Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham
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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham
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Yale SOM professor & Bulls fan. I study consumer finance, and econometrics is a big part of my research identity. He/him/his

Economics 47%
Mathematics 9%
ICYMI: New paper for causal effects with panel data, subsuming other approaches. We generate realistic synthetic data based on commonly studied datasets, showing our method substantially outperforms others and providing insight about what in the data-generating process corresponds to gains.

Results are in, Millenials are just less lonely than others
New chart from Mike Males using MTF and Pew Research data finds that trends in teen social media and smartphone use are unrelated to teen loneliness (which hasn't changed much over the years anyway aside from an unexplained dip in the 2000s).

Explainer thread when

Karl gotta get some long pca posts on bluesky!!

Preventative once you had twins, makes sense

Same

Like yeah, wow, turns out there are efficiencies in working with people who know what they’re doing

It’s crazy how much better it is to work with a pro

I’ve been working out with a trainer twice a week for the last three months and this is probably the best thing I could’ve done for my health post 40

Steal
Grim Fandango Remastered is $2.99 on US eShop buff.ly/WK10qLn
XBL buff.ly/Q506Cfh
(Steam) Humble buff.ly/fKKVyvH

also on Game Pass Premium
Grim Fandango Remastered is $2.99 on US eShop buff.ly/WK10qLn
XBL buff.ly/Q506Cfh
(Steam) Humble buff.ly/fKKVyvH

also on Game Pass Premium
A modest proposal for celebrity academics: The Epstein Number.

Epstein Number 1: You are named in the Epstein files.*

Epstein Number 2: You have co-written an op-ed or co-signed an open letter with someone with an Epstein number of 1.

And so on.

* Epstein Number 0: you are Jeffrey Epstein.

How to Reproduce this Book Exactly with LaTeX - great resource for writing Latex #linkoftheday
github.com/BenjaminGor/...
GitHub - BenjaminGor/Latex_Notes_Tutorial: Latex Book/Note Writing Tutorial
Latex Book/Note Writing Tutorial. Contribute to BenjaminGor/Latex_Notes_Tutorial development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com

collecting my #linklog posts in batches here
Linklog 1
akhilrao.org
“There is no world where this makes any sense,” said David Autor, one of the MIT professors who had previously championed his student’s research. www.wsj.com/economy/aida...
An MIT Student Awed Top Economists With His AI Study—Then It All Fell Apart
Aidan Toner-Rodgers shot to academic fame in a field hungry for new insights and revelatory research. But a computer scientist thought something seemed off.
www.wsj.com
This Pope guy has some bangers
New chart from Mike Males using MTF and Pew Research data finds that trends in teen social media and smartphone use are unrelated to teen loneliness (which hasn't changed much over the years anyway aside from an unexplained dip in the 2000s).

I follow Will just so I can see the dumbest fucking posts that he has to respond to.
It’s straight off the Federal Reserve site man
It’s straight off the Federal Reserve site man
In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ...

... listen to Steve Wozniak.
re: roblox dude's interview crashout. the thing he wants to say but can't is "at scale, kids are gonna get hurt. that is the price for scale." the thing nobody wants to say out loud is "maybe scaling to a level where harm isn't manageable is bad, and scale should be contained"

Bookmarking this for my investments class
My guys at the Harvard Management Company absolutely never miss
RePEc was created by economists for economists. If there is a way we can serve the community better, please do tell!

repec.org

#RePEc #EconSky
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics
RePEc is a central index of economics research, including working papers, articles and software code
repec.org
My guys at the Harvard Management Company absolutely never miss
#EconSky

ICYMI: the #EconJMP feed reposts tweets with that tag or #econjobmarket.

Candidates: introduce yourself

Hiring folks: browse and subscribe
Econ job market candidate intros.

Candidates, communicate:
1) your name, program, & fields,
2) image of JMP title & abstract + Alt Text,
3) #EconJMP, &
4) a link to your website.

Employers, browse & interact respectfully.

Everyone else, shhhh.
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Very cool project:

“The Roman Empire’s road system was critical for structuring the movement of people, goods & ideas [yet] remains incompletely mapped… We present Itiner-e, the most detailed and comprehensive open digital dataset of roads in the entire Roman Empire.”
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Itiner-e: A high-resolution dataset of roads of the Roman Empire - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - Itiner-e: A high-resolution dataset of roads of the Roman Empire
www.nature.com

In honor of Larry Summers, I asked the female members of my college class (1987) to say if they had any experiences with sexual harassment by teachers/professors, back when this was tolerated as, I dunno, the cost of attending college, and OH MY GOD.
In honor of Larry Summers, I asked the female members of my college class (1987) to say if they had any experiences with sexual harassment by teachers/professors, back when this was tolerated as, I dunno, the cost of attending college, and OH MY GOD.