Our new study is in the NYT this morning: https://t.co/UfmcMSWfLR
And my coauthor @arindube is tweeting the details 👇🏼
In short: the vast majority of people whose pandemic unemployment benefits were cancelled in June did not find new jobs by the beginning of August.
🚨New study using new bank-transaction level data: What did ending pandemic UI do to jobs, income, spending?🚨
We find:
*Large drop in share receiving UI
*For every 8 losing UI, 1 found job by Aug
*Added earnings made up for only 7% of benefit loss
*Large 20% drop in spending
1/
With Elon Musk’s Twitter slowly falling apart, it seems we have no choice but to return to social media sites run by older and more experienced operators.
@AlexAmared, do you still have the credentials for the CUSIDnet phpBB?
@nomadj1s Others have pointed out the closest analogs to AWS: Google Cloud or Microsoft Azure. Outside the big 3, there are plenty of smaller competitors like Digital Ocean.
If you’re already storing code on GitHub, another option is to run code using GitHub Actions on GitHub runners.
🤷🤷♀️New data: SHRUG 2 is out!! @devdatalab has been working on this for two years, a HUGE update to India’s coolest data platform:
1. Maps of *every* 2011 town and village, with ids
2. All data at every geography (villages, districts, ACs, etc)...
https://t.co/tIWzPykzJQ
🧵1/N
FYI to my professor friends with very common names who have wanted a professional site with a simple domain name (like https://t.co/d0qwqTuZr9).
As of today, you can put your website at "yourname .prof" or "yourname .phd"
https://t.co/ssiKoT5X3D
@KiraboJackson Not precisely what you're looking for, but the related case that I see unfortunately often is an underpowered and noisy placebo test saying "the CI includes zero".
@JesseBrown Sorry to hear about his passing. Your tweet inspired me to search to learn more about him, and I found this lovely 2016 profile.
https://t.co/GDEMscBDjd
@borusyak@p_ganong pre-registered an observational analysis of UI data this past summer, and tweeted about it. It even paid dividends weeks later when Peter pointed to the pre-registration in response to (bad faith) critiques that scientists were cherry picking data re UI expiration.