#Causal

🔥 Kareem Carr 🔥

kareem_carr

AS A STATISTICIAN, I respect science expertise because I need it to do my job right. In the early days of the pandemic, I saw debate develop between those advocating

Emily Duggan, PhD

edugganphd

Excited to #Livetweet Dr. Keenan Walker's @KnowNeuropsych talk today on inflammation and immune functioning in #Alzheimers disease. Hope to see you all there! peripheral #inflammation is a likely contributor to

Ben Moll

ben_moll

#EconTwitter hivemind: what are your favorite papers combining “causal” micro estimates (say from DiD or RCT) with a general-equilibrium macro model to answer an interesting macro question?This is for my

Houston Institute

houstoninst

THREAD: there is much left intentionally unsaid in this piece about efforts at HLS and elsewhere to run RCTs in the criminal legal system, deceptively & inaccurately framed as applying

Vinay Prasad MD MPH

VPrasadMDMPH

Sunday advice for the budding/ junior medical researcher:Before you get too wedded to your project, consider What if everything my PI has told me is *wrong? [thread]*not original word choice

Chris Blattman

cblatts

it’s great that economists do lots of field work and interviews now. But think of the absolute sloppiest, terrible causal inference paper you can remember, from someone who doesn’t even

Mukundh Murthy

MukundhMurthy

Had a great time at the NSF National Symposium on Drug Repurposing for Future Pandemics #futuretx20 (thank you @marinkazitnik and @jure for organizing)! Key takeaways, summaries of favorite talks, and

kinozhao

kinozhao2

Finally gotten around to reading this. Fascinating & convincing piece! I learned a lot. A short thread on someone with 0 background in poli phil. 1/https://twitter.com/dikaioslin/status/1262420410123071488 The paper aims to

Helen McCarthy

HistorianHelen

A thread on writing contemporary history and getting older: I’ve been teaching a lot of contemporary British history this term, encouraging my students to reflect upon the challenges of writing

David McRaney

davidmcraney

Polls show 2/3 of Republicans believe the insurrection was a false flag operation, which is psychologically no different than believing the Earth is flat or that highly evolved dinosaurs who

diri ak goth 🇭🇹🦻🏾

sabrinafbazile

if u understand racial capitalism, then u can see the “causal link” b/w r*zon*ngs/market rate development exclusively in neighborhoods of color “Capitalism and racism did not break from the

Lila Allou

lila_allou

I am delighted to share with you our work from the @MundlosLab at @MPI_MolGen that just came out in @Nature. We report that deletions involving a previously unannotated long non-coding

Eric Weinstein

EricRWeinstein

The president of the United States addressed the rally on January 6th which was not a mob at the time. He did not call for violence. He exhorted them to

Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak

mushfiq_econ

Educated, skilled workers are more likely to emigrate away from polluted cities. This affects aggregate productivity and welfare, and also explains ~14% of an enduring macro-development puzzle: Why do people

Liew Chin Tong

LiewChinTong

As reported by BERNAMA, when asked why he’s not doing the same job in Malaysia, Muhammad Khidir Samsudin (Eday) refers to the advantage of a stronger Singapore currency at the

Bob Rosier

BTRosier

In study, 258/568 #COVID19 patients (45%) had gum disease (periodontitis). The odds ratios for COVID complications in patients with periodontitis were 3.67 for all complications, 3.54 for ICU admission, 4.57

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