Why do (don't) economists (non-economists) write like this?
Neale Mahoney
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Neale Mahoney
@nealemahoney
Professor @StanfordEcon. Director @SIEPR. Former @WhiteHouse National Economic Council. Fan of Arsenal, history, and all types of music.
- Some professional news: After 8 years in Chicago, @AlesVoena and I are heading west to join the econ dept at @Stanford, leaving this morning in the modern equivalent of a covered wagon.
- Would the authors have written the paper if the distribution was normal 😜The distribution of one million Z values. HT @Scientific_Bird
- Never has a crashing stock price been an indicator of such hope #Pfizervaccine
- CFPB is proposing to crack down on "junk fees", such as hotel resort fees, concert ticket convenience fees, debit card overdraft fees, and credit card late fees. See: nytimes.com/2022/01/26/bus… This is a research area of mine so I wanted to chime in with a few thoughts. Begin 🧵👁 Rohit Chopra, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, in October. “Junk fees make it harder for us to choose the best product or service because the true cost is hidden,” he said.The federal consumer bureau wants to stamp out what it calls ‘junk fees.’ (Published 2022)From nytimes.com
- A (longish) thread on tradeoffs and false tradeoffs during the COVID-19 crisis With the unrelenting drop in the stock market and off-the-charts UI claims, there are growing concerns that the economic costs of the “cure” are worse than the health costs of the “problem”
- Healthcare jobs have grown 2x faster than the overall labor market since 1980 Healthcare overtook retail to become largest industry by employment in 2009 New working paper with @GottliebEcon, @kevinrinz, and @UdalovaVictoria w/ key facts on the rise of healthcare jobs
- Blockbuster paper from all-star team (@john_eric, @ChrisANeilson, @Xiaoyang_Ye, Seth Zimmerman) nber.org/papers/w33038
- It’s almost as if car accidents occur more readily after people slam on the brakes 🤦🏻♂️It's almost as if the virus spreads more readily in lockdown, precisely as every study has thus far shown. But opening up is a lot less fun for would-be dictators.
- Machine learning is like cross fit and marathons. The main reason people do it is to brag about it.This Post is from an account that no longer exists. Learn more
- Spotted outside Guido’s door.
- It's not every day that you get trolled in the WSJ 🤣
- Germans may be better at soccer, engineering, and brewing beer — but we can’t let them beat us at sitting on the couch and doing nothing. Come on America. This is our time to shine.This Post is from an account that no longer exists. Learn more
- Permanently locked out of Elsevier for too many login attempts, he was unable to publish and fired from his faculty position. Bitter and disgruntled he turned his efforts to medical debt collection, becoming part of the problem he had at one time hoped to solve.What's the backstory of how you became a villain?
