Jed Silver 🟣

Development economist focusing on agriculture and bad puns. Lecturer (AP) Dept. Env. Econ. & Mgmt at Hebrew U.

[Ricardo Perez-Truglia @pereztruglia]

Yuen Ho: An entrepreneurial development economist tackling an age-old question with a clever experiment: Should companies exercise discretion in deciding employee promotions?

Website: https://t.co/58h4TVSjUZ
JMP: https://t.co/qv2v0zuBd3

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[Abdoulaye Ndiaye @AbdouNdiayeNYU]

Abdou Cissé is on the market from Berkeley. His job market paper measures the value of energy reliability a key part of growth and development. A great laboratory for his question is a natural experiment in Senegal: the staggered roll-out of a large-scale -national- electricity reliability technology that allows him to causally measure the real effects of improved electricity reliability and households and firms' willingness to pay for such reliability. He combines great empirics, sufficient statistics modeling, and quantification all in one paper. In addition, he has a great pipeline (JME pub, JDE R&R, other R&Rs, and strong works in progress). Last but not least, he is humble and a great dude. He will do well on the market.

If you wanna know about Abdou Cissé, shoot me an email and I'll be happy to share my recommendation letter. [His website is in the first response to this post.]

ps: We are not related.

[Jed Silver 🟣 @jedediahsilver]

Project 2025: Smotrich's version https://t.co/KZ6bubDJB9

"2025 will be the year of sovereignty in Judea and Samaria."

Directly links Trump's victory to intent to formally annex the West Bank.

[Jed Silver 🟣 @jedediahsilver]

Also this https://t.co/TdtOmOO1h3

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

Yes, these scenes from Amsterdam are disgusting and horrible. But the attackers are not Palestinians, nor do they support Palestine.

It’s exhausting and unfair to see Palestinians blamed every time a hate attack happens, as if we’re responsible for every act against Jewish or Israeli people. Hold those truly responsible accountable—blame them, not us. Stop unjustly linking Palestinians to actions that aren’t ours.

[Jed Silver 🟣 @jedediahsilver]

This.

[Yachad UK @YachadUK]

Our statement on yesterday’s horrific events in Amsterdam:

[Jed Silver 🟣 @jedediahsilver]

and tweets, tbh.

[Jed Silver 🟣 @jedediahsilver]

The usual response when I show people regression output.

[Peter Hull @instrumenthull]

You're killing me, Silver

[Jed Silver 🟣 @jedediahsilver]

"Hamas uses journalists as combatants"

Maybe people in glass houses shouldn't blow up buildings?

[Tomer Simon, PhD @TomerSimon]

אתמול בערב התרחש בטלוויזיה אירוע שאסור היה לו לקרות.

דני קושמרו נכנס עם גולני לדרום לבנון והחליט להשתתף ישירות בפעילות צבאית כשפוצץ את אחד המבנים.

חציית קו מוסרית וחוקית של אחד מבכירי העיתונאים הישראלים.

אמנת ז׳נבה מגינה על עיתונאים בשדה הקרב רק כאשר הם פועלים כעיתונאים. ברגע שהם לוקחים חלק ישיר בפעילות הצבאית הם נהפכים למטרות צבאיות לגיטימיות וחוקיות לחלוטין לצד השני.

אני שמח מאוד לראות את גל המחאה, של עיתונאים ואזרחים, ששוטף את הרשת על האירוע החמור הזה.

[Dina D. Pomeranz 🟣 @DinaPomeranz]

Important message from Israeli human rights activist @YehudaShaul for those who feel torn between their support for Israel and their concerns for peace and human rights:

[Jed Silver 🟣 @jedediahsilver]

@NTarnopolsky Then he'd probably make him a general https://t.co/HClCzeAfzq

[Joel Ferguson @FergJoel]

Really glad this is out there! If you’re doing a lit review on this topic, or just want to get a feel for what’s out there quickly, take a look at the appendix. We have a huge table summarizing a ton of papers that explore mechanisms linking climate and conflict

[Jed Silver 🟣 @jedediahsilver]

Whatever concessions Bibi made, his party is literally saying "Gaza is ours. Forever" out loud.

[Jed Silver 🟣 @jedediahsilver]

Not nearly as many cites or Nobels as another guy at MIT...

[Jay Cummings @LongFormMath]

Isaac Newton has verified his email on Google Scholar. And has recently picked up a professorship at MIT. Good for him.

[Jed Silver 🟣 @jedediahsilver]

Damnit, I see @KhoaVuUmn already beat me to this. Which is what everyone says about Acemoglu at least once during grad school.

[Jed Silver 🟣 @jedediahsilver]

Congrats to the Sveriges Riksbank on winning the Daron Acemoglu prize

[Jed Silver 🟣 @jedediahsilver]

This is horrifying and cannot be allowed to happen.

https://t.co/IGlJ7WmPNB

[Jed Silver 🟣 @jedediahsilver]

No, that's not a Google Translate error: Reporter for a state-owned channel talking about the IDF's plan to "cleanse" all of Northern Gaza.

[Itsik Zuarets איציק זוארץ @Itsik_zuarets]

צה״ל חוזר לצפון הרצועה:
אוגדה 162 נכנסה הלילה לג׳באליה והחלה בפעילות להשמדת תשתיות חמאס המתחדשות במקום. בהמשך יטוהר כל איזור צפון הרצועה על פי תוכנית האלופים- כל האוכלוסיה תפונה מעבר לציר נצרים וכל איזור צפון הרצועה יוכרז שטח צבאי סגור

[Jed Silver 🟣 @jedediahsilver]

@WilsonMKing Ooor you could go full structural and skip even estimating a treatment effect...

[Jed Silver 🟣 @jedediahsilver]

@MenInBlazers Our defending so comical Bissouma doesn't need laughing gas

[Jed Silver 🟣 @jedediahsilver]

@martcb007 New term for path dependence

[Jed Silver 🟣 @jedediahsilver]

You think this instrument just fell out of a coconut tree? It's endogenous to all in which it lives and what came before it.