Two Econ Starz

just one smol brain cell in a big stochastic scholastic world | PhD students @UChi_Economics

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gonna read this to my kid at bedtime

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My fav snack atm:

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me, on my way, to fix ideas

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Overheard in grad student attic: *sigh* I have 0 degrees of freedom 😮‍💨

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Are the results insignificant or am I insignificant?

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Nicknames for your next baby:

- Pam, short for positive assortative matching
- Cara, aka constant absolute risk aversion
- Ivy, as in instrumental variables
- Hank, legal name heterogeneous agent new Keynesian

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Cauchy distribution be like “help I’ve fallen and I can’t find my moments!”

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Baby grad student, trying to use linear regression: ok so what if I —

My metrics prof, running out of their office, dashing up the stairs to the grad student attic: WEE WOO 🚨 WEE WOO 🚨 BUT WAIT THERE IS A PROBLEM‼️

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why are prices sticky
why doesn't anyone clean them??

#EconTwitter #ThursdayThoughts

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me and my besties in the @overleaf:

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if the instrument is: "do it, you won't"

are you:
a) an always taker
b) a never taker
c) a complier
d) defiers don't exist by IAM

#EconTwitter

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@settlersofcatan got it wrong - the only resources are capital and labor #EconTwitter

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Questions to ask on a third date: Is this casual or causal?

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Questions to ask on a first date:

"Would you describe yourself as consistent and/or unbiased?"

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am I a causal variable? #ThursdayThoughts

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Old MacDonald had a treatment effect, e-i-e-i-o #EconTwitter

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play Bayesian games, break Bayesian hearts

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help he made us listen to it again

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today my metrics prof made us listen to the Sounds of the Stock Market™ and i haven’t been the same since

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I am a lean, mean, problem set solving machine 💪🏼 #MotivationMonday

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today my metrics prof made us listen to the Sounds of the Stock Market™ and i haven’t been the same since

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Happy Valentine's Day, #EconTwitter! Win hearts and minds with these amazing pick-up lines created by yours truly <3