Laura Morris is on bluesky now

now at @lhmorris.bsky.social/@[email protected]. usually about global development, current events, evidence in policy, and misc nerd stuff. (she/her)

[Laura Morris is on bluesky now @lh_morris]

Stata. Excel. Matlab. R.

Long ago, the four programs lived together in harmony...
then, everything changed when #econtwitter attacked.

[Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager]

Definitive proof that you don't do your best work when you're overworking: my job market paper has a math typo in the statement of BAYES' THEOREM.

[Laura Morris is on bluesky now @lh_morris]

Still better than the electoral college

[Giles Wilkes @Gilesyb]

The Venetian method for electing a Doge was literally insane, or genius

[olivia stowell @oliviastowell]

my class is starting in a few weeks, spent the morning writing out my AI policy

[Sam Freedman @Samfr]

The national service nonsense does give me the opportunity to tweet one of my favourite recent bits of polling when Ipsos actually ran the famous "Yes Minister" questions as a randomised experiment, and showed that it worked.

[Boston @BostonMassUSA]

Zero out of three ain't bad.

[Analisa Packham @analisapackham]

For a small fee, I will attend your enemy’s job talk and ask “how is this economics?”

[Michael Thrower Chowdhury @BevansAdvocate]

5) Keynes' Social Life
https://t.co/6Z8eTxUwOv

[Michael Thrower Chowdhury @BevansAdvocate]

3) Austrian School Mad Men
https://t.co/rHTRvsyk8B

[Laura Morris is on bluesky now @lh_morris]

Big mood, Dot. #NewYears2024

[jay @kendallhosseini]

whoever gets stuck giving henry kissinger’s eulogy https://t.co/mG16o1qVqD

[Maddie Lee, PhD @m_janelee]

Grad School Wrapped 2023

[David Evans @DaveEvansPhD]

Last weekend, 130+ development economists presented new research about more than 40 countries on myriad topics. Here’s a micro-summary of every study presented at the North East Universities Development Consortium annual conference. https://t.co/QmgMDqhueS by @Almedina1Music & me

[Chris Blattman @cblatts]

⁦@Ben_Olken⁩ reflecting on his long litany of failures. It is now kind of cliche to say that progress only happens through repeated and spectacular failure—in business, policy, and also science—but few of us scholars systematically reflect on and analyze our failures.

[Laura Morris is on bluesky now @lh_morris]

Baby’s first econ conference presentation! I’ll be speaking at 10:50 today presenting work from my PhD on how we could be getting more policy lessons from impact evaluation #NEUDC2023

[Harvard CID @HarvardCID]

🍂@Kennedy_School is showing off its autumn colors as we prepare to welcome 250+ economists from over 30 countries November 4-5 for #NEUDC2023!

Agenda: https://t.co/owfX30DI0B
Are you presenting? Share your work and tag us!

[Harvard CID @HarvardCID]

Welcome to #NEUDC2023!

🌏250+ economists from over 30 countries will be sharing the latest research in international development.

Full agenda➡️ https://t.co/zT8J2ax5hB

[Kareem Carr, Ph.D. @kareem_carr]

What Statistics brings to the table isn't the estimates themselves but the error bars on the estimates.

[Kareem Carr, Ph.D. @kareem_carr]

Statistics *is* a hard science. It is the hard science of uncertainty.

[Laura Morris is on bluesky now @lh_morris]

also 🇮🇪, this is why I should not tweet while insomniac.

[Laura Morris is on bluesky now @lh_morris]

Flag meme! Apologies to the person I qted this from four times in a row bc I forgot places

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Next visit: 🇬🇧 this week, bb, gonna see SPOUSE

[Laura Morris is on bluesky now @lh_morris]

I forgot 🇹🇷! Sorry Türkiye! Your food and your cats were both incredible https://t.co/sQPNni4tHg