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Also approximate Bayesian computation, principal stratification, and the Bayesian Bootstrap.

I used to live in Boston and visited recently for the first time in a while. The red line was so slow between Central Square and Harvard that I thought there must have been some ki…

(Ignore my previous reply I found it myself). To be fair to the authors, it is not their primary specification, that was a linear probability model. The logit model is just a robus…

Which paper was this?

Citing a paper needn't be a celebration of it, you can cite a paper to say "these guys find X but..."

Sorry to be pedantic, but although Monte Carlo simulations are based on pseudo-randomness, I still think it is good practice that they have deterministic results (i.e., use a given…

If you haven't seen it already, the Farm Hall transcripts provide a fascinating insight into the failure of the Nazi nuclear effort: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1992/08/13/the…

FYI, the word is 'tenet', a tenant is a person who lives in a particular residence.

I sympathize with the author's disdain for brutalist and some deconstructivist work. But to suggest that all contemporary architecture is a movement towards creating deliberately a…

Quasi-experimental variation refers to situations in which assignment of treatments is 'as good as random' but treatments weren't assigned by the researchers in an RCT. A classic e…

Well, at the very least, the argument over hypothesis formation is not specific to economics. The philosopher of science Karl Popper argued that science should aim to empirically f…

I admit I haven't read or even heard of Kate Raeworth, but I am an academic economist. Most modern economic research is empirical, a paper poses a policy-relevant empirical questio…

Look at the latest edition of QJE. You will see mostly studies addressing a particular policy question, e.g., 'what was the effect of this policy change on unemployment' which they…

My understanding is that medieval Rabbis (notably the Maimonides) explicitly discuss cannabis consumption and its psychological effects. The plant also gets some discussion in the …

I think this misses a possibly very important effect: agglomeration. Programmers in the Bay Area were not all born there, many (most?) chose to move there, some from elsewhere in t…

I like Schiele's work becuase I find his grimy, corpse-like figures to be very aesthetically pleasing. I do not find it 'beautiful' in the sense that an old Venetian painting of a …

If you have a finite set of symbols, then the set of finite sequences of those symbols is countable. The key here is 'finite sequences', if you were to allow for infinite sequences…

Cities skew democrat, particularly inner-cities. Those built-up areas are also more vulnerable to the spread of disease.

The person to whom you replied meant that it now means palace but used to refer to other dwellings.

Among the first things you learn in microeconomic theory are the expected utility axioms (developed by Von Neumann and Morganstern), and Afriat's theorem. These results give condit…

I don't see how micro-founded macro models equate utility with willingness to pay? Work-horse New Keynesian models begin with a representative agent so willingness to pay of differ…

As someone has already commented, the definition of an 'efficient market' in no way equates willingness to pay with utility, and in fact economists seldom make this assumption. Par…

My problem with the 'Bayes=rationality' type of argument is that it ignores context and isn't really a case for reporting Bayesian vs frequentist estimates. If I am a researcher pu…

Why wouldn't you just ride on the tugboat?