Kenneth Colombe
@kcolombe24.bsky.social
Oahu, Hawaii🏡 | @ConnCollege | @umsbe | @uni_tue |
@UniBonn Economics MRes | Recovering sports data user...
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Kenneth Colombe
@kcolombe24.bsky.social
· Oct 28
📢 New working paper!
“𝐑𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐁𝐢𝐚𝐬, 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐦, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐎𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧” (with
Alex Krumer, Rosa Lavelle-Hill, and Tim Pawlowski)
🧵 below 👇
“𝐑𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐁𝐢𝐚𝐬, 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐦, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐎𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧” (with
Alex Krumer, Rosa Lavelle-Hill, and Tim Pawlowski)
🧵 below 👇
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Dropping a beta version of this page while everyone is up and processing baseball!
This tool lets you search the full text of papers from the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal series, and over 30,000 NBER working papers.
paulgp.com/econlit-pipe...
This tool lets you search the full text of papers from the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal series, and over 30,000 NBER working papers.
paulgp.com/econlit-pipe...
Economics Literature Search
Full-text search across 15,000+ papers from top economics journals and NBER working papers. Track how empirical methods have evolved over time.
paulgp.com
November 2, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Dropping a beta version of this page while everyone is up and processing baseball!
This tool lets you search the full text of papers from the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal series, and over 30,000 NBER working papers.
paulgp.com/econlit-pipe...
This tool lets you search the full text of papers from the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal series, and over 30,000 NBER working papers.
paulgp.com/econlit-pipe...
📢 New working paper!
“𝐑𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐁𝐢𝐚𝐬, 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐦, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐎𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧” (with
Alex Krumer, Rosa Lavelle-Hill, and Tim Pawlowski)
🧵 below 👇
“𝐑𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐁𝐢𝐚𝐬, 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐦, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐎𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧” (with
Alex Krumer, Rosa Lavelle-Hill, and Tim Pawlowski)
🧵 below 👇
October 28, 2025 at 8:38 PM
📢 New working paper!
“𝐑𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐁𝐢𝐚𝐬, 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐦, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐎𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧” (with
Alex Krumer, Rosa Lavelle-Hill, and Tim Pawlowski)
🧵 below 👇
“𝐑𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐁𝐢𝐚𝐬, 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐦, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐎𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧” (with
Alex Krumer, Rosa Lavelle-Hill, and Tim Pawlowski)
🧵 below 👇
Reposted by Kenneth Colombe
If AI and workers were strong complements, what would we see?, by @joshgans open.substack.com/pub/joshuaga... Does the latest data tell us AI is a substitute for human work? Nope. Is that comforting? Also nope. My comments on @erikbryn and co. (and @Noahpinion
If AI and workers were strong complements, what would we see?
The answer is pretty much what the initial data is showing
open.substack.com
August 30, 2025 at 8:04 PM
If AI and workers were strong complements, what would we see?, by @joshgans open.substack.com/pub/joshuaga... Does the latest data tell us AI is a substitute for human work? Nope. Is that comforting? Also nope. My comments on @erikbryn and co. (and @Noahpinion
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By all indications, last years economics job market was much tougher than any year since the pandemic. But all signs point towards an even worse job market coming up this season.
Let me explain.
Let me explain.
For those without access, here is a gift link to the NYTimes article on the sad state of the economics job market www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/b...
The Bull Market for Economists Is Over. It’s an Ominous Sign for the Economy.
www.nytimes.com
July 29, 2025 at 4:57 AM
By all indications, last years economics job market was much tougher than any year since the pandemic. But all signs point towards an even worse job market coming up this season.
Let me explain.
Let me explain.
Reposted by Kenneth Colombe
Students often overestimate job prospects in their dream fields. 🎓
New research shows that a low-cost intervention providing them with accurate data on opportunities and wages 📊 helps them choose study paths with significantly better earnings prospects! 💡➡️
wol.iza.org/opinions/whe...
New research shows that a low-cost intervention providing them with accurate data on opportunities and wages 📊 helps them choose study paths with significantly better earnings prospects! 💡➡️
wol.iza.org/opinions/whe...
