Alexander Berger
@albrgr
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Enjoys a good applied micro paper. CEO of @open_phil. Views my own, tweets self-destruct every once in a while.
San Francisco, CA
Joined March 2011
It has come to my attention that some people assume I read the papers I retweet. Let me be clear: that is slander. I have an actual job. If I don’t screenshot from the full text of the paper, I probably didn’t read it. Also, I provide no warranties. That concludes this broadcast.
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Interesting paper on the long-run domestic determinants of US political support for foreign aid.
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In this program in Rajasthan, adding a community health officer added a year of healthy life for ~$15K.
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Pair of interesting job market papers on impacts of improving roads in low-income countries
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RT @saprmarks: New paper: We use interpretability to control what LLMs learn during fine-tuning & fix OOD misgeneralization. We can prevent….
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RT @KelseyTuoc: This is so incomprehensible to me. Congress has repeatedly told the White House that they want to continue support for PEPF….
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The threat of public ratings prompted intermediaries to improve job quality for migrant workers. Just Accepted new paper by A. Nilesh Fernando @nileshfern and Niharika Singh
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RT @KumarAGarg: My pitch for BITS is very simple: we coach you to make your “big if true” R&D idea even better, and measure our success by….
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RT @ohlennart: Our job ad closes August 3rd!.We're still looking for technical folks (ML, CS, EE, semiconductors) who're keen to apply thei….
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RT @MortenStostad: A fascinating graph: Less than a quarter of the population paid taxes in the UK and US before WW2
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RT @StefanFSchubert: New PNAS paper on US academics' publication rates during tenure-track and post-tenure. Publication rates rise steeply….
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Yet another paper finding huge negative mortality results from air pollution. Wild methods on this one from Brazil
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Awesome paper finding huge benefits from relaxing zoning constraints in NYC, even once you account for the big costs of redevelopment.
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Very cool paper about how important social networks are in driving movement.
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This paper finds that net jobs created by the Opportunity Zones tax break are largely just shifted from adjacent census tracts.
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Also, Harrison Wheeler is a great name for someone studying the impacts of traffic. Nominative determinism strikes again.
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Big estimates of negative externalities from traffic noise in the US.
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Interesting result about the importance of sewers for the geography of cities arising from the fact that. um. "stuff" rolls downhill.
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RT @OwainEvans_UK: New paper & surprising result. LLMs transmit traits to other models via hidden signals in data. Datasets consisting only….
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