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James Harrigan

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3 months

@pschofie79 kudos to the person for asking a question.

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@HistoryBoomer I am genuinely baffled by this little dust-up. Even if you're a COVID dead-ender like Taylor Lorenz, why is it objectionable for Bernie or anyone else to work from home while infected?

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@jmwooldridge To my grad students, I often explain puzzling and irrelevant passages in papers by saying "a referee made the author do it".

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@rebeccamakkai This story is the GOAT (Greatest Of All Time).

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@rmkubinec documentation documentation documentation! Stata is expensive but at least you get clear, organized well-written documentation, and adequate tech support if you need it. And yes, I'm an old man who learned Stata 1.3 and I see no need to change.

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@jbarro I'll give him points for novelty: forced birth is good for fiscal sustainability???

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@bruceholsinger it never ceases to amaze me what tenured professors at good universities (like mine) manage to complain about. dudes and dudettes, you have an unbelievably great job!

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@d08890 $20k for a year would be insane, but $20k for a semester is merely low. Assuming a 15 week semester and 40 hours of work per week, this comes to $33 per hour.

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@MeganTStevenson a key point: the UVA police chief told students they were welcome to stay and continue their protest, but that they needed to take down tents or they'd be arrested. Protesters chose to be arrested. 2/2

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James Harrigan

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9 months

@Bellmanequation Why not wait until their intro spiel is finished to see if they give you the mechanism?

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4 months

Amazing public goods provision by Yoto and co-authors. Trade economists and students salute you @YotovG !

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4 months

📢 NEW DATA! Javier Flórez ( @Pseud0Safari ), Mario Larch, Sebastien Bradley, and I are very happy share the most disaggregated dataset of consistently constructed international and domestic trade flows -- GRANTPA. So, let’s estimate GRAVITY with GRANTPA.

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@Econ_4_Everyone John, you're a leader in the profession who is an editor at JPE. People like you have the power to lead us out of this insane equilibrium - please do so! 1/2

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@ajbravo_PhD I felt your pain for many years until my nest emptied. But it won't work for the simple reason that university academic years end much earlier (early May) than school academic years (early/mid June).

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@CaitlinPacific @TEDTalks @TEDx @coldxman @TheFP "a luxury cruise to the land of the middlebrow" is the best insult I've seen on this site in a long while, nice work @CaitlinPacific !

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James Harrigan

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2 years

@jmwooldridge I used Stata 1.3 as a grad student at UCLA, where it was developed by Finis Welch, in the mid-1980s. Haven't strayed from the path of righteousness since.

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@mschoenbachler @HistoryBoomer Succinct and accurate. I'd just add that Lincoln and the Republican Party were very anti-slavery, but as of 1860 that meant no EXPANSION of slavery. There were some abolitionists in the 1860 party, but they were a distinct minority.

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1 year

@rodrikdani just for fun, let's share our favorite examples of well-identified, and even famous, papers on trivial subjects. I nominate "Winning Isn’t Everything: Corruption in Sumo Wrestling" by Duggan and Levitt, AER 2002.

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2 years

@UCWVAUVA @UVA I'm the grad director in economics, I've been hearing this from some of our students (so far only first year students). University is closed, impossible to figure out whats going on so far, please share info (I will if I learn anything).

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@sc_cath The US is a much better place to be in the top 10 percent, maybe even the top 50 - but France is a far better place to be near the bottom. 2/2

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@JameelJaffer "very sad" is an understatement. Staging a demo at a dinner party you've been invited to, and refusing to leave? I'm going to go with "disgraceful".

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@thecrimson @angelinajparker I was talking to my humanities major college junior daughter about this the other day. Her best case for grad school in the humanities: "grad school is a job, a dead end job for sure, but lots of post-college jobs are dead end jobs and at least grad school would be interesting".

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@ManhattanMingle @NYCMayor @GovKathyHochul @MarkLevineNYC @galeabrewer @NYPDChiefOfDept @NYPDCommAffairs @iLoveTheUWS @UWSPatch I'm now looking forward to eating at Effy's next time I'm in New York.

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James Harrigan

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@janecoaston forget 1864 - I'll never forgive him for retreating after he WON the battle of Malvern Hill in July 1862! If McClellan had been even *slightly* less terrible as a commander, the war could have ended in Confederate defeat by September 1862, saving countless thousands of lives.

