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Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️

@abhishekn

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Data drives discovery

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Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️

@abhishekn

4 years

Quick thread about a mapping trick the @nytimes has adopted in the last few weeks that have dramatically improved their coronavirus maps. The maps are about different topics, but note one other key diff. between maps on left (April 3), middle (wikipedia) & right (NYT today) 1/

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Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️

@abhishekn

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News alert! I will be walking a bit slowly down the hallways in the future! I heard earlier this semester that I was awarded tenure @UCBerkeley Thank you to my dear advisors & mentors who set me on this path. Lots more to come. Upward and onward! ()

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🚨🚨 Working Paper Alert! 🚨🚨 Excited to share new @nberpubs WP with @MTranchero -- we examine the impact of access to confidential admin data via @uscensusbureau data centers on economics research. A short 🧵 with key findings ...

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@abhishekn

4 years

this is a really neat idea that all of us using less granular data to map should adopt. if there were county-level geo-data / shapefiles that make this easy, many would adopt right away and the curse of blotchy maps shading large, sparsely pop counties would go away! /FIN

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Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️

@abhishekn

2 years

👋hey - so there's a new associate editor at Management Science excited to start receiving papers in the Entrepreneurship/Innovation desk. see you in Manuscript Central?! (thank you @tobystuart @ProfAroraAshish #SridharTayur !)

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Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️

@abhishekn

4 years

1/ Excited about new paper on Economics of Maps w/ @sstern_mit in the JEP Winter 2020 issue! Inspired by "the map is not the terrain", we argue that maps matter & examine the economic antecedents & consequences of mapping distortions tweetstorm below 👇🏾

AEA Journals

@AEAjournals

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The Winter 2020 issue of the Journal of Economic Perspectives (34, 1) is now available online at .

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Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️

@abhishekn

4 years

Best paper title in a while! 👏 😎

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Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️

@abhishekn

1 year

One day I will write something longer about the value of qualitative research methods for quantitative (esp. applied micro) researchers. But 👇 is a short thread TLDR: Qual methods super useful even if you never present/analyze qual data in published work #ResearchMethods

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@abhishekn

4 years

In the last 20 years, @BYU has produced more than double the number of undergrads who went on to get a business school PhD as compared to the nearest competitor ( @Penn ) play with it yourself!: cc: @AOMConnect @AOM_STR

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Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️

@abhishekn

5 years

1/ Excited to release a new paper with @ReimersImke looking at the effects of book digitization on the demand for physical copies.

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Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️

@abhishekn

2 years

🚨 Working paper Alert! 🚨 New paper (w/ Aruna Ranganathan, @BerkeleyHaas ) on the impact of digitization on gender inequality in the Hindi film industry ("Bollywood") Our basic story? Digitization *reduced* female share among playback singers 🧵👇

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Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️

@abhishekn

2 years

As the summer break in schools and childcare centers approaches across the country - spare a thought for the toll these breaks takes on working mothers. see new paper by Brendan Price and Melanie Wasserman ()

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Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️

@abhishekn

4 years

As someone with a very short attention span, in-person seminars forced me to be locked in a room and engage with a paper in detail. I loved it! Even with the million v.interesting online seminars now, I struggle to stay focused. Do others face this issue? Any suggestions?

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Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️

@abhishekn

11 months

nice new addition to the "brain drain" literature. @econgaurav (one of my fav economists of my generation!) and @nicomoralesg argue that increased *probability* of immigration leads natives to upskill, even if they dont actually immigrate.

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Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️

@abhishekn

5 years

As student in India with no connections, I worked remotely with a grad student at Harvard doing data work for them on the side. Learnt a lot & wrote about experience in my essay. Now, as a faculty member, I love working remotely with promising RAs in a similar fashion.

Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham

@paulgp

5 years

For a student at a college (outside the US) which does not have many opportunities to work as an RA, how else can someone build research experience in their undergrad? #EconHelp

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Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️

@abhishekn

4 years

dataset of the day:

A Database of 5,000 Historical Cookbooks Is Now Online, and You Can Help Improve It

It took Barbara Ketcham Wheaton more than 50 years to compile The Sifter.

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Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️

@abhishekn

4 years

🚨🚨 New paper alert 🚨🚨 Very excited about new paper with @SayWhatYouFound title: Improving data access democratizes and diversifies science forthcoming in @PNASNews with @esther_shears & @MathijsdeVaan ( @BerkeleyHaas ) link: Thread 👇

Improving data access democratizes and diversifies science | PNAS

The foundation of the scientific method rests on access to data, and yet such access is often restricted or costly. We investigate how improved dat...

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Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️

@abhishekn

4 years

🚨New paper thread🚨 How to reopen the economy safely & yet not hurt the economy? Our empirical model leverages cellphone location data to map city-based social networks & finds one size does not fit all! Answer depends on local context. full paper: 👇🏾

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Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️

@abhishekn

7 years

My article on the effects of copyright on the diffusion of information,now published at @INFORMS Management Science!

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Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️

@abhishekn

1 year

Mentioning a non-US country in the title of the paper reduces follow-on interest (experimental evidence)

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Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️

@abhishekn

4 years

all three are county level maps of the US -- made with county level data. what makes the last map on the right different? one key design choice highlighted in the footnote: "parts of a county with a population density lower than 10 people per square mile are not shaded" 2/

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Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️

@abhishekn

4 years

Very excited to team up with Stephen Turban and Megan Gorges (incoming @HarvardHBS PhD students) on a new wiki to provide guidance for those applying to PhD programs in business schools. Check it out! CC: @MITSloanPhD @phdproject 1/

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Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️

@abhishekn

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Randomly adding 2 paragraphs and 1 photo to @Wikipedia about Spanish towns increased visits by 9%! @WikiResearch

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Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️

@abhishekn

2 years

super excited to have this come out! (finally!) with @ReimersImke

AEA Journals

@AEAjournals

2 years

Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "Digitization and the Market for Physical Works: Evidence from the Google Books Project" by Abhishek Nagaraj and Imke Reimers.

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Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️

@abhishekn

2 years

I’m all for experiments like the Thiel fellowship but the program is so selective, awardees were likely to do great things regardless I wish they’d release the names of those who almost made the cut but didn’t so that we have a control group.

Aleksandr Volodarsky

@volodarik

2 years

Since 2011 Peter Thiel has been giving out $100K to college students to drop out and start a company. Forbes wrote, "Thiel Fellows will create lesser successful companies than degree holders." 10 yrs later, they've founded some of the most breakthrough companies of the decade:

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Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️

@abhishekn

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🚨🚨 New Paper Alert! 🚨🚨 🧵 Excited to share our latest working paper where we build a large new dataset to measure geographic bias in top management research (with Randol Yao, @MITSloanPhD and ex pre-doc) Full paper:

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Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️

@abhishekn

2 years

Excited about my presentation at the #NBERSI science of science funding session tomorrow -- I will be presenting some new results (w/ @MTranchero ) on the impact of Census data at 3:45pm ET/12:45pm PT. prog: stream: see you!

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Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️

@abhishekn

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🚨 @nberpubs working paper alert! 🚨 Online reviews 🔼 sales but we show * almost 20% of places don't even have a listing by 2017 * simply creating a listing increases sales ~5-10% Getting on the map matters! w./ @mike_luca @gaurisubramani Thread👇

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Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️

@abhishekn

2 years

🚨🚨 Hiring Alert! 🚨🚨 I'm hiring a new pre-doc to work with me starting next year. Please apply if you're interested in getting experience with applied micro-techniques before grad school! And spread the word! cc @econ_ra @predoc_org

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Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️

@abhishekn

5 years

I wish referees think about this the next time they ask for every possible interaction effect to get at the "mechanism". better to admit its hard to estimate rather than fish for what interactions are significant" and make up a story around that.