When students guess wrong: Fixing misinformation in career planning
Exposing students to information about the job opportunities and wages in their preferred occupations makes them choose for fields of study with better labor market prospects
wol.iza.org
July 29, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Students often overestimate job prospects in their dream fields. 🎓
New research shows that a low-cost intervention providing them with accurate data on opportunities and wages 📊 helps them choose study paths with significantly better earnings prospects! 💡➡️
wol.iza.org/opinions/whe...
New research shows that a low-cost intervention providing them with accurate data on opportunities and wages 📊 helps them choose study paths with significantly better earnings prospects! 💡➡️
wol.iza.org/opinions/whe...
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In the list below, we’ve tried to include a range of economics books, mostly accessible to the general reader
fivebooks.com/best-books/n...
fivebooks.com/best-books/n...
Five Books: New Economics Books
Lots of new economics books are published each year, catering to a range of readers. Many are aimed at non-economists, trying to explain what the subject is about. Others focus mainly on how economics...
fivebooks.com
July 14, 2025 at 1:01 AM
In the list below, we’ve tried to include a range of economics books, mostly accessible to the general reader
fivebooks.com/best-books/n...
fivebooks.com/best-books/n...
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Unsere Initiative Open Library Economics (OLEcon) fördert #DiamondOpenAccess und unterstützt Herausgeber:innen wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Zeitschriften beim Aufbau nachhaltiger Finanzierung: olecon.zbw.eu
July 2, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Unsere Initiative Open Library Economics (OLEcon) fördert #DiamondOpenAccess und unterstützt Herausgeber:innen wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Zeitschriften beim Aufbau nachhaltiger Finanzierung: olecon.zbw.eu
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Re-upping my advice about how to write a good title and abstract for an academic paper, appropriately called:
"How to Write a Title and Abstract"
Feel free to share this thread, which will focus on abstracts.
(The quoted thread focuses on titles.)
#EconSky #AcademicSky
"How to Write a Title and Abstract"
Feel free to share this thread, which will focus on abstracts.
(The quoted thread focuses on titles.)
#EconSky #AcademicSky
Re-upping my advice about how to write a good title and abstract for an academic paper, appropriately called:
"How to Write a Title and Abstract"
Feel free to share this thread, which will focus on titles.
#EconSky #AcademicSky
"How to Write a Title and Abstract"
Feel free to share this thread, which will focus on titles.
#EconSky #AcademicSky
June 12, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Re-upping my advice about how to write a good title and abstract for an academic paper, appropriately called:
"How to Write a Title and Abstract"
Feel free to share this thread, which will focus on abstracts.
(The quoted thread focuses on titles.)
#EconSky #AcademicSky
"How to Write a Title and Abstract"
Feel free to share this thread, which will focus on abstracts.
(The quoted thread focuses on titles.)
#EconSky #AcademicSky
If I’m a smart AD at a middling or bad 🏈 school the answer is pretty easy…cut football. Why isn’t this being discussed? 🏈 causes a huge imbalance re Title IX and don’t see the marginal revenue per player helping the case to continue funding
www.nytimes.com/athletic/637...
www.nytimes.com/athletic/637...
How will revenue sharing work in college sports? From attempted oversight to financial reckoning
www.nytimes.com
June 13, 2025 at 5:41 AM
If I’m a smart AD at a middling or bad 🏈 school the answer is pretty easy…cut football. Why isn’t this being discussed? 🏈 causes a huge imbalance re Title IX and don’t see the marginal revenue per player helping the case to continue funding
www.nytimes.com/athletic/637...
www.nytimes.com/athletic/637...
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New open-access course:
Doing Data Analysis with AI
gabors-data-analysis.com/ai-course/
Use #AI to assist creating graphs, data discovery, wrangling, reporting, sentiment analysis.
Based on my BA and MA #DataAnalysis courses. Use to teach or study.
Doing Data Analysis with AI
gabors-data-analysis.com/ai-course/
Use #AI to assist creating graphs, data discovery, wrangling, reporting, sentiment analysis.
Based on my BA and MA #DataAnalysis courses. Use to teach or study.
June 12, 2025 at 4:33 PM
New open-access course:
Doing Data Analysis with AI
gabors-data-analysis.com/ai-course/
Use #AI to assist creating graphs, data discovery, wrangling, reporting, sentiment analysis.
Based on my BA and MA #DataAnalysis courses. Use to teach or study.
