Will Wang

EconCS pre-doc @msftresearch incoming PhD student at @berkeleyhaas love housing, trains, the Bruins, environmental engineering he/him 🏳️‍🌈

[Will Wang @willwang21]

@swordstress_ @constans Here’s an older one: https://t.co/rSl5N93pEQ

[Will Wang @willwang21]

@Andrew_Semenza But of course, our intuition says that the technology played a key role in the process of learning

Similarly, working for a defense co has the intuitive feel of playing a role in the process of killing people, even if the counterfactual is more deaths

[Will Wang @willwang21]

@Andrew_Semenza Imagine a new technology that teaches a child to read. But in the absence of the technology, the child’s parents would have taught them to read anyways

The (simple) counterfactual theory seems to say the program isn’t responsible for the child knowing how to read

[Will Wang @willwang21]

@sharlappalachia I liked this! I identify a lot w the relationship between your relationship w your parents and them buying you things, especially for me when it comes to their upbringing in scarcity

[Will Wang @willwang21]

at least it's on the record in the dissent

[Will Wang @willwang21]

On Louisiana v. Callais, a total loss for statistics understanders and win for people who love """controls"""

[Will Wang @willwang21]

@TheZvi this is incredible and thought-provoking, thank you for writing this

[Will Wang @willwang21]

@sharlappalachia perhaps I should also watch lol

[Lauren Gilbert @notanastronomer]

We launch @indevmag with a piece from @PaulFNiehaus on what GiveDirectly’s use of evidence (and a mildly spicy footnote on Paul’s take on microcredit): https://t.co/QTmcWT9hs6

[Will Wang @willwang21]

@BorelliEcon @JohnRuf6 @BerkeleyHaas @FisherUCB @MSFTResearch Thank you!!

[Will Wang @willwang21]

Excited to say I’m moving to the West Coast to start a PhD with the real estate + urban economics group @BerkeleyHaas @FisherUCB this fall!

grateful to all of my mentors @MSFTResearch for sticking with me and teaching me everything I know about econ :)

[Will Wang @willwang21]

@pasta_nachos this is really cool!

[Will Wang @willwang21]

@abhishekn @BerkeleyHaas @FisherUCB @MSFTResearch Thank you!! Excited to be at Haas

[Will Wang @willwang21]

@sharlappalachia Well imo the first part is better so…

[Will Wang @willwang21]

@sharlappalachia I thought it was good but not extraordinary, very adept but left me feeling like something was lacking

[Will Wang @willwang21]

@cmmnknowledge @BerkeleyHaas @FisherUCB @MSFTResearch thank you!! hoping the core is survivable

[Will Wang @willwang21]

@gaizweb @BerkeleyHaas @FisherUCB @MSFTResearch Thank you!!

[Will Wang @willwang21]

@odavis_ @tysonbrody I'm really skeptical of the exclusion restriction here, Craigslist plausibly has many economic effects than just newspaper closures

[Will Wang @willwang21]

@asteriskmgzn Are there any more details on what types of pitches you’re looking for related to work?