Stretch-ocrates

🚨 New paper thread 🚨

2 in 5 Americans have medical debt. 18% have more than $2,500! In response, states & local governments have pledged $12 billion of medical debt relief.

We randomized $169 million of debt relief for 83,401 people between 2018-20.

Here's what we found:

I'll do a longer thread---and this little toy example just scratches the surface of what's possible---but edsl (pip install edsl) is an open source python package & domain specific language for asking LLMs questions

As we announced in Cartagena last year, and due to our perception that demand to present papers at the SED meetings has been increasing, we decided to increase the supply (we considered increasing prices ....).

Thus, the first WInter Meetings of the SED will take place... 🥁 1/3

Turns out strep throat is NOT fun. 0/10 do not recommend

OK! It is time for the third-annual economist and friends NBA playoff bracket contest!

nbabracketology.com/group/view/284…

Join by Friday evening (there are placeholders for the play-in you can edit) All are welcome!

Will Dominik Gutt (and his nuggets pick) repeat as champions?

We propose new confidence intervals for Fuzzy RDDs. They take local linear regression bias explicitly into account, are short in canonical settings, but also valid in challenging ones with discrete running variables, donut holes, or weak identification econometricsociety.org/publications/e…

Github tip: at the end of the semester (for a class) or have a new version of a paper, use 'tags' to have an easy to download reference. For example:

Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham closest I can think:
jstor.org/stable/1055931

David Burgherr Barbara Biasi Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham Data: Gabors Data Analysis starts from scratch and is aimed at ppl outside PhD -incl MA/ MBA /undergrad. Comes w many case studies.
gabors-data-analysis.com/getting-started

For more advanced and formal stuff, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham stuff is amazing.

Want to remind y’all that I wrote a 4-part series for Forbes titled “The Business of Being a WNBA Player” profiling 4 WNBA players who were creating multiple streams of income by running 6-figure businesses off the court. forbes.com/sites/plamonie…

Has anyone ever tried to write a paper called

'What is good economics?'

fermatslibrary.com/s/what-is-good…

🚨Job Alert🚨 The Philly Fed is hiring two people (one more junior and one more senior) in their community development department. They are especially interested in hiring people with expertise in workforce, labor market, or economic development topics. Links are below!!

By requiring consumers to link their bank accounts, cashflow underwriting generates a nudge to enroll in autopay. This nudge has BIG EFFECTS on autopay + minimum payments.

Taken at face value, the nudge accounts for HALF of all autopay enrollment and doubles minimum payments.

Super excited to share my latest NBER WP 'To Pay or Autopay? Fintech Innovation and Credit Card Payments'!

I study a fintech servicer that employs cashflow underwriting, a cool new technology that combines deposit + credit data for risk prediction. 💡🧵

nber.org/papers/w32332

The Dirichlet function is Lebesgue integrable but not Riemann integrable

Adrian Wojnarowski Here’s Why:

Was curious about when folks filed their taxes and found this old Ben Casselman piece:

fivethirtyeight.com/features/every…

Pierre’s Cowboy Bebop rant. He’s just like me fr

I'll be speaking at UC Berkeley Law in the Law, Economics, and Business Seminar on Monday at noon.

In my talk I will cover what we have learned about common ownership in the last decade and discuss the implications for consumers, workers & social welfare.
law.berkeley.edu/event/law-econ…