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You need 16x the sample size to estimate an interaction rather than main effect. This makes diff-in-diff a little underpowered Wanted: a high powered causal inference estimator

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Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️

@abhishekn

4 years

RIP #VanHalen . Patent innovation researchers, did you know that he was probably a data point in your dataset?

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Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️

@abhishekn

2 years

🚨🚨🚨 Excited to announce that I'm looking to hire a post-doc for next year as a part of a recent @SloanFoundation grant examining the impact of administrative data on academic science () Apply now!

Grants | Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Our mission is to make the world a better place through the advancement of scientific knowledge.

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Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️

@abhishekn

5 years

Amazed at how good @github data is and how few academic papers in labor econ/strategy/org theory are written using it. For some organizations, you can see the entire set of programmers, their work cycles and their output! 😲

Jonnie Hallman

@destroytoday

5 years

GitHub is really good at visualizing burnout.

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Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️

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7 years

Been reading @nytimes & @FoxNews to balance my media diet, this is the 1st time that a single event is being covered with the same headline

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Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️

@abhishekn

11 months

Have you been told that the work you are doing is "not really economics"? well, you are not alone! Ken Arrow was told the same about his dissertation!!

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Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️

@abhishekn

4 years

EIGHTY TWO 5 minute videos presenting results from recent field experiments can now be found on youtube via the #AFE2020 conference: Whatay contribution to the public good! @RDMetcalfe

AFE Conference 2020

AFE Conference 2020 Asynchronous Presentations

www.youtube.com

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Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️

@abhishekn

2 years

#predoc alert! 🚨🚨 If you are looking for a predoc for next year in topics around labor, development, gender and have strong Stata skills could you please DM your CV? I might have an opportunity for you! Cc: @econ_ra @predoc_org

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Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️

@abhishekn

5 years

Teaching moment I won't forget. We're taking a break between a class. Student comes up and has a long conversation about course logistics. Then, "on a personal note" he continues, "I think your zip has been open for the last hour." 😂 Im grateful to my students on so many levels!

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Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️

@abhishekn

7 years

Delighted to win @AOM_TIM best dissertation award!

Christopher Tucci

@cltucci

7 years

The @AOM_TIM Winners' Circle!! Congratulations 🎈🎊🍾!! #AOM2017

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Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️

@abhishekn

3 years

live footage of grad students trying to corner famous professor after a conference talk am I doing it right @KhoaVuUmn :)

Anish Sugathan

@anishsugathan

3 years

New residents on @IIMAhmedabad campus. 😃

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Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️

@abhishekn

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Imbens and @Susan_Athey providing a template on what else might we report in analysis beyond treatment effect and SEs at @UCBerkeley @UCBITSS #bitssam2023

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Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️

@abhishekn

9 months

Excited to be co-organizing the NBER digital Econ and AI spring meetings at Stanford (Feb 29-March 1) with @johnjhorton @avicgoldfarb and @ce_tucker -- submit here:

John Horton

@johnjhorton

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I'm co-organizing the NBER Digital Economics & AI spring meeting @ Stanford (1st week of March '24). Submit your best work here --> cc: @ce_tucker @avicgoldfarb @abhishekn

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Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️

@abhishekn

2 years

🚨🚨 hiring alert! 🚨🚨 I am hiring a pre-doctoral research assistant to work with me next year. Please look at the application below and apply. Please help to spread the word! cc: @predoc_org @econ_ra

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@abhishekn

4 years

Its clear that with more granular data (say census block level), you can ignore areas with basically zero human population - but the NYT does not have more granular data & yet they pull off this trick. how? simple: do not "shade" portions of a county below minimum pop density 3/

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Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️

@abhishekn

2 years

Excited to announce the lineup for the @BerkeleyHaas Entrepreneurship & Innovation seminar for 2022-23. Stop by if you happen to in/near campus on these dates! (cc: @TaniaBabina @SharonBelenzon @AdrienMatray @DeepakHegde_EFL @ProfSongMa )

