While economics missed out on inventing machine learning after giving up on prediction long ago, the rise of causal inference in economics/applied micro has made so many fields from political science to accounting essentially become applied micro/econ focused on relevant topics.

Puzzled by this thread, in which John suggests that Edmonton's low housing costs before 2020 are due to being overlooked by speculative capital. (??) In Edmonton, when demand increases, supply also increases, unlike Toronto and Vancouver. morehousing.ca/supply-elastic…

Congratulations to my LIDE student who got a job as a consultant for  Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean (CAF) conducting impact evaluations. She was a scholarship recipient of our first program funded by the US Embassy in Ecuador. I am deeply proud of her.

🎓 ¡Convocatoria abierta para la nueva edición de #Ecomienza! Recibe preparación para estudios superiores en economía con enfoque en investigación aplicada, guiado por instructores de clase mundial📊📚 📅 Postula hasta el 4 de julio de 2025.

Positron officially out of public beta and has shiny new AI assistant capabilities, check it out! (I've done a lot of work on the Data Explorer table viewer feature) positron.posit.co

Le recomendaria a Gustavo Petro unos papers buenismos del Journal of Economic Perspectives para su libro y los lea mientras se pega unos bolones o un ceviche manaba en Manta. Desafortunadamente, no le gusta la econometría. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10… aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

ΣΔΦΨΚΩ What effect does participating in Greek life have on college students? It reduces their grades considerably. But participating in Greek life in college helps improve later life employment outcomes, right? Nope. ΣΔΦΨΚΩ

mi ecuador, siempre en la vanguardia. latintimes.com/cheater-looks-…

You took your SIDE PIECE to COLDPLAY?

Journalists: can you always, at minimum, link to the study you're writing about?

The problem isn't what academic economists think, but how educated non-economists who had a single course in economics think about how economists think.

vancouver not too far from this

📢 ¡Este viernes vuelve el #CaféCIEC! 🗓️ Economía de la salud y evaluación de políticas públicas. Conoce cómo los métodos de diferencias en diferencias aportan a entender el impacto de políticas como “Médico del Barrio”. 📚#ESPOL #CIEC #SaludPública

Simple economics is damn good at making real-world predictions. Yet, if you only read oped columns, you’d think economics was a failure. Our models are too abstract. Our predictions are always wrong. I push back in the Wall Street Journal Opinion 👇

Pray for the US Treasury market on.ft.com/41oZEbN

I once attended a micro theory seminar that concluded with a slide explaining that there are no practical applications for this research; rather, it was just an exploration of an interesting theoretical quirk of mechanism design