Vincent Boucher 🇨🇦

Estimating Peer Effects Using Partial Network Data Abstract. We study the estimation of peer effects through social networks when researchers do not observe the entire network structure. Special cases include sampled networks, censored networks, and misclassified links. We assume that researchers can obtain a consistent estimator of the distribution of the network. We show that this assumption is sufficient for estimating peer effects using a linear-in-means model. We provide an empirical application to the study of peer effects on students academic achievement using the widely used Add Health database, and show that network data errors have a large downward bias on estimated peer effects.

Two estimators of peer effects in partially observed networks using the linear-in-means model. Just Accepted new paper by Vincent Boucher @vboucher.bsky.social and Aristide Houndetoungan zurl.co/Cecu9

I spoke with UN Secretary-General António Guterres today. In this time of rising conflict, Canada is ready to lead.

We will build coalitions, defend democracy, and stand up for our values on the world stage. As others step back from global leadership, Canada is stepping up.

Ok. Here is a very specific request, though. Randomize the heck out of it so we can finally calculate price elasticities required for welfare calculations in trade models

Yep. Our university now recommends using a "travel laptop" for any travel to the US...

Help me find a paper I saw: using variation in exposure to oversea recruiters in India during the World Cup in Qatar to study the impact of migration to the gulf.

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Seriously?!?

Hop-portunity costs, tariffs, and bunny suit economics.

My sabbatical leave allowed me to reflect on my professional life.

As I’ve stepped into more senior roles in academia (plus gotten a bit older), I often get asked:

“How do you keep writing academic articles, policy work, opinion pieces, while juggling everything else?”

My answer: skillpower

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80+% of both Democrats and Republicans believe America would be better off if more Americans worked in manufacturing, but < 30% say that about themselves.

The bipartisan belief that America would be a better place if *other people* worked in a factory.

www.ft.com/content/8459...

Devastating news for the logit supporters.

> @lincolnproject.us

Oh damn.

Is it good that the Treasury secretary is not sure about the newly decided and announced tariff policy towards one of our largest trading partners...

Wow this is wild.

James: "The Trump team didn't actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."

Fire up your shift-share IVs

It's an upward tax spiral.

Trade "war" vests it with undeserved martial valor.

It's just elected officials piling up a lot of new taxes.

Are you kidding me?!?

Pouring Coffee Into Your Rectum Isn't Worth The Risk, Says Expert What do King Charles and Gwyneth Paltrow have in common? Give up? They've both at one point or another caused coffee colonic-related controversies.

Can we see an RCT on this first ?

www.sciencealert.com/pouring-coff...

Trump Tones Down His Rhetoric About Canada After Call With Carney (Gift Article) The president and Canada’s new prime minister, Mark Carney, spoke for the first time on Friday and promised to begin negotiations on trade.

Mr. Carney with his elbows up! 🇨🇦

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/u...

Sure Friends Betrayed Canada & Mexico Wanted to Anchor US "Friendshoring" Efforts. Instead, Trump's Tariffs Risk Throwing Them Into Recessions

A banging post with a banging title from @josephpolitano.bsky.social

www.apricitas.io/p/sure-frien...

Hey Canada, we have a federal election coming up.

VOTE like our country’s future depends on it.

It does.

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Oh heck yes

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

You cannot make this shit up. Sharing this jaw-dropping story with a gift link -- give it a read.

My research was cited to diminish DEI. Actually, we should stay the course. | Opinion A column in the Register noted my work in dismissing diversity work, but the lesson from decades of research is far different, writes Thomas Kochan.

MIT management prof Tom Kochan
www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinio...

Canada : on sort les coudes.

Yes! I'd love to see more university presidents forcefully making this case.

Republicans in Congress weigh tax increase for top university endowments Elite US schools including Harvard, Stanford and Princeton could see levies on investment gains raised as high as 21%

"Enemies of the people"
www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

www.ft.com/content/6300...

Well. Aix-Marseille University has created a Safe Place for Science programme to welcome American scientists whose research is under threat and who can no longer work in an environment of uncertainty and fear. www.univ-amu.fr/en/public/ac...