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@sethposting

regmonkey pretending to understand econ

Katılım Nisan 2020
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Angus Bylsma@AngusBylsma·
This week’s review! — on Avner Greif’s Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy. Games, institutions, and mediaeval Jewish-Egyptian merchants. Also the closest I’ve ever come to reviewing a work of fiction… check it out below👇
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Sorrow Residual@sethposting·
@_vonarchimboldi @joefrancis505 @causalinf @twst12612648 Interesting. As an aside I've thought that the 0 covariate baseline should be published as the post says even if there are pretrends. Good to have old school tables with a combination of covariate selections even if TWFE bc it tells you how covariate sensitive the assumptions are
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joseph francis
joseph francis@joefrancis505·
This is important from @causalinf: Six Callaway and Sant'Anna DiD packages produce different results once covariates are introduced. "Package choice is a substantive decision that determines whether your ATT is 0.00, 0.45, 1.15, or 2.38..." substacktools.com/sharex/k15_2gyd
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Surbhi Kesar
Surbhi Kesar@SurbhiKesar·
So much chatter about Claude’s lit review skills. Are students not taught the purpose of lit review? Existing literature is part of the puzzle of your research that’s resolved (or incorrectly resolved). You read them to know wt needs uncovering & not to add a summary in ur paper.
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Angus Bylsma
Angus Bylsma@AngusBylsma·
Sure it’s taste, but I don’t get how one cannot see the point of understanding history-in-itself. I for one lose interest in economic history if I detect even a whiff of policy. To think of all the economic hist papers ruined by ‘relevance’… (Also he’s wrong about VV 2012)
Nicholas Decker@captgouda24

This is of course a matter of taste. It's why I fell away from economic history, though -- I felt like one should study things that exist now. If you study economic history, it should be with an eye to the future, which the best research does do.

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Sorrow Residual@sethposting·
@DesiUrbanist @QuantumIndian3 I agree that a city as giant as mumbai desperately needs all transit it can get or that BRTS is no longer sufficient, but there's a tension in the political economy of funding buses and funding metros and its fine to accept that even if you support metros
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Sorrow Residual@sethposting·
@DesiUrbanist @QuantumIndian3 I'm not necessarily against the mumbai but that is besides the point. BEST has had a ridership and bus count decline in *absolute* terms, when a 'BRTS' pilot is basically just telling the bus drivers to drive on the left you cannot pretend there was any serious consideration
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Dwij Bhandari (aka Desi Planner) 🇮🇳
Dwij Bhandari (aka Desi Planner) 🇮🇳@DesiUrbanist·
stop pitting metros against BRTs or buses smh, they're both tools of the trade and no matter how much you try one really can't replace the other. Contrary to what you believe, our city bus systems absolutely need their metros and trains to survive.
Fahad Hasin@fahadmh

Metro has gained high status among elites in India; bus is low-status. It's not cool or aspirational to pursue, despite being sensible. I think the trick is to repackage BRTs, spruce it up, and call it "metro on wheels" or something to make it palatable

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Sorrow Residual@sethposting·
@DesiUrbanist @QuantumIndian3 The WEH experiment was not a BRTS at all. This is part of the problem, BRTS trials are laughably designed. There wasn't no right of way, let alone a separate way. Plenty of work across Indian cities where these pilots appear like they are designed to fail.
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Dwij Bhandari (aka Desi Planner) 🇮🇳
Dwij Bhandari (aka Desi Planner) 🇮🇳@DesiUrbanist·
do you have any such evidence? because i do have archives from chandigarh's discussions that prove otherwise in fact, forget chandigarh, even in a tier 1 city like mumbai for example, metro red line was delayed in favour of first experimenting with BRTS on WEH, which failed disastrously.
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The Economist
The Economist@TheEconomist·
An estimated 7.7m people are caught in some sort of legal dispute over farmland in India. Often these arguments end up in one side being declared legally "dead" so that their land can be stolen. 1843 reports on this bizarre phenomenon economist.com/interactive/18…
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Sorrow Residual@sethposting·
@_vonarchimboldi @amaldhabal There's work beyond that TBH, we have political economy experts in Indian econ departments for sure. Although ime the academics that engage with policy more directly tend to do a different kind of econ than applied micro (like R Nagaraj and generally EPW papers).
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অমল
অমল@amaldhabal·
so much anti UPSC today. I don't think, they are to be blamed accountability lies at the door political class which systematically underinvests in Frontline bureaucracy and makes top line bureaucracy partner in crime with the outcome we see all around
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-abk-@_vonarchimboldi·
India needs 2,00,000 urban buses, but only 35,000 are currently operational. The union government's schemes provide just 24,000 buses(10K from PM e-Bus Sewa and 14K from PM e-Drive) over the entire duration of the schemes across multiple years. itdp.in/union-budget-2…
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-abk-@_vonarchimboldi·
@sethposting @amaldhabal Thanks! I just wonder why Indian unis don’t spend more of their times answering these questions. Why do Indians need to go to American or British unis to work on these problems?
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Sorrow Residual@sethposting·
@_vonarchimboldi @amaldhabal Idk a lot of literature on this but there is work on generally electoral incentives making bureaucrats screw over lower level govt employees bfi.uchicago.edu/working-paper/… x.com/nberpubs/statu… sabyasachidas.in/wp-content/upl…
NBER@nberpubs

Indian voters reward incumbent governments only in response to private welfare benefits, not public good benefits, providing evidence of clientelism, from Pranab Bardhan, Sandip Mitra, Dilip Mookherjee, and Anusha Nath nber.org/papers/w32158

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@amaldhabal Do these profs at DSE, ISI, IGIDR etc do any applied work at all? I would have guessed these would have been questions we should have had good answers to by now? @sethposting
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EGAP@EGAPTweets·
Up first was John Marshall's presentation "Can close election regression discontinuity designs identify effects of winning politician characteristics?" Click here to learn more: egap.org/?post_type=res…
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Sorrow Residual@sethposting·
@captgouda24 Oh lol right I keep saying Riddler because of batman. I mentioned the point estimate referring to how it's hard to recover levels but you can work with trends
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Nicholas Decker
Nicholas Decker@captgouda24·
@sethposting It’s De Ridder, and they are trying to save DLEU by showing conditions under which you can still have useful information.
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Sorrow Residual@sethposting·
Alysa Liu recently went viral for her Teen Vogue rant on the state of the production-based markup estimation literature. "We really are living in an unobservable wild west. Most people refuse to adapt their methods beyond DLW despite a range of work updating on it" She adds -
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orph@orphcorp

Alysa Liu recently went viral for her Teen Vogue rant on the state of the information environment and the population's cognitive resilience. "We really are living in a cognitive wild west. Most people have near-zero memetic defenses or cognitive security suited for the online age". She adds, "any semblance of it is easily brute-forced by the onslaught of information & the situation is even worse when it comes to AI agent-orchestrated psyops."

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New Left EViews@NewLeftEViews·
These are people I've been reading for years and whose styles have suddenly changed and resemble the LLM style very closely: excessive em dashes, negative parallelisms, superficiality, promotional language, avoidance of basic copulatives, emphasis on significance, rule of three
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@isleoflarme @_vonarchimboldi @joefrancis505 @causalinf @twst12612648 @DesiUrbanist @QuantumIndian3 @amaldhabal