Chuanhao Lin

[Melissa S. Kearney @kearney_melissa]

If you were behind a Rawlsian veil of ignorance, would you choose a society that -
has a child allowance/payment to alleviate child poverty
OR
forgives the loans the most educated/highly paid people in society took out to pay for their advanced schooling?

[Alessandra Fenizia @AFenizia]

Very excited to see my JMP getting published! It was such a long and rocky journey

[Lionel Page @page_eco]

It is regrettable that many Western commentators repeated Putin’s narrative that the problem came from an aggressive NATO expansion aimed at encircling Russia.

Time for a reset of narratives. Here are some simple insights, informed by our work on the game theory of alliances. 🧵

[Seema Jayachandran @seema_econ]

I come across the following reasoning often: The effect of X1 on Y and of X2 on Y should be >0. Thus, I'm going to estimate a diff-in-diff where the hypothesis is that X1*X2 has a positive effect on Y. What's the shortest, most intuitive way to explain the flaw in this logic?

[Shanthi Manian @shanthim]

@royer_heather @jenniferdoleac Here are a bunch of resources: https://t.co/BMP3JRptoq from #DarioSansone

[AASHTO @aashtospeaks]

Here's a look at the #AmericasTransportationAwards MAASTO region winners.

@MoDOT_KC — Kansas City Divergabout Project

The design means better traffic flow & less congestion, increasing safety. The improved capacity reduces delays, letting people get where they're going faster.

[David 🌐 @evil_diad]

1/ I…I…I taught a mini-course on writing for economists this week and I’m just…tweeting it out (in abridged form, ~50 tweets)

[Dr. Hailey Banack @haileybanack]

Is there a term for time spent making graphs look pretty instead of working on actual analyses? Procrastigraphing? #epitwitter #sciencetwitter

[Kevin Banda @KevinKBanda]

Never finish a project when you can start a new one.

[Analisa Packham @analisapackham]

Economists: policies have tradeoffs. I would like to see what these tradeoffs are
Practitioners: NO
E: I have spent 2-3 years gathering data to show-
P: NO NONONOOOOO
E: But, if you just look at-
P: NO! nO No NO
E:
P: .......NOPE
E: 😪

[Tal Gross @talgross]

Stata Users of Earth: make your graphs reader friendly. Here is a thread with three easy steps.

[Jon Levy @jonlevyBU]

20 years ago today (!), I defended my dissertation. To celebrate this anniversary, let me offer up 10 thoughts/opinions about being a PhD student and 10 about being an advisor. #phdlife #AcademicTwiiter #PhdChat

[Chuanhao Lin @linchgw]

Why the World’s Best Mathematicians Are Hoarding Chalk https://t.co/Tce8cRDYJo via @YouTube

[Leo C. Stein is @duetosymmetry on bsky/threads/🐘 @duetosymmetry]

And if you wanted to see how the sausage got made ... here's a movie of the paper-writing process!

[Stephen Billings @BillingsEcon]

I have finally completed the creation of a national dataset of property transactions (Zillow Ztrax) merged with HMDA (Home Mortgage Disclosure Act) homebuyer data for 1995-2016. This is a great dataset to observe the income and race of people moving into neighborhoods. 1/2

[Beatrice Cherrier @Undercoverhist]

Still a graduate student

[Nick HK @nickchk]

As requested, slower graphs! Also added a graph on collider bias, the webpage explanation helps there.

These graphs are intended to show what standard causal inference methods actually *do* to data, and how they work.

This is what controlling for a binary variable looks like:

[Jennifer Doleac @jenniferdoleac]

Just added to my website: A list of econ of crime conferences, & conferences that typically include multiple sessions dedicated to this field. If you're looking for feedback on crime-related econ research, these are the places to submit your work!

https://t.co/ti8YaWnoo5

[Michael Clemens @m_clem]

The grad-school me, who spent months of his youth in moldering archives doing this by hand, weeps silently. But wow, what an amazing tool. (HT @hpostel)

[Jenny Schuetz @jenny_schuetz]

Today seems like a good day to share newsworthy facts that surprise no one. In that vein: CA's metros have some of the highest rents, but build fewer apts than predicted, based on rent levels. Shocking, right?