Nic Duquette 

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Economist at USC Sol Price School of Public Policy. Toots are often about nonprofit economics, public economics, economic history, except when they are dumb jokes

Avatar image is a blobby fellow drawn by my 4yo. Banner is Mo Willems’ pigeon, fretting about academic life.

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Nic Duquette 6h ago
Policy options to reduce gasoline demand
Show threadNic Duquette 5d ago
@ShiitakeToast I thought it was already being used for some kinds of esoteric fracking chemicals
Nic Duquette 5d ago
How expensive does a barrel of oil have to get before direct air capture of carbon dioxide and conversion to carbon products is cheaper than buying the traditional stuff on the open market and processing it?
Nic Duquette Mar 13
The browser tab with my employer's LMS is using 2GB of RAM. 🤨
Nic Duquette Mar 9
Jon BakerMar 9

You shoot 100% of the Wayne Gretzky’s you don’t miss

In the background, police sirens

Nic Duquette Mar 9

Working through a problem with an LLM that is perfect for the technology -- difficult answers for me to come up with independently, but trivially easy for me to verify the LLM's answers are correct. (Specifcially, I'm trying to read old cursive in a nonnative language).

It really sucks that this tool has been overhyped by grifters, because when the problem fits the tool it really can work. We just need to stop treating these as trillion-dollar panaceas.

Nic Duquette Mar 8
Historians, do you have a preferred resource for digital access to historical newspapers? I have library access to a limited version of ProQuest, but it is missing a lot; other newspapers have been digitized, but access is sold by genealogy sites of varying shadiness and opaque pricing #history #econhist #economichistory #socialhistory #histodons
Show threadNic Duquette Dec 19
Recurring donors give substantially more than others --- roughly 1/3 more in an average year --- but they do not look very different from non-recurring donors. Recurring and nonrecurring donors are more similar to each other in SES, demographics, education and politics than to all US adults.
Show threadNic Duquette Dec 19
Recurring donations are still a minority of all giving, but the share is growing fast, as fundraisers increasingly ask for monthly gifts, and as payment methods have automatic giving convenient.
Nic Duquette Dec 19

In my new paper, I examine two very large datasets of transaction-level charitable gifts to describe how recurring donors differ from others on the ground. The data contain hundreds of millions of gifts from tens of millions of donors to tens of thousands of charities.

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