Alvise Scarabosio

Long time in the making: I’m officially starting my PhD in Economics this fall at UC Berkeley! Couldn’t be happier to stay in California, move to the other side of the Bay, and begin an exciting next chapter. @UCBerkeley @berkeleyecon

@IDE_Michael @jmwooldridge As always, you're too kind. And for once, I'm very glad I can't observe the counterfactual!

First of all, you got a shout out from @jmwooldridge and the dude doesn't even remember me from his MIT days (a by-product, perhaps, of not using my real name on this platform - it's Boozer, Jeff, Mike Boozer). Secondly, I guarantee you that in the counterfactual world in which you had never met me, you would have unquestionably achieved all that you have. I am just honored that I got to ride along for a small part of your journey. I hear Berkeley is a nice place......

It truly took a village, but I definitely wouldn’t be here without the unwavering support and generous guidance of my wonderful mentors Grant Miller, @IDE_Michael, and @michelacarlana.

Long time in the making: I’m officially starting my PhD in Economics this fall at UC Berkeley! Couldn’t be happier to stay in California, move to the other side of the Bay, and begin an exciting next chapter. @UCBerkeley @berkeleyecon

@danielposthumu2 BU is lucky to have you!! Starting my countdown now: 6 years until the US housing affordability crisis is over🥳

I'm thrilled to announce that I've accepted an offer to join BU-Questrom's Business Economics program in Fall 2026! I can't wait to work with and learn from the amazing faculty at Questrom and BU Econ. I want to thank the countless people who supported me along the way. 🧵

It's April 15th, when your taxes are due and when admitted PhD students choose their graduate program. Why isn't this process organized using the deferred acceptance algorithm? If Al Roth can match medical residents, why aren't we matching econ PhD students and programs?

I have a guest essay in @nytimes today about autonomous vehicle safety. I wrote it because I’m tired of seeing children die. Done right, we can eliminate car crashes as a leading cause of death in the United States @Waymo recently released data covering nearly 100 million driverless miles. I spent weeks analyzing it because the results seemed too good to be true. 91% fewer serious-injury crashes. 92% less pedestrians hit. 96% fewer injury crashes at intersections. The list goes on. 39,000 Americans died in crashes last year. More than homicide, plane crashes, and natural disasters combined. The #2 killer of children and young adults. The #1 cause of spinal cord injury. We’ve accepted this as the price of mobility. We don’t have to. In medicine, when a treatment shows this level of benefit, we stop the trial early. Continuing to give patients the placebo becomes unethical. When an intervention works this clearly, you change what you do. In driving, we’re all the control group. Cities like DC and Boston are blocking deployment. And cities are not the only forces mobilizing to slow this progress. It’s time we stop treating this like a tech moonshot and start treating it like a public health intervention that will save lives. Link to article below. 👀 this video of Waymo cars evading crashes with people and vehicles. I especially note the ones that require it having a 360° view. My sincere thanks to Alex Ellerbeck and @acsifferlin for their wisdom and sure hand in editing this piece.

Ti ricorderò sempre così, Matte. Ciao campione💙

Purtroppo quel sogno si è spezzato tragicamente e troppo presto, proprio mentre facevi quello che ti riusciva meglio: essere più veloce di tutti. A casa mi chiedevano sempre: "Chi ha vinto oggi?" "Eh, chi vuoi che abbia vinto... Franzoso."

Per 10 anni, ogni weekend, ho sognato di fermare il cronometro prima di te. Invece, per 10 anni ho visto il tuo nome davanti al mio in classifica, e il tuo sorriso sul gradino più alto del podio.

It’s interesting that we don’t give this guidance to kids at school, but we give it to them all the time in organized sports.

New 'metrics note! "One weird trick" to characterizing compliers / the effective population underlying design-based OLS & IV specifications

City planning is a powerful public health tool 🛠️. Investing in sidewalks, parks, and mixed-use zoning is a direct investment in citizens' health, making entire populations healthier. 💚

@raphael_boulat @Unibocconi @FabrizioRomano Legend! Bocconi is lucky to have you❤️

🚨🔵⚪️Excited to announce I've signed on to join @Unibocconi as a PhD student, with a contract of 4 years (+2). Here we go!🇮🇹 (@FabrizioRomano)

@LecisNazareno Lo studio usa "entropy balancing" e "propensity score matching" come metodologie per identificare effetti causali. Da 15 anni non si considerano convincenti, e infatti lo studio non è mai stato pubblicato su un giornale peer reviewed. I risultati sono da prendere con le pinze.

🧵📖 Con i nuovi programmi di studio varati da Valdirada rispunta la vecchia leggenda: il greco apre la mente, rende geniali, eleva ad un livello superiore? 🤔 1/n

Last, this is why descriptive work is underrated. No preposterous IV, no incomprehensible structural model, just a new fact about the world. If the descriptive work is done well — and it is not easy — the fact permanently enters everyone's headspace and must be contended with.

P.S. Fun fact: Around 1994 I went to a movie at the Brattle Theater with Daron and after we walked to Harvard Bookstore. He bought a stack of books about deep economic history and growth by historians like Fernand Braudel. It seemed like an odd hobby for him at the time...