

Amit Gandhi
198 posts

@AmitEcon
Vice President and Technical Fellow at Airbnb (former Chief Economist at Microsoft Azure)




🚨 I’m extremely happy to announce that the new Master of Applied Economics and Data Science (MEDS) at @penneconomics is now accepting applicants for entry in August 2026: 🔗 lps.upenn.edu/degree-program… MEDS is a program that Frank Schorfheide (as chair) and I (as DGS) helped spearhead, but reaching this exciting stage has been possible thanks to the dedication of the whole department and @Penn’s administration. I would like to highlight in particular the two MEDS directors: Michael Lipsitz and Frank Diebold. It’s hard to imagine two better people to lead a program designed to give ambitious students cutting-edge skills at the intersection of modern economics and data science. 👉 If that sounds like you, check out the MEDS webpage!


Mondays have a bad reputation but we're taking the edge off this one with 25% off selected upcoming books until August! Bag yourself a bargain here: waterstones.com





A programming language has a dual purpose: to enable you to express programs, and to shape the way you think about programming. Languages program you.


Btw, I recently finished my @JuliaLanguage implementation of the @AmitEcon , @snavarrol, Rievers (2020) production function estimation method. It's a now a registered Julia package! Go check it out here github.com/MarkusTrunschk… Feel free to contribute to dev and improve it.

The Gandhi et al. (2023) approach to zero empirical shares is so intuitive & I don't know why it isn't more widely adopted. Like, of course s_ij = 0 because true choice probs are positive but small and we only observe finite demand draws! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.39…




... Francesco Decarolis & @AmitEcon, Pietro Garibaldi & Antonio Spilimbergo, Stefano Corgnati & Marco Ottaviani, Michael Jordan & James Manyika & Michael Spence, David Card & @Danielle__Li & @wellingmax, and many more... 7/


Excited to kick off our inaugural #Wharton Hack-AI-thon with a special thanks to @AIatWharton faculty co-director @StefanoPuntoni for starting the day! We can't wait to see the innovative apps & prompts from our talented #students. Best of luck to everyone! #AI #Innovation



Learn how @Wharton PhD student, @AngelTHChung, leveraged machine learning to help the government of Sierra Leone distribute limited medical aid to the communities who need it most, as we continue to highlight Wharton Women in Analytics. whr.tn/43ChQhO