Jed Silver
@jedsilver.bsky.social
Development economist focusing on agricultural households + markets. Lecturer (AP) Environmental Economics and Management at Hebrew U. https://www.jedediahsilver.com/
TROP c'est TROP
New paper: Triply Robust Panel Estimators (TROP) by @susanathey.bsky.social @guidoimbens.bsky.social Zhaonan Qu @vivianodavide.bsky.social.
arxiv.org/pdf/2508.21536
arxiv.org/pdf/2508.21536
November 24, 2025 at 11:56 AM
TROP c'est TROP
I know of plenty of individuals and organizations that are quite vocal, but sadly they are not a large share of the population, especially if recent polling is to be believed.
September 18, 2025 at 8:52 PM
I know of plenty of individuals and organizations that are quite vocal, but sadly they are not a large share of the population, especially if recent polling is to be believed.
Reposted by Jed Silver
Whether it’s Trump illegally deporting immigrants to Uganda or Zohran Mamdani being born in Uganda, the East African nation is having a moment across the political spectrum.
August 25, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Whether it’s Trump illegally deporting immigrants to Uganda or Zohran Mamdani being born in Uganda, the East African nation is having a moment across the political spectrum.
Reposted by Jed Silver
Important speech by Tel Aviv University economics professor Ro'ee Levy at the Israel Economic Association meeting, in which he links together insights from economics research, personal experience and information about the devastating situation in Gaza: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Israeli Economic Association Conference – Closing Panel Roee Levy, July 17, 2025 The topic of this panel is trends in the Israeli economy, and I am going to talk about the most important trend: the w...
docs.google.com
August 9, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Important speech by Tel Aviv University economics professor Ro'ee Levy at the Israel Economic Association meeting, in which he links together insights from economics research, personal experience and information about the devastating situation in Gaza: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
"Liberal Jews like myself need to overcome our shame, which pushes some of us to avoid or deny the reality of Gaza. Instead we must grapple with guilt; not in the sense of personal culpability but in our collective responsibility toward and solidarity with our Israeli kin and Palestinian neighbors."
Israeli political scientist Lihi Ben Shitrit:
"The more I learn about genocide, the more shocked and embarrassed I am by my own ignorance. Once I actively tried to be better informed about genocide, the picture in Gaza became terrifyingly clear."
forward.com/opinion/7598...
"The more I learn about genocide, the more shocked and embarrassed I am by my own ignorance. Once I actively tried to be better informed about genocide, the picture in Gaza became terrifyingly clear."
forward.com/opinion/7598...
As an Israeli political scientist, I resisted thinking this war was a genocide. Here's what changed my mind
The incitement for genocide in the Israeli public sphere is undeniable. So why are so many of us liberal Jews so reluctant?
forward.com
August 3, 2025 at 10:22 AM
"Liberal Jews like myself need to overcome our shame, which pushes some of us to avoid or deny the reality of Gaza. Instead we must grapple with guilt; not in the sense of personal culpability but in our collective responsibility toward and solidarity with our Israeli kin and Palestinian neighbors."
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You help us mobilize thousands of Jews and Israelis, train community and student leaders, and disrupt business as usual across our country – because there cannot be normalcy while our government continues starving and killing Palestinians across Gaza.
Give today:
Give today:
Our crowdfunding campaign just got to 50 percent! You’re helping drive our fight for a different future in Israel-Palestine – thank you. Donate: omdi.me/thefight4life (1/2)
July 31, 2025 at 8:20 PM
You help us mobilize thousands of Jews and Israelis, train community and student leaders, and disrupt business as usual across our country – because there cannot be normalcy while our government continues starving and killing Palestinians across Gaza.
Give today:
Give today:
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Literally joined this platform (finally) to share this AEDE blog. If you are not heartbroken at the scale of child suffering in Gaza, you are not paying attention. Call your federal rep — at the very least. u.osu.edu/aede/2025/07...
July 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Literally joined this platform (finally) to share this AEDE blog. If you are not heartbroken at the scale of child suffering in Gaza, you are not paying attention. Call your federal rep — at the very least. u.osu.edu/aede/2025/07...
Do everything within your means to get food and basic necessities in to Gaza. But also consider donating to Standing Together's annual fundraiser, along with so many other organizations doing important work to end these horrors. (4/4)
causematch.com/standing_tog...
causematch.com/standing_tog...
Fighting for Life - Standing Together Crowdfunder
Donate now to Standing Together, the largest grassroots Jewish-Palestinian movement in Israel
causematch.com
July 30, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Do everything within your means to get food and basic necessities in to Gaza. But also consider donating to Standing Together's annual fundraiser, along with so many other organizations doing important work to end these horrors. (4/4)
causematch.com/standing_tog...
causematch.com/standing_tog...
Making ourselves see and internalize what we're doing in Gaza, alongside direct relief and international pressure, is an important step towards getting sufficient aid to Gaza, ending the war and returning the hostages in the short term as well as any sustainable long-term solution. (3/4)
July 30, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Making ourselves see and internalize what we're doing in Gaza, alongside direct relief and international pressure, is an important step towards getting sufficient aid to Gaza, ending the war and returning the hostages in the short term as well as any sustainable long-term solution. (3/4)
This gives consent and cover for the Israeli government and IDF to kill and starve.