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Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️

@abhishekn

3 years

I’m looking for a part time RA to help with a big data project that involves lot of big data GIS data processing and analysis with @openstreetmap data. If that’s your jam, send me a DM or email (nagaraj @berkeley .edu)

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Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️

@abhishekn

10 months

Congrats to @MTranchero for winning the @OrganizationSci best dissertation award for 2023! (Psst: he’s on the job market - )

Summer Jackson

@SRMJackson

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@rotmanschool @BUsociologydept @MITSloan @EileenSuh7 @BUQuestrom @ChelseaLide @StanfordGSB @jeanjhoh @Columbia_Biz @MiyaDraga Our final presenter @MTranchero @BerkeleyHaas

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Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️

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3 years

Just discovered that @Afinetheorem and Heidi Williams have a series of seemingly excellent webcasts/lectures on markets for innovation. Check it out:

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Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️

@abhishekn

5 years

It always amazes me when attending a seminar about a very specialized topic, say the econ. of breakfast cereal, neither the author nor an audience member has spent any serious time talking someone steeped in the industry. "domain knowledge" is critical for good empirical work.

Nate Silver

@NateSilver538

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If you want to be a good data scientist, you should spend ~49% of your time developing your statistical intuition (i.e. how to ask good questions of the data), and ~49% of your time on domain knowledge (improving overall understanding of your field). Only ~2% on methods per se.

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@vini_singh_

Workflow | Brendan M. Price

www.brendanmichaelprice.com

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@abhishekn

4 years

I think I'm going to switch to python + stata for figures.

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Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️

@abhishekn

4 years

Theorist: it depends on market power & shape of demand curve, but I don't know Experimentalist; A/B tests show prices should be increased, but I don't know why Structuralist: counterfactual where virus spreads to 10% of pop, prices should increase by 96.3% but no one believes me

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@abhishekn

1 year

Coolest paper I’ve seen at @strategysci conference- this paper uses changes in library classification to understand how these changes affect serendipity.

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Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️

@abhishekn

3 years

Very excited to announce @BerkeleyHaas Entrepreneurship and Innovation seminar (as a part of our new E&I group) Great lineup w/ @M_Giorcelli @ufukakcigit @william_r_kerr @bfjo & @dhsu92 Open to all @UCBerkeley affiliates & nearby locals (for now) see:

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Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️

@abhishekn

3 years

For the final case discussion of my #entstrat class at @HarvardHBS we invited the enormously talented @BabaBrinkman for a "rap up" - a fantastic live zoom performance that summarizes the key ideas of the course and the case discussion. Check it out!!

TEP Rap Up - The Compass

This rap by Baba Brinkman summarizes the ideas from The Entrepreneur's Playbook / Entrepreneurial Strategy class -- https://www.ent-strategy.org/Learn more a...

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@abhishekn

5 years

Economic historians and other digitizers be like 🎉😄🎆

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@abhishekn

4 years

wohoo! a tweet of mine inspired a full paper!! need to put that on the CV :) great work @MishaTeplitskiy and team!

Science of Science

@MishaTeplitskiy

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🚨 New study on prestige bias in peer review! 🚨 link: A quick🧵on the findings, and why the study owes its existence to... #ScienceOfScience Twitter!

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@abhishekn

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Jane Wu's job market paper is just terrific. () (a) the introduction of crash test dummies reduced car fatalities but (b) fatalities were particularly lower among people who looked like the dummy! Policy-relevant empirics and great theoretical idea!

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@abhishekn

5 years

I think the NBER should put it's behavioral hat on. The onus should be on presenters to state at the start of their presentation that they would like to *not* have their slides tweeted out, rather than having to get permission from every presenter. Defaults matter.

