Natasha Plotkin

Research assistant in Economic Studies at Brookings

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Guy who hires ppl:"There really is something sort of cohesive or binding abt the fact that all of us went to college” http://t.co/TSlbVLhp

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Apparently *Russia* experienced greatest drop in labor productivity growth bet. 03-07 & 08-12. Anyone know what's up? http://t.co/Y91sM5Dp

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"Producing...stress-test results on Dodd-Frank’s aggressive schedule is a singular challenge for even the best-prepared institutions"

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Inbox: "Optimize your Dodd-Frank test results" from CoreLogic (business data and analytics firm)

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OkCupid founder Chris Coyne hints at the end of this Quora post that the OkTrends blog will be coming back to life! http://t.co/XoideryE

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...based on demographic and ticket data from people who were on the ship. http://t.co/LpJzt80m

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There's a fun intro module on Kaggle where you can see for yourself that random forests predict Titanic survivors better than regression

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Interview w Jeremy Howard, prez of data science competition site Kaggle, who says random forests make good predictions http://t.co/K68kZUfy

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@crampell Meanwhile at MIT, UGs study ~27hrs/wk while <1/3 think they're above average academically, says a new survey http://t.co/zms9jNGd

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MT @ryanavent For 20 years inflation has meant more expensive energy, food, homes, and services; prices for *things* flat or falling

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@mattyglesias Try this: http://t.co/2gNECaGM

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Good short summary of the major birth metrics, from the Population Reference Bureau: http://t.co/M4RSBXZI

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Are pieces by Gary Marcus supposed to be the @NewYorker's extended apology for Jonah Lehrer? If so I approve

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Gary Marcus has been on a roll in the New Yorker recently. His latest on What Neuroscience Teaches Us & What It Doesn't http://t.co/kIL3ldai

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For policy purposes, however, ratio of working age to dependent population matters most, so the lower birth rate still presents a challenge

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The fertility rate controls for changes in the age distribution of women, while the birth rate does not.

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Here's the key graph on fertility: it's fallen a lot since the recession but was much lower throughout the 70s: http://t.co/ZmJsHwjr

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Chris Blattman: "Probably the biggest problem in international development is that it is not anarchist enough." http://t.co/DQ0kAG4H

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"In China, 25 Million People Use Only Their Cell Phones to Read Books" Also, China may have world's largest book output http://t.co/zEkkGaFF

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@ChapmandeRojas Yes, very!