Fortunately, organizations like @standing-together.bsky.social are working to change the narrative in Israel, making people realize what we are doing and that it needs to stop, for humanity's and our own sake (2/4)
Fortunately, organizations like @standing-together.bsky.social are working to change the narrative in Israel, making people realize what we are doing and that it needs to stop, for humanity's and our own sake (2/4)
July 30, 2025 at 5:42 AM
This gives consent and cover for the Israeli government and IDF to kill and starve.
Fortunately, organizations like @standing-together.bsky.social are working to change the narrative in Israel, making people realize what we are doing and that it needs to stop, for humanity's and our own sake (2/4)
Fortunately, organizations like @standing-together.bsky.social are working to change the narrative in Israel, making people realize what we are doing and that it needs to stop, for humanity's and our own sake (2/4)
As a new Israeli, I cannot be silent about Gaza. How can the pictures of skeletal, starving children not shock one into action? Yet so many Israelis do not see these pictures in the media, can't fathom that we're actually responsible for them, or simply do not see these bodies as human kids. (1/4)
July 30, 2025 at 5:42 AM
As a new Israeli, I cannot be silent about Gaza. How can the pictures of skeletal, starving children not shock one into action? Yet so many Israelis do not see these pictures in the media, can't fathom that we're actually responsible for them, or simply do not see these bodies as human kids. (1/4)
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This piece is very moving, and reflects how I am feeling about the Israel/Gaza calamity.
Silence in the Face of Gaza's Starvation is Absolute Betrayal of Holocaust Victims
By Orit Kamir
Originally published in Haaretz
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Thanks to @deanbaker13.bsky.social for posting it.
Silence in the Face of Gaza's Starvation is Absolute Betrayal of Holocaust Victims
By Orit Kamir
Originally published in Haaretz
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Thanks to @deanbaker13.bsky.social for posting it.
Column on the Responsibility of Israelis to Speak Up Against Mass Starvation in Gaza
I generally restrict my comments here to economic issues, but some things are hard to ignore.
substack.com
July 29, 2025 at 12:30 AM
This piece is very moving, and reflects how I am feeling about the Israel/Gaza calamity.
Silence in the Face of Gaza's Starvation is Absolute Betrayal of Holocaust Victims
By Orit Kamir
Originally published in Haaretz
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Thanks to @deanbaker13.bsky.social for posting it.
Silence in the Face of Gaza's Starvation is Absolute Betrayal of Holocaust Victims
By Orit Kamir
Originally published in Haaretz
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Thanks to @deanbaker13.bsky.social for posting it.
While our government starves Gaza, Standing Together is a grassroots organization of Jews and Palestinians fighting to change this abhorrent reality. I am proud to be an ambassador for their annual fundraiser. Please consider donating to amplify this important voice
causematch.com/standing_tog...
causematch.com/standing_tog...
Fighting for Life - Standing Together Crowdfunder
Donate now to Standing Together, the largest grassroots Jewish-Palestinian movement in Israel
causematch.com
July 24, 2025 at 9:06 PM
While our government starves Gaza, Standing Together is a grassroots organization of Jews and Palestinians fighting to change this abhorrent reality. I am proud to be an ambassador for their annual fundraiser. Please consider donating to amplify this important voice
causematch.com/standing_tog...
causematch.com/standing_tog...
but do they call the post-Year 1 PhD exams quals or comps?
July 20, 2025 at 12:09 PM
but do they call the post-Year 1 PhD exams quals or comps?
Between this and the MIT guy, the AI/productivity lit is having a moment
July 11, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Between this and the MIT guy, the AI/productivity lit is having a moment
Not enough people are talking about Zohran Mamdani AKA Young Cardamom's Luganda rap
youtu.be/5upeWPTzFgc?...
youtu.be/5upeWPTzFgc?...
Young Cardamom & HAB - Kanda (Chap Chap)
YouTube video by Young Cardamom & HAB
youtu.be
June 25, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Not enough people are talking about Zohran Mamdani AKA Young Cardamom's Luganda rap
youtu.be/5upeWPTzFgc?...
youtu.be/5upeWPTzFgc?...
"Desert landscaping" sounds very "textile factory"
June 19, 2025 at 6:15 PM
"Desert landscaping" sounds very "textile factory"
Can this include negatively-weighted enemies under staggered adoption?
May 1, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Can this include negatively-weighted enemies under staggered adoption?
I am proud to have been a part of yesterday's demonstration mentioned here www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Israelis protest against Gaza war with rare outcry over Palestinian casualties
Holocaust survivors gathering on Holocaust Memorial Day speak out against Palestinian starvation and suffering
www.theguardian.com
April 25, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I am proud to have been a part of yesterday's demonstration mentioned here www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Can papal preferences be represented by a cardinal utility function?
April 24, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Can papal preferences be represented by a cardinal utility function?
I look forward to the very causal and robust study led by Ariely, Gino and Islam
CBS story on RFK Jr.'s "autism study" which aims to amass medical records on Americans.
RFK Jr.'s autism study to amass medical records of many Americans
The autism study is planning to link confidential data "with broad coverage in the U.S. population" in one place for the first time.
www.cbsnews.com
April 22, 2025 at 6:14 AM
I look forward to the very causal and robust study led by Ariely, Gino and Islam
Leaving this here. bsky.app/profile/jeds...
Exact MAGA hat algebra
This is their "methodology." ustr.gov/issue-areas/...
April 3, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Leaving this here. bsky.app/profile/jeds...