Paul Novosad
@novosad.bsky.social
Econ prof @dartmouth, founder devdatalab.org
r2: a morass of disjointed streams of consciousness
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r2: a morass of disjointed streams of consciousness
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Wow, this is fantastic.
🚨NEW RESULTS (w/ Slattery & Nober)
- When gov't engineers retire, highway projects cost more: the engineers pay for themselves 6 times over
- Improving gov’t engineer quality from the 25th to 75th percentile reduces costs by 14%, equal to 3x avg. engineer pay
Paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
- When gov't engineers retire, highway projects cost more: the engineers pay for themselves 6 times over
- Improving gov’t engineer quality from the 25th to 75th percentile reduces costs by 14%, equal to 3x avg. engineer pay
Paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
September 12, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Wow, this is fantastic.
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Inserting @novosad.bsky.social's X post - I am still not very proficient in R, but I converted all of my Stata code to R for fun, which resulted in a very primitive version masala-merge in R (github.com/devdatalab/m...)!
#masala-merge #R #India #economics
#masala-merge #R #India #economics
July 18, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Inserting @novosad.bsky.social's X post - I am still not very proficient in R, but I converted all of my Stata code to R for fun, which resulted in a very primitive version masala-merge in R (github.com/devdatalab/m...)!
#masala-merge #R #India #economics
#masala-merge #R #India #economics
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Young people and city-dwellers are among those most likely to see one group’s gain as another’s loss
To understand America today, study the zero-sum mindset, writes Stefanie Stantcheva
Young people and city-dwellers are among those most likely to see one group’s gain as another’s loss
econ.st
July 7, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Young people and city-dwellers are among those most likely to see one group’s gain as another’s loss
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Editing our writing is a common academic task. I *hate* how spell/grammar checks annoy me by thinking proper nouns or LaTeX code are misspellings (yes, I want `` ''). I also want *style* tips like a good editor would give me. Problem solved. 1/5
June 12, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Editing our writing is a common academic task. I *hate* how spell/grammar checks annoy me by thinking proper nouns or LaTeX code are misspellings (yes, I want `` ''). I also want *style* tips like a good editor would give me. Problem solved. 1/5
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OMG is real www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
May 10, 2025 at 1:57 AM
OMG is real www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
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I have revise-and-resubmits older than ICE
Old person here to say that ICE did not exist before 2003
We opened this door after 9/11 and can close it again
We opened this door after 9/11 and can close it again
May 10, 2025 at 9:37 AM
I have revise-and-resubmits older than ICE
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every student taking the easy path here is putting a little more alpha on the table for their peers who don't
May 7, 2025 at 1:41 PM
every student taking the easy path here is putting a little more alpha on the table for their peers who don't
It's wild to me that in 2025 there are academics advising their students to never use AI.
6. NEVER USE IT YOURSELF. EVER! The most common issue I hear from students is that some of their lecturers use ChatGPT for feedback, syllabus creation, etc., so why shouldn't they? Of course I'm not the boss of you, but as soon as you use it for ANYTHING, you're giving students implicit permission.
May 7, 2025 at 2:42 PM
It's wild to me that in 2025 there are academics advising their students to never use AI.
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Please do it less quietly, Europe. US political leadership needs to be more rattled by this!
www.politico.com/newsletters/...
www.politico.com/newsletters/...
How Europe is quietly stealing America’s scientists
www.politico.com
April 25, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Please do it less quietly, Europe. US political leadership needs to be more rattled by this!
www.politico.com/newsletters/...
www.politico.com/newsletters/...
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just register for your own protection. it will be fine
April 24, 2025 at 1:28 AM
just register for your own protection. it will be fine
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Ah yes, the government asking Jews to register as Jewish, in the name of protecting the Jews. No way that could go wrong www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/n...
U.S. Texts Barnard Employees and Asks if They Are Jewish
A questionnaire from a federal commission also inquired about whether professors and other college staff members had been harassed.
www.nytimes.com
April 24, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Ah yes, the government asking Jews to register as Jewish, in the name of protecting the Jews. No way that could go wrong www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/n...
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fuck these fucking guys who did this slate.com/news-and-pol...
The Courage to Be Decent
The goal isn’t to police all behavior at all times. It’s to make us fearful to the point that we police our own behavior.
slate.com
April 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
fuck these fucking guys who did this slate.com/news-and-pol...
Academic creativity is underrated and technical methods are overrated.
Take this excellent paper on Zero Sum Thinking—simple in retrospect, just an excellent idea!
Graph shows rise in zero-sum thinking with Millennial and later U.S. birth cohorts.
Congrats to @s-stantcheva.bsky.social
Take this excellent paper on Zero Sum Thinking—simple in retrospect, just an excellent idea!
Graph shows rise in zero-sum thinking with Millennial and later U.S. birth cohorts.
Congrats to @s-stantcheva.bsky.social
April 24, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Academic creativity is underrated and technical methods are overrated.
Take this excellent paper on Zero Sum Thinking—simple in retrospect, just an excellent idea!
