casey wichman
@cjwich.bsky.social
I study people and the environment.
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coin flip on whether I decide to come back at this point. I’ll just send for the family and dogs.
September 27, 2025 at 11:25 PM
coin flip on whether I decide to come back at this point. I’ll just send for the family and dogs.
one very low-stakes annoyance I have is how fantasy football win projections assume that points accumulate linearly throughout a game.
I don’t have a better idea, but incorporating some larger margin of uncertainty feels appropriate.
I don’t have a better idea, but incorporating some larger margin of uncertainty feels appropriate.
September 21, 2025 at 9:14 PM
one very low-stakes annoyance I have is how fantasy football win projections assume that points accumulate linearly throughout a game.
I don’t have a better idea, but incorporating some larger margin of uncertainty feels appropriate.
I don’t have a better idea, but incorporating some larger margin of uncertainty feels appropriate.
had to ride my electric vehicle to the meeting with southern company’s chief economist. just to impress.
September 19, 2025 at 8:13 PM
had to ride my electric vehicle to the meeting with southern company’s chief economist. just to impress.
idk who “we” is or where “here” is, but I am going to borrow this line. 📈📉
September 13, 2025 at 12:40 AM
idk who “we” is or where “here” is, but I am going to borrow this line. 📈📉
5yo: dad! today two DOCTORS came to talk to us at school!
me:
me:
September 5, 2025 at 11:19 AM
5yo: dad! today two DOCTORS came to talk to us at school!
me:
me:
me---behind on teaching, research, advising, editing, and referee duties---upon receiving a request to review a cool paper 📈📉
August 27, 2025 at 1:05 AM
me---behind on teaching, research, advising, editing, and referee duties---upon receiving a request to review a cool paper 📈📉
on this computer, i only read the classics
August 26, 2025 at 4:15 PM
on this computer, i only read the classics
Fulton County Animal Services: “Free puppy Fridays!”
Extremely economist voice: “You know, there’s no such thing as a free puppy…”
Anyway, what up Frankie.
Extremely economist voice: “You know, there’s no such thing as a free puppy…”
Anyway, what up Frankie.
August 26, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Fulton County Animal Services: “Free puppy Fridays!”
Extremely economist voice: “You know, there’s no such thing as a free puppy…”
Anyway, what up Frankie.
Extremely economist voice: “You know, there’s no such thing as a free puppy…”
Anyway, what up Frankie.
i really want LLMs to be able to recreate a screenshot of an econ figure in tikz code accurately.
alas...
alas...
August 22, 2025 at 1:08 PM
i really want LLMs to be able to recreate a screenshot of an econ figure in tikz code accurately.
alas...
alas...
you know... i never pieced it together, but apparently howard developed the logo first!
August 13, 2025 at 6:28 PM
you know... i never pieced it together, but apparently howard developed the logo first!
when I was living in DC, I always got a kick out of the old Howard Univ. logo:
August 13, 2025 at 1:43 PM
when I was living in DC, I always got a kick out of the old Howard Univ. logo:
Yo #econsky, we're hiring a new Chair for the School of Economics at Georgia Tech (we always do external searches). Come steer the ship!
We have a great, vibrant group of applied micro faculty and students (enviro, health, dev, trade) + metrics + theory.
www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
We have a great, vibrant group of applied micro faculty and students (enviro, health, dev, trade) + metrics + theory.
www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
August 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Yo #econsky, we're hiring a new Chair for the School of Economics at Georgia Tech (we always do external searches). Come steer the ship!
We have a great, vibrant group of applied micro faculty and students (enviro, health, dev, trade) + metrics + theory.
www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
We have a great, vibrant group of applied micro faculty and students (enviro, health, dev, trade) + metrics + theory.
www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
usually sweltering in atlanta this time of year, but I am HERE FOR IT
August 5, 2025 at 1:59 PM
usually sweltering in atlanta this time of year, but I am HERE FOR IT
Ha! Regular size child (and child's bike), but I have a cargo bike and I lash his bike to the rails. Example below.
August 4, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Ha! Regular size child (and child's bike), but I have a cargo bike and I lash his bike to the rails. Example below.
Fortunately we have some unusually cool weather…
August 4, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Fortunately we have some unusually cool weather…
never a bad time to be pro nonconvex weights
July 30, 2025 at 10:24 PM
never a bad time to be pro nonconvex weights
the coefficient on post malone is an estimate of the average treatment effect of malone so long as there are parallel malones in the pre period. therefore, post malone is irrelevant without first considering pre malone.
July 30, 2025 at 4:24 PM
the coefficient on post malone is an estimate of the average treatment effect of malone so long as there are parallel malones in the pre period. therefore, post malone is irrelevant without first considering pre malone.
Broke: a hot dog will cost you 30 min of your life.
Woke: a hot dog will cost you 30 min of your life working at the federal minimum wage.
Woke: a hot dog will cost you 30 min of your life working at the federal minimum wage.
July 28, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Broke: a hot dog will cost you 30 min of your life.
Woke: a hot dog will cost you 30 min of your life working at the federal minimum wage.
Woke: a hot dog will cost you 30 min of your life working at the federal minimum wage.
big dad day.
just signed up to coach my kid’s 5U/6U soccer team and bought his first kit. he chose number 5. thought he’d be a winger, but center back it is.
just signed up to coach my kid’s 5U/6U soccer team and bought his first kit. he chose number 5. thought he’d be a winger, but center back it is.
July 27, 2025 at 11:12 PM
big dad day.
just signed up to coach my kid’s 5U/6U soccer team and bought his first kit. he chose number 5. thought he’d be a winger, but center back it is.
just signed up to coach my kid’s 5U/6U soccer team and bought his first kit. he chose number 5. thought he’d be a winger, but center back it is.
Booked Lyft, said it would take 5 min. Actually 11 min.
Cancelled. Booked Lyft with priority pickup for $2 more. 19 min.
Booked regular uber. 5 min pickup and cancelled Lyft.
Cancelled. Booked Lyft with priority pickup for $2 more. 19 min.
Booked regular uber. 5 min pickup and cancelled Lyft.
July 20, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Booked Lyft, said it would take 5 min. Actually 11 min.
Cancelled. Booked Lyft with priority pickup for $2 more. 19 min.
Booked regular uber. 5 min pickup and cancelled Lyft.
Cancelled. Booked Lyft with priority pickup for $2 more. 19 min.
Booked regular uber. 5 min pickup and cancelled Lyft.
Wichman says he doesn’t ‘do theory.’ But many of his papers have Greek letters.
July 18, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Wichman says he doesn’t ‘do theory.’ But many of his papers have Greek letters.
I was the 106th voter in my SE Atlanta polling location (3:30pm) in a special election runoff for the democratic primary candidate for a seat on GA’s public service commission.
And they say American democracy is dead. smdh. Behold the stickers.
And they say American democracy is dead. smdh. Behold the stickers.
July 15, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I was the 106th voter in my SE Atlanta polling location (3:30pm) in a special election runoff for the democratic primary candidate for a seat on GA’s public service commission.
And they say American democracy is dead. smdh. Behold the stickers.
And they say American democracy is dead. smdh. Behold the stickers.