Andrew Foster

Professor of Economics and of Health Services, Policy and Practice at Brown University

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@marome1 Thanks for the posting!

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@YujungHwang3 Years ago I would tell students not to use a procedure they didn't fully understood or couldn't code. Of course, overtime we tended to be more trusting of packages and the theory underlying them. It saves time, but we lost something too. Seems like that rule should apply here.

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@YanagizawaD Years ago I would tell students not to use a procedure they didn't fully understood or couldn't code. Of course, overtime we tended to be more trusting of packages and the theory underlying them. It saved a lot of time but we lost something too. History does tend to rhyme.

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@JohnHCochrane Comments tend to be a lot of work and may be low impact. But every paper is in a way a comment on the literature and I have had some success in asking authors to turn "comments" into good "short papers" that can then go through a normal review process.

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@leightjessica Thanks. Will consider this…

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@FareedZakaria @TheEconomist @zannymb @RayDalio Beddoes was typically insightful. Dalio sounded a bit like he was in a hostage situation.

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@I4Replication COPE has guidelines on this: https://t.co/WK6w78nDRW

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@paulnovosad I asked chatgpt if there had been any useful comments on the original article. It pointed to the datacolada post. I think serious adjudication increases the incentives for quality replications; it is not clear the "comment" approach does that. AI can then take it from there.

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@paulnovosad I would consider them for the JDE. We do not publish comments per se or condition on whether the paper overturns the previous result. We do ask that the paper make it clear why the question is worth reexamining in a different frame or setting, given current knowledge.

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@chidiya_ @Brown_Economics @alterelim Check out Aarushi's amazing work on toxic social media at https://t.co/9mBDD0FdWk

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@leightjessica I have been looking into this issue at the JDE. I think we can improve instructions and do a better job of explaining how linked and non-linked tables and figures are treated. I'd like to see it modified to accept subdirectories. Other suggestions from the hive?

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@JustinSandefur @marcfbellemare @eeshani_kandpal @thom_katherina Interesting paper but if I am reading it right the .03 is a transfer elasticity in Table 3 not an income elasticity. Divide by the transfer share of income (.1 to .2) to compare it with previous estimates--so .15 to .3.

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@dmckenzie001 @JakeVigdor @AEAjournals @ecmaEditors @ASR_Journal @apsrjournal JDE holding steady at 1849 for 2023. Seems odd to me that the variability over the last four years has been so low.

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I am not sure what possessed me to get an extended warranty on my refrigerator purchased in 2019 but my experience with @New_Leaf_SC after my KitchenAid was "condemned" last month has been incredibly frustrating.

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@jmb112485 @BarbaraBiasi No eduroam at sonesta. But yes the brown works at almost every academic institution.

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Brown grad student Henrique Pita Barros tests a low-cost intervention to connect displaced persons and members of their host community in Mozambique https://t.co/fF7gipn50V

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3/3
Urban, housing size, deregulation, India https://t.co/DYCn20BUVy

Bargaining, income hiding, work incentives, Cambodia https://t.co/aQ1yFqnV7B

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1/3
Do take a look at Brown's fascinating and talented crop of development students on the market (A-Z). Some keywords to get you started--

Conflict, refugees, community meetings, Mozambique
https://t.co/bfjCecCEmD

Water, women, religion, Middle East https://t.co/ubhu46kgRc

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2/3
Childcare, health, environment, Brazil https://t.co/JxLLb7qTxn

Religion, media, women, Brazil https://t.co/EQaDXYjymy