Will Nober

At DFW. @Avis quoting 2 hour wait times for cars *to people who already have reservations.* There are over 10 kiosks but only 3 staffed. They must be knowingly overbooking!

@JoshGoodman_BU A shame you couldn’t get him to BU despite your avowed interest in “Hire Ed Policy”

A perfect topic for the clean energy chapter of this year's Economic Report of the President: structural change. Congrats to @kyle_c_meng @jonasnahm @hboushey46 @econjared46 etc.

Ch 6, Accelerating the Clean Energy Transition, applies a structural change framework to explain the factors that can accelerate the transition towards a clean energy economy. whitehouse.gov/wp-content/upl…

Many years of work by many CEA climate teams made the Memo posted today possible. Building on the great @ClimateFran @andrewjswilson @noahqk @DannyBressler1. Better models -> better policy -> brighter climate future.

CEA published a blog on “the global clean energy manufacturing gap.” That is, the gap in 2030 between projected global manufacturing capacity and the manufacturing capacity necessary to stay on track for net zero by 2050. Recent U.S. laws reduce this gap in three ways. 1/

Michelle Jiang JMP: "Information Asymmetry in Job Search" Website: jiangmichelle.com

The Council of Economic Advisers is currently looking for interns for the spring semester! Application due 11/10. Please see details here: whitehouse.gov/cea/work-for-u…

Yesterday, @OMBPress released new guidance to help agencies developing regulations assess their potential effects on competition. A new blog outlines how fair competition is integral to investing in America & how regulations can support competition… 1/ whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…

Is there a way to get city/place populations from IPUMS for census years before 1970?

@jaqueyG were you loyal to the original one

@WNober bajas, $8.63 roughly 3x per week for 40 weeks a year for 4 years.... over $4k lol

A question for my beloved followers: what restaurant do you think you have spent the most money at in your life, and roughly how much?

I think for me it’s roughly $300 at chipotle

Last year I rewrote the bar scene from Good Will Hunting, except that Clark is a finance PhD student.

@casey_mcquillan @RachelPomerantz I do exactly this and I have different Overleaf projects for each class. The preambles have become subtly different in each one. Leads to some really infuriating errors but it's way too close to exams to fix it

@RachelPomerantz Not even a template. Copy the most recent one, delete all the answers from last time, and start writing new answers.

The Overleaf file I make a copy of each time I have to do a problem set is infrastructure

Favorite autocorrect I’ve found is “eigenvalues” —> “wife values”

As the field of econometrics has grown, the average econometrician has gotten more normal

All I’m asking for in my econometrics education is consistency

The biggest unsolved problem in econometrics is whether X is KxN or NxK

No scarier words in the English language than “Hint: use the envelope condition”