Scrolling Bluesky as a soul detox before I go back to hell (Twitter)

It’s over

Ok I unironically should probs start scrolling here more for Econ info huh lmao

They suspended my account on the other app

Happy Juneteenth 🙏🏾 Venmo: Jason-Harrison-79 PayPal: jharrison2156 Cashapp: $jharrison2156 dm if zelle

I miss some of you

How it started/How its going

Yo

Ok I’ll bite, what’s an actual well done IV?

Had a dream where I was accused of academic fraud, went to court, they said my stuff didn’t replicate, I said “that’s because you can’t do what I can do” and then I went to jail

dbcft

Law friend: “Jesus Christ, is that how Econ seminars are? You guys were grilling them” Me: That was the most tame seminar we’ve had here

Barely on this app -> opens app -> gets called white I’m closing the app again

Hearing reports that the NSF blocking will only apply to micro theorists

I just saw the most beautiful preliminary working paper about taxation. The type of shit that makes me want to try and stay in academia

Apparently someone on this app is complaining about having to DoorDash bottled water for 5 dollars? This is the type of derangement I like to see, maybe I’ll scroll on Bluesky more…

The real Econ PhD is the predocs we made along the way

Incredible

Merry Christmas

Logging on to Bluesky after the last two days on Twitter feels like I just came out of a war zone lmao

If you give 10,000 monkeys 10,000 copies of stata eventually one will reproduce the entirety of the complete works of Joshua Angrist

I really want to post here more since it’s great to have a place with insightful discussions, and most of econ Twitter is here But the effort of finding everyone, combined with the less dynamic variety compared to Twitter, makes me feel less inclined to post

Spotify Wrapped, but for people who use Compustat. And here I thought I’d seen it all.

Spent like an hour trying to figure out this data issue and went on a walk and thought of the solution in 10 minutes. Is this how micro theorists research?

Me rn

I have a Tsunami warning? You mean another source of variation for me to exploit?

I say happy holidays to my conservative friends and merry Christmas to my liberal friends

I have 10 invites for X, who needs

They should let me be a predoc in perpetuity

I should use my twitter to monetize Econ grading services for profs

Do academics actually find grading to be an annoying chore in of itself or is it because they have other obligations and are busy? I got to grade as a TA once and I loved it! I’d probably love it more if I actually designed the test too

Loool,assa is actually near me this year but it’s right before I actually get back to CA

Banger reading list actually

Wait what, there’s no bookmarks? How will I save posts I’ll never read now???

Can't believe the Italians took citrus digestive properties, mixed it with alcohol, marketed it as a healthy after-dinner drink, and then named the entire post-meal tradition "digestivo" to make it sound medicinal ​ Genuinely incredible

Today I am thankful for the Hall-Jorgensen model of taxes and investment. I am thankful for optimal commodity taxation under Atkinson-Stieglitz. I am thankful for production efficiency under Diamond-Mirrlees. I am thankful for Slemrod-Kopczuck optimal taxable income elasticity.

Thanks, Jason. That’s very kind of you. If anyone wants to attend our online seminars, feel free to sign up at the “Contact” link on the event page below. Next up: Peter Diamandis on the Coming Age of Abundance digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/events/

How am I still coughing

The best part about academia is all the seminars happening. GSB is nice since you get a bunch of different disciplines, but having even broader access is great too Like, the digital economy lab at the computer science department that @erikbryn.bsky.social hosts are always a joy​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Phenomenal paper, one of my absolute favs! 2 points: 1) prospect theory is a *descriptive* model of choice. Choice still there, new work is getting us closer to understanding mechanism. 2) not clear whether choices are response to risk, and people apply same heuristic to similar non-risk contexts

I don’t feel like I can be as snarky as I want to be on here, and it’s like, then what’s the point?

We still have a relatively poor understanding of the relationship between evidence and policy. Program evaluation in particular is often motivated by a desire to make policy better. But how effective is program evaluation itself?Michelle Rao's JMP tackles this question. www.michellerao.com/research

I decided to go to the bar and re-read Hall Jorgensen and post and I have no regrets

I might be a junior economist but even junior economists know about the fundamental problem of causal inference. Unfortunately that basic concept escapes The Australia Institute’s Chief Economist. Regardless, it would be a strange theory that suggests government spending has no effect on inflation.

We can re-create Econ twitter in the aggregate

Wow, so many economists that aren’t on twitter anymore, the nostalgia is hitting My timeline is still boring, but I’ll def be around here more ig

Oh wait, we can post links here, I forgot. Deleted all my old blog posts, will start writing again, I have a cash flow tax piece up :P nominalthoughts.com

I just scroll and it’s so boring idk