sasha petrov
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PhD Candidate at @uchi_economics | Trade, Political economy, Computational | Interested in jurisdictional border design
Chicago, IL
Joined September 2016
a heart-warming example of how econ can help solve real problems
Teaser alert: Silence does != no problems. We find that providing plausible deniability about reporting through exogenous garbling increases reporting of workplace harassment by 46-288%, with a larger increase for more sensitive types of harassment.
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at once a solid pro-big-federal-russia/against-small-ethnic-states take. dynamic incentives r the key
The idea of "decolonizing" Russia by dismantling it keeps re-appearing in various public spaces. There are many dishonesties and omissions in this debate. I will focus on one of them. 1/
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curious if anyone tried to frame this as exploration vs exploitation. could help figure out what the optimal allocation is b/t a) doing more & better research; b) acting on existing & imperfect one
“We lament that options for confidently investing in ‘high-impact’ interventions are so limited — not because those interventions don’t exist, but because the evidence doesn’t (yet) exist.” — @CEGA_UC
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It seems that there’s a mix-up between the issue of whether a big unified polity was beneficial and the issue of whether it was governed well or not
Since there are lots of bad takes out there on the anniversary of Soviet collapse (ranging from "it was a geopolitical catastrophe!" to "it's best thing that happened to this planet, let's celebrate!") let me offer you mine... It's in the recent Cold War History roundtable... 👇🏿
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At @UCRiverside and other schools, STEM students who took more #Humanities courses – and who took courses in a wider variety of departments – tended to have lower wages in their first job but higher lifetime wages.
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❗️❗️❗️ New Data Alert ❗️❗️❗️ Hello #EconTwitter and #PoliSciTwitter. I digitized and translated the statistical reports from the Russian Empire spanning 1863-1917. Details: https://t.co/q5Gz4LacPh Please, contact me if you have any questions or interested in collaboration. [1/3]
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Here is a great assignment for PhD course. Take an un-circulated paper (or major revision) by a good writer. Cut the abstract and intro. Assignment: write the abstract and intro. Solution (one of many): the full paper. Students 1) really learn paper, 2) develop exposition skills.
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I wrote a piece in @FTMag on how the Russian Orthodox Church owes its renaissance to forging close ties to ex-KGB agents in the Kremlin. Now, Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has badly shaken those ties - and left the church historically weak. https://t.co/Ce9alDXGGX
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Last October, the Ukrainian church broke away from Russia — and triggered the greatest schism in Orthodoxy for centuries
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R is quickly becoming the tool of choice for data analysis in science. Lists of excellent resources to learn #rstats have been compiled in multiple places (I will mention here the amazing work of @djnavarro @MattCrump_ and of course @hadleywickham , links below) 1/6
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Repeat after me: the answer to any question in economics is, it depends.
Is free trade always good? @EconTalker and I discuss this topic in a lively manner on the @a16z podcast:
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Here's the latest post from RViews "Review of Efficient R Programming"
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In the crowded market space of data science and R language books, Lovelace and Gillespie’s Efficient R Programming (2016) stands out from the crowd. Over the course of ten comprehensive chapters, the...
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The new authoritarian does not pretend to make you better, only to make you feel better about not wanting to change https://t.co/iCrirf9W6x
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Robotic arms work on the production line at the Renault SA automobiles factory in Flins. GIF shot by https://t.co/jV7dