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Tomer Stern

@tomer_stern

11 months

Excited to share my Job Market Paper with Mindy Marks and @MarcLaw4 that I'm presenting at APPAM next week!

Teacher_Testing_Standards_and_the_New_Teacher_Pipeline JMP.pdf

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Please check in with your local car dealership today. They are not handling this well

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@rcmoya84 They had a really bad crime problem!

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@allahliker *on the Joe Rogan podcast* “So, yea, before 1884 murder was always legal as long as you ate the guy. I think we need to go back to that.”

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@GeoffHanmer Looks great. Agree it should be taller tho

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@sunraysunray "Gentrifier" is such a fake insult lol. Freedom of movement within one's country is a prerequisite for being normal

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@paulgp Lol

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@american_sicko The bird in question

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@lefttwick Guy who hates immigrants so much he hates ethnic cleansing

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@JoePostingg *Guy who couldn’t build a wall* Excuse me sir, I’m building the city from Bioshock Infinite, would you care to invest.

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My little sister just ran her first regression in undergrad Econ 🥲

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@LPNH @besttrousers Taxes aren’t involuntary. You can choose to make 0 income and pay no taxes if you want

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@JimsonHogarth @cavalryarcher1 @LinkofSunshine Important to note that no developed country on earth pays for their universal healthcare with just higher taxes on top 2%

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@davidminpdx He raped and murdered two women on two different days. Death penalty is completely reasonable

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@dix_reloaded @LinkofSunshine I think OP means that if you cut off the main export for a country, many will die. Not that Americans are going to die from coffee withdrawal

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@JakeAnbinder I too vow not to hire anyone from Harvard or MIT to make youtube videos for me

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@ImNotOwned He is a resident which obviously sucks but in 3 years will be making $300,000 a year...in no world is that kind of person first in line for welfare state expansion

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@nkulw How would rent control change net migration for expensive cities. You can freeze the price of rent in New York and it will remain the case that the demand to live there is way higher than the supply

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@LibertyCappy During the pandemic, there were large temporary expansions of the child tax credit, unemployment insurance, and Medicaid. These welfare expansions all ended. You guys got what you wanted and are still complaining!

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@PinstripeBungle If I want to learn about what life would be like if the world was poorer, I can just open a history book. Turns out it sucked and that right now we are lucky to live in the richest country in the world

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@bryanculbertson I mean a militarized police state going around building house against local desires would be incredible

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@BigMeanInternet Lol. Yea socialism is when we take American 2023 living standards and refuse them to 1980 Soviet living standards. This sounds awesome man where do I sign up. @omardahi

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@mattyglesias It makes me sad. I was an 'attack Obama from the left' kind of guy and then Biden came in and did 12 trillion dollars of domestic spending, stopped blowing up weddings, and literally ended the war in Afghanistan. Its legit awesome

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@mattyglesias There is a lower regulatory burden to building a software that will annihilate all intelligent life in the universe than there is to building a duplex in my parents neighborhood

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@timerube Sometimes it’s good. At a local grocery store where they use their house marinade it’s not too much of a markup and it’s fun to get

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@BrankoMilan liberal democracy and market based economies still going strong

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@disclosetv This is very funny. If you can't see that you are out of touch

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@merovingians People have the Michael Scott theory of economic development. As long as you “declare independence” your economy will be instantly transformed and you will no longer be dependent on exporting primary commodities and tourism services

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@JoePostingg If you asked Obama that question he would say the same thing lol. This is called being a politician

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@mikeleyba Have you been to Boston? That is literally what happens

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@IChotiner America if we didn’t have to care about towns of 4,000 people

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@Oilfield_Rando Pollution is not good for you. This is not a left wing conspiracy. Plenty of conservative governments are concerned about pollution too

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@mattyglesias 15% of Dems know that Biden fixed climate change and are changing their views accordingly

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@anticapitalizm -Death toll in Gaza is probably significantly higher if Trump is president. -FDA under Trump will make mifepristone abortion pills illegal -Biden's student loan forgiveness plan which included substantial cuts to monthly payments can get rolled back

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@ggooooddddoogg I would switch in exchange for the cost of my ticket lol

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My dream bf -nepo baby -little arms -possessed by an ancient Egyptian emperor -setting humanity on the golden path -4,000 years old -God of the known universe -is a giant worm

