@tbarrios.bsky.social
Applied Scientist, Labor Economist, Econometrician
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I am trying out the new Alexa+ and it is now making up the directory information that used to make it useful.
12.10.2025 15:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I need to catch up on the last three albums, but long live sandwhich estimators
12.10.2025 15:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Gradually, then suddenly.
10.10.2025 13:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It was a great pleasure to see so many of you at our annual Master Students' Welcome Apéro, organized by ECON Alumni UZH and Econclub. 😀
With a welcome speech by @florianscheuer.bsky.social, Head of our department.
Any recommendations for SF Tech Week events?
08.10.2025 00:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Does anyone have slides that lend themselves for undergraduate teaching, which go step by step through a behavioral lab experiment, and would be willing to share them with me?
05.10.2025 13:55 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1The intensive margin is also important here
01.10.2025 01:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The opportunities and risks of the entry of LLMs into mathematical research in one screenshot. I think it is clear that LLMs will make trained researchers more effective. But they will also lead to a flood of bad/wrong papers, and I'm not sure we have the tools to deal with this.
24.09.2025 20:00 — 👍 31 🔁 6 💬 4 📌 0We are hiring!
Assistant or Associate Professor of economics in the Econ Dept at University of Melbourne.
We are specifically looking for candidates specializing in econometrics.
url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/isAeCq7By5...
(2/2) Both give discounts for patrons under 30. The two cases are Candelore v. Tinder 2018 (no) and Bay Club / Western Athletic Clubs vs Javorsky 2015 (yes)
13.09.2025 00:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0(1/2) I think it's legal. This is California where the Unruh Act applies. There are two similar cases with opposite rulings that seem to define the threshold as whether access for younger adults is a valid social purpose.
13.09.2025 00:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Is price discrimination of this type legal? This seems odd to me. Wondering if anyone on here knows for sure
12.09.2025 21:48 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 4 📌 0
Predoc opportunity in health/labor/public economics at @beckerfriedman.bsky.social: job-boards.greenhouse.io/universityof...
Please share widely!
#EconSky
This post irritates me because it basically compares two applications with essentially the bare minimum for "memory" in AI. If these are the two meaningful comparisons I need to be doing my job better
www.shloked.com/writing/clau...
U.S. employers added 22,000 jobs in August and the unemployment rate ticked up to 4.3 percent.
Data: www.bls.gov/news.release...
Live coverage: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09... #NumbersDay
Just published in @jpube.bsky.social:
"The impact of increased exposure of diversity on suburban students’ outcomes: An analysis of the METCO voluntary desegregation program"
By Elizabeth Setren
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#econsky #publiceconomics
To Prime Minister Netanyahu, an open letter from 23 economists at universities in the US and Europe. We urge you to read it.
drive.google.com/file/d/1D_Sv...
Slightly out of sync
13.08.2025 05:16 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
❓Why do the Nordics & Dutch speak English so much better than the Germans, Italians & French?
➡️ New Working Paper:
Out-of-School Learning: Subtitling vs. Dubbing and the Acquisition of Foreign-Language Skills
w/ F. Baumeister & E. Hanushek
www.nber.org/papers/w33984
A 🧵 1/12
Would be curious to get people‘s thoughts on the best IDE for teaching/doing econometrics with Python. Also, what’s the best GenAI for coding in Python? #EconSky
02.07.2025 15:30 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 8 📌 0I like the idea of using economic theory for AI alignment.
Anyone know of related research?
I have a new review article w/ Alessandra Voena on women's power in the household in LMICs (just submitted to JEL).
I've written ~6 review articles, and I think this is the best one. We make some useful conceptual points IMO. But you decide! Comments welcome!
seemajayachandran.com/womens_power...
Looks like intensive advising may b e more cost-effective than financial aid. Turns out guiding students through complex college choices might be more effective than giving them money and setting 18 year olds loose on the world to make consequential decisions: www.nber.org/papers/w3392...
19.06.2025 17:01 — 👍 21 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
GBU-57 MOP (Massive Ordnance Penetrators)
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