Karthik Tadepalli

My version of this was learning that at age 27, 70% of Americans are in the same place that they grew up. I don't know ANYONE like that!

Next on the chopping block: climate-GDP regressions.

Wojak standing in a corner of a party thinking "They don't know what death rates mean", while other people are dancing. The other people are saying "Why are you always talking about mortality statistics?" and "I don't think about death that much"

Upgraded version

roman empire

This is my Roman empire

I am!

My preferred version: "when you're good at what you do, nobody's advice is that useful"

Did not realize you were looking for media 😂 also *founding story

Some observations from an EA-adjacent (?) charitable effort — EA Forum Hiya folks! I'm Patrick McKenzie, better known on the Internets as patio11. (Proof.) Long-time-listener, first-time-caller; I don't think I would con…

Patrick McKenzie discussing the history of VaccinateCA is a pretty memorable sounding story forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/NkPgha...

Most of us couldn't DREAM of being this vindicated

Great explanation, thank you!

Prediction-powered inference A statistical protocol for valid scientific discovery using machine learning is presented.

Cool stuff! I'm curious what you see as the connection with the semi-supervised learning literature in statistics, e.g. www.science.org/doi/full/10....

There's a deep point here that I had never thought about. Technological change fosters interdependence because it allows the production process to be split into more parts, and thus more countries.

Very cool paper, good luck on the market!

The opposie. A sunset photo is 0.000001% the experience of a sunset. It's like taking a photo of a total solar eclipse on your phone. May as well just put your phone away and enjoy it

Sunset photos are pointless, I keep telling myself as I take more

Low wage migrants can be shorthand for migrants in low (average) wage jobs. But I haven't seen any common term except high/low skill.

Relational Frictions Along the Supply Chain - Edward Wiles

Connecting Senegalese traders to Turkish suppliers increases their product quality/variety, but relationships only last when traders are given the ability to verify supplier quality.

edwardwiles.github.io/storage/pape...

How Globalization Shapes Corporate Innovation - Chan Kim

Foreign market access caused US firms to redirect their R&D from scientific research to narrow products, resulting in higher quality products but lower aggregate efficiency.

drive.google.com/file/d/1yXTG...

Quality Upgrading and Productivity Gains from Domestic Market Access Changes in India - Sang Hoon Kong

A highway project in India that increased market access for manufacturing firms increased their productivity and product quality.

www.sanghoonkong.com/_files/ugd/8...

Does Skill Abundance Still Matter? - Shinnosuke Kikuchi

Skill-abundant countries used to have a comparative advantage in exporting skill-intensive products, but automation eliminated this advantage.

www.shinnosuke-kikuchi.com/files/resear...

Patent Protection in Developing Economies - Weili Chen

A patent enforcement reform in China increased innovation and tech transfer to MNC affiliates, but also increased markups, highlighting an inverted-U relationship between IP protection and welfare.

weilichen-econ.github.io/files/ChenWe...

Migration, Networks and Religious Choice - Timothy Hersey

Pentecostalism has grown in Africa because it creates a welcoming network for new rural-urban migrants - leading both migrants and their sending households to convert.

timhersey.github.io/MyWebsite/He...

Every PhD student has to develop a taste in research; research they would like to do, as something separate from "good research" overall. In that spirit, here are the econ job market papers from this year that I would be happy to have written: 🧵

Suggestions:

- And the World Returned (At the Gates)
- The Swarm (Insomnium)
- Patterns in the Ivy (Opeth)

I spent <30 seconds on each. More important than overall score to me was being correct that #3 was human written, because that was the only one that provoked a strong "AI couldn't have written that" reaction!

I often say there's lots of low-hanging fruit where research could answer important qs with well-designed studies, but they don't happen bc of poor incentives, neglected areas, etc.

@ruben.the100.ci suggested writing a thread of 'studies I would fund in a heartbeat'. So here is an ongoing thread.

The hardest part of leaving Philly was definitely not being able to see woodlands in the fall!

Me to ChatGPT: "fill in the blank in a funny way: 'oh, you're a development economist? ____'"

ChatGPT: "oh, you're a development economist? So do you, like, go around telling countries 'have you tried turning it off and on again?'"

On the other site I have carved a niche of posting academic macro-dev stuff; here I plan to be much more freeform/"after dark". Serious people beware :)