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My dream bf - 6ft - $300-500K total comp - very ambitious & driven - 27-33yo - brown eyes - loves nyc - rlly funny but a bit weird - rlly kind & has a moral system - not trust fund baby (self made) - good taste - good listener & planner - loves running & reading - loves me a LOT

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@CollieYimby Why do these guys not think this happens in other markets. Can Twix refuse to sell their product for 3 months and then jack up the price by 60% in 3 months

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@opinonhaver Something looking good is gentrification and colonialism though

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@JesseKellyDC Until republicans moderate on abortion you will continue losing

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@sam_d_1995 It’s clearly being mispriced lol. You want it to be a reasonable experience driving in situations where you have too (moving furniture). But for that to be the case it needs to be very expensive to do in situations where you don’t need to

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@FuckCarsReddit If Dems are that bad at governing, its embarrassing that a Republican couldn't come in and win an election

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@emanabdelhadi Construction is good

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@Attractiveincel Having a decent haircut, dressing OK, taking care of your skin, and smelling good are all inputs into attractiveness.

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@Attractiveincel Being ugly and broke is a choice. Graduate high school, go to an affordable state college, major in something reasonable, take care of your skin, have good hygiene, purchase clothes that fit you, and by 25 you won’t be ugly or broke.

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@mattyglesias 😬

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They are throwing teenage girls and their mothers in jail for getting an abortion

Nebraska mom gets two years in prison for giving daughter abortion...

Prosecutors say the women discussed ending the pregnancy and destroying the evidence. Police then found the burned fetal remains buried in a field north of Norfolk.

nypost.com

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@Andrew___Baker The watering down of the phrase “assault” is wild stuff. By this standard, the typical middle school playground has 11 homicides a day

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@ryxcommar Building schools in black neighborhoods is racist because some of the kids will go to detentions

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Thanks to @concord_purple for being the first to name a US town to compare to this one. Here's Minerva, Ohio & Villeneuve-sur-Verberie, France. For the 300 or so people who said "villages like this are all over the US" today, just look. There is so much difference.

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@EverydayWarren There’s a weird amount of overlap between people who think you should be able to smoke crack on the subway and also be obligated to give a land acknowledgment at the start of a meeting

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@opinonhaver "Being gay is about being against private property" is a strong claim. Curious to how the writer substantiates that. Naively, I thought it mostly had to do with sexual attraction.

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@jdcmedlock The federal reserve guaranteeing they’ll pay 2X market price would be pretty funny. I see no downsides

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@mattyglesias I think a lot of liberals are hesitant to accept that all that social isolation we did had next to 0 benefit (and on net a lot of harm.) I also haven’t seen a lot of apologies from the public health community on this.

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@GerardDalbon @sam_d_1995 The apartments are expensive due to the shortage

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@erallover They are both all over the news and both have basically reached their funding goal…

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@lillybilly299 I look at it differently. Red = you live Blue = you might die Why is anyone choosing blue. This is ridiculous

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@MattWalshBlog Conservatives argued that gay marriage would lead to the legalization of bestiality and pedophilia. Those predictions turned out incorrect

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@mattyglesias I found this somewhat convincing. Though not necessarily in the direction the author intended ?

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@IDoTheThinking If cops want to increase their popularity in liberal cities they could start with cracking down on these annoying bikers

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@mdowstfl @gabriel_mathy @mattyglesias The shutdowns happened under Trump. Biden ended the shutdowns

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@p8stie Where you are, it is illegal to be critical of the country. Please be careful

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@whstancil Socialism is when bananas are illegal and Big Macs cost $3.00

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@ArmandDoma The tattoo thing is plausible to me. Getting tough on crime is probably very effective when every violent criminal has a visible tattoo bragging about all the violent crimes they enjoy committing

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@jacobrday @LizBrentMd How is the price of housing unaffected by its supply

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@sam_atis I saw someone state that an $80,000 salary in Paris puts you in the same percentile as a $300,000 salary in NYC

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@metricalfoot Yes, the people behind the nabka kinda felt bad about it and were relatively open to peace. The expulsions of Middle Eastern Jews really fucked things up. But that was endogenous to the institutional quality and political culture of the Arab states unfortunately

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@fedtanyl I think its easy to argue that accepting the deal would have been better for the Palestinians. But lets not pretend to be confused on how Arafat could have turned this down lol

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@IDoTheThinking Do you think there is anything to the argument that these dystopian interactions are a good way to reduce the gun supply conditional on American attitudes towards gun control.

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@nkulw Damn. Crazy that New York landlords are greedier than landlords in Florida.

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@jacremes I will say that I don’t understand what neoliberalism means. The old defining characteristic was, to me, forcing countries to open up their financial markets. But now people use it to refer to their parents making them do chores

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@jdcmedlock Trumpism is higher variance. Could mean the end of democracy but if I had to bet, I think he will fail at anything he tries. DeSantis might really get rid of Medicaid

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@eric_xin9 @dmzande @mattyglesias Law degree is optional

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@MattBruenig These things are psyops created to make working class people more racist. Impossible to convince me otherwise

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@ryxcommar Target is going to try and market Hamas T-shirts to you

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@Skogslaemmel This region has an HDI of 1.3

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@carlo_5518 Yea the Chinese Hukou system is dystopian and we don’t need it, thanks

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@XclTant @ArmandDoma Somehow I don't think you are going to convince millions of people to leave their homes and move to countries with a fraction of the GDP per capita that they are used to. Especially when they have nukes and can do literally whatever they want

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@quantian1 @nomanautomata @tolstoybb Yea alcohol isn't bad enough for you to overcome the income effect. Whereas fentanyl certainly is

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@BPVT2014 @GovPhilScott If you increase the supply of housing, the cost of housing goes down and then housing becomes more affordable

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@ArmandDoma You will never convince me that the people putting these up aren't trying to increase the share of white-men who vote Republican

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@GeoffHanmer @NathanRous2 Rent prices are a function of supply (As is the case for virtually all goods and services) . Increasing supply is good for everyone

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@Attractiveincel Girls do not care about that

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@jdcmedlock It went amazing compared to the counterfactual lol. Thousands of dead soldiers and increased military spending in an already high inflationary environment would have been literally so bad

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@ichthys30 @Attractiveincel I don’t think you know many women. And lucky for you your cynical takes are wrong !

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@lefttwick It’s not largely out of your control. Hold down a full time job, keep your pot smoking to less than 5 times a day, be friendly, and get a hair cut. The bar for finding a partner is not that high and we shouldn’t pretend there is some injustice going on

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@JakeAnbinder "I work at the unemployment factory" could lead one to ask themself "why am I dedicating my life to the unemployment factory"

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@ImNotOwned Glenn also supported the Iraq war lol

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@ryxcommar Pfft? You believe government inflation numbers? According to shadow stats, that fridge would actually cost $10,000 today. Checkmate libs

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@SimonBowmaker I get the opposite signal. If I saw Acemoglu publish a paper with a previously unheard of PhD student, I would assume that the student played an equal role in idea generation / did something very impressive to catch Acemoglu’s attention

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@JStein_WaPo @jdcmedlock That's right

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@opinonhaver This is why X men 1 was so good. The mutants were strong but most of them weren't *that strong.* None had godlike powers that could stand up to the entire U.S military. This made it a lot more compelling and easy to see the mutants as *victims*

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@PippengerHarlo @sam_d_1995 Should we apply building standards to tents and demolish the tents for not meeting code

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@jdcmedlock True believer or not, its fun and productive to assert he is lying because he is at minimum exaggerating his commitment to these right-wing cultural issues in order to push his economic agenda

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@opinonhaver If you find yourself having thoughts like this, you need to actively convince yourself to be more normal.

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@GregTHR @mattyglesias I read it and it’s ridiculous! Local government or central government is not a relevant axis for determining the economic effects of a regulation. Each state installing a state monopoly over X is “stricter” than the feds busting up those local monopolies

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@RichardHanania Do you have a link? If he was really convicted of kidnapping a 7 year old girl…no jury on this planet will convict his killer

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@ReubenR80027912 We should not subsidize people who want to live in a disaster prone area

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@opinonhaver Federal Reserve?

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@LPNH @besttrousers That’s a reasonably and not unhinged analogy to make

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@dylanmatt What is interesting is that people generally agree that the suffering caused by invasive species is bad and are on board with eliminating it

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@MattZeitlin People want the outcomes from a “shoot anyone who comes near the border policy” without having to actually do that

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