Joachim Voth
jvoth.bsky.social
Joachim Voth
@jvoth.bsky.social
economic historian; mostly on X; www.jvoth.com
But can go the other way as with higher albedo from vapor trails.
June 9, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Sure but that is rounding error stuff
June 9, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Well. If electric its covered. If diesel its not. We can sign the likeky effect.
June 9, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Fresco fresco no es…
June 7, 2025 at 7:44 PM
reminds me of the immortal essay by Stanley Fish "The Unbearable Ugliness of Volvos"...
June 7, 2025 at 6:56 PM
they say "we win"
June 7, 2025 at 6:50 PM
declares that their 800+km train ride did something good for the environment? Is is ignorance, or a latent desire to suffer for the sins of having what you want? Color me confused....
June 7, 2025 at 6:31 PM
diesel trains are exempt from ETS 1 like all other transport like cars + trucks). Economists! I understand that some people don't get it. Cap+trade is not complicated, but maybe a bit more abstract... but why do I now regularly get to conferences where some slightly wrinkled colleague proudly
June 7, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Do u seriously think that a social awkward, Auschwitz visiting, hostage-supporting, borderline Asperger's billionaire is doing a Nazi salute?
January 22, 2025 at 1:53 PM
The paper (ungated) is here: github.com/huggingbeard...
github.com
January 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
The Harvard longitudinal study, tracking undergrads and Boston city residents since the 1940s, concluded that only close personal relationships matter for life satisfaction; this is not what we find.
January 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
councillor who says "The biggest thing in my life?Making it possible [to build] the great St. John River bridge for the people of Duval County.” Family and close relationships are obviously important, but we not find that it dominates all other aspects, as some have argued.
January 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
nature. Others found meaning in religion. Three themes loom large: Work, community, and family. The sense of satisfaction in doing a job well, in the cameraderie and pride it brings, is palpable in many narratives; so is the joy of doing things for others, such as the Florida
January 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
by the Library of Congress. We train and use a large language model (GPT-4) to analyse these narratives at scale, using extensive human audits to avoid hallucinations. What do we find? Stories vary; some people met Billy the Kid when young, and could never get enough of exploring
January 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
directly; instead, we examine interviews conducted by the Federal Writers Project. This was part of the New Deal work creation programs, and the aim was to get many ordinary Americans to tell their life stories in their own words. The interviews are loving preserved
January 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
No it shows why this is so silly. Spatial FE and u r done - which is what everyone was doing anyways…
October 23, 2023 at 9:51 AM