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Excited to announce that, having defended my PhD thesis, I am officially Dr. Aitken!

(I’m pretty sure this legally qualifies me to perform surgery, so feel free to reach out and I’ll try my best.)

I wrote a post-mortem on the Gino-Ariely scandal: How I came to suspect Gino’s work, the resistance I met during my Ph.D., my experience working with Data Colada, and the lessons I hope business academia will learn from it.
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Shouting 'DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?' at my computer every time a UChicago journal asks me to pay to see their articles

Could you imagine if Biden pulled a trillion dollar coin from behind Kevin McCarthy's ear on live television? It would be the greatest moment in American history.

How to pick a setting for your Econ research project

#EconTwitter Do you have any articles you'd recommend on the philosophy of models?

E.g. suppose I have a model, and I know it's assumptions aren't quite 'true', but I still think it's useful. What should I read to help me think through how to think about this situation?

🧵This is something I wrote about circa 2016 after Falwell took his lumps for being... well, whatever he is.
So, history lesson about 21rst c. American evangelicalism. American millennial evangelicals grew up in an era of two major competing streams of evangelical Christianity.

An incredibly disturbing report by kate shellnutt about Grace Community Church and John MacArthur. It raises questions that demand answers. Abused women urged not to contact law enforcement? Told to return home when they feared for their safety? christianitytoday.com/news/2023/febr…

A “Buy American” rule for infrastructure projects means we will get less infrastructure for our money.

Extremely shortsighted policy decision to score quick political points.

Can cash transfers be harmful?

Nearly everything I see on Twitter highlights the beneficial effects of cash, so I thought I'd share a few examples where cash programs had detrimental effects. 1/n

It’s actually cool that AI is bad at hands. That’s a limitation like out of medieval myth. Changelings can take any form, but behold, their innumerable fingers mark them as Fair Folk

Bro I just wanted to know which brand of malaria nets to buy how did it come to this 😭😭😭

The EA forum is doing an impressive job making sure no one feels alienated from the EA community by firmly insisting you must be polite and assume good faith when discussing the email where someone says Black people are stupider than white people

Anders Sandberg I don't know if my opinion counts with you at all, but his old email is pretty beyond the pale and well outside the scope of normal errors. He wasn't giving an academic description of an offensive view, and offending by accident. He endorsed a really intensely racist belief.