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Mar 9, 2023
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Welcome readers old and new to this week’s edition of Best of Econtwitter. Please submit suggestions — very much including your own work! — over email or on Twitter @just_economics.

Interesting discussions

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Shengwu Li @ShengwuLi
Giving good talks is a core skill for academics. It's learnable! Here's how I approach mine.
drive.google.comTheory_Presentation_Advice.pdf
3:49 PM ∙ Mar 4, 2023
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Dean Eckles @deaneckles
Neat illustration of the bias–variance tradeoff in analysis of a regression discontinuity... But then the variance turns into bias with file drawer bias vincentbagilet.github.io/causal_exagger…
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6:15 PM ∙ Feb 27, 2023
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Maximilian Kasy @maxkasy
100 visualizations of the same small dataset:
buff.ly1 dataset. 100 visualizations.
4:06 PM ∙ Mar 1, 2023
40Likes11Retweets
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Ben Golub 🇺🇦 @ben_golub
Old-person observation: the establishment of six years as a normal length of an economics Ph.D. is bad, because behaviorally it makes it a lot easier to waste years 2 and 3 not trying to write a job market paper. Individually, people are better off taking 5 years as the goal.
9:07 PM ∙ Mar 1, 2023
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Sarah Miller @smilleralert
@ben_golub Have JMPs gotten better as a result of students coming in with pre-doc experience and staying 1-2 years longer? My sense is that the top 5% of JMPs have gotten better but the median is essentially unchanged…?
9:21 PM ∙ Mar 1, 2023
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Dan Goldstein @dggoldst
I know a person who runs lots of field experiments. Literally prize winning stuff. Their estimate of how likely it is for a field experiment to happen successfully once a partner firm or organization agrees: 10% (Success here means actually carried out, correctly)
4:52 PM ∙ Feb 27, 2023
301Likes41Retweets
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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion
OK, @DavidBeckworth made me make a version for econ bloggers... ❤️
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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion
I apologize for this meme https://t.co/N2wToRE7MB
10:32 PM ∙ Feb 27, 2023
194Likes12Retweets
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William Spaniel @gametheory101
Can ChatGPT do a basic game theory problem set, with a focus on Nash equilibrium? Let's find out! Bear in mind that I have answered many of these questions (or cognates) online before (e.g., youtube.com/playlist?list=…), so this should be an easier case for ChatGPT than normal.
youtube.comGame Theory 101 Full CourseA online course on game theory, covering everything from pure strategy and mixed Nash equilibrium, to subgame perfect equilibrium, to Bayesian Nash equilibri...
7:41 PM ∙ Feb 27, 2023
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Esteban Ortiz-Ospina @EOrtizOspina
In the UK researchers asked a large group of people to keep a diary of what they did over a given day, and record how much they enjoyed each episode in the day. This chart shows the average enjoyment scores [From this piece I wrote a couple of yrs ago: ourworldindata.org/time-use-livin…]
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2:56 PM ∙ Feb 28, 2023
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Emily Oster @ProfEmilyOster
Here is my favorite, a graph of various foods and their correlation with BMI. Lettuce: fatter. Dandelion greens: thinner. Olive oil: thin. Margarine: fat Fake sugar from plants: thin. Fake sugar from chemicals: fat This is because of bias in who eats what. Period. (2/2)
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4:24 PM ∙ Mar 1, 2023
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Simon Bowmaker @SimonBowmaker
“The main reason why you give a seminar is to advertise the work. Originally, I thought the point was to get comments, but I now believe it’s the networking; people get to see the work, they get to understand it, and you get to clarify what they don’t understand.” Daron Acemoğlu
4:59 PM ∙ Mar 1, 2023

Public goods

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Chris Goodman @cbgoodman@sciences.social @cbgoodman
🚨🚨New Data Release🚨🚨 I'm satisfied enough to release my long-awaited dataset on municipal incorporations that does not rely on the Census of Governments or the Census Boundary & Annexation Survey. A 🧵 github.com/cbgoodman/muni…
github.comGitHub - cbgoodman/muni-incorporation: This repository contains the raw data, code, and sources used to create an individual level and stat…This repository contains the raw data, code, and sources used to create an individual level and state municipal incorporation date dataset. - GitHub - cbgoodman/muni-incorporation: This repository ...
5:16 PM ∙ Mar 3, 2023
114Likes32Retweets
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Anna Stansbury @annastansbury
Wow - amazing new data resource. Areas that can be reached by public transport in different timespans from all across the uk
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Arthur Turrell @arthurturrell
While we haven't done anything on what services actually ran (& Tom's work on this is excellent), you can find loads on where you should in principle be able to reach (travel area) in the work we have published @DataSciCampus: https://t.co/OfLijo17zp https://t.co/vd3DW1Eja0
3:19 AM ∙ Mar 6, 2023

Fin

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Rach Against The Machine @economeager
It’s the fancy way to say either “too fucking right” or else “get a load of this guy” or “listen up fuckos” as you prepare to rebut or further your argument. that’s why. https://t.co/ohSc0qfxsY
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Amit Goldenberg @Amit_Goldenb
Why do academics love the word "indeed" so much???
1:59 PM ∙ Mar 1, 2023
254Likes27Retweets
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delaniac 🌹🌱 (ChadNotChud@home.social) @ChadNotChud
You’re laughing. This woman is deriving the relationship between aggregate consumption and income from first principles and you’re laughing.
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awokebot @awokeb0t
https://t.co/hjRDePWo5O
12:09 AM ∙ Feb 27, 2023
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