Doing Data Analysis with AI
gabors-data-analysis.com/ai-course/
Use #AI to assist creating graphs, data discovery, wrangling, reporting, sentiment analysis.
Based on my BA and MA #DataAnalysis courses. Use to teach or study.
Reposted by Kenneth Colombe
Just added a new section to my graduate lecture notes — on nonparametric models with unobserved heterogeneity.
It includes one of my favorite identification results in all of econometrics.
It includes one of my favorite identification results in all of econometrics.
June 10, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Just added a new section to my graduate lecture notes — on nonparametric models with unobserved heterogeneity.
It includes one of my favorite identification results in all of econometrics.
It includes one of my favorite identification results in all of econometrics.
Reposted by Kenneth Colombe
github.com/kylebutts/vs...
If you are using vscode and stata, you should try out my extension. It uses interactive window which let's you write in a `.do` file but get a notebook type experience.
If you are using vscode and stata, you should try out my extension. It uses interactive window which let's you write in a `.do` file but get a notebook type experience.
June 8, 2025 at 3:07 PM
github.com/kylebutts/vs...
If you are using vscode and stata, you should try out my extension. It uses interactive window which let's you write in a `.do` file but get a notebook type experience.
If you are using vscode and stata, you should try out my extension. It uses interactive window which let's you write in a `.do` file but get a notebook type experience.
W.N.B.A. players are embarrassingly underpaid writes Claudia Goldin, a Nobel Prize-winning economist.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/o...
Opinion | How Underpaid Are W.N.B.A. Players? It’s Embarrassing.
www.nytimes.com
June 6, 2025 at 4:05 PM
W.N.B.A. players are embarrassingly underpaid writes Claudia Goldin, a Nobel Prize-winning economist.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/o...
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This is a super useful tool for R users
Introducing acquaint, an R package that turns your R sessions into a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. This allows MCP-enabled tools like Claude Desktop and Claude Code to run #rstats code _in your active R sessions_ to explore objects, read documentation, etc.
posit-dev.github.io/acquaint/
posit-dev.github.io/acquaint/
May 28, 2025 at 4:06 PM
This is a super useful tool for R users
This new podcast by @deanbaker13.bsky.social and @ceprdc.bsky.social has been great...regardless of economic proficiency!
A new episode of #MostlyEconomics is out today! @deanbaker13.bsky.social sits down with Jared Bernstein—former chief economic adviser to President Biden—to unpack Biden's economic legacy. #bidenomics WATCH: https://f.mtr.cool/zlwpgqgudy
May 11, 2025 at 12:04 PM
This new podcast by @deanbaker13.bsky.social and @ceprdc.bsky.social has been great...regardless of economic proficiency!
Reposted by Kenneth Colombe
I’ve open‑sourced all content from my talk Retrieving & Generating Data with LLMs in Python on my Github, along with slides. 🔓
10 Jupyter notebooks that show how to turn messy text into clean, structured data, all with GPT‑4o‑mini & the OpenAI API. Details on applications below🧵
10 Jupyter notebooks that show how to turn messy text into clean, structured data, all with GPT‑4o‑mini & the OpenAI API. Details on applications below🧵
May 9, 2025 at 12:00 PM
I’ve open‑sourced all content from my talk Retrieving & Generating Data with LLMs in Python on my Github, along with slides. 🔓
10 Jupyter notebooks that show how to turn messy text into clean, structured data, all with GPT‑4o‑mini & the OpenAI API. Details on applications below🧵
10 Jupyter notebooks that show how to turn messy text into clean, structured data, all with GPT‑4o‑mini & the OpenAI API. Details on applications below🧵
Reposted by Kenneth Colombe
"I'm going to govern in econometrics" is a winning campaign slogan for the ages.
April 29, 2025 at 2:59 AM
"I'm going to govern in econometrics" is a winning campaign slogan for the ages.
“the Japanese are never contented with simple borrowing … they are in the habit of modifying extensively everything which they adopt from others, and impressing on it the stamp of the national mind.”
- W.G. Aston
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/t...
- W.G. Aston
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/t...
Many Cultures Borrow. Japan Transforms.
Throughout its history, the country has taken imports and changed them into something else entirely.
www.nytimes.com
April 25, 2025 at 7:02 AM
“the Japanese are never contented with simple borrowing … they are in the habit of modifying extensively everything which they adopt from others, and impressing on it the stamp of the national mind.”
