academia has you beefing with someone 3k miles away who is also one of only 4 people on earth who likes the same stuff as you

Having a bad writing day? Take heart. Dorothy Parker also struggled with writing.

What can medicine learn from Josh Angrist and colleagues, and the impact of their work on understanding the causal effects of policies, interventions and treatments?

Quite a lot. I wrote a bit about this here.

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How do families decide which school their children should attend? A new study by Blueprint Affiliate Chris Campos finds that social interactions play a critical role in families’ decision-making. Read the research here: blueprintlabs.mit.edu/research/socia…

People need to start saying “I don’t know” a lot more.

classic

I would like to take a moment to make the death of someone about me.

The last workshop at Mixtape Sessions for the spring 2024 is by our very own Peter Hull. It's entitled 'design-based inference'. Information below! Tell every single person you meet today about it!

mixtapesessions.io/session/design…

Boo.

Today on The Metro with Tia Graham and Nick Austin, exploring a program aimed at reducing the number of people returning to jail in Flint ⛓️

Plus, reducing food waste and avoiding summer construction 🚧

Tune in at 101.9 FM, WDET.org or the WDET app 🔊

A few tickets are still available to my upcoming Mixtape course on design-based causal inference. Check it out!

mixtapesessions.io/session/design…

Something big is happening in the county jail of Flint MI

An innovative rehab program is sharply reducing in-jail misconduct and post-release recidivism

I'm tremendously excited to share this new paper, with Marcella Alsan, Crystal Yang, & Arkey Barnett

dropbox.com/scl/fi/n21oplk…

An education program at a county jail in Flint, Michigan saw recidivism and misconduct drop, according to a new study co-authored by Harvard professors Crystal S. Yang ’08 and Marcella Alsan ’99.

Rachael A. Dziaba and Meghna Mitra report.

thecrimson.com/article/2024/4…

Shook my coffee cup instead of my orange juice bottle this am. How's your morning going?

Thank you The Harvard Crimson for covering our work on IGNITE !! thecrimson.com/article/2024/4… Peter Hull Arkey Barnett

Philipp Strack wins the J.B. Clark award marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

Translation: you need theory, theory is literally extrapolation of data

Cool paper

We have an intuition that 'extrapolation' is less reliable than 'interpolation', which we might define as, 'if it's inside (in the convex hull of) my training data, then it's more reliable'

Well, 'interpolation' probabilistically never happens in high dimensions

TLDR: A new study identifies and measures which large U.S. companies engage in hiring discrimination against Black people.

They name names and find that some of the most discriminatory companies include CVS, Gap, Best Buy, Autozone, and Costco. 🤯 #econtwitter #economics