Ben Gilbert
@bengilbertecon.bsky.social
Love to lie to myself about myself. Economist, lit and guitar nerd, rugby fan, owner of excessive pets.
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Incredible - almost performance art
Ingraham: The instagram posts from nut bag people ..people celebrating. This this is a sickness, honestly, it's so disappointing, but I guess we shouldn't be surprised.. up next, the other big news out of New York, Daniel Penny, a lot of people think he is a hero.
December 10, 2024 at 1:02 AM
Incredible - almost performance art
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Maybe one of the reasons there are so many unhinged academics is that in order to keep your job, you’re constantly required to tout yourself as a Scholar of World-Historical Significance, even as your office’s ceiling tiles slowly dislodge themselves to fall on your head.
December 6, 2024 at 3:12 PM
Maybe one of the reasons there are so many unhinged academics is that in order to keep your job, you’re constantly required to tout yourself as a Scholar of World-Historical Significance, even as your office’s ceiling tiles slowly dislodge themselves to fall on your head.
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Please help me spread the word about this amazing two-year pre-doc opportunity. Research with faculty is optional. Get paid to take classes that prepare you for PhD. Deadline 11/15: stern.nyu.edu/programs-adm...
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November 26, 2024 at 1:38 PM
Please help me spread the word about this amazing two-year pre-doc opportunity. Research with faculty is optional. Get paid to take classes that prepare you for PhD. Deadline 11/15: stern.nyu.edu/programs-adm...
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Inside me are two wolves:
November 22, 2024 at 10:33 PM
Inside me are two wolves:
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As a grant reviewer, what do you really wish people would do/not do?
Not big things, like find a significant question/innovative method/be consistent with aims
Little things, like bold each acronym the first time it’s used.
Add your pet peeves ⬇️
#HiddenCurriculum #Research
Not big things, like find a significant question/innovative method/be consistent with aims
Little things, like bold each acronym the first time it’s used.
Add your pet peeves ⬇️
#HiddenCurriculum #Research
November 23, 2024 at 12:39 PM
As a grant reviewer, what do you really wish people would do/not do?
Not big things, like find a significant question/innovative method/be consistent with aims
Little things, like bold each acronym the first time it’s used.
Add your pet peeves ⬇️
#HiddenCurriculum #Research
Not big things, like find a significant question/innovative method/be consistent with aims
Little things, like bold each acronym the first time it’s used.
Add your pet peeves ⬇️
#HiddenCurriculum #Research
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Proud to share my first NBER working paper. 17.5 million Redfin users were randomly assigned to see or not see flood risk on home listing; the treated users went on to make offers on less risky homes. First casual evidence that homebuyers are adapting to climate change www.nber.org/papers/w33119
Expecting Climate Change: A Nationwide Field Experiment in the Housing Market
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org
November 11, 2024 at 1:56 PM
Proud to share my first NBER working paper. 17.5 million Redfin users were randomly assigned to see or not see flood risk on home listing; the treated users went on to make offers on less risky homes. First casual evidence that homebuyers are adapting to climate change www.nber.org/papers/w33119
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Occam's Razor
December 5, 2023 at 3:24 AM
Occam's Razor
Showed my kids Raising Arizona and National Treasure in the same week. They had no idea they were watching the same person.
December 3, 2023 at 2:32 AM
Showed my kids Raising Arizona and National Treasure in the same week. They had no idea they were watching the same person.
WHO AM I?
2-4-6-0-OOOOONNNE!!!!
2-4-6-0-OOOOONNNE!!!!
December 2, 2023 at 3:18 AM
WHO AM I?
2-4-6-0-OOOOONNNE!!!!
2-4-6-0-OOOOONNNE!!!!
Still puzzling over IPW with staggered treatment. A common/convenient thing is to assume timing is random. Can we do better estimating survival probabilities and weight by those instead of static treatment propensities? Anyone seen this done? Someone smarter than me should write this paper. #EconSky
December 1, 2023 at 3:57 PM
Still puzzling over IPW with staggered treatment. A common/convenient thing is to assume timing is random. Can we do better estimating survival probabilities and weight by those instead of static treatment propensities? Anyone seen this done? Someone smarter than me should write this paper. #EconSky
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Using Multiple Outcomes to Improve the Synthetic Control Method http://arxiv.org/abs/2311.16260 When there are multiple outcome series of interest, Synthetic Control analyses typically proceed by estimating separate weights for each outcome. In this paper, we instead propose estimating a common s 📈🤖
November 29, 2023 at 3:18 AM
Using Multiple Outcomes to Improve the Synthetic Control Method http://arxiv.org/abs/2311.16260 When there are multiple outcome series of interest, Synthetic Control analyses typically proceed by estimating separate weights for each outcome. In this paper, we instead propose estimating a common s 📈🤖
Bonus from smoking the turkey this year: the bone broth has a whole new dimension. Extra bonus: chili from the smoked turkey leftovers and bone broth. WAY better than microwaving thanksgiving again and again and again.
November 26, 2023 at 3:11 AM
Bonus from smoking the turkey this year: the bone broth has a whole new dimension. Extra bonus: chili from the smoked turkey leftovers and bone broth. WAY better than microwaving thanksgiving again and again and again.
