Michael Stepner

Now at @[email protected]

Public economist studying health and economic inequality. (he/him)
👨🏼‍🏫 @UofT Professor
👨🏼‍💻 Harvard @OppInsights

[Michael Stepner @michaelstepner]

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.

[Arin Dube @arindube]

🚨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/

[Michael Stepner @michaelstepner]

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?

[Michael Stepner @michaelstepner]

@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.

[Michael Stepner @michaelstepner]

@JesseBrown

[Paul Novosad @paulnovosad]

🤷🤷‍♀️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

[Michael Stepner @michaelstepner]

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

[Michael Stepner @michaelstepner]

@AdamLavecchia I'm following in great footsteps @AdamLavecchia 😄

[Michael Stepner @michaelstepner]

@DavidSRudin @AlexAmared

[Mastodon (@[email protected]) @joinmastodon]

As a company from eastern Germany, we know that building a wall to try and keep people from leaving isn't a good idea.

[Michael Stepner @michaelstepner]

@DavidSRudin

[Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager]

Gonna see how close I can get to dropping the pachyderm site link without getting banned and call that Masto baiting

[Michael Stepner @michaelstepner]

@economeager 👋 see you there!

[Valentin Bolotnyy🇺🇸🇺🇦 @vbolotnyy]

Want your university to study and improve graduate student mental health?

We have a blueprint that could be helpful:
https://t.co/opgsOEOYk2

[Michael Stepner @michaelstepner]

@SamanthaStrudel He shows up in all sorts of unexpected places ☺️

[Michael Stepner @michaelstepner]

@SamanthaStrudel Here’s my snoozing baby bunny. (He’s 3 times bigger now!)

[poorly drawn lines @PDLComics]

what is it

[Michael Stepner @michaelstepner]

@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".

[Michael Stepner @michaelstepner]

@KhoaVuUmn

[Michael Stepner @michaelstepner]

@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

[Michael Stepner @michaelstepner]

@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.