Finley Ong
@JFinleyOng
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dev econ, cities, and flapdoodle
Chicago, IL
Joined February 2020
Cash is good. Quite good, in fact. Just how good? Check out the thread below from my co-author, ex-boss, and notorious do-gooder @deankarlan to find out. And if you’re still curious, check out our paper!
🚨New NBER Working Paper🚨 👉Bayesian Meta-Analysis on the Impacts of Unconditional Cash Transfers (UCTs) in Low & Middle Income Countries! Considering a broad set of outcomes, we find strong & persistent pos effects of💰, w/ interesting nuances. A short primer in 22 tweets🧵
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This Olympics opening ceremony performance in Paris is proof that we deserve much, much better from the Super Bowl Halftime Show.
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Watching nyc become bikable in real time was really cool. Sad I haven’t witnessed similar developments in Chicago.
Wow, it appears that much of New York City actually has a Bike Grid, Now.
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🚨 GIVEAWAY 🚨 | Ends in 24 hours To win a FREE pair of Beats Solo³ Wireless, follow the steps below: ✅Follow us @novig_app ✅Like & RT ✅Tag a friend below One winner will be selected.
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I want my TL to be filled with nothing but discourse about this list for at least the next two days.
Best breads in the world, current ranking. View more at https://t.co/BH40jAfhoS
@TourismMalaysia @colombia_travel @incredibleindia @FocacciaDiRecco
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Cottage cheese is back.
nytimes.com
The diet staple of the ’70s is jiggling back into the mainstream — bringing with it a host of health benefits.
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Notable that this is from 1933, one year before the Hays Code (which also applied to animation) went into effect
cartoonbrew.com
Hollywood tried hard to make theatrical cartoons less raunchy and fun, but animators still found a way to keep their work weird.
Max Fleischer's trippy version of "Snow White" from 1933 remains a fascinating and bizarre piece of animation history. In this short Betty Boop cartoon, Fleischer and his team condensed and twisted the classic Snow White tale, taking viewers on a surreal journey that defies
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If you must sin, choose gluttony.
I get such satisfaction from cooking something delicious and then eating it. Truly one of the great pleasures of everyday life.
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I get such satisfaction from cooking something delicious and then eating it. Truly one of the great pleasures of everyday life.
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Criterion Collection closet picks is one of the best marketing gimmicks ever.
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I’m so sorry to the drunk people I just gave horrible directions advice. In your moment of need, I failed you. And I’ll live with that for the rest of my life. I hope you make it safely to your destination.
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Cash Transfer are the McDonald’s McCafe Premium Roast Coffee of poverty interventions. It’s not life-changingly good. But it’s surprising hard to find a better, cost-effective option.
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🚨NEW CHICAGO ANIMAL🚨 There’s a family of foxes in Millennium Park! And they are simply too cute. Several pups and a papa fox running around the Lurie Garden Monday, per photographer u/garebearmassacre on Reddit.
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Can’t wait for samosa girl to be posted up outside the engineering building after my math exam to sell me a tasty treat.
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Pretty confident my most important contribution at work is that I’m the guy who knows how to maintain the office’s fancy coffee machine.
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