Claudia Sahm

@Claudia_Sahm

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Summer Camp for Economists ☀️🏝⛱ aka NBER Summer Institute starts on Monday: ... to get us ready, Head Camp Counselor, Jim Poterba, sent out an email about tweeting, research on seminar culture, and the code of conduct

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I’m going to try to tweet from the inaugural management/analytics/data (mad) conference today and tomorrow at @Columbia_Biz . () First up @k_mcelheran on AI adoption in America with @erikbryn and others

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@abhishekn

1 year

Last week, my fantastic @BerkeleyHaas student and collaborator @MTranchero presented a preview of his job-market paper for the first time at @1994ccc last week #CCC2023 a quick 🧵 about why he/his work is so amazing and why you should all be making a bee-line to hire him!

CCC Conference

@1994ccc

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The death of theory thanks to #BigData ? Not so fast! Matteo Tranchero @MTranchero documents rampant false positives and explores which firms can avoid investing in false positives!! #ccc2023

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🚀 Just 1 week until the @nberpubs Digital Economics and AI Meeting that I'm helping to organize along with @johnjhorton and @avicgoldfarb and @ce_tucker at Stanford GSB. quick 🧵👇 on 8 great papers that are coming up.

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@abhishekn

3 years

What are the best new working papers in the area of entrepreneurship and innovation in 2021? Reply below! Do no hesitate to suggest your own work!

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@abhishekn

2 years

Pick your poison. #EconTwitter

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@abhishekn

4 years

But at least now, only 20% of this county is shaded, which does not make you think immediately that "things are terrible in this big part of California" That read of the data would be wrong, but that is precisely what a county-level map like this one on the right would tell 5/

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@abhishekn

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Excited to finally start on the faculty at @BerkeleyHaas with @guoxu_econ & others. Dean @richlyons welcoming us in our brand new building!

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4 years

Excited to hear that despite the challenging times, @BerkeleyHaas has a new open position for senior/junior scholars working in the area of entrepreneurship. If you or your friends/students work in this area ask them to apply!

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Didn't get into your favorite PhD program? don't despair! Consider applying for this predoc to work with me and try again next year? I promise it will be a fun & rewarding experience. We are doing another review of apps this week so please get in touch soon! (email is ok!)

Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️

@abhishekn

2 years

🚨🚨 Hiring Alert! 🚨🚨 I'm hiring a new pre-doc to work with me starting next year. Please apply if you're interested in getting experience with applied micro-techniques before grad school! And spread the word! cc @econ_ra @predoc_org

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Amazing paper forthcoming in @QJEharvard reports RCT findings from China where business owners were randomly assigned to be part of networking groups for a year. Treatment increased revenues by ~8% and was persistent! increase in innovation is one channel

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4 years

The paper is well written.

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@abhishekn

3 years

I do this often! I cant remember who I copied this idea from, but I find it to be a very effective way to end talks. See example.

Arpit Gupta

@arpitrage

3 years

Try writing the *paper in a slide.* ie, your research question, identification, results, takeaway, etc. all fit on one slide before results. You don't need to use this slide in the end. But may help you keep only what's essential for people to understand your key contribution.

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@abhishekn

2 years

Very exciting lineup of the remote work conference by @I_Am_NickBloom , @prithwic @emma_k_h @Jose_MariaRD etc Emerging research areas: 1- measurement & selection 2-spatial & urban impacts 3-impact on workers & firms 4-impacts for innovation Cool stuff!

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@abhishekn

5 years

So many amazing research questions here for those at the intersection of AI / Innovation / Strategy research via @a16z

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@abhishekn

6 years

Graduate school in economics/management really needs to teach (quant empirical) students a lot of this material as a rite of passage.

