My first WP! #econtwitter
I study how the changes in admission criteria for public school in Jakarta, Indonesia might create an issue of grade inflation.
The WP can be accessed through the following link
https://t.co/BlBEtGXvn0 (1/N)
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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham joined #MarkusAcademy for a mini-series on Claude Code for Applied Economists.
The first three (of seven) episodes are available:
1. Getting Started
2. Data Analysis
3. Web Scraping
Watch now: https://t.co/kVN1Pecrjg
Substack: https://t.co/dgiHrMNJpl
🚨 Liverpool reach pre-agreement with Rennes to sign Jeremy Jacquet in summer 2026. Deal for 20yo #Rennes centre-back £55m + £5m. Personal terms expected to be no problem after France U21 int’l picked #LFC; viewed as key part of team rebuild @TheAthleticFC https://t.co/rrbFVj5P1o
Recently accepted by #QJE, “Micro MPCs and Macro Counterfactuals: The Case of the 2008 Rebates,” by Orchard (@JacobOrchard5), Ramey, and Wieland (@profwieland): https://t.co/KW8rGLG4r6
BREAKING: The Dallas Mavericks are trading Luka Doncic, Maxi Kleber and Markieff Morris to the Los Angeles Lakers for Anthony Davis, Max Christie and a 2029 first-round pick, sources tell ESPN. Three-team deal that includes Utah.
We have released new yearly measures of local GDP at the 1, 0.5, and 0.25 degree level. They are calculated using remote sensing data and a random forest model. All the data, documentation, and tests can be mapped and downloaded here: https://t.co/7uzq4rLXg5
On the use of large language models to solve prediction and estimation problems - amazing paper by @m_sendhil and colleagues. @tylercowen
https://t.co/Jmz3Bqnyi1
Recently accepted by #QJE, “Cognitive Endurance as Human Capital,” by Brown (@christinalbrown), Kaur (@supKaur), Kingdon, and Schofield (@h_schof): https://t.co/ABSgByeO6i
BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.”
#NobelPrize
NotebookLM is pretty cool! I fed it my undergrad econometrics teaching slides and it gave me (among other things) a pretty listenable podcast summary!
https://t.co/hb7PM5kfQQ
AI is gonna forever change the way we disseminate research. Here's a NotebookLM-generated podcast on my 2022 AER on racial discrimination in bail decisions
https://t.co/2CtH6QGPO4
This took <5min to generate from uploading the PDF
Pretty cool!