#Papers

Nat Bullard

NatBullard

It was not until 1955 that the U.S. had more tractors than horses and mules working on farms. A brief thread (from this awesome paper) on what mechanization did for

Ashvin Gandhi

ashdgandhi

I've seen surprisingly little #EconTwitter advice for second years, so here's a short thread with three pieces of advice I found helpful when reading papers to prepare for field exams.

Brian Skinner

gravity_levity

1/4 Evolution of a personal research thrust, in 7 steps:1. Read a bunch of papers that open by saying "we neglect effect X"2. Get annoyed that no one carefully justifies

Max Roser

MaxCRoser

I wish more people would understand that we do not have to chose between saving the economy *or* protecting the health of the population.It’s not either/or. The goals are aligned:

David Davis

DavidDavisMP

This is a very important study on vitamin D and Covid-19. Its findings are incredibly clear. An 80% reduction in need for ICU and a 60% reduction in deaths, simply

Charlie Haynes

charliehtweets

Some good news: it looks like the Oxford vaccine may both substantially reduce transmission AND reduces symptomatic infections in people who've had just a single dose for 3 months -

Shehab Khan

ShehabKhan

Latest scientific data on a single dose of Oxford vaccine finds: - Vaccine efficacy 76% from day 22 to day 90.- 100% effective at stopping hospitalisations from day 22 to

damien geradin

GeradinLaw

THREAD: (1) While with the Texas complaint the world is discovering the extent of Google's depravity in ad tech, @DimKatsifis and I had already uncovered most of these practices in

David Evans

DaveEvansPhD

I regularly spend time looking for papers on researchers' websites. I love it when a researchers' personal website...[short thread] ...has links to all the papers! You might be surprised at

Mark Dawes

mdawesmdawes

Coronavirus: £2.7m cost of shredding cancelled SATs papers revealed https://schoolsweek.co.uk/coronavirus-2-7m-cost-of-shredding-cancelled-sats-papers-revealed/ @schoolsweek @JohndickensSWNice #coremaths link to the height of the Eiffel To

Sanjukta Paul

sanjuktampaul

A barrier "to critical engagement with welfare economics as a framework is that it is frequently presented as rising above the very idea of a framework ... its models are

Danielle Navarro

djnavarro

I love this slide from @jburnmurdoch's #rstudioglobal keynote: when people read a chart they aren't reverse engineering the visualisation to extract the data, they're expecting to be told a story.

Michael E. Webber

MichaelEWebber

Don't know why, but I've been thinking a lot recently about mass casualty events. Mass casualty events are caused by natural disasters, wars, etc.Let's say there is a hypothetical pandemic

Steven White

notstevenwhite

Sometimes when I read tweets about peer review it makes me think there's basically a social choice problem where everyone thinks their papers are good and other people's papers are

Paul Krugman

paulkrugman

This was a good post, and the Pozen-Scheppele paper it relies on is eye-opening (Kim was my office neighbor at Princeton, and posted about Hungary on my blog). But I

Jay C. Shambaugh

JayCShambaugh

Today @hamiltonproj released a set of papers on productivity growth and innovation. In a framing paper by me, @RyanDNunn and @emilynmoss , we explore the productivity slowdown in the US.

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