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Most Americans do not live in a state of precarity. Get ahold of yourself.

This would be a more compelling excuse had they not gone on a literal WSJ victory lap photoshoot with the student.

From the first article this was clearly a case of MIT faculty either 1) not mentoring at any serious level; or 2) thinking too highly of their students.

I’m in a 20-something ranked program and my advisor would’ve been massively skeptical if I approached them with something like this.

Do you think the energy consumed by a bluesky post is comparable to the energy consumed by a commercial LLM query?

He has senior status and his replacement was already appointed back in 2013.

Religious Festivals and Economic Development: Evidence from the Timing of Mexican Saint Day Festivals (October 2022) - Does variation in how religious festivals are celebrated have economic consequences? We study the economic impacts of the timing of Catholic patron saint day festivals in Mexico. For ...

I recently read this Montero and Yang paper on the effects of religious festivals on agricultural productivity. They're very open about the anthropological work that led them to start this study, but that anthropological work hadn't actually quantified the productivity losses!

What's tiring about this specific complaint about economists is that we're usually very good at citing the literature in other fields that we're working off of. We know we're not discovering things, we're just trying to provide rigorous causal evidence for them!

Being development economists in a country that no longer has a foreign aid agency (and hence no govt funding for dev) probably played a role.

Is your treatment at the place or at the individual level? It's not clear from your post. Are people moving places in response to the treatment?

Will, one can talk about “feelings” of poverty without fully detaching the argument from real material conditions.

I would recommend reading Martin Ravallion (was well known as a leader in the study of poverty within mainstream economics) on the possibility of a social subjective poverty line.

Yeah this is clearly not true. And one would expect intelligent people to realize it’s not true by thinking for five seconds.

Can you talk to the NYT about getting a podcast?

How do you prove AI usage in disciplinary proceedings? It's one thing to be able to tell that AI wrote it, it's another to be able to provide the definitive proof necessary to fail a student over it...

I think if people didn’t like Ezra Klein his most recent stuff wouldn’t be such a big deal. It’s just a little disappointing.

This is my conjecture. Sorry, didn't mean for it to come across as a fact.

Medicine is going to be exempt.

Having taken a quick glance at the H1b subreddit…. no, it won’t.

There’s a lot of “this is because of the bad ones, and now us the good ones get punished.” So many of these H1bs are gonna be future Republicans if they make it to the finish line.

Siri, what is multiplicity of equilibria?

I literally had to anonymize my handle so my likes or whatever couldn’t be used to revoke my visa. So cool to live here in the US of A.

El reporte dice "El hecho de que se mencione al mandatario Chaves a pesar de su impedimento, es un buen indicio de que el apoyo personalista tiene consecuencias electorales."

Creo que eso implica que la pregunta era respuesta abierta.