Apparently it needs to be said…

When you’re violently arresting your own faculty and charging them with battery for asking a police officer kneeling on a student’s head “what are you doing?”, you’re probably doing something wrong.

One month later, and we made it into the text of the new minimum staffing rule!

If you’re arresting your own students for taking part in a non-violent protest that isn’t obstructing classrooms, major roadways, etc., then you’re doing something wrong.

Hard to think of a more instructive math problem for a fourth grader. At first it seems impossible. Then one sees there are two great solution: one requiring just a little creativity and the other requiring just a little grit.

An update of my prior WP, with newly FOIA-ed data on liquidated damages and hot goods violations!

Key point: most firms underpaying the *federal minimum wage*, if caught by the DOL, are required to pay no more than the back wages owed. This creates little deterrent effect.

In college, someone at BCG called me after my first-round interview to give me a heads-up that I was dressed inappropriately and advise on fixing it. I remain grateful for that call to this day. I didn't have consultant/lawyer/etc. parents and honestly didn't know better...

Thank you Raffaella Sadun and Andrea Prat for the opportunity to present! (And Luis Garicano 🇪🇺🇺🇦 and Wouter Dessein for being my NFP and FP managers 🤣). And thank you Dr Anne Fitzpatrick for this pic!! Those interested in the paper - the presentation starts at ~52min youtube.com/live/PIyl4xxJw…

I used to feel this way. Then I tried to make stuffed pasta by hand. Now I realize these are probably the lowest-margin dishes at a good Italian restaurant.

As a nursing home economist, I am definitely the person you want to hear from about the implications of beliefs-based utility for game/information design!

Joking aside, I'm the only coauthor on Twitter, so stay tuned for my thread on this fun paper in the next week or so!

Beliefs themselves affect (literal) players' utility.

Reference-dependent preferences, loss aversion, preferences for surprise and suspense, preferences for clumped surprise, and flow theory all show up in data on 2.8 million matches from League of Legends.

Thrilled to see this out in the next issue of the QJE!

I'm so happy to share that I'll soon get to work as an Assistant Professor at Harvard Business School after a postdoc also at Harvard Business School/Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard.

I have an overwhelming feeling of gratitude to many people in this profession so please indulge the really long thread here...

This explains the demand for predocs. The supply of predocs is high because there are way more qualified applicants than good PhD slots, and predoc work is much more informative about potential as an applied researcher than coursework.

Asking for more than one alternative DD estimator should immediately disqualify a reviewer.

Next week I will begin an exciting and long-anticipated transition to my new professorship at the Hasso-Plattner-Institut, where I will take over a new Chair for Digital Health, Economics and Policy and an Humboldt-Stiftung Professorship, Germany’s largest research prize and a real honor.

Nothing like choosing between one party that doesn’t want kids to learn about evolution and another party that doesn’t want them to learn algebra.

How do you teach statistics without an idea of what expectations or limits are? Do you just memorize a bunch of formulas without knowing what they mean?

Anna Barton Willage (no longer on Twitter) and I maintain a spreadsheet of economics conferences with dates, deadlines, etc. sorted by field

annemburton.com/economics-conf…

PSA: I didn't see a reminder email for my DUA renewals and ResDAC confirms that CMS is no longer regularly sending- I caught mine in time but usually depend on the emails, FYI if you're in the same boat!

Evidence of widespread 'tunneling' in the nursing home industry: providers extract profits by making inflated payments for goods and services to commonly owned related parties, effectively hiding 63% of profits in 2019, from Ashvin Gandhi and Andrew Olenski nber.org/papers/w32258