Zhentao Shi
@zhentaoshi.bsky.social
Econometrician at Chinese University of Hong Kong
https://zhentaoshi.github.io/
https://zhentaoshi.github.io/
It's time to ponder what I should teach in a course of data science in the era of AI.
December 24, 2025 at 1:24 PM
It's time to ponder what I should teach in a course of data science in the era of AI.
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Devastating news. Kate was a great economist and a generous person.
The brilliant Kate Ho has passed away.
She was an amazing economist and a genuinely kind human being. Her work shaped how we think about healthcare markets and her generosity touched everyone lucky enough to know her.
The profession and the world are poorer without her.
She was an amazing economist and a genuinely kind human being. Her work shaped how we think about healthcare markets and her generosity touched everyone lucky enough to know her.
The profession and the world are poorer without her.
December 10, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Devastating news. Kate was a great economist and a generous person.
I tried AI to answer my econometrics final exam questions. It did very well. I gave AI 95/100.
December 11, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I tried AI to answer my econometrics final exam questions. It did very well. I gave AI 95/100.
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My book is officially out in the world! 🎉📚 Thanks @mitpress.bsky.social!
Designed for an introductory course in probability and statistics for economics and business undergraduates, Jason @abrevaya.bsky.social's textbook "Probability and Statistics for Economics and Business" introduces students to the R statistical programming language: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255336...
November 25, 2025 at 2:43 PM
My book is officially out in the world! 🎉📚 Thanks @mitpress.bsky.social!
It is a good time for reading on the days of sleep disorder (due to jet lag).
July 13, 2025 at 4:46 AM
It is a good time for reading on the days of sleep disorder (due to jet lag).
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Shameless plug: Still time to join the World Congress of the Econometric Society (Aug 18–22, Seoul)! Stellar invited speakers 👉 www.eswc2025.org/speakers/03....
Even the keynotes look pretty sharp 👉 www.eswc2025.org/speakers/01....
Register by June 30!
Even the keynotes look pretty sharp 👉 www.eswc2025.org/speakers/01....
Register by June 30!
ESWC 2025
ESWC 2025
www.eswc2025.org
June 5, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Shameless plug: Still time to join the World Congress of the Econometric Society (Aug 18–22, Seoul)! Stellar invited speakers 👉 www.eswc2025.org/speakers/03....
Even the keynotes look pretty sharp 👉 www.eswc2025.org/speakers/01....
Register by June 30!
Even the keynotes look pretty sharp 👉 www.eswc2025.org/speakers/01....
Register by June 30!
The world is not what I knew before.
April 3, 2025 at 2:08 PM
The world is not what I knew before.
The trend for business and economics education is not going well. Changes are needed.
Even Harvard M.B.A.s Are Struggling to Land Jobs
The latest crop of elite business-school graduates is taking months to find new jobs.
www.wsj.com
January 16, 2025 at 9:31 AM
The trend for business and economics education is not going well. Changes are needed.
The element-by-element is indeed the default option of `*` in many languages, such as Python and R.
January 16, 2025 at 9:29 AM
The element-by-element is indeed the default option of `*` in many languages, such as Python and R.
If a discipline labels itself as "science", it is pseudoscience.
We don't call physics "physical science", nor chemistry "chemical science".
We don't call physics "physical science", nor chemistry "chemical science".
January 13, 2025 at 12:44 PM
If a discipline labels itself as "science", it is pseudoscience.
We don't call physics "physical science", nor chemistry "chemical science".
We don't call physics "physical science", nor chemistry "chemical science".
To start the new semester's teaching tomorrow. Still recovering from jet lag of 8 hours to the west.
January 8, 2025 at 8:44 AM
To start the new semester's teaching tomorrow. Still recovering from jet lag of 8 hours to the west.
Greenland, Canada, and Panama. Interesting.
January 8, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Greenland, Canada, and Panama. Interesting.
Returned HK from SFO for ASSA 2025. Met with lots of old friends.
January 7, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Returned HK from SFO for ASSA 2025. Met with lots of old friends.
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I'm not an R person, but I totally agree with this point: we're doing students a disservice by teaching them stata.
Even worse if you're teaching at a public university: using public money to create consumers for a private company.
Even worse if you're teaching at a public university: using public money to create consumers for a private company.
We should care about students’ career outcomes. Teaching them R will be MUCH more helpful than Stata. Not only is R more highly valued, it also makes learning things like Python much easier.
December 14, 2024 at 7:10 AM
I'm not an R person, but I totally agree with this point: we're doing students a disservice by teaching them stata.
Even worse if you're teaching at a public university: using public money to create consumers for a private company.
Even worse if you're teaching at a public university: using public money to create consumers for a private company.
In the era of capable LLM, writing econometric textbooks will become obsolete. The basic facts about models, estimation methods can be largely covered by LLM, which are getting better day by day.
