Nico Domínguez
@nicoidominguez.bsky.social
🐻☕️ Econ Ph.D. student @UofMaryland | Labor, Education, Public Economics. Formado en: @nyuniversity, @GRADEPeru, @UDEP. @researchincolor Mentee.
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It's official.
I PASSED MY PROSPECTUS DEFENSE. NEXT STOP: DR. ANNA GIFTY.
#phd #econsky #blacksky #bluesky #blackademic
I PASSED MY PROSPECTUS DEFENSE. NEXT STOP: DR. ANNA GIFTY.
#phd #econsky #blacksky #bluesky #blackademic
December 6, 2024 at 8:43 PM
It's official.
I PASSED MY PROSPECTUS DEFENSE. NEXT STOP: DR. ANNA GIFTY.
#phd #econsky #blacksky #bluesky #blackademic
I PASSED MY PROSPECTUS DEFENSE. NEXT STOP: DR. ANNA GIFTY.
#phd #econsky #blacksky #bluesky #blackademic
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idk seems pretty bad that a billionaire with a history of substance abuse and sexual misconduct is about to be serving as the shadow president
December 6, 2024 at 8:53 PM
idk seems pretty bad that a billionaire with a history of substance abuse and sexual misconduct is about to be serving as the shadow president
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Re-sharing this starter pack of scholars who study the economics of gender.
December 6, 2024 at 9:52 PM
Re-sharing this starter pack of scholars who study the economics of gender.
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At least the incoming administration finally chose someone who will act with patience and poise for a role like this
December 6, 2024 at 1:23 AM
At least the incoming administration finally chose someone who will act with patience and poise for a role like this
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This is why police reform/abolition is so important.
The militarization of police is a red flag.
The militarization of police is a red flag.
something that is especially clear if you have studied colonialism a bit: a load bearing aspect of maintaining even a semblance of democracy (or defending a sitting autocracy from democracy) is having a military that is unwilling to kill its own citizens
South Korean soldiers attempting to enter the National Assembly repelled by a fire extinguisher and camera flashes.
December 3, 2024 at 8:55 PM
This is why police reform/abolition is so important.
The militarization of police is a red flag.
The militarization of police is a red flag.
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something that is especially clear if you have studied colonialism a bit: a load bearing aspect of maintaining even a semblance of democracy (or defending a sitting autocracy from democracy) is having a military that is unwilling to kill its own citizens
South Korean soldiers attempting to enter the National Assembly repelled by a fire extinguisher and camera flashes.
December 3, 2024 at 8:53 PM
something that is especially clear if you have studied colonialism a bit: a load bearing aspect of maintaining even a semblance of democracy (or defending a sitting autocracy from democracy) is having a military that is unwilling to kill its own citizens
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Interesting - had not seen your paper on this! It's a slightly different question, but we have a related paper on how minimum wage changes affect employment of people with disabilities within AbilityOne (where many are paid subminimum wages) -- just published: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Do Minimum Wage Increases Induce Changes in Work Behavior for People with Disabilities? Evidence from the AbilityOne Program
We provide the first evidence on the effects of minimum wage increases on labor market outcomes for people with disabilities. We use a novel dataset c…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 3, 2024 at 8:45 PM
Interesting - had not seen your paper on this! It's a slightly different question, but we have a related paper on how minimum wage changes affect employment of people with disabilities within AbilityOne (where many are paid subminimum wages) -- just published: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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December 2, 2024 at 12:45 PM
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I've posted several times about the working paper, but the publication on "AER: Insights" is a good occasion to do it again: immigrants to the US have been less likely to be incarcerated for over 50 years **even without controlling for demographic characteristics.**
www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
December 1, 2024 at 10:30 PM
I've posted several times about the working paper, but the publication on "AER: Insights" is a good occasion to do it again: immigrants to the US have been less likely to be incarcerated for over 50 years **even without controlling for demographic characteristics.**
www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
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This is the issue that the new cognitive turn in behavioral econ has to resolve head on.
Is the dimensionality of factors that the new frameworks are introducing going to be so high to make them vacuous? 1/n
Is the dimensionality of factors that the new frameworks are introducing going to be so high to make them vacuous? 1/n
Three formal arguments for why there cannot be a finite set of cognitive biases.
The lack of a finite set of biases is one reason I believe Heuristics and Biases cannot survive long term as a prescriptive paradigm. A paradigm of deviations must eventually collapse under its own weight.
The lack of a finite set of biases is one reason I believe Heuristics and Biases cannot survive long term as a prescriptive paradigm. A paradigm of deviations must eventually collapse under its own weight.
December 2, 2024 at 12:14 AM
This is the issue that the new cognitive turn in behavioral econ has to resolve head on.
Is the dimensionality of factors that the new frameworks are introducing going to be so high to make them vacuous? 1/n
Is the dimensionality of factors that the new frameworks are introducing going to be so high to make them vacuous? 1/n
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Some of the most important lottery anomalies from the behavioral risk literature (e.g., probability weighting and loss aversion) actually have nothing to do with risk.
They also arise in perfectly deterministic settings.