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the old hellsite is dying. the new hellsite struggles to be born. this is the time of posts.
April 26, 2023 at 11:37 PM
the old hellsite is dying. the new hellsite struggles to be born. this is the time of posts.
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i have sold
the plums
that were in
the icebox
and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast
Forgive me
some fool was paying
seventy-eight
dollars for them
the plums
that were in
the icebox
and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast
Forgive me
some fool was paying
seventy-eight
dollars for them
September 21, 2023 at 7:56 PM
i have sold
the plums
that were in
the icebox
and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast
Forgive me
some fool was paying
seventy-eight
dollars for them
the plums
that were in
the icebox
and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast
Forgive me
some fool was paying
seventy-eight
dollars for them
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This meal just cost me $78 at the Newark airport. This is why Americans think the economy is terrible.
September 21, 2023 at 2:47 PM
This meal just cost me $78 at the Newark airport. This is why Americans think the economy is terrible.
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Attempts to censor public library materials are on pace to reach another record high this year, per data from the American Library Association going back 20 years.
www.ala.org/advocacy/bbo...
www.ala.org/advocacy/bbo...
Book Ban Data
The American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) has released preliminary data documenting a continued uptick in attempts to censor books, materials, and services across
www.ala.org
September 21, 2023 at 1:34 PM
Attempts to censor public library materials are on pace to reach another record high this year, per data from the American Library Association going back 20 years.
www.ala.org/advocacy/bbo...
www.ala.org/advocacy/bbo...
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So, I started to build this feed
It’s available here: bsky.app/profile/did:...
To be included, please fill this form: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
Repost appreciated!
It’s available here: bsky.app/profile/did:...
To be included, please fill this form: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
Repost appreciated!
Who is interested by a "Popular posts by economists" feed?
September 20, 2023 at 5:04 PM
So, I started to build this feed
It’s available here: bsky.app/profile/did:...
To be included, please fill this form: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
Repost appreciated!
It’s available here: bsky.app/profile/did:...
To be included, please fill this form: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
Repost appreciated!
How important do y’all think it was to have an exchange of invite codes in driving this tipping point to blue sky vs to threads or mastodon? Is there something to the personal interaction (and tiny perceived exclusivity) or is it all about features and functionality?
September 20, 2023 at 5:01 PM
How important do y’all think it was to have an exchange of invite codes in driving this tipping point to blue sky vs to threads or mastodon? Is there something to the personal interaction (and tiny perceived exclusivity) or is it all about features and functionality?
Question for #Econsky 📈📉about DiD with staggered treatment and IPW. Do you estimate the pscore separately for each treatment cohort and control units (eg estimate pscore for each “stack”) or make one cross sectional pretreatment pscore model? Or something else?
September 20, 2023 at 4:14 AM
Question for #Econsky 📈📉about DiD with staggered treatment and IPW. Do you estimate the pscore separately for each treatment cohort and control units (eg estimate pscore for each “stack”) or make one cross sectional pretreatment pscore model? Or something else?
It seems like invite codes are like the olden days of the blue check in a sense. Power users or those at the center of larger networks are more likely to get them, but the algorithm is still opaque.
September 20, 2023 at 3:32 AM
It seems like invite codes are like the olden days of the blue check in a sense. Power users or those at the center of larger networks are more likely to get them, but the algorithm is still opaque.
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Excited to share my research with Daniel Wilson on macroeconomic outcomes in counties hit by disasters like hurricanes, floods, and wildfires THIS THURSDAY, Sep 21, at the Virtual Seminar on Climate Econ. SF/LA 8:00am, NYC 11:00am, BERLIN 5:00pm.
Register here: www.frbsf.org/economic-res...
Register here: www.frbsf.org/economic-res...
September 20, 2023 at 3:15 AM
Excited to share my research with Daniel Wilson on macroeconomic outcomes in counties hit by disasters like hurricanes, floods, and wildfires THIS THURSDAY, Sep 21, at the Virtual Seminar on Climate Econ. SF/LA 8:00am, NYC 11:00am, BERLIN 5:00pm.
Register here: www.frbsf.org/economic-res...
Register here: www.frbsf.org/economic-res...
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One chart that shows in perfect clarity the effect of policy on poverty.
SPM includes non-cash and post-tax gov transfers -- SNAP, Medicaid/CHIP, EITC, CTC -- that the official poverty measure leaves out.
Poverty is a policy choice.
SPM includes non-cash and post-tax gov transfers -- SNAP, Medicaid/CHIP, EITC, CTC -- that the official poverty measure leaves out.
Poverty is a policy choice.
September 12, 2023 at 2:35 PM
One chart that shows in perfect clarity the effect of policy on poverty.
SPM includes non-cash and post-tax gov transfers -- SNAP, Medicaid/CHIP, EITC, CTC -- that the official poverty measure leaves out.
Poverty is a policy choice.
SPM includes non-cash and post-tax gov transfers -- SNAP, Medicaid/CHIP, EITC, CTC -- that the official poverty measure leaves out.
Poverty is a policy choice.