Refine.

Refine thoroughly studies research papers like a referee and finds issues with correctness, clarity, and consistency.

In my own papers, it regularly catches problems that my coauthors and I missed.

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[Emanuel Derman @emanuelderman.bsky @EmanuelDerman]

Using ChatGPT to write your term paper is like bringing a robot to the gym to lift weights for you — James Gleick

[I4R @I4Replication]

A re-analysis of Ciacci's (2024) "Banning the purchase of sex increases cases of rape: Evidence from Sweden" Journal of Population Economics reveals major issues. A year ago, reproducers Adema, Folke, and Rickne found coding errors driving the paper's key results. Let's unpack
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[John B. Holbein @JohnHolbein1]

You've heard of the studies where they give the same dataset/research question to a bunch of researchers and they tend to get different answers, right?

Why is that?

This new working paper shows that it has a lot to do with data cleaning.

This is consistent with Gelman's "garden of forking paths" analogy. Small researcher coding decisions greatly influence results, often without being explicitly acknowledged.

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

Our country of the year overthrew an autocrat. But it is not Syria https://t.co/viJwZNTisy 👇

[VoxDev @vox_dev]

🆕Who migrates from developing countries?

In today's article, @m_clem @GeorgeMasonU & @MariapiaMendola @unimib discuss their latest research measuring the relationship between income and migration from data on 99 countries and the policy implications:
https://t.co/5R3v44Q74f

[David McKenzie @dmckenzie001]

I've just done the annual update of the curated posts on the Development Impact blog:
1) Technical topics and methods for experiments and non-experimental analysis, and how to publish 1/3 (https://t.co/GQscbca2Bl)

[Anustup Nayak @anustup_nayak]

My favourite graph (@singhabhi @karthik_econ) on why it’s so hard to improve education outcomes because every teacher has to teach such a diverse level of learners even in a single grade

[Michael Bauer @michaelbauer_hh]

Doing research in economics or other social sciences but have not read @akorinek's paper on using LLMs?
Stop everything you are doing and take a look!

Many highly relevant use cases, extremely helpful, code online! Thank you Anton!

https://t.co/Gs5RtfNXh4

[Seth Stephens-Davidowitz @SethS_D]

My new book, Who Makes the NBA, is out today!!!! This is one of my favorite charts from the book: the advantage fathers pass to their sons in various fields. I expanded it based on twitter comments. https://t.co/9LFhaxpqDV

[Riccardo Di Cato @CatoRiccardo]

🎙️Excited to introduce the 'Backstory Podcast' where we unravel how research papers in economics get made! Join me, @CatoRiccardo, along with @bh_aakash and @SantiagoCC95, as we explore the journey from a paper's inception to its final draft: https://t.co/bPr0Rn05ha #EconTwitter

[Daryl Fairweather, PhD | Chief Economist @FairweatherPhD]

Recently, two of California's largest home insurance providers have halted policy sales, citing rising wildfire risk. A growing body of research shows the connections between climate and housing are multifold. Homeowners, renters, and policymakers need to prepare. Thread 🧵 1/13

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

- Engineer: I invented this new thing. I call it a ballpen 🖊️
- TwitterSphere: OMG, people could write horrible things with it, like misinformation, propaganda, hate speech. Ban it now!
- Writing Doomers: imagine if everyone can get a ballpen. This could destroy society. There should be a law against using ballpen to write hate speech. regulate ballpens now!
- Pencil industry mogul: yeah, ballpens are very dangerous. Unlike pencil writing which is erasable, ballpen writing stays forever. Government should require a license for pen manufacturers.

[Perplexity @perplexity_ai]

Introducing Bird SQL, a Twitter search interface that is powered by Perplexity’s structured search engine. It uses OpenAI Codex to translate natural language into SQL, giving everyone the ability to navigate large datasets like Twitter.
https://t.co/N1BtF47JYu

[SANEM @sanemnet]

We invite papers for the “Fourth SANEM- @WorldBank North America Discussion Forum 2023" to be jointly organized by SANEM and the World Bank Group on May 5, 2023, at the World Bank premises in Washington, D.C.

Learn more: https://t.co/u75qE071KQ

@selimraihan

[Rafael H. M. Pereira 🚡 Urban Demographics @UrbanDemog]

googletraffic, a promising new #rstats package to download Google Traffic data https://t.co/QepywrsuvW.
📦developed by @robamarty from the DIME team at the @WorldBank @WBG_Transport

More info at their blog post: https://t.co/xLB4ummQnD

[Brian Albrecht @BrianCAlbrecht]

The most underrated way to learn economics? YouTube 🎥

No. I don't mean for undergrads. I mean for academics and econ policy nerds!

Here are the best econ channels to learn from:

[Vox @voxdotcom]

.@PureEarthNow’s Richard Fuller works to clean up the forgotten industrial pollution that poisons millions of children in the poorest countries of the world, while @mushfiq_econ is unlocking the secrets to economic development. https://t.co/lRtpV011vy