Scott Abramson

This. Exactly this.

If such a mapping exists, sure. In practice, (probably) you’ll find that the assumptions required ex post are much stronger than if you had explicitly designed a survey or experiment to generate the identifying variation for the theoretical object you care about.

We’re supposed to be in the business of confronting and falsifying theory yet we often lack the tools because we never defined the theoretical objects in the first place. Anyway, Dan McFadden also won a Nobel prize but (basically) no discrete choice is taught in mainstream poli-sci anymore.

Start by writing down a mode and then specify the identifying variation needed to recover its parameters. Design your survey, experiment, or empirical strategy to target the substantively meaningful theoretical object. The world is not filled with ATE Pokémon to collect.

That is, too many people cannot grasp that the mapping from E[Y(1)−Y(0)] to their theoretical quantity requires real assumptions. These assumptions should be made up front, not retrofitted post-hoc.

Here’s my moderately hot take: the Neyman–Rubin framework has sent a generation of political behavior scholars down the wrong path. The LATE they recover is rarely the structural parameter they "theorize" about.

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I saw a comedian say: after 10 months, he hasn't figured out what "tariffs" are.

Bottom line: US tariffs are essentially sales taxes on lower-income and retired Americans.

The explicit goal+mechanism of tariffs is to force those people to pay more for the same products.

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There goes Shohei Ohtani, the best that ever was.

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I bet the ADL will find some new way to defend these literal Nazis.

Unfortunately, reality is only apparent *after* elections.

It's almost like I've been saying this for years...

This is the purposeful destruction of the American academy.

there’s a lot of talk about big tech and corporations but so many international academic colleagues are also on H1Bs.

no university is going to pay 100k extra a year to keep them. if this holds, it would essentially mean the end of foreigners on tenure track jobs at US universities.

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I just canceled my HULU/Disney+ account. I had already canceled Paramount+. You should do the same.

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Tweet from Ilya Shapiro: "Wait, is it the government that makes hiring/firing decisions at ABC?" responding to Chris Hayes saying: "This is the most straightforward attack on free speech from state actors I've ever seen in my life and it's not even close."

This really is the final expression of "libertarianism" as it is practiced in the US today.

And was revealed to have taken $2 billion just before granting access to highly sensitive technology.

All impeachable offenses in a functioning democracy.

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Intel Agrees to Sell U.S. a 10% Stake in Its Business

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Party of free markets.

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Universities have an enormously positive economic impact on communities across the country. Think what they might be able to do if they tried banding together instead of waiting to be picked off one by one.

I think Jhoan Duran is still a nice upgrade for y'all.

Buckingham Nicks

Something like 3/4 of CEOs are Republicans. Can the next Democratic administration (if there is ever again a fair election) impose viewpoint diversity on them?