Grant McDermott (@[email protected])

@grant_mcdermott

6 years

I'm teaching a "data science for economists" course this semester. If you're interested in learning more about #rstats , Git(Hub), programming, databases, cloud computation, ML, etc., I'll be making all of my course material publicly available here:

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About 36% of top 1000 ranks in JEE migrate abroad - number rises to 62% for top 100. Cc: @prithwic @inaganguli @patrick_gaule

Top Talent, Elite Colleges, and Migration: Evidence from the Indian Institutes of Technology

www.nber.org

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Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️

@abhishekn

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Hello I'm a newly-minted innovation economist. You might know me from my ongoing productions "copyright does really stop the flow of digital info.", "good maps are the key to new discoveries" & "data are not unbiased representations of ground truth, but are socially constructed".

Beatrice Cherrier

@Undercoverhist

6 years

Hello I’m a historian of economics. You might know me from my Greatest Hits including "no we"re not extinct (yet)", "economic facts & models are constructed", "no, it doesn't mean your discipline is no science, only that your data, theories & tools are historically situated"

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Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️

@abhishekn

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I just spent 3 hours assembling this IKEA duktig kitchen for my toddler’s birthday. AMA.

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Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️

@abhishekn

5 years

I'm spending the next couple of days @GeorgiaTech REER conference () surrounded by scholars and research studying the antecedents and consequences of technical change, innovation and scientific progress! basically an intellectual feast! stay tuned #REER2019

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Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️

@abhishekn

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Achievement unlocked - got a picture with Dick Nelson (will go right next to my picture with Arrow) — and @sstern_mit he’s very excited about the economics of maps! 😃

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Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️

@abhishekn

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I think I found the killer app for ChatGPT from our local parenting forum "We use it to create bedtime stories for the kids. Example: tell me a 3 minute story about a pink unicorn running on the beach."

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Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️

@abhishekn

6 years

Our digitization webpage () has reading lists from previous workshops. Check it out:

Digitization Course Syllabi

Home Page What is this? This is a collection of reading lists related to topics in digitization from classes taught by members of the digitization community.

paper.dropbox.com

Avi Goldfarb

@avicgoldfarb

6 years

PhD Student Workshop in the Economics of Digitization. March 21-23 at Stanford. Application deadline Nov. 16. Speakers: Matthew Gentzkow, Dina Mayzlin, Shane Greenstein, Joel Waldfogel. . @dmayzlin @JWaldfogel

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Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️

@abhishekn

3 years

Almost unfair that you can pack so many exciting speakers into one lineup. Awesome work @digitaleconorg With all talks recorded no excuse to not "attend" CC: @JorgeGuzmanCBS @johnjhorton @robseamans @Prof_Yildirim @CageJulia @DianeCoyle1859

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Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️

@abhishekn

4 years

🚨🚨new paper alert!🚨🚨 Using national brand policies to instrument for local chains store closings we show that chain closures cause nearby independents to close as well link: w/ @MathijsdeVaan #sameersrivastava @saqibmtz & @SafeGraph data thread👇

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Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️

@abhishekn

3 years

Interesting set of slides on how strategy is taught from Juan Alcacer based on a review of syllabi of core strategy classes in 20 top business schools. Here are the most common topics. full slides: at @strategysci conference:

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Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️

@abhishekn

1 year

Hard to say something new about the oft remarked fact that map projections warp our view of how the world looks/works. this article by @tomaspueyo does it tho: my fav bit was this analogy:

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Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️

@abhishekn

3 years

My dept. at @BerkeleyHaas is hiring. You are probably applying if you are on the strategy/organization-theory job market. You should!! I'm here to encourage a few other fields to consider applying to us if you aren't thinking of doing so already ...

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Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️

@abhishekn

4 years

Congrats to @nberpubs on doing a great job with a zoomified #NBERSI2020 . But, can we have the recorded sessions posted on Youtube permanently? pretty please? The thought of all that amazing content rotting away on a disk somewhere makes me want to cry!

Jeff Brown

@IlliniBizDean

4 years

Just logged onto NBER to hear a presentation. Only to find it took place 3 days ago. :-(

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Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️

@abhishekn

5 years

Spent a ton of time on two cool papers this spring. Was waiting for 2-3 months for reports. Both got rejected at good outlets within an hour of each other last month. 🤷‍♂️ reports were more positive than usual but still reject. Revising now to resubmit elsewhere!

