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🆕 Do cash transfers cause inflation?
Today on VoxDev, Michael Walker, Nachiket Shah,
@tedmiguel.bsky.social, @eggerdennis.bsky.social, Felix Samy Soliman & @tilmangraff.bsky.social explore the macroeconomic impacts of cash transfers: voxdev.org/topic/macroe...
Today on VoxDev, Michael Walker, Nachiket Shah,
@tedmiguel.bsky.social, @eggerdennis.bsky.social, Felix Samy Soliman & @tilmangraff.bsky.social explore the macroeconomic impacts of cash transfers: voxdev.org/topic/macroe...
Do cash transfers cause inflation?
Evidence from cash transfers at scale in Kenya suggests that demand-side policies or stimulus may be very effective at raising output without creating inflationary pressure when there is a lot of ‘sla...
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January 6, 2025 at 9:31 AM
🆕 Do cash transfers cause inflation?
Today on VoxDev, Michael Walker, Nachiket Shah,
@tedmiguel.bsky.social, @eggerdennis.bsky.social, Felix Samy Soliman & @tilmangraff.bsky.social explore the macroeconomic impacts of cash transfers: voxdev.org/topic/macroe...
Today on VoxDev, Michael Walker, Nachiket Shah,
@tedmiguel.bsky.social, @eggerdennis.bsky.social, Felix Samy Soliman & @tilmangraff.bsky.social explore the macroeconomic impacts of cash transfers: voxdev.org/topic/macroe...
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I think AI could actually replicate your work, kevin. After all, y’all keep telling us how good it is at plagiarism."
December 27, 2024 at 5:19 PM
I think AI could actually replicate your work, kevin. After all, y’all keep telling us how good it is at plagiarism."
Paul Krugman is much better on substack
December 27, 2024 at 4:58 PM
Paul Krugman is much better on substack
I can't stand people on this site who say shit like "erm actually luddites were against getting put out of work by a technology that did a version of their job faster but worse, in the service of increasing profits for their bosses." They think this is some amazing takedown. Read Econ Hist!
December 27, 2024 at 1:55 AM
I can't stand people on this site who say shit like "erm actually luddites were against getting put out of work by a technology that did a version of their job faster but worse, in the service of increasing profits for their bosses." They think this is some amazing takedown. Read Econ Hist!
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In fairness to Kruse, if I were an academic best-known for plagiarism I would also feel distinctly threatened by AI tools
December 15, 2024 at 7:02 PM
In fairness to Kruse, if I were an academic best-known for plagiarism I would also feel distinctly threatened by AI tools
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Reading through the comments will deprive you of the illusion that this is a nice place. Ghoulishness is just under the surface, just maybe its type is of a bit different shade than on the other site
The CEO of UnitedHealthcare was reportedly shot and killed in Midtown
“The shooting is being investigated as a possibly targeted hit, sources said.”
“The shooting is being investigated as a possibly targeted hit, sources said.”
UnitedHealthcare CEO fatally shot in Midtown: sources
MIDTOWN, Manhattan (PIX11) – The CEO of UnitedHealthcare was killed in a Midtown shooting Wednesday morning, sources told PIX11 News. Brian Thompson, 50, was shot just before 7 a.m. near a hotel o…
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December 5, 2024 at 2:57 AM
Reading through the comments will deprive you of the illusion that this is a nice place. Ghoulishness is just under the surface, just maybe its type is of a bit different shade than on the other site
The US cannot continue its hands off approach to Syria. The SNA (Turkish) is trying to take Tell Rifaat from the SDF(Kurdish). The SDF is a key ally. In addition, this conflict could get more volatile as HTS meets greater resistance at Hama and other places on the road to Homs.
December 1, 2024 at 4:40 PM
The US cannot continue its hands off approach to Syria. The SNA (Turkish) is trying to take Tell Rifaat from the SDF(Kurdish). The SDF is a key ally. In addition, this conflict could get more volatile as HTS meets greater resistance at Hama and other places on the road to Homs.
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November 29, 2024 at 11:26 AM
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Using both theory and data from the Great Depression to argue that the influential forward guidance puzzle is, after all, not puzzling, from Gauti B. Eggertsson and Finn D. Schüle https://www.nber.org/papers/w33180
November 26, 2024 at 6:00 PM
Using both theory and data from the Great Depression to argue that the influential forward guidance puzzle is, after all, not puzzling, from Gauti B. Eggertsson and Finn D. Schüle https://www.nber.org/papers/w33180
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only on social media do associate professors of econ with think tank fellowships compare building a duplex to the nakba in the replies of someone called cat poop burglar
November 25, 2024 at 10:13 PM
only on social media do associate professors of econ with think tank fellowships compare building a duplex to the nakba in the replies of someone called cat poop burglar
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If we want this site to actually be better than the other one we are going to need to fight disinformation in all its forms, sorry.
