Burke O'Brien

Data science Sc.M at Brown. Obsessed with bike lanes.

[Burke O'Brien @obrien_burke]

@_AlvinChristian

[Burke O'Brien @obrien_burke]

Hopefully soon I can go a full day without typing "help reshape"

[Burke O'Brien @obrien_burke]

@_AlvinChristian thank u for the new desk decor

[Burke O'Brien @obrien_burke]

@ne0liberal I co-wrote this piece on airline competition you might be interested in reading https://t.co/cx7XKRJ5fW

[Burke O'Brien @obrien_burke]

@ne0liberal @phoxie58

[Burke O'Brien @obrien_burke]

@phoxie58 That would have been too obvious! This is the shadowy (((deepstate))) we're talking about here!

[Annenberg Institute at Brown @AnnenbergInst]

🚨 NEW report from John Papay, Nate Schwartz, @kate_donohue, and @obrien_burke on Staffing Schools Before Students Arrive: Filling Teacher Vacancies in @pvdschools
https://t.co/GkrVSAafxS

[Alexander Berger @albrgr]

This paper is totally crazy: https://t.co/IPDo6Fo7EB

Originally they intended to test the impact of parateachers in Guinea Bissau a la this paper (https://t.co/dzfSsK7JKj) in The Gambia, but the people they trained held out for way higher wages and sued them(!). After winning...

[Burke O'Brien @obrien_burke]

@AlecStapp Could this be because other drugs (opioids) are more deadly, and you don't observe longer-term societal harms?

[Justin Wolfers @JustinWolfers]

We're opening the wrong schools.

Elementary education is both social and foundational, whereas more mature college students are better equipped to switch to online learning.

But colleges are reopening while many schools are remote.
https://t.co/cr0gs6BCc4

[Burke O'Brien @obrien_burke]

@phoxie58 What would you have left to complain about???

[Justin Wolfers @JustinWolfers]

Why might economists disagree about the case for a wealth tax?
1. Philosophical disagreement about value of redistribution
2. Different views about the best tax base
3. Extent of worry about the difficulty of assessing the tax
4. Diff guesses about likely tax avoidance

[Matthew Hankins @mc_hankins]

ABSTRACT
The effect of Y on X is real.

METHOD
Questionable proxies for Y and X.

RESULTS
Fancy stuff involving tables, covariates.

DISCUSSION
Limitations: this study cannot in principle prove that Y affects X.

CONCLUSION
Totally does tho.

[New York Magazine @NYMag]

The United States is currently experiencing an uptick in bird-on-human attacks https://t.co/tV04JJPNqY

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

An Effective Altruist approach to the climate crisis: Which actions are most likely to avert a disaster (as opposed to providing a warm glow, signaling our virtue, etc.)? Answer: Public R&D in clean energy. Important article in Vox: https://t.co/oOEYc2DcVQ via @voxdotcom

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

I sorta don't like the statement that "Twitter is not real life". It *is* real life, just a biased sample of real life where Democrats are younger, whiter, much more left-wing, and much more politically engaged than the overall universe of Democrats.
https://t.co/GbfdUMcxaL

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

A lot of people who defend the idea of "supply and demand" in labor markets seem not to understand the supply-and-demand model at all.

Instead they seem to use "supply and demand" as a shorthand for "government intervention is bad" or "low-paid workers just aren't worth much".

[Justin Wolfers @JustinWolfers]

But apparently they're still likely to confuse correlation and causation.

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

March Madness, but year-round for the next two years.

Ht @jkarsh

[Jacobin @jacobin]

Gritty is a worker