Kirk White

@[email protected] Economist at Census Bureau Center for Economic Studies. Opinions my own.

[Kirk White @tkirkwhite]

@florianederer @paulgp @DataKyle This is exactly the kind of thing that (non-Whig) historians of economics study. I would argue that this paper is a history of economics paper. It’s the kind of thing you’re never going to see in a textbook or a model, and yet what you’ve brought to light affects economics.

[Kirk White @tkirkwhite]

@florianederer @paulgp @DataKyle I absolutely love the work you’ve done in this paper. Ironically, it shows why the history of economics matters for economics. Does anyone doubt that the racist and misogynistic views of economists in all the top departments affects the kinds of economics that gets done?

[Industrial Organization Society @IIOC_IO]

The Industrial Organization Society is pleased to announce a new website and new logo for the IOS and the International Industrial Organization
Conference (IIOC). The new website is: https://t.co/dyFrACL0K1 Please update your bookmarks!

[Kirk White @tkirkwhite]

@florianederer @mikemakowsky This is the best take I’ve seen re the EJMR cesspool and what to do about it.

[Florian Ederer @florianederer]

This is a very insightful piece by @mikemakowsky on the anxieties and status competition that, in addition to racism and misogyny, feed EJMR.

Mike offers some useful suggestions on what at a minimum professional associations and journals should do. https://t.co/fXdzBWEPAi

[Ellora Derenoncourt @EDerenoncourt]

We’re pleased to announce the release of our new WP "Wealth of two nations: The US racial wealth gap, 1860-2020," in which we provide the first continuous time series of white-to-Black per capita wealth ratios over the past 160 years. 1/10
https://t.co/NsBjzJwkNy

[Wajeeha Ahmad @wajeeha__ahmad]

@tkirkwhite @florianederer @paulgp @Google Brands can specify which websites they don't want their ads to appear on. In our paper (also presented at NBER SI), we examine the prevalence of advertising on misinformation websites (including econjobrumors) and show how it affects the brands involved. https://t.co/bh7pbyqIy1

[Kirk White @tkirkwhite]

@florianederer @paulgp @Google Can anyone on here weigh in on the economics of @Google display ads? In @florianederer slides some of the ads showing up next to racist/sexist posts were from major brands. Can the brands do nothing about that?

[Kirk White @tkirkwhite]

@ShengwuLi Say what you like about Sauron, but he was smart enough to salt his hashes.

[Kirk White @tkirkwhite]

@economeager RePEc has a short list of plagiarism cases with a fraud sub-category: https://t.co/WPUmRDhbsp

[Kirk White @tkirkwhite]

Census Bureau imputation in the news!

[Joey Politano 🏳️‍🌈 @JosephPolitano]

@jasonfurman Hey Jason—there's a great Fed Note on this. TLDR census imputes construction spending for non-respondents in a way that underestimates actual numbers when inflation is high, hence constant upward revisions that haven't yet been incorporated in BEA data.
https://t.co/rAietCdbpu

[Kirk White @tkirkwhite]

@dhsandler AI chat: fan fiction for everything. Hmm. I wonder if I can get Chat GPT to publish papers citing my papers. It could create the Marvel Comics Universe of the-effects-of-imputation-in-Census-data!

[Kirk White @tkirkwhite]

@AFoote_Econ “Hey Siri, what is ‘NLL Championship’?”

[Kirk White @tkirkwhite]

@Drbarbaradowns @dhsandler Good reminder not to text and walk!

[Kirk White @tkirkwhite]

I feel like it’s pretty unusual for economists to burn people as heretics. At least in the last 250 years or so. In fact, I studied history of economic thought in grad school, and I don’t remember reading about a single heretic-burning.

[Kirk White @tkirkwhite]

@JosephPolitano @arpitrage @UpdatedPriors In theory a researcher with access to the Census Bureau’s LBD could do this for all employer firms (not just single-units). Would be interesting to see how they compare. Has anyone done this comparison?

[Kirk White @tkirkwhite]

I had a great visit to the US Naval Academy Department of Economics yesterday. Katherine Smith,
@skaplan92
, Nayoung Rim, Jacek Rothert, Alex McQuoid, James Harrison, Ashwin Kambhampati and other seminar participants, thanks for your hospitality and thoughtful discussions.

[Kirk White @tkirkwhite]

Users of Census establishment and firm data, take note. https://t.co/6wjj6wqPEB

[Kirk White @tkirkwhite]

@NPRinskeep Rippling news

[Kirk White @tkirkwhite]

@ianschmutte @Gabors_Data As someone who works at one of the world’s premiere sausage factories, I will attest that sausage factory issues matter a lot in economic data, often more than users of the data would like to admit.