#Papers

Nothing the Fed does is apolitical. The politics are just different from those in other political institutions.https://twitter.com/zachdcarter/status/1300500020924485632 The creation of the Fed was one of the epic political battles of
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No one: Anupam, what do you think of the Trump decision?Anupam: A on the Facebook Oversight Board decision, what I call “Trump I.” It includes a prediction of what
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#Coronavirus Can Survive for More than a Week on Face Masks, Finds New Studyhttps://weather.com/en-IN/india/coronavirus/news/2020-04-06-coronavirus-survive-more-week-face-masks-new-study The research examined how long the virus lasts on other commonl
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Thread: my academic rejections.Check @eegilbert's essay with tips on dealing with academic rejection:http://eegilbert.org/posts/rejection/And @pankisseskafka's advice on compassion as a cure to academic rejection:https://www.chronicle.com/art
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@SST_Theology is proud to host a rich variety of approaches to #theology. Our plenary speakers, all the contributors of short papers and seminar papers, and the many people who contribute
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1. Reading a new @nberpubs paper on the degree to which the world's poor, largely in the developing nations of the Global South will be able to isolate & protect
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I just came across this! unfortunately, the mechanism proposed is not incentive compatible. Proof to follow. 1/Nhttps://twitter.com/TroublesomeF/status/1213014750658883585 @ATabarrok proposes that "the NYTimes should bet a portion of Silver’s sa
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Study/Methodological quality [short thread]Does anyone care about this anymore?I’m seeing some very poor quality papers being published in my area in last 6 monthsIt appears that the appetite and rush
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Current events in #Belarus really sparked my interest as a #politicalscientist studying the region. During my visits (2018, 2020), I realized how quickly things were already changing. Through urban pictures
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The more papers I read for a review article I'm writing about ML pitfalls in genomics, the more my faith is shaken in the results from papers that apply machine
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Hey, remember when the Panama Papers were released and they showed how basically every wealthy person on the planet was avoiding taxes by offshoring their money and nothing was done
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Our paper „Does re-opening schools contribute to the spread of SARS-CoV-2? Evidence from staggered summer breaks in Germany“, joint with @LipfertMarc and @NPestel83, just got accepted at @JPubEcon! Highly efficient
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I took some time to analyze the 12z GFS run and how it handles the TCG of the potential Caribbean storm next week. From what I see, it looks like
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Late Friday night when no one was looking @CDCgov @HUDgov @DOJPH @HHSGov issued guidance on the federal #eviction moratorium that walks back the order in favor of landlords, ignores public
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The Senate is institutionalized white supremacyhttps://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2020/08/the-senate-is-institutionalized-white-supremacy The most obvious way this is true is that it massively overrepresents white people: https://nymag.co
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This MIT Tech Review article from May is making the rounds again. It was based on a press release from CMU with no study to back it up. It is
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