November 19, 2024 at 5:13 PM
If we want this site to actually be better than the other one we are going to need to fight disinformation in all its forms, sorry.
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There's a lot of talk about how Trump's tariffs may help revive American manufacturing by encouraging consumers to buy American-made goods. If you believe this, I want to tell you a story. 🧵
November 14, 2024 at 6:33 PM
There's a lot of talk about how Trump's tariffs may help revive American manufacturing by encouraging consumers to buy American-made goods. If you believe this, I want to tell you a story. 🧵
The issue is that "it's realpage" is used as a tactic to distract from the real problem (inadequate Housing supply). It's politically easy to ban realpage. However, It's much harder to change zoning laws and other regulations which constrain housing supply.
Key reminder: even if high rents are partly driven by supply & demand, it doesn’t make it fine for landlords & software companies like RealPage to use anticompetitive algorithms to further increase rent. #antitrust
November 19, 2024 at 2:23 PM
The issue is that "it's realpage" is used as a tactic to distract from the real problem (inadequate Housing supply). It's politically easy to ban realpage. However, It's much harder to change zoning laws and other regulations which constrain housing supply.
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Personal counterexamples: In at least two cases — home market effect and liquidity trap — I built little models to confirm my intuitions (didn't believe in either) and the models refuted those intuitions, in ways that now seem totally ... intuitive
Here's Bryan Caplan writing about math in economics.
Seems very wrong to me. I wonder what the quickest refutation is that would make sense to most practicing economists.
www.betonit.ai/p/economath_...
Seems very wrong to me. I wonder what the quickest refutation is that would make sense to most practicing economists.
www.betonit.ai/p/economath_...
November 17, 2024 at 9:18 PM
Personal counterexamples: In at least two cases — home market effect and liquidity trap — I built little models to confirm my intuitions (didn't believe in either) and the models refuted those intuitions, in ways that now seem totally ... intuitive
This video randomly got recommended to me. I must say that it is one of the worst critiques of utilitarianism that I have seen.
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Utilitarianism is inherently flawed | Philosophers Tommy Curry and Peter Singer
YouTube video by The Institute of Art and Ideas
youtube.com
November 17, 2024 at 2:05 AM
This video randomly got recommended to me. I must say that it is one of the worst critiques of utilitarianism that I have seen.
youtube.com/shorts/5F4Nf...
youtube.com/shorts/5F4Nf...
Bluesky needs a dedicated shrimp welfare poster.
November 13, 2024 at 9:02 PM
Bluesky needs a dedicated shrimp welfare poster.
Which will be more destructive: Gaetz as AG or Gabbard as Director of National intelligence? I assume the answer is Matt Gaetz because AG is generally a more significant role. However, Tulsi Gabbard doing any sort of work related to foreign policy or intelligence is extremely scary.
November 13, 2024 at 8:40 PM
Which will be more destructive: Gaetz as AG or Gabbard as Director of National intelligence? I assume the answer is Matt Gaetz because AG is generally a more significant role. However, Tulsi Gabbard doing any sort of work related to foreign policy or intelligence is extremely scary.
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Love when Marxists say “this is a science!” and if you ask “ah so we’re going to make casual models generating precise predictions we can test and iteratively improve?” it’s clarified: no not a *bourgeois* science, the other, better, kind, where you mainly just reinterpret Hegel.
November 11, 2024 at 10:21 PM
Love when Marxists say “this is a science!” and if you ask “ah so we’re going to make casual models generating precise predictions we can test and iteratively improve?” it’s clarified: no not a *bourgeois* science, the other, better, kind, where you mainly just reinterpret Hegel.
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As part of GiveWell's assessment of GiveDirectly, I did a reanalysis of Egger et al. (2022) on the spillover effects of a one-time $1000USD cash transfer program in Kenya. Do spillovers accrue to richer households?
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Re-evaluating the Impact of Unconditional Cash Transfers - The GiveWell Blog
This year, we re-evaluated the cost effectiveness of direct cash transfers as implemented by GiveDirectly.
blog.givewell.org
November 13, 2024 at 3:20 AM
As part of GiveWell's assessment of GiveDirectly, I did a reanalysis of Egger et al. (2022) on the spillover effects of a one-time $1000USD cash transfer program in Kenya. Do spillovers accrue to richer households?
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A feature that allows you to see other user's quotes on a tweet would be cool
November 13, 2024 at 2:47 AM
A feature that allows you to see other user's quotes on a tweet would be cool
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Bluesky should add bookmarks
November 11, 2024 at 4:39 PM
Bluesky should add bookmarks