#Causal

Chris Blattman

cblatts

A thread on @mmoralmo's amazing job market paper, one of the best crime/social policy papers I've seen.Suppose you're mayor. You learn that a program--maybe it's drug treatment, lighting, social services,

Kevin Chen

jiafengchen42

I want to open a discussion about this post by Gelman (@StatModeling) and various aspects of RDD inference. Gelman criticizes a paper that shows a close-election victory effect of 2-10

Joel McGuire

JoelMcGuire12

Does money make people happy? My new working paper for @HappierLivesIns with @caspar_kaiser @AMBachMortensen reviews all the studies looking at cash transfers to answer this in LMICs. #EconTwitter #cashtransfers https://www.happierlivesinst

Daniela Gabor

DanielaGabor

new evidence that professors of finance should come out of their monetarist closets not to scream inflation, but to learn about bankinghttps://www.ft.com/content/6536113f-f509-41e2-bee0-597ed90843b6 Quantity Theory of Money is wrong on many

Courtney Boen

CourtneyBoen

Re-reading this by @JuliaLMarcus, which makes the point that risk-taking often reflects unmet needs, incl work, income, & *social connection.* This point abt connection is often overlooked in public (health)

Dr. J Bernadette Moore

TheMooreLab

Interesting to do the research for this editorial 'Obese and hungry: two faces of a nation' for @bmj_latest But fitting all into 750 words a challenge! Would like to share

Matt Blackwell

matt_blackwell

Did someone say controlled direct effects? This is my jam. Jonathan does a good job highlighting issues with the linked paper, but I wanted to shed light on their main

Jean Adams

jeanmadams

It is woman and girls in science day! Let me tell you about some of the fabulous women that I have the pleasure of working on science with every day

alice.schwarze

aliceschwarze

Here's an interesting discussion on information-based vs. dynamics-based approaches to network inference and my thead on what I learned from it https://twitter.com/dallastaylordrt/status/1335055931332288514 To recap, Dane argues in favo

Ashley Holub, PhD

ashtroid22

1. In trying to understand the extent of the CDC whistleblower reports I did some reading. One of the top hits on Google is actually an old CDC Whistleblower report

G Peters ♿️ It's still a pandemic btw.

mssinenomine

They post and point at a photo of a street in another country - most often a European country & most often one country in particula but not always -

Gray "serial millennial myth debunker" Kimbrough

graykimbrough

Is it a mistake to be starting my second beer as I join this amazing webcast featuring Jean Twenge telling us about the evils of screen time for kids? I'm

Matt Lowe

hmmlowe

A classic question in development economics is whether (and what types of) poverty traps exist. This new paper by Balboni, @orianabandiera, Burgess, @maitreesh, @anton_heil finds evidence for poverty traps in

Jessica Hullman

JessicaHullman

Since there was interest in how I addressed this question, here's a thread on what I said in class. TLDR: if you're operating under certain narrow assumptions about what data

H.SHIMAZAKI

h_shimazaki

Now out in Nature Communications! Unifying framework to advance the mean-field theories to analyze high-throughout data!https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-20890-5PR @SussexUniPress https://archive-stage.sussex.ac.uk/news/press-relea

Dr Matthew Ford

warmatters

Before I write on engineers we must do some conceptual ground clearing.This is important because my gun threads have led to several questions that have a whiff of determinism about

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