Data scientist to the stars. Recovering economist.
San Francisco, CA
Joined June 2010
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I wrote a piece and the New York Times is on it! nytimes.com/2019/05/22/opini…
@att makes it impossible to cancel your account. I've been transferred and placed on hold twice and have waited for over 40 minutes now.
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@MartinSnelling_ I'm addicted to the heardle games. But the decade ones are so hard. Could we dumb them down a bit? Who's an expert in Simply Red's back catalogue?
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@VaultHealth_ It's been over two weeks now and I still haven't received my covid test kits. I've emailed and called to no avail. Can I get some help?
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So excited to publish a piece in @SlackjawHumor Sponsor My Death March For An Important Charity link.medium.com/w62bMhKW65
From @MattGentzkow , this just came out in the American Economic Review. Fun finding: Facebook usage is not conducive to mental health, at least not during the election time.
web.stanford.edu/~gentzkow/r…
This is a great thread. Basically there are multiple papers showing no effect or even a negative effect between violent media and violent behavior.
Video games caused these shootings. usatoday.com/story/news/poli…
Not buying this. Privacy isn't the rational for breaking up big tech, it's that it would help smaller competitors innovate. And I don't see how splitting off Instagram would erode Facebook's ability to police content. It would still be a huge company. slate.com/technology/2019/06…
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Bummer! Looks like bottom up accountability doesn’t always help. We need another replication to decide the draw.
Excited to share our new, long in-the-works paper with @piaraffler and @DougParkerson investigating the impact of bottom-up accountability on healthcare outcomes in Uganda. Full paper [poverty-action.org/sites/def…] Policy brief [poverty-action.org/study/com…] 1/n
I'm at Ленинградский вокзал / Leningradsky Railway Terminal (Москва) w/ 12 others 4sq.com/Za0LbH
I love Dropbox because It is so quick and easy and also I want the free space.... db.tt/6SYEoGeI