@OSU_Econ → @LISHarvard → @UofT Economics of Science and Innovation @wytham88.bsky.social
Toronto, ON
Joined December 2013
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How does funding uncertainty affect science? Every Oct, we get headlines bemoaning the impact of the federal budgeting process on science. Does it matter that grant $$ takes a bit longer to get out the door, or is it just a nuisance we can deal with?
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Econ of science folks - this position via FAS is really interesting if you want policy impact. Essentially, it's a metascience/econ of science position embedded quite high up at places like DOE. They allocate *billions* to R&D, w/ big changes due to AI/Genesis/OSTP doc/etc.
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These give us level and elasticity differences after a shock. We write a model that uses these to produce a bound on the value of (informal) spousal care: at least $568/day.
That’s ~1.6x the cost of a nursing-home day, ~2.6x a day of paid home care, and >3x median daily earnings
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If you are interested in applying economic policy research to better understand how different types of policy changes affect innovation, productivity, and economic growth, please consider applying to work with my research team at Dartmouth:
apply.interfolio.com/194525
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We are hiring Predoctoral Research Fellows at Northwestern Kellogg! @RyanReedHill @profbusse @ShengmaoCao
Join us to work on research in industrial organization, labor, organizations, and innovation. Great preparation for a PhD in economics!
Apply here: facultyrecruiting.northweste…
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We are hiring pre-docs! Please apply if you’re interested in applied econ research at Kellogg Strategy, including my work about innovation, science, and AI.
We are hiring Predoctoral Research Fellows at Northwestern Kellogg! @RyanReedHill @profbusse @ShengmaoCao
Join us to work on research in industrial organization, labor, organizations, and innovation. Great preparation for a PhD in economics!
Apply here: facultyrecruiting.northweste…
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Reminder that I've placed a $3000 referral bounty on this data viz job.
Send me someone who is energized making complex data and decisions as fascinating and legible to lawmakers as they are to experts.
ifp.org/opportunity/graphic-…
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I am looking for a student research assistant to help with a data digitization task (AI!). Must be Milan-based and German-speaking. Please DM if interested.
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OFFICIAL: An independent Commission has found Manchester City FC guilty of all charges related to serious breaches of the Premier League’s financial rules over a nine-season period, and the majority of charges in relation to its failure to co-operate with the League’s investigation.
The independent Commission found that between Seasons 2009/10 and 2017/18:
- Manchester City arranged ‘sham’ contracts (which misrepresented the true agreement between the parties) with a number of its commercial partners, as well as relying on ‘sham’ agreements with others, to artificially inflate the club’s revenues and reduce its costs
- The club filed misstated accounts and concealed the true state of its finances from its auditors and football regulators
- Manchester City was significantly in breach of both the Premier League’s and UEFA’s spending limits
- During the Premier League’s investigation, Manchester City committed multiple breaches of its duties of co-operation and utmost good faith towards the League (three of the four alleged breaches were upheld)
premierleague.com/en/news/47…
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🚨 New paper thread with a lovely team🚨
Women get smaller research grants!
A big reason why: they ask for less.
Using a novel dataset on the universe of two philanthropic funders, we find that women requested about 5.4% less funding than comparable men.
Dang. this paper finds evidence that mid-level officials in Singapore (and their relatives) benefited from buying property near planned-but-not-yet-announced subway stations, at least till stronger enforcement measures were taken
Fui ler o paper do NBER que tá sacudindo Singapura. Pesquisadores de Stanford e Columbia usaram IA pra varrer TODAS as transações imobiliárias do país entre 1995 e 2019 e cruzaram com o cadastro de 141 mil servidores públicos.
Funcionários compravam imóveis perto de futuras estações de metrô 1-2 anos ANTES do anúncio oficial. 60% acima da taxa normal. Não pagavam mais caro na compra, mas revendiam com retorno de 12% ao ano. Os parentes faziam a mesma coisa. S$270 milhões no total.
Pra descartar que fossem só mais espertos, compararam com corretores de imóveis e diretores de empresa. Nenhum dos dois mostrou o mesmo padrão. Rodaram 1.000 simulações aleatórias e o efeito real ficou totalmente fora da distribuição.
Quem mais operava? Gerentes médios do planejamento de transporte. Cargo suficiente pra saber, baixo o bastante pra ninguém olhar.
Em 2012, Singapura apertou a fiscalização com novas leis e punição de casos de alto escalão. O padrão sumiu, dos funcionários e dos parentes.
Singapura é top 5 em transparência no mundo. Norma social sozinha não segurou.
fonte: NBER WP 35756
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Fui ler o paper do NBER que tá sacudindo Singapura. Pesquisadores de Stanford e Columbia usaram IA pra varrer TODAS as transações imobiliárias do país entre 1995 e 2019 e cruzaram com o cadastro de 141 mil servidores públicos.
Funcionários compravam imóveis perto de futuras estações de metrô 1-2 anos ANTES do anúncio oficial. 60% acima da taxa normal. Não pagavam mais caro na compra, mas revendiam com retorno de 12% ao ano. Os parentes faziam a mesma coisa. S$270 milhões no total.
Pra descartar que fossem só mais espertos, compararam com corretores de imóveis e diretores de empresa. Nenhum dos dois mostrou o mesmo padrão. Rodaram 1.000 simulações aleatórias e o efeito real ficou totalmente fora da distribuição.
Quem mais operava? Gerentes médios do planejamento de transporte. Cargo suficiente pra saber, baixo o bastante pra ninguém olhar.
Em 2012, Singapura apertou a fiscalização com novas leis e punição de casos de alto escalão. O padrão sumiu, dos funcionários e dos parentes.
Singapura é top 5 em transparência no mundo. Norma social sozinha não segurou.
fonte: NBER WP 35756
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Announcing OpenCensus, a new project with
@EzraKarger
We are transcribing the historical US censuses and releasing them as open data
2.6 million people so far in 1940, browse here:
opencensus.us
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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham has a new blog post about AI-generated text in NBER working papers.
I'll let you all guess who is responsible for the gigantic 32% share of AI-generated working papers in the Productivity, Innovation & Entrepreneuship program.
paulgp.substack.com/p/how-do…
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so. we keep getting pitches that randomista aid isn't the way to go.
anyone want to write a defense of the randomistas for @indevmag?
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The assignment itself is actually quite simple. Students are all required to pick any paper they want from @JHealthEcon, @AJHE_journal, or @HECJournal
All they have to do is read their paper and then come to my office and talk to me about it for 5-10 minutes.