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James Harrigan

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1 year

@SimonBowmaker best career advice: be as brilliant creative and hard-working as Daron Acemoglu.

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2 years

@BenBracquene @JustinWolfers unlike crypto, gold and diamonds are pretty and useful in jewelry. People like to look at art.

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@HansbergRossi weird, his hands seem completely visible.

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2 years

@bestoneTX the defeat of Reconstruction is truly one of the most distressing, infuriating, and depressing episodes in U.S. history.

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@mtgillikin The protesters were told they could stay as long as they took down their tents, which is what they'd been told since Tuesday. They chose to keep the tents up, so they were arrested. Seems like both protesters and UVA got what they wanted, what's the problem?

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1 year

@wwwojtekk Maximized expected utility is not the same thing as maximized utility ex post.

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6 months

@emmma_camp_ I married a woman I met as a freshman, but we got divorced (hope this doesn't happen to you!). At that age many people are too immature to know who they should marry. My second marriage has been blissfully smooth sailing - she was 33 when we met, I was 39.

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2 years

@mayara_pfs I went to a grad program way outside the top 10 (UCLA) and I have a great life as a professor at a department also way outside the top 10 (UVa). Spread the word!

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2 years

@paulgp @Susan_Athey This doesn't seem like a problem that needs fixing to me. Smaller, more specialized conferences are where it's at for intellectual stimulation & networking. Without the job market, I'll never go to ASSA again.

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4 months

@MeganTStevenson Megan, you are misinformed about what happened at UVA. There were no sniper rifles, and the cops broke up the encampment only after the protestors refused to take down their tents 1/2

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James Harrigan

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6 months

@florianederer I kind of assume that some of the people who take post-docs after accepting our asst prof offers will never show up, but I don't see this as a terrible problem. No worse than a colleague moving (for whatever reason) after they arrive.

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James Harrigan

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2 years

@Noahpinion This is perhaps the most regressive policy that has ever been popular among progressives.

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James Harrigan

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6 months

@KhoaVuUmn For our PhD program at Virginia, very few if any students have US pre-doc experience. Many if not most of the international students (china, Korea, India etc) and some of the Americans have a masters, though.

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2 years

@jack_hamilton if they actually do this, I'll stop paying for Netflix the next day. The only reason I subscribe is so my adult kids can watch in their apartments.

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James Harrigan

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7 months

@tedgioia @NonesuchRecords my favorite Bill Frisell recording.

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3 months

@Afinetheorem To explain this to Americans, I say: imagine if the US only had the Ivy League and second-tier state schools. France is far more dominated by grads of the grand écoles than the US is by the Ivies 6/n.

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1 year

@zackbeauchamp smart people do not have simplistic opinions about the French revolution.

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1 month

@CaitlinPacific let me fix this for you: "Winner drops out when he loses all support and realizes he can't win the general". Normal politics working as it should.

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James Harrigan

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@kearney_melissa agreed. But I think econ (and the hard sciences) should hold the line. We'll lose some unmotivated students at the margin for sure, but I think we owe it to our good/excellent students to have an econ A continue to mean something.

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1 year

Just cast my ballot in Charlottesville Democratic Party primary. It was a pleasure to be able to vote for three women @TheRightCALLsen @SallyLHudson and @Nat4Cville , along with two men.

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James Harrigan

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2 years

@anneapplebaum the first and second rules of understanding day-to-day fluctuations in the stock market: don't even try, and don't believe anyone who says they do.

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10 months

@mtgillikin it is great and good that UVA's opposition to this sensible project was shot down in such definitive fashion.

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2 years

@RichardvReeves @BudgetHawks I identify as a left of center economist, and think the SALT and mortgage deductions should be eliminated (though I benefit personally from both). They are regressive (benefit the better off at expense of less well off). My position is orthodoxy among economists.

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@Skex16 @ztsamudzi The Soviet Union was not a liberal democracy.

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James Harrigan

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7 months

my colleague @emma_k_h getting a well-deserved shout-out.

Lawrence Katz

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7 months

Important and insightful work on work from home and the motherhood penalty in the labor market by Emma Harrington ( @emma_k_h )and Matt Kahn ( @mattkahn1966 )

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@henrygrabar excellent piece. Last summer I went back to Paris, where I used to live, for first time in three years. The bicycle revolution was dramatic. Even more surprising: Paris bars have embraced American-style IPA!

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@samhaselby The Washington-Biden comparison is so ludicrous. Washington had choice, Biden did not.

