Jesse Gubb

Senior research manager @JPAL_NA @MIT. Political Science PhD. Occasional bike mechanic. Views are my own.

[Jesse Gubb @jessegubb]

@dandekadt It's part thermostatic decline for wokeness (sped up by Gaza splitting lib coalition here) and part realizing that it is culture war shit not econ policy that has moved non-college workers (eg Biden deliveralism failed). But this is long term & not an explanation of '24 vote.

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@MattDickinson44 Would you see him this way if he had lost 16? Plenty of candidates try to hit similar grievances. Trump turned that into a norm busting legacy, but maybe b/c Hillary, Comey, media, or generic D vs R, all of which are potentially orthogonal to Trump's direct appeal.

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@carlislerainey Saw this randomly on twitter and would love to read. Political scientist by training and manager at J-PAL, where I think a lot about explaining power to various audiences. Jgubb at https://t.co/9mEP75be71

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We are hiring at @JPAL_NA! Come work with me and Prof. Amy Finkelstein on RCTs to support evidence-based policy and reduce poverty. Hone your data-wrangling skills, do research, and work on real-world problems. https://t.co/W12K5Dchsi

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This morning at #EvaluatingSocialPrograms2023, @JesseGubb (@JPAL_NA, Senior Research Manager) teaches sample size & power. Curious about how to ensure an evaluation is well-powered enough to detect impact? Learn more from this #researchresource: https://t.co/ZwInuXXEAj

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@dieworkwear New clothes are cheaper than they used to be. Getting things fixed is more expensive. Local vs outsourced labor.

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@Acmebike @Pflax1 This is the problem I’ve seen as well.

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Proximity to the intersection when the light is green does not give you permission to go through it when the light is red. This isn’t hard.

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@somershade1 What’s the chance of automated enforcement? That seems like the best first step for complicated intersections that rely on compliance to work.

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@crschmidt My RadCity 5+ just arrived and the e part of the e-bike does not work. No pedal assist or throttle. Have you encountered this yet in the ones you've bought/recommended? Battery and connections are fine. Lights work. Seems like a controller issue.

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This is a good thread.

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@msgHankinson @RyanDEnos Not denying there are some suspicious additions...maybe it's buildings you can *see* from Cambridge.

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@msgHankinson @RyanDEnos Not a real perspective but looks like some Harvard/river area stuff on the left, city hall in the center, and the green building and kendall on the right

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@guthrieandres People drive to trick or treat? Even growing up in the suburbs I never saw anything like that.

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The NYT ran that "I was wrong about" thing with the opinion writers and somehow it wasn't just a list of every Bret Stephens article.

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For years, Bret Stephens considered himself “an agnostic on the causes of climate change.” A trip to Greenland changed his mind. https://t.co/3NqPg1dvo9

[Jonathan Berk @berkie1]

BREAKING: Cambridge, Massachusetts City Council has voted 8-1 to REMOVE ALL MINIMUM PARKING REQUIREMENTS from the city’s zoning code (commercial and residential)!

[Yunan Ji @YunanJi]

🚨New Paper Alert🚨 @liraneinav, @nealemahoney, Amy Finkelstein and I study the first year of the ESRD Treatment Choice model, a nationwide RCT that provides financial incentives to dialysis facilities and clinicians to increase home dialysis use.

[Jesse Gubb @jessegubb]

@bizherman We use Asana for most things like this, which I’d recommend. We also use github issues for coding tasks, which are great if you want to record discussion/decisions on the task, but no due dates and less flexible.

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@guthrieandres Would ride the Guthrie