Lead article in the latest AER issue:
www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
November 27, 2024 at 3:33 PM
Some of the most important lottery anomalies from the behavioral risk literature (e.g., probability weighting and loss aversion) actually have nothing to do with risk.
They also arise in perfectly deterministic settings.
Lead article in the latest AER issue:
www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
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We show using DOSE elicitation on representative sample that about half of the US is loss-tolerant, not loss averse. Importantly, this measure correlates with reported gambling and investing behavior so likely not a figment of our method. @cfcamerer.bsky.social academic.oup.com/restud/advan...
November 27, 2024 at 10:33 PM
We show using DOSE elicitation on representative sample that about half of the US is loss-tolerant, not loss averse. Importantly, this measure correlates with reported gambling and investing behavior so likely not a figment of our method. @cfcamerer.bsky.social academic.oup.com/restud/advan...
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Hi everyone! I am hosting one more "How to Apply to Grad School" session since I'm getting a lot of questions about graduate school. It will be taking place on this Thursday at 7 PM EST/6 PM CT.
Register here: harvard.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#bluesky #academicsky #econsky
Register here: harvard.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#bluesky #academicsky #econsky
November 19, 2024 at 11:39 PM
Hi everyone! I am hosting one more "How to Apply to Grad School" session since I'm getting a lot of questions about graduate school. It will be taking place on this Thursday at 7 PM EST/6 PM CT.
Register here: harvard.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#bluesky #academicsky #econsky
Register here: harvard.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#bluesky #academicsky #econsky
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Here’s your friendly reminder to plow through the labyrinth of menus in Microsoft Word to turn off all “connected experiences”. That’s their euphemism for scraping every letter you write to train their AI.
Here’s how you do it. 🧵
Here’s how you do it. 🧵
November 18, 2024 at 4:47 PM
Here’s your friendly reminder to plow through the labyrinth of menus in Microsoft Word to turn off all “connected experiences”. That’s their euphemism for scraping every letter you write to train their AI.
Here’s how you do it. 🧵
Here’s how you do it. 🧵
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Unwarranted Racial Disparity in U.S. Foster Care Placement www.nber.org/papers/w3315...
"Nationwide, we find that Black children are placed into foster care at higher rates than white children with identical potential to experience subsequent maltreatment"
"Nationwide, we find that Black children are placed into foster care at higher rates than white children with identical potential to experience subsequent maltreatment"
Unwarranted Racial Disparity in U.S. Foster Care Placement
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org
November 18, 2024 at 11:47 AM
Unwarranted Racial Disparity in U.S. Foster Care Placement www.nber.org/papers/w3315...
"Nationwide, we find that Black children are placed into foster care at higher rates than white children with identical potential to experience subsequent maltreatment"
"Nationwide, we find that Black children are placed into foster care at higher rates than white children with identical potential to experience subsequent maltreatment"
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We have a postdoc position available in my lab at UC Berkeley, 2 years+, flexible start date, research focus is social reasoning and cultural evolution from a computational perspective. Deadline = November 29th. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04639
Postdoctoral Scholar Employee - The Computational Cognitive Science Laboratory -Psychology
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu
November 19, 2024 at 4:32 AM
We have a postdoc position available in my lab at UC Berkeley, 2 years+, flexible start date, research focus is social reasoning and cultural evolution from a computational perspective. Deadline = November 29th. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04639
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Our paper quantifying the negative effects of urban freeways on local neighborhood quality of life appears in the September issue of REStat. doi.org/10.1162/rest...
Freeway Revolts! The Quality of Life Effects of Highways
Abstract. Why do freeways affect spatial structure? We identify and quantify the local disamenity effects of freeways. Freeways cause slower growth in central neighborhoods (where local disamenities e...
doi.org
November 19, 2024 at 2:03 AM
Our paper quantifying the negative effects of urban freeways on local neighborhood quality of life appears in the September issue of REStat. doi.org/10.1162/rest...
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I put together a starter pack of all the academic macroeconomists I could find on the platform.
It's short. Please message me if you would like to be added.
go.bsky.app/RYnjd8k
#econsky etc.
It's short. Please message me if you would like to be added.
go.bsky.app/RYnjd8k
#econsky etc.
November 16, 2024 at 5:11 PM
I put together a starter pack of all the academic macroeconomists I could find on the platform.
It's short. Please message me if you would like to be added.
go.bsky.app/RYnjd8k
#econsky etc.
It's short. Please message me if you would like to be added.
go.bsky.app/RYnjd8k
#econsky etc.
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November 17, 2024 at 7:10 PM
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Is AI skill biased after all? Or just in the research domain? Interesting paper.
November 17, 2024 at 11:40 PM
Is AI skill biased after all? Or just in the research domain? Interesting paper.
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I expect science studies threads about how political in fact science is, and phil science threads about the value free ideal and inductive risk. But more basically, declaring something ‘apolitical’ is fine until a political party is rhetorically and materially against it, then boom it’s political
November 17, 2024 at 6:43 PM
I expect science studies threads about how political in fact science is, and phil science threads about the value free ideal and inductive risk. But more basically, declaring something ‘apolitical’ is fine until a political party is rhetorically and materially against it, then boom it’s political