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2 years

@TheAnchoress @BradWilcoxIFS no. It’s a gun crisis, full stop. No guns, no mass shootings.

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@RoryStolzenberg @JuliaMahoneyUVA @mtgillikin I'm an economist at UVA. I assure you that neither me nor any of my colleagues think that increasing housing supply would have no effect on prices.

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@JustinWolfers "full employment is fuller than we thought possible"

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1 year

@ryancbriggs for the love of god, if you MUST wear a bow tie, make it skinny.

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1 year

@DavidDecosimo so happy and moved to read this account David, thank you for sharing it. It reminds me to always tell my family how much I love them, every day - none of us know when the last chance we have to say "I love you" will come.

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@BretDevereaux I was an undergrad history major in 1980, and I wanted to become a professor. Some very simple pre-Google research made it clear that even if I got into the best PhD program I'd have just a 50-50 shot at a decent academic history job. I switched to economics.

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2 years

@mattyglesias Dutch Disease = resource driven export boom causes real exchange rate to appreciate, hurting other tradeable goods esp. manufacturing. Not relevant to current Dutch economy.

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@Mark_Stryker I love Miles' completely correct take on "Money Jungle", a gimmicky idea for a record which predictably fails. I'm always mystified that people love this recording.

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James Harrigan

@jamesharrigan

7 months

@helaineolen I've given up my seat more than once so a kid can sit next to a parent. This doesn't make me a saint, but I shouldn't have to, nor should a parent have to rely on the kindness of strangers.

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James Harrigan

@jamesharrigan

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@LisaSelinDavis Lisa, you're kidding right? Biden left the race because he'd lost the support of his party. This is normal small-d democratic politics that happens all around the world all the time.

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James Harrigan

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7 months

@helaineolen I'd never thought about the evacuation angle before but you are clearly correct. More broadly though, it is just indecent to make parents pay extra to sit next to their (under 18) kid. I'm up for imposing a little human decency on the airlines.

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James Harrigan

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2 years

@henrygrabar this is an irrelevant calculation, not many people outside of the Deep South make the Federal minimum of $7.25. A more useful metric is the wage of a representative low wage worker, say at the 25th percentile, in each of these places.

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James Harrigan

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1 year

@jondr44 there's actually a well-known paper that is kinda about this question,

The Log of Gravity

Abstract. Although economists have long been aware of Jensen's inequality, many econometric applications have neglected an important implication of it: under heteroskedasticity, the parameters of...

direct.mit.edu

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James Harrigan

@jamesharrigan

1 year

this is both genius and incredibly obvious.

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Dear @Surgeon_General : Yes, kids ARE suffering & need ways to connect in person & away from social media. Fast, easy, inexpensive solution? HAVE SCHOOLS STAY OPEN FOR MIXED-AGE, NO-DEVICES FREE PLAY. They get fun, friends, social skills in a safe place:

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@Metal_Crow "problematic"

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James Harrigan

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4 months

@ProfJAParker Jonathan, you mis-read the graph. Social Security is $837 billion, net interest is a mere $514 billion.

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@jmwooldridge If it is easily implemented in Stata, 0.01 percent is enough. If not, I would estimate with less efficient estimator, and if std errs are "too big", then I'll go to the trouble of programming the fancy new estimator.

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James Harrigan

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2 years

@RolandtrueNYC @JustinWolfers still a horrible idea. Last thing we want to do is encourage ordinary savers people to “invest” in crypto.

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James Harrigan

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7 months

@dradambanks Duke Ellington, but it would take a couple months.

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James Harrigan

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1 year

@imillhiser you are incorrect. It may not be fashionable to believe it, but the the Fed is one of the most nonpolitical, competent, well-focused institutions we have in our society. Calmly implementing what they think is the right policy is not a threat to democracy.

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3 months

@aaronsibarium you're kidding, right? If so, it's kinda funny. If you're actually serious...

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James Harrigan

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5 months

@asymmetricinfo More generally, I realized something about death I'd never thought of before: an object (plate, photograph, book, etc) can have enormous value to a living person and then become worthless junk the moment the person dies 2/2.

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James Harrigan

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@mtgillikin rowdy misbehaving undergraduates - in short, UVA student culture. Also, horny UVA professors, of whom many of us could name several. You may not find it funny, but the comic intent is obvious.

