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@vectornomist writes that "Just repeating 'all models are wrong' is not enough anymore."
I think he refers primarily to econometric models. As an applied theorist, I think that being "wrong" is part of the definition of a model. And D Cox's rule that "all models are wrong, some are useful" has always been and will always be right.
I like reading #introduction posts even from those I know, so here's mine:
I'm a researcher at the French CNRS. I study the applied practices of economists in the past 70 years or so, across fields (macro, urban, public, welfare etc), topics, methods & policy advice
I think that it is very important for economists & public at large to understand the history of their concepts, tools & models, so I try to post relevant research, archival nuggets & thread some stories
reasons mastodon's "viral dampening effect" is a good thing:
👉🏻 no "main character of the day"
👉🏻 no free text searching for people to get angry at (and harrass)
👉🏻 doomscrolling is *actually bad for you* and not a thing we should be trying to replicate
👉🏻 birdsite's virality is heavily driven by actual paid advertising and bots. You think that "Explore" tab gets its content organically? really? That's not making connections between people, it's about driving sales.
Mastodon is not, and should not be, a 1:1 replacement for Twitter. But it *can* be a new place for you to make valuable connections with other human beings. #twitter #twittermigration
Every year, the US government conducts a remarkable experiment in immigration policy:
It uses a randomized lottery to allocate, at a key step of the application process, the principal US work visa for low-skill jobs.
Ethan Lewis and I study winners and losers of this lottery to estimate the effects of hiring immigrants for basic work on US firms and workers.
Our new paper—> https://www.nber.org/papers/w30589
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
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