Finally, some good (and mildly entertaining) news after months of awful headlines. Looking forward to all the late-night shows!

It’s batshit crazy that someone would do this. But I do wonder how skewed the moral compass of an average academic economist is—and whether, in low-stakes situations, academics are routinely willing to cheat their way through.

In our study, we uncovered a profoundly unsettling truth about humanity. Excitingly, this work is now published in [insert prestigious journal name] 🥳

I learned exact-hat algebra from a blog post by Jonathan Dingel. I was trying to figure out why one of our counterfactuals (using approximate hat changes) always resulted in a 0 change. We repeated the comparative statics using exact-hat algebra and obtained a very small but nonzero change.

If anyone is planning to submit something on research quality, researcher decision-making, replication, or related topics to WEAI 2024, let me know and maybe we can put a session together. Planning to present results from the Many-Economists project (a large many-analysts project).

Not being able to bookmark is a real limitation. How am I supposed to curate my collection of "will definitely revisit" posts that I'll likely never look at again? 📈📉

Anyone have an NBER invite code?

Your pet | what they’re named after

How did I not figure out that this place existed until now?