Catherine Tucker

@florianederer Your brother is lovely and was there because he loves you intensely and wanted to be there for you.

My brother who is not an economist but a private equity partner, attended my NBER SI presentation on Thursday and chatted with more journal editors in one afternoon than I have in my entire career. Economists have no idea about "real networking."

Can you guess which programming language’s usage grew the fastest in 2022? Check out the State of Developer Ecosystem 2022 to get the latest trends in technologies, programming languages and tools, and more: jb.gg/deveco22-tw P.S. It’s TypeScript #DevEcosystem2022

@daveholtz @avicgoldfarb @klakhani I am looking forward to my new paper and also my new co-author! Honestly, it sounds like a great paper to have written 12 years ago!

also some nice shoutouts in this reading list to folks like @avicgoldfarb, @klakhani and @ce_tucker! so, can chatgpt put together my syllabus for me? no. but it provided a good starting point, and also maybe suggested some good research ideas and potential sets of collaborators!

trying to get some help from #chatgpt designing my mba syllabus for next semester. some of the readings don't exist (yet), but so far so good. first, chatgpt gave me a very bare bones reading list...

I am chairing Tokenomics 2022 - an interdisciplinary conference exploring the conjunction of economics and distributed computation, networks and system security. Paper submission deadline September 15th, 2022 - Conference in Paris, December 12-13. tokenomics-conference.lip6.fr

Please share this application for the October NBER privacy and econ tutorial with your PhD students. They don't need to submit a paper - just a short application. nber.org/calls-papers-a…

Learn about the gov’t’s efforts to surveil cryptocurrencies from Alex Marthews/@rebelcinder, national chair w/ Digital Fourth, an advocacy group focused on Fourth Amendment and surveillance issues, at @hopeconf hope.net/talks.html at St. John’s U. in NYC (July 22-24, 2022).

Time to apply if you are a grad student.

New estimates of TV advertising effectiveness across 288 CPG brands show that advertising generally has little effect on sales and most brands earn a negative ROI. The results cast doubt on the sustainability of financing TV content markets with ad revenue econometricsociety.org/publications/e…

This🧵is about a tricky problem in education The problem: despite growing global wealth and technological progress, there are extremely poor parts of the world where most children grow up illiterate and innumerate We have two new papers showing that this can be changed 1/n

@harryhurst Q DC

Want to excel in #omnichannel #marketing? Here are three ways #blockchain and #machinelearning can help: buff.ly/3tMq1Fd By Tony Haitao Cui, @Aghose, Hanna Halaburda, @iyengar_raghu, @profpauwels, @SSriram05536634, @ce_tucker, and @SriKfbs

@beth_fossen My twins girls are now 13. Identical!

Sending you all those Christmas magic feelings this holiday season <3

@seanjtaylor I would focus on the ones who always make the wrong prediction. They (empirically) may be more predictive

I got an interesting question today: Say before each A/B test you run, you ask your team to estimate the outcome. You collect a year's worth of data and find a handful of people are very good at forecasting which tests will perform well. What do you do with this information?

@m_sendhil @avicgoldfarb @SBenzell @avi_collis @CNicolaides You can also download at: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Two papers beginning this work are worth a read. One by @avicgoldfarb and @ce_tucker nber.org/papers/w27042 The other by @SBenzell @avi_collis and @CNicolaides ide.mit.edu/sites/default/… 6/7

Any discussion of re-opening the economy must recognize not all businesses are the same. Some contribute more to spread than others. Cellphone data can help identify them - see for yourself in our OpEd nyti.ms/3c8gm3q 🧵

@davidhagmann @thefirstred @EricTopol @nature We wrote add this to add some empirical color to this: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

@thefirstred @EricTopol @nature Counterfactual is important. E.g. some schools don't do online instructions, because they worry about educational inequality. So (mostly rich and educated) parents do their own teaching or sign up for courses offered by private schools. Result will be even more inequality.

A spot on @nature editorial today on smartphone contact tracing nature.com/articles/d4158… These apps have not been validated, carry risks, and cannot be considered as a substitute for the laborious tracing by people, unless or until such time they have proven value.

New piece with Catherine Tucker @ce_tucker Social distancing has led to school closures. Some schools are switching to remote instruction. We document how the digital divide might exacerbate existing educational inequalities. Please take a look! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

New Research: The digital divide is more important than ever. It isn't just income inequality driving the rich/poor divide in social distancing. It's internet access too. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Some people are just “really good at picking out failures,” @ce_tucker told Alex Stone nyti.ms/39rBKPM

A new report by @rebelcinder & @ce_tucker argues that there can be tradeoffs between promoting competition and protecting consumer privacy. Read it now: brook.gs/2Pklsj4

A visual representation of @ce_tucker's presentation at #codecon19!