A textbook author may only be helpful in connecting the dots into a systematic body of knowledge.
#llm
A textbook author may only be helpful in connecting the dots into a systematic body of knowledge.
#llm
December 6, 2024 at 8:39 AM
In the era of capable LLM, writing econometric textbooks will become obsolete. The basic facts about models, estimation methods can be largely covered by LLM, which are getting better day by day.
A textbook author may only be helpful in connecting the dots into a systematic body of knowledge.
#llm
A textbook author may only be helpful in connecting the dots into a systematic body of knowledge.
#llm
December 6, 2024 at 8:28 AM
It was a Korean drama. Fortunately it ended very shortly after it had unfolded.
December 4, 2024 at 7:00 AM
It was a Korean drama. Fortunately it ended very shortly after it had unfolded.
It helps with the transition from Stata to a proper data science programming languages, for example R or Py.
Stata has no future.
Stop using it.
Stata has no future.
Stop using it.
Just a reminder that @gmcd.bsky.social and @kylefbutts.bsky.social have made an incredible public good describing how to use data.table and fixest to encourage moving from Stata to R!
stata2r.github.io
stata2r.github.io
Translating Stata to R
Learning R coming from Stata
stata2r.github.io
December 4, 2024 at 3:07 AM
It helps with the transition from Stata to a proper data science programming languages, for example R or Py.
Stata has no future.
Stop using it.
Stata has no future.
Stop using it.
Again, it's the junior job market season.
December 3, 2024 at 2:17 PM
Again, it's the junior job market season.
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delighted to see this prize go to Arun Chandrasekhar, a pioneer in applications and theory of networks in economics and social science more broadly
a fantastically talented and energetic scholar
a fantastically talented and energetic scholar
December 1, 2024 at 7:52 PM
delighted to see this prize go to Arun Chandrasekhar, a pioneer in applications and theory of networks in economics and social science more broadly
a fantastically talented and energetic scholar
a fantastically talented and energetic scholar
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Without capitalism, there would be no Bluesky to blame capitalism for xyz…
But it’s true. We would not have had a climate crisis, had it not been for capitalism lifting billions out of extreme poverty and keeping us alive longer.
But it’s true. We would not have had a climate crisis, had it not been for capitalism lifting billions out of extreme poverty and keeping us alive longer.
November 28, 2024 at 1:54 AM
Without capitalism, there would be no Bluesky to blame capitalism for xyz…
But it’s true. We would not have had a climate crisis, had it not been for capitalism lifting billions out of extreme poverty and keeping us alive longer.
But it’s true. We would not have had a climate crisis, had it not been for capitalism lifting billions out of extreme poverty and keeping us alive longer.
Jupyter notebook is a nice format for presenting code, but according to my personal experience not the best format for developing code.
Perhaps I am old-styled. I like a traditional, full functional IDE better.
Perhaps I am old-styled. I like a traditional, full functional IDE better.
November 27, 2024 at 4:25 PM
Jupyter notebook is a nice format for presenting code, but according to my personal experience not the best format for developing code.
Perhaps I am old-styled. I like a traditional, full functional IDE better.
Perhaps I am old-styled. I like a traditional, full functional IDE better.
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Pleased with this one:
Spatial Unit Roots and Spurious Regression (Mueller and Watson (2024))
paulgp.github.io/2024/11/06/r...
I asked it an additional follow-up question based on my teaching of Kelly (2020) on Spatial Persistence as well, and it gave a wonderful set of answers.
Spatial Unit Roots and Spurious Regression (Mueller and Watson (2024))
paulgp.github.io/2024/11/06/r...
I asked it an additional follow-up question based on my teaching of Kelly (2020) on Spatial Persistence as well, and it gave a wonderful set of answers.
November 7, 2024 at 10:26 PM
Pleased with this one:
Spatial Unit Roots and Spurious Regression (Mueller and Watson (2024))
paulgp.github.io/2024/11/06/r...
I asked it an additional follow-up question based on my teaching of Kelly (2020) on Spatial Persistence as well, and it gave a wonderful set of answers.
Spatial Unit Roots and Spurious Regression (Mueller and Watson (2024))
paulgp.github.io/2024/11/06/r...
I asked it an additional follow-up question based on my teaching of Kelly (2020) on Spatial Persistence as well, and it gave a wonderful set of answers.
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People are often surprised when I tell them this: both Twitter and Facebook/insta/threads are now specifically engineered to downgrade, hide, suppress real journalism. If this platform is different, that's a huge change
November 27, 2024 at 6:22 AM
People are often surprised when I tell them this: both Twitter and Facebook/insta/threads are now specifically engineered to downgrade, hide, suppress real journalism. If this platform is different, that's a huge change