I guess I will have to do DiD as well. Sigh.

Having kids and a literary agent has taught me that people like stories. If you can mention Marie Antoinette in your paper, you should.

I am super excited to share a new AI tool, Refine. Refine thoroughly studies research papers like a referee and finds issues with correctness, clarity, and consistency. In my own papers, it regularly catches problems that my coauthors and I missed. 1/

One claim that I find really forced is the claim some people make that we know more about the Romans than the Romans knew about themselves. Its like, suppose that 2000 years in the future historians had to construct a model for understanding the western world in the 20th and

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Men and women are treated differently when presenting their economics research. "Within a seminar series, women are interrupted more than men... Interruptions that are negative in tenor or tone, or cutoff the presenter mid-sentence, increase for women presenters." New AER paper

A comparison of Chinese and US military spending adjusted for PPP would be interesting.

no bueno

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent Elizabeth Warren

🇦🇱🤖 Update: Albanian PM Edi Rama announced that his AI minister Diella is "pregnant" and is expected to "give birth" to 83 AI "children." Rama said the new AI agents will assist Socialist members of parliament in Albania’s legislature.

Listening to 1984 again, I think it is actually about the mental enfeeblement of the ruling class. For Orwell, Ingsoc is what happens when those running things are wilfully stupid.

"Times series momentum" = a fancy way of saying "stonks go up"

Just finishing "bhri: Borusyak-Hull Randomization Inference for Formula-Based Variables." I'm not going to make any more R packages.🤌

When you dabble in econometrics, you end up with one side telling you that you are an idiot and the other side denouncing you for selling your soul...

If the French Socialists are elected and crank taxes up to 80% of GDP to redistribute wealth but innovation and productivity growth doesn't follow, what will the political consequences be?

So like I'd like to point out for the heterodox folk this is the kind of critique that will get me to listen to you intensely. This has 1. A shown understanding of the model 2. Measurable and clearly stated problems 3. A legible paper with a clear point illustrating in depth.