Andrew Whitten | @[email protected]

Public finance economist / human. Tweets ≠ my employer's views. Leaving twitter... catch me on Mastodon:

[Andrew Whitten | @[email protected] @rawecon]

Time for me to leave twitter. Catch me on Mastodon: https://t.co/2IXjDVir36

[Andrew Whitten | @[email protected] @rawecon]

@goodmanl @united @wmata Good luck!

[Andrew Whitten | @[email protected] @rawecon]

@b_pecoraro @richpriz Thanks for clarifying. I haven’t thought about it much, but my instinct is that it’s the public-vs-private margin that matters (not C-vs-passthru). The market cap of private Cs is not common knowledge. So if there is an exclusion by biz type, I’d expect private Cs to be excluded.

[Andrew Whitten | @[email protected] @rawecon]

@b_pecoraro Why the shift into pass-throughs specifically? Private businesses, sure, but why not private C corps?

[Andrew Whitten | @[email protected] @rawecon]

@goodmanl I don’t think that’s quite right. People see concentration of resources and imagine a world with the same output but everything is (magically?) distributed equally per capita. If we had that system instead of capitalism, then… [insert utopian outcome here]

[David Phillips @PhillipsEcon]

If I could magically make one change to PhD metrics training everywhere, it would be to add a week on power.

[Andrew Whitten | @[email protected] @rawecon]

@corbinlmiller No, it can be common knowledge that you’re being sarcastic and the joke could still work brilliantly. Trolling doesn’t work if it’s common knowledge that you’re trolling. That’s a failed trolling attempt.

[Kimberly Clausing @KClausing]

#EconTwitter Office of Tax Analysis at Treasury is hiring RAs; this is a wonderful opportunity for budding economists. You have the chance to work with world-class economists on important problems using the best data available! And as a bonus, the culture is supportive and fun.

[Andrew Whitten | @[email protected] @rawecon]

@goodmanl Leaning yes. I’d love to live in a world where tipping is rare. Tips exhibit racial bias (probably other biases too). Need a coordinated move to get to the new equilibrium.

[Andrew Whitten | @[email protected] @rawecon]

Website where you can copy in a table from an excel spreadsheet and AI will translate it to LaTeX code:
https://t.co/XfrHZrfIcz
HT @rcassill

[Andrew Whitten | @[email protected] @rawecon]

@b_pecoraro Congrats Brandon!!

[Andrew Whitten | @[email protected] @rawecon]

“Who doesn’t like the IRS? Who?” 🤣
#ilovetheIRS

[scott cunningham @causalinf]

I feel like @wwwojtekk and @SHamiltonian can figure out a use for this video since they're huge tax fans

[Andrew Whitten | @[email protected] @rawecon]

@jefflarrimore Amazing!

[Steve Rosenthal @stevertax]

@kpomerleau Right, buyback myth # 2, buybacks do not mechanically increase stock prices, as described by my colleauge @dmarron https://t.co/EIX6L9BqBG

[Jeff Hoopes @JeffLHoopes]

@kpomerleau Here is the most recent evidence on the relationship between buybacks and price:
https://t.co/WxAtsTOtkL

[FedResearch @FedResearch]

New #FEDSNote shows Census data understated the increase in unemp. benefits in 2020 - particularly among low-income families. As a result, official poverty rates were overstated by about 2 pct. points, and corrected poverty reached a 6-decade low: https://t.co/30Vvd5FZqw

[Matthew Gudgeon @MatthewGudgeon]

New work analyzing the returns to Army service in the 90s and 00s and how they vary by race with @greenberg_k @AdamIsen1 @corbinlmiller @Richwpatt is just accepted at the QJE: https://t.co/Vz65jEJs2B 🧵👇1/9

[Lawrence Katz @lkatz42]

Comprehensive and insightful analysis of racial gaps in labor market returns to military service from @greenberg_k , @MatthewGudgeon, @AdamIsen1 , @corbinlmiller & @Richwpatt in the @QJEHarvard

[Susan Athey @Susan_Athey]

After 5 yrs of iterating on math, simulations, writing, we updated our working paper on clustering. Lots of time working on single formulation that captures intermediate cases, simple after-the-fact, math matches intuition. https://t.co/N7brc2z0Th

[Andrew Whitten | @[email protected] @rawecon]

@BibekAdhikari_ Congrats Bibek!!