Alvin Christian
@_AlvinChristianecon phd student @umichecon, @fordschool. (linear) models and bottles.
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1/6 I've somehow made it 1 year through my pre-doc position without getting fired. To celebrate, I'll share a little write-up I made for those just starting. Recent grads and #EconTwitter might find it helpful. This is based on my specific experience. drive.google.com/open?id=16eUvt…
i'm on the job market with a paper about political sorting in the labor market! it's perhaps harder to choose your coworkers than your friends or who you follow on twitter -- could the workplace be less segregated than other places where democrats and republicans tend not to mix?
Incredible read about how mobile gambling apps are ravaging Brazil. 20% of a recent social assistance program have been spent on gambling, with some bettors taking out credit at rates exceeding 400% bloomberg.com/news/features/…
fort greene is a satellite campus for Oberlin
Based on the number of people I’ve met in brooklyn who went to Wesleyan college I would guess the school has somewhere between 100,00-150,000 students
Does anyone have a good review or paper that compares the impacts of different interventions on college student outcomes? I am trying to compare the effect size of an intervention I'm studying to other interventions on college student GPA.
Sorry I had a rough week
Frank Ocean's "White Ferrari" makes its first ever appearance on the global Spotify chart at #184, eight years after release (1.239 million streams).
Hahahahahaha
I just read the paper in full; it is even more spectacular than I initially thought. A short thread about the results and their significance.
This is the best paper written so far about the impact of AI on scientific discovery
I love research because it combines my two favorite things: sitting and anxiety
Default Stata background; not reading this
Evidence Suggesting Voter Fraud in Wisconsin Senate Race In Milwaukee, a huge and improbable Dem vote dump flipped the race In Dane and Winnebago, updates implausibly all improved Dem vote share relative to prior votes. Updates got more extreme after GOP pulled ahead. A 🧵
Don't miss out on this guide on how to run surveys: on creating your own identifying variation: more than 80 pages and an Appendix with examples including social desirability, vignettes, information treatments and more.
New @Annenberginst EdWorking Paper out w/ @weilanch !✨ 📈 We demonstrate how and explain why machine learning algorithms XGBoost and SMOTE can improve the ability of early warning systems to proactively support students at risk of chronic absenteeism in early childhood.
Borjas (1987):
In some societies, it's safe to be an average person. Europe is the best example of this. If you have no personality, ambition, or interests, you will find yourself relatively healthy, cultured, and happy, more or less by default. Your society, both at the government and family…
I want to briefly talk about one of my favorite papers and how it relates to the U.S. election. Short version: It's the predistribution, stupid
His time of terror must end
My package was stolen - what are these guys even going to do with size S underwear?
I think the takeaway is that people don't naturally think in terms of counterfactuals, only pre-post comparisons.
Economists are going to have to reckon with the fact that the public would have preferred a slower recovery with much higher unemployment, as long as prices had been stable.
If you can't get academics showing confidence intervals instead of p-values, there is no way in hell the average person wants to see anything but a point estimate.
My wish for the next election is that poll trackers look like the one on the right 👉 not the left This was yet another election where the polling showed it could easily go either way, but most of the charts just showed two nice clean lines, one leading and one trailing. Bad!
Do you think they're going get their own entrées or share?
spend the week cleaning data for my job market paper; i'm going to have a beer tonight :D
Economists are going to have to reckon with the fact that the public would have preferred a slower recovery with much higher unemployment, as long as prices had been stable.
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