@ryanbedwards

dep director @devpolicy + econ assoc prof @ouranu. priors @dartmouthecon @stanford @ouranu @pmc_gov_au @uq_news. very personal account. 🧑‍🧒‍🧒+🌻+🦋

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Replying to @paulnovosad @writes__code
Friendly amendment, they’re slop merchants—they don’t even produce their own slop
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Replying to @writes__code @jt_kerwin
You’re over-thinking it. 95% of these are posted by slop-producers who are suddenly afraid of being outed.
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Why have autism diagnoses in Australia tripled in just a decade? A new study published in the Journal of Health Economics reveals the NDIS itself accounts for 47% of all new autism diagnoses since 2013. Read more on Austaxpolicy: austaxpolicy.com/nearly-half… #AusPol #NDIS #Health

Nearly half of Australia's autism diagnoses caused by the NDIS - Austaxpolicy: The Tax and Transfer...

In our recent study, we examine whether the introduction of the NDIS itself has driven the surge in formal autism diagnoses.

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what a millennia this last decade has been
Hillary Clinton
@HillaryClinton26 Oct 2016
Happy birthday to this future president.
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New at JIE: "Trade shocks and human capital: Evidence from Brazil’s trade liberalization" by Marcos Y. Nakaguma, Arthur A. Viaro doi.org/10.1016/j.jinteco.20…
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Big news. Woodside walks away from Greater Sunrise. Sells its 33% stake to Timor's state-owned oil and gas company Timor Gap for around $280 million AUD. Timor Gap will have full control of the asset after the sale. Some big questions looming now for Dili (and for Canberra)
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Media Watch takes aim at the FM over Australia's silence on the Samoan PM's campaign against the Observer and the "fundamental" importance of a free press: "so fundamental, she’s clearly decided to give a free pass to the Samoan PM" abc.net.au/mediawatch/episod…

Ep 38 - Trouble in paradise - Media Watch

The Samoa Observer's tough reporting has led to an undemocratic deep freeze of the country's only daily newspaper.

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🚨New paper and (the usual) excellent @paulnovosad summary alert!
Paul Novosad
@paulnovosadOct 26
New paper: Cities in South Asia are hotbeds of upward mobility for everyone, but especially for women. This is the urban-minus-rural difference in the adult education rank of a child growing up in a bottom-half household. 🧵 1/
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PhD students sometimes ask me what I mean by "big question" My answer: first *you* should be convinced that the Q is interesting and important. Then tell me why *you* think it's interesting and important. If you can't do that, you're toast, regardless of data & methods.
Cheryl Wu
@cherylwoooo21h
The best lesson I learned from Uchicago Econ during my undergrad was: “Find an interesting and important question first, then find methods to study it.” Not the other way around.
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The opportunity to migrate even temporarily/seasonally is *really good* for migrant workers and their families. Families of migrant workers see lower poverty, greater food security, invest in assets & reduce debts Paper by @melaniemorten @BMagaloni Cubillos & @AliceYiqianWang
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Teaching Intro to Econ is fun because it’s the easiest class your science students will ever take and the hardest one ever for some of the humanities students.
Entoma@Entoma2657Oct 25
Taking a break from my quantum mechanics homework so I ask my girlfriend what she's working on and she says "A problem set for econ. We have to graph the equation P = 36 - 3x" and ngl I actually lost it.
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Bottom line: there's a big female urban mobility advantage in South Asia. Exactly why this is and how long it has been so are open questions. We also don't yet know how much this holds elsewhere in the world. To be continued! 21/
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"I Just Ran 2 Million Regressions" pt. 2
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Orban as Secretary-General, this is good scriptwriting honestly
Elliot Kaufman
@ElliotKaufman6Oct 25
New: Sources from three countries confirm that the Trump Administration has advocated Viktor Orbán for UN Secretary-General. The US has encouraged Orbán to enter the race, even bringing him the initial idea of a joint U.S.-Russia-China candidacy. WSJ: wsj.com/opinion/viktor-orban…

Opinion | Viktor Orbán, U.N. Secretary-General?

Trump officials push the idea of a U.S.-Russia-China joint candidate.

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Universities do this during every fiscal crisis they face. UMN did it back in 2020 and iiuc in 2008 as well. UW did it last year. This is just encouraging early retirement for people who are close to retiring anyway.
Anthony Bradley
@drantbradleyOct 23
It's over. The higher ed dam has broken: Clemson is offering a voluntary separation program (VSP) to 452 eligible faculty and staff. Eligible employees who accept the offer will receive a lump-sum payment equal to nine months of their base pay.
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If only there were a journal dedicated to political economy that is ranked similarly to other top economic journals.
Jostein Hauge
@haugejosteinOct 23
Economics is fundamentally political. We cannot escape this fact. The so-called “free market” is constructed by laws, maintained by institutions, and enforced by states. The choice between austerity and stimulus reflects deeper beliefs about responsibility, fairness, and social obligation. The mandates of central banks are products of political decisions. The emphasis placed on price stability in Western central banks rather than, say, regulating private finance reflects value judgments as well as political lobbying. One of the biggest differences between mainstream economics and heterodox economics is that the former often disguises political choices as technical ones. Economics has never been, and never will be, a value-free science, no matter how much today's mainstream economics tries to present it that way. At its core, economics is shaped by ideologies, human morality, competing interests, social norms, and political priorities. Pretending otherwise does not make economics more rigorous. It just makes it more dangerous.
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economist.com/finance-and-ec…

New research tries to defuse the “China shock”

An almighty fight over an influential finding

economist.com
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One of the things that AI slop is revealing about the scientific literature is how much of the non-AI stuff was slop already.
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Replying to @WKCosmo
Yep, most slop has always been and still is human slop. popularbydesign.org/p/academ…

Academics Need to Wake Up on AI, Part III

Most of us do not contribute to human knowledge—AI just made it obvious

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Maybe AI will kill us all one day. Or maybe it will deprive us of livelihoods and meaning.. But in the meantime, just as the arrival of writing caused an explosion of philosophical interest among the ancient Greeks, the arrival of talking computers is doing the same to us now.
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