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Frog doesn't do as much physical damage as Crono, as much magic damage as Lucca, or heal as much as Marle, but they are still a good all around-er

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Well if you think about it, today IPUMS released 2024 CPS ASEC, so... in a way that's kind of the same thing.
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Edit, Cengiz switched between calling it a bunching and a stacking estimator between drafts. I'm still excited to see it applied.

The current lit on the minimum wage, food insecurity, and determinants of health comes from JP Leigh, William Rodgers, and Caitlin Caspi, each relying on difference and difference, usually geographic. I'm excited to see more from the bunching estimator in the lineage of Cengiz et al.

New WP: We study how minimum wage increases affect poverty and food hardship in the U.S from 1981-2019. Different from recent work, we study the Supplemental Poverty Measure + two measures of food hardship, factor in cost-of-living differences, and more. www.iza.org/publications...

John Searle, influential philosopher in the history of Analytic philosophy with works in philosophy of mind and language, has passed away. R.I.P. (1932-2025)

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Oh, honey.

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Out of curiosity, raise your hand if you use DataFerret directly.
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Ellen Jamesi-ians are LARP-ing within a LARP.
It's LARPs all the way down.

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Structural Modelling
*Dabs*

Honestly though, I think even if your paper gives an intent to treat, that is an interesting estimand if you make the case for it. We are not interested in some average treatment effects on the non-treated (my estimate suffers from an equilibrium effect? Good.)

YouTube video by Demi Adejuyigbe 9/21/21

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Nick Hut and the Bad Seeds

Has anyone liked or disliked any particular training resources for machine learning in Stata? Courses, videos...

If not in Stata, then in Python or R but pitched towards people trained in econometrics?

I call them my smartigans

The @nber.org Race and Stratification in the Economy working group is seeking submissions for our upcoming Spring 2026 meeting to be held on March 27, 2026.

The submission deadline is December 11, 2025.

The call for papers is here:

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This map of the US shows COVID levels per state, based on CDC wastewater data and levels, as of 15 September. There are many states in the very high or high category. My own state of VA is high. Included in the very high category are FL, TX, CA, NC, SC, CT and quite a few others.

I'm getting my updated vaccine next week. There is so much denial in the US about this situation! Thanks to Mike Hoerger PhD. #COVID #publichealth #vaccine

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Since we’re talking about political violence, know this:

“The murder rate for Black politicians in Reconstruction was 2,317 per 100,000. This rate is 20 times greater than *any* *other* demographic in the United States as of 2020, where the highest homicide rate was less than 105 per 100,000.”

The man is on brand if he is anything.

Remote policies helped women work. In-office mandates and child care costs are driving them back out. Low flexibility and high child care costs are pushing mothers with young kids to the sidelines after they joined the workforce in record numbers during the pandemic. Emma Nelson The Minnesota Star Tribune September 13th at 6:01 AM CDT

"The labor participation rate for women with children younger than 5 had the biggest midyear drop in more than 40 years during the first six months of 2025."

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Android lets you combine two emoji. For some reason.