Angus Greaves

Predoc at SIEPR | former Oxford MPhil in Economics

[Angus Greaves @angus_greaves]

@ben_golub @RefineDotInk Would you be willing to please do this for predocs for a few months before applications (and so writing samples) are due?

[Angus Greaves @angus_greaves]

@watling_samuel Half of my assessments at Oxford were coursework (so not in person), greater % than that during my undergrad at York (even in the pre covid year). Similar situations post-covid for friends at other UK unis (with a lower but still high % for engineers).

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The croissants in Europe--even at an airport coffee shop--are better than any I can get in the US.

GDP is fake.

[Angus Greaves @angus_greaves]

@two8362 @MEscobarCarias @RefineDotInk @joefrancis505 and far cheaper

[Angus Greaves @angus_greaves]

@soumen08 @econswapnil @ben_golub @pangram It takes no time for an editor to run a report through panagram if you automate the process so panagram checks occur automatically with report submission. Would be very simple to do

[Angus Greaves @angus_greaves]

@JohnRuf6 ofc however you calculate superfans you need to avoid releasing that publicly/switch strategies or scalpers will just imitate for the next event

[Angus Greaves @angus_greaves]

@JohnRuf6 Taylor Swift did this for her eras tour where "recognised fans" (which seemed tied to merch sales/account duration in someway?) got codes for tickets. Would also be easy to limit this to accounts which buy one of a range of merch to avoid scalpers

[Angus Greaves @angus_greaves]

@MeganTStevenson Pangram labs did a blog post stating exactly this and why they optimised this way https://t.co/S0iafffh5M

[Angus Greaves @angus_greaves]

@btshapir Or perhaps they were never going to be good at asking interesting questions. If PhD admissions don't primarily select for students who ask interesting questions, naturally you get high ranking programs with some who can't

[Angus Greaves @angus_greaves]

@heeney_luke Was it co-authored with faculty? Not saying that should (or shouldn't) matter, its just the only explanation I can think of

[Angus Greaves @angus_greaves]

@tak3sh8 Mostly Harmless Econometrics by Angrist & Pischke

[Angus Greaves @angus_greaves]

@BartierFreak @realsaadasad @MarthaF_F yes they can, this is the norm in Oxford, York, Cambridge, Reading, Bath, Nottingham etc. All of which have populations well over 80k

[Angus Greaves @angus_greaves]

@maya_sen @AlexanderMcCoy4 Edinburgh uni has a similar policy which works well. Its usually just one double-sided page though so much easier to check.

For a maths class, one lecturer made a sheet of formulae which most people used for their notes page making it even easier

[Angus Greaves @angus_greaves]

@RenaudFoucart Does ai (unprompted) make the same adjustments when asked about local restaurant recommendations?

[Angus Greaves @angus_greaves]

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[Angus Greaves @angus_greaves]

@captgouda24 Arellano, Blundell, and Bond

[Angus Greaves @angus_greaves]

@KhoaVuUmn little old for her first working paper, but she might still get into a top 10 PhD if she can land a decent predoc

[Angus Greaves @angus_greaves]

@Econ_4_Everyone I'd keep one and give one to @NominalPaul

[Angus Greaves @angus_greaves]

@arpitrage @annastansbury In England yes but Scottish unis let you take a large number of modules from other departments unrelated to your field - Scotland's unis are somewhere between US flexibility and the full standardisation in England (but most UK uni students are in England)

[Angus Greaves @angus_greaves]

@annastansbury @Fast72W Sadly this is not true, its actually about double that (~30% get a 1st)

At some top UK unis its more like 40-50% (e.g. Imperial).

Data is from UK Office for students (an independent public body) https://t.co/vVeTaMNRZb