Boston! Join us for a special night The Fletcher School w/ Sue Mi Terry for a public & free screening of Beyond Utopia, the award-winning and groundbreaking documentary of a NK family's escape.

April 16, 6:30pm, ASEAN Auditorium

It will change how you see the world around you.

Holy shit Gene Hackman has a closet.

Fanatical South Korean Christian extremists are turning Daegu into a hotbed of Islamophobia. These banners in the city centre are anti-halal food and promote fear and hate by portraying Muslims as murderers and posting photos of Moscow terror suspects.

Special issue on mental health and socioeconomic status at JDE, edited by the wonderful Nishith Prakash, Gautam Rao, and Frank Schilbach.

I'd tag them all but Twitter seems broken.

sciencedirect.com/journal/journa…

Reposting this due to holidays. If you’re doing some form of macro and are looking for a job, have a look and apply. Any questions get in touch.

USAID has recently signaled it will take on global lead poisoning. Other multilaterals are on board.

But what's the plan?

Come hear Atul Gawande at CGD next week, with CGD's own Rachel Silverman Bonnifield + a panel with Indu Bhushan Valerie Hickey & Scott Morris.

cgdev.org/event/towards-…

Really happy to share that ⬇ paper with Tahir Andrabi Natalie Bau Jishnu Das & Asim Ijaz Khwaja has been accepted at QJE! TLDR; Giving grants to public schools (in Pakistan) can improve learning in both sectors due to competition. Final paper here: tinyurl.com/2czh4t2z.

Elon: I will get rid of bots.

Half of Twitter: TITS IN BIO

Many ML methods — NNs, all types of trees, etc. — work best on highly non-linear processes. If you can get excellent predictions from a linear regression, it’s probably not highly non-linear…

Use the best tool for the job. Sometimes it’s just OLS.

An important misconception of what 24-hour diet recalls can measure 👇

My Kia just killing it off road. Can really take this thing anywhere, Tesla

Being a monopolist is generally, in and of itself, not illegal. It’s really more the behavior.

It’s fine.

The golden rule of academic etiquette:

If the public speaker makes direct eye contact with you, you respond with an enthusiastic nod of encouragement.