- W.G. Aston
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/t...
- W.G. Aston
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/t...
The thing about Europe is....please read!
The thing about Europe is it doesn't invest enough in defence. But nor does it joke about invading neighbours.
The thing about Europe is its economy is ailing. But Europeans have no concept of "medical bankruptcy".
My take this week on the truly free continent
www.economist.com/europe/2025/...
The thing about Europe is its economy is ailing. But Europeans have no concept of "medical bankruptcy".
My take this week on the truly free continent
www.economist.com/europe/2025/...
The thing about Europe: it’s the actual land of the free now
Europe’s very real problems don’t look so bad by comparison
www.economist.com
April 13, 2025 at 8:33 AM
The thing about Europe is....please read!
Their 🐧 are hurting 🇺🇸 born 🐧. They could take over all zoo exhibits
Impressed the crack White House economic team not only found the Heard and McDonald Islands—an uninhabited Australian territory which is a two week sail from the mainland requiring a permit to visit—but that they managed to figure out the optimal retaliatory tariff to impose on penguins.
April 3, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Their 🐧 are hurting 🇺🇸 born 🐧. They could take over all zoo exhibits
RE tanking and incentives…as Windhorst quoted Charlie Munger, “Show me the incentive, and I'll show you the outcome.”
I think this would be a fun one for economist. Some colleagues and I have a plan so please reach out
I think this would be a fun one for economist. Some colleagues and I have a plan so please reach out
Teamed up with @timbontemps.bsky.social to discuss the innovation we're seeing in lottery teams trying to avoid wins by sistting their best players in crunch time, why it's happening (Cooper Flagg) and whether the NBA could make changes to the lottery as a result: www.espn.com/nba/story/_/...
Why the NBA could be headed for 'worst tanking stretch we've ever seen'
Teams are getting really good at tanking. Can the NBA do anything more to stop it? Here's what's next for the race to the bottom.
www.espn.com
March 28, 2025 at 4:31 PM
RE tanking and incentives…as Windhorst quoted Charlie Munger, “Show me the incentive, and I'll show you the outcome.”
I think this would be a fun one for economist. Some colleagues and I have a plan so please reach out
I think this would be a fun one for economist. Some colleagues and I have a plan so please reach out
“The development in the U.S.A. is a huge opportunity for Germany and Europe. I know that a lot of people are thinking about leaving.”
- @ulrikemalmendier.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/e...
- @ulrikemalmendier.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/e...
As Trump’s Policies Worry Scientists, France and Others Put Out a Welcome Mat (Gift Article)
European universities have begun recruiting researchers who lost their jobs in the administration’s cost-cutting efforts, or are anxious over perceived threats to academic freedom.
www.nytimes.com
March 25, 2025 at 12:04 PM
“The development in the U.S.A. is a huge opportunity for Germany and Europe. I know that a lot of people are thinking about leaving.”
- @ulrikemalmendier.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/e...
- @ulrikemalmendier.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/e...
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The @economist.com piece on names is cool
Kudos to @sondreus.bsky.social and co.
www.economist.com/interactive/...
The data exercise and use of LLMs is neat
github.com/TheEconomist...
Kudos to @sondreus.bsky.social and co.
www.economist.com/interactive/...
The data exercise and use of LLMs is neat
github.com/TheEconomist...
What baby names reveal about American and British society
First names are a record of culture. What do they reveal?
www.economist.com
March 23, 2025 at 9:37 AM
The @economist.com piece on names is cool
Kudos to @sondreus.bsky.social and co.
www.economist.com/interactive/...
The data exercise and use of LLMs is neat
github.com/TheEconomist...
Kudos to @sondreus.bsky.social and co.
www.economist.com/interactive/...
The data exercise and use of LLMs is neat
github.com/TheEconomist...
Reposted by Kenneth Colombe
Here's a conversation that @pkrugman.bsky.social and I just had about the economics of AI.
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/how-should...
#econsky
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/how-should...
#econsky
How Should We Think About the Economics of AI?
A conversation with Erik Brynjolfsson
paulkrugman.substack.com
March 22, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Here's a conversation that @pkrugman.bsky.social and I just had about the economics of AI.
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/how-should...
#econsky
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/how-should...
#econsky