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James Harrigan

@jamesharrigan

2 years

@stone_prof my favorite light bulb joke: how many tenured professors does it take to change a light bulb? answer: tenured professors do not change light bulbs. They use the light bulb they got in grad school, and when it burns out they sit there in the dark.

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2 years

For @johnedwinmason

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@Tyler_A_Harper a couple years ago I met a friend in a coffee shop near my campus. We happily chatted away, and the dude the next table over was INCENSED that our conversation was making it hard for him to concentrate on his laptop. Please note that a large university library was very nearby.

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James Harrigan

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3 months

@RezekJoe I'm sympathetic with the wish to ban AI in the humanities, but you can't. Better to figure out how to tame the beast than pretend you can keep it out of your classroom.

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@Afinetheorem I also think you're underestimating the cleavages around race and Islam and immigration, which are closely related. This tension is getting worse each year, and is also related to regional inequality (more immigration and Muslims in the south).

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1 year

@techdef fabulous photo, but FWIW I believe the tall young man was still going by Lew Alcindor at the time.

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@Afinetheorem The higher ed system is also super polarized, with a tiny number of elite students getting world-class degrees at the grand écoles and the rest stuffed into underfunded and mediocre universities 4/n

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James Harrigan

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8 months

@BetseyStevenson opportunity cost, Betsey. Marx died 140 years ago, and there's a lot that has been written in the mean time.

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James Harrigan

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2 years

@sivavaid I’m sure administrators work hard, but too much of their work is make work created by other administrators. We could do with far fewer administrators if they would stop creating work for each other and for the faculty.

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@profsamperry I got turned down for tenure because I didn't have enough high-profile publications. I was disappointed, but didn't think I'd been treated unfairly. I later got tenure at my current job because I had a lot more good publications.

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James Harrigan

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4 months

@gabriel_zucman a well-deserved honor Gabriel, and I enjoyed the write-up (though I had to smile at the very French inclusion of where you went to prepa).

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James Harrigan

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1 year

@D_A_Irwin I like the Caliendo, Dvorkin & Parro paper that thecahrt comes from, but it is NOT AN EMPIRICAL RESULT 1/2

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3 months

@brianluidog "Japanese jazz is superior to American jazz" lol that's a take I've never heard before. I doubt there's a jazz fan in Japan who'd agree.

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7 months

@itsafronomics half of renters, who are in fact paying rent, can't afford the rent? What is that even supposed to mean?

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@sharatganapati *blush*, glad to have written an explendid paper with @BaldwinRE . FWIW this is the most cited paper of my career

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James Harrigan

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@Farid__Farrokhi great tribute, Farid. It is amazing how many great students Jonathan had, including you of course.

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James Harrigan

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2 years

@mattyglesias There’s plenty of comfortable seating for ticketed passengers (though this is not immediately obvious when you come in). Seems obvious to me that this is intended to discourage homeless people from congregating.

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James Harrigan

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1 year

@henrygrabar great and surprising news. Of the 22 killed in Ile de France, 5 were on motorcycles, which surprises me not at all. I also wonder how the pedestrians were killed - hit by a vehicle?

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1 year

@wwwojtekk and hyperinflation, don't forget the hyperinflation.

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1 year

@HansbergRossi @FT very solid obit, much better than that NYTimes travesty. Glad they spoke to you @HansbergRossi .

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1 year

@Econ_4_Everyone first step: editors need to be more forceful. Tell authors what referee comments to deal with, and which to ignore. Commit to no more than one round of revisions. 2/2

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James Harrigan

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8 months

@mfariacastro I'm still a big fan of LyX.

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1 year

@rmkubinec in this situation, which has happened to me more than once as a referee, I write to the editor to explain. The editor is then welcome to use my old report, or recruit a different referee.

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James Harrigan

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7 years

@Billstein I live in #Charlottesville , and I want these Berliners to know how much we appreciate their solidarity.

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James Harrigan

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10 months

@LivableCville We are glad the Planning Commission unanimously recommended that the UVA letter opposing this project be tossed in the recycling bin.

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James Harrigan

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1 year

@JazzTimes wait, what? Please explain. I can't believe you mean what I think you mean: that you think there is something wrong with a jazz group that has only white people in it. What if they make good music?

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James Harrigan

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2 years

@kbburchardi any actual applied empirical papers in the first year? Looks like no, which aligns with most first year programs, I think. Which is a problem as economics gets more empirical.

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