Graph shows rise in zero-sum thinking with Millennial and later U.S. birth cohorts.
Congrats to @s-stantcheva.bsky.social
Take this excellent paper on Zero Sum Thinking—simple in retrospect, just an excellent idea!
Graph shows rise in zero-sum thinking with Millennial and later U.S. birth cohorts.
Congrats to @s-stantcheva.bsky.social
Parents are going to flip out when they learn that the 4th grade teacher hasn't answered all the math worksheet questions by herself.
Is it fair to use A.I. to grade student essays, if you’ve prohibited students from using A.I. to write them?
Teachers are increasingly using the technology in their own work, like grading essays and tutoring struggling students, even as they express profound hesitation about its ethics.
Teachers are increasingly using the technology in their own work, like grading essays and tutoring struggling students, even as they express profound hesitation about its ethics.
Teachers Worry About A.I. for Students. For Themselves It’s Another Matter.
Educators are increasingly using generative A.I. in their own work, even as they express profound hesitation about the ethics of student use.
www.nytimes.com
April 14, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Parents are going to flip out when they learn that the 4th grade teacher hasn't answered all the math worksheet questions by herself.
Is EconSky dead?
Scrolling through my feed, none of the posts by real people (as opposed to social media celebrities) have any engagement.
Even "new paper alerts" getting like <20 likes.
Scrolling through my feed, none of the posts by real people (as opposed to social media celebrities) have any engagement.
Even "new paper alerts" getting like <20 likes.
April 10, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Is EconSky dead?
Scrolling through my feed, none of the posts by real people (as opposed to social media celebrities) have any engagement.
Even "new paper alerts" getting like <20 likes.
Scrolling through my feed, none of the posts by real people (as opposed to social media celebrities) have any engagement.
Even "new paper alerts" getting like <20 likes.
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U.S. citizen interested in grad studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver (Canada)?
Grad programs are re-opening applications of US programs for one week. With expedited decisions.
U.S. Applicant Week:
www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant...
#AcademicChatter #Canada #GradSchool
Grad programs are re-opening applications of US programs for one week. With expedited decisions.
U.S. Applicant Week:
www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant...
#AcademicChatter #Canada #GradSchool
US Applicant Week
www.grad.ubc.ca
April 7, 2025 at 7:49 PM
U.S. citizen interested in grad studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver (Canada)?
Grad programs are re-opening applications of US programs for one week. With expedited decisions.
U.S. Applicant Week:
www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant...
#AcademicChatter #Canada #GradSchool
Grad programs are re-opening applications of US programs for one week. With expedited decisions.
U.S. Applicant Week:
www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant...
#AcademicChatter #Canada #GradSchool
Our paper on ingroup bias in the Indian judiciary — we didn't find any — is finally out!
This paper has one of the two best graphs I've ever made — on publication bias in the judicial bias literature.
Black circles are prior studies on ingroup bias. Explanation in 🧵👇🏻
This paper has one of the two best graphs I've ever made — on publication bias in the judicial bias literature.
Black circles are prior studies on ingroup bias. Explanation in 🧵👇🏻
April 8, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Our paper on ingroup bias in the Indian judiciary — we didn't find any — is finally out!
This paper has one of the two best graphs I've ever made — on publication bias in the judicial bias literature.
Black circles are prior studies on ingroup bias. Explanation in 🧵👇🏻
This paper has one of the two best graphs I've ever made — on publication bias in the judicial bias literature.
Black circles are prior studies on ingroup bias. Explanation in 🧵👇🏻
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April 5, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Carney: The system of global trade anchored on the United States.. is over. Our old relationship of steadily deepening integration with the United States is over. The 80 year period when the United States embraced the mantle of economic leadership… is over.
April 3, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Carney: The system of global trade anchored on the United States.. is over. Our old relationship of steadily deepening integration with the United States is over. The 80 year period when the United States embraced the mantle of economic leadership… is over.
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the internet starting to re-fragment into having Actual Websites again as centralized social media self-destructs is unironically one of the absolute best, most positive things happening rn
March 29, 2025 at 9:14 PM
the internet starting to re-fragment into having Actual Websites again as centralized social media self-destructs is unironically one of the absolute best, most positive things happening rn
Seriously disturbing. Look at the prisoners standing at attention, being required to take part in this US propaganda video
Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem making content in front of the imprisoned men of El Salvador's notorious Terrorism Confinement Center mega-prison www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
March 27, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Seriously disturbing. Look at the prisoners standing at attention, being required to take part in this US propaganda video
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Not sure if this has been shared here yet, but this is video of Rumeysa Ozturk's arrest posted by WCVB. It's terrifying.
March 26, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Not sure if this has been shared here yet, but this is video of Rumeysa Ozturk's arrest posted by WCVB. It's terrifying.
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Free speech is for ideas we like; otherwise, it's sparkling terrorism
March 17, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Free speech is for ideas we like; otherwise, it's sparkling terrorism