Paavo Ritala

@PaavoRitala

5 years

Academics, let's talk more about rejections! We see a lot of announcements of acceptances and published papers but very few rejections. Even if (at least for me) rejection is more common than getting papers accepted. Let me start in the reply... #LifeInAcademia #AcademicTwitter

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@abhishekn

3 months

check it out! excited to have this out this week.

NBER

@nberpubs

3 months

Exploring whether to use past data or start with a blank slate finds that under some conditions data can lead agents to look under the lamppost, constraining search and harming payoffs, from Hoelzemann, Manso, @abhishekn , and @Matteo Tranchero

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Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️

@abhishekn

6 years

One day, I will write a paper with an introduction one tenth as good as this one, from Stigler's classic 1961 piece Also, while the economics of information is no longer in a slum in the town of economics, still feel like it occupies only a small one-bed apartment ...

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Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️

@abhishekn

5 years

Uber, Lyft drivers manipulate fares at Reagan National causing artificial price surges

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Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️

@abhishekn

4 years

Started #entstrategy class today with live stock @GME ticker -- perfect ice breaker and a good way to show that I'm finally making good use of OBS! (thanks @lukestein !) cc: @sstern_mit @erin_l_scott

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Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️

@abhishekn

1 year

most striking line from today's coverage of @OppInsights results - one can say that about pretty much all of their (path-breaking) papers! the "rich get richer" dynamic at the heart of these studies, also unfortunately applies to the research process!

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Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️

@abhishekn

3 years

In 5-10 years, we wont need PhD courses in specialized subfields at each university with 2-3 students. we can just all learn together via whoever is best at teaching this material online.

Adrien Matray

@AdrienMatray

3 years

Hi #EconTwitter ! This year again, I will provide an open, online PhD course on empirical corporate finance. Syllabus here: . Since I am teaching in person with my Princeton PhDs (youhou!!), it means that I am providing this online course on my "free" time

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Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️

@abhishekn

3 years

Congratulations to @gaurisubramani who is graduating from @BerkeleyHaas with a PhD this year and is illuminating new drivers and solutions for the gender gap in innovation. Read all about it!

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Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️

@abhishekn

9 months

an email audit shows that when it comes to random pitches over emails, investors are *more* likely to respond to women and minority (asian) entrepreneurs. why, then, do we see huge biases against female entrepreneurs in practice? likely because in practice, only 10% of deals

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Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️

@abhishekn

4 years

my first PhD micro class started with, "let's start with chapter 9 of MWG" since apparently everyone knew the "basic" stuff. As someone who had never even taken undergrad micro, I was pretty freaked out 😁 -- got through it!

Mohammad Akbarpour

@akbarpour_

4 years

I had an insane level of “everyone knows more than me” in my 1st-year classes. I failed my econometrics comp, & passed 2nd time marginally. In retrospect, it was a lot about mentality: Classmates were better *prepared* & I interpreted that as “I don’t belong to Stanford Econ.”

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Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️

@abhishekn

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You have a working paper in the broad area of digital economics and/or AI? Consider submitting to the NBER Digital Econ/AI meeting at Stanford in Spring 2024! Deadline: Jan 4. cc: @ce_tucker @avicgoldfarb @johnjhorton

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Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️

@abhishekn

3 years

My decision rule for saying yes has been, “is it a good idea?” —> do it. Worked fine as a grad student. Now that I’m much busier, doesn’t work so well anymore, since working on one idea crowds out another, potentially better idea. How do you decide what to say yes/no to?

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Abhishek Nagaraj 🗺️

@abhishekn

3 years

(Rare personal tweet) Just finished 10 glorious miles for #RunTheWorld — thanks @janagallus for encouraging me to dust off those running shoes after a while!

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