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JEP has just published an article by Eleanor Murray, an epidemiologist at BU School of Public Health I think. Eleanor is someone I’ve gotten to know on Twitter bc she has invested a lot of her time in studying causal inference. 1/n https://twitter.com/paulgp/status/1324360252897316866
I became interested in @EpiEllie on here bc she sees a lot of value in @yudapearl , which early on allowed us to find each other and interact. She’s really bright, amiable, funny, outward and open minded, and razor sharp with the English language — what’s not to like? 2/n
And I really appreciate how she’s worked to communicate epidemiological modeling and the science to economists and the larger community, even going so far as to regularly post TikTok videos (also something I’ve done and @analisapackham has done). 3/n
Really a public servant and wonderful communicator not to mention just extremely knowledgeable in the academic community sense. I’m looking forward to reading this. 4/n
I would’ve benefited from this in graduate school bc my work has always leaned hard on epidemiologists. It’s really easy, though, to follow a line in a foreign field and not really know where you’re going or whether you’re going in the right direction period. 5/n
One of the many challenges of our collective knowledge base becoming so very deep and divided is the opportunity costs, search costs and uncertainty in becoming competent in other areas, so I appreciate @EpiEllie writing something like this for an Econ audience a lot. 6/n
Here’s the link to the JEP article just published. It’s ungated as JEP articles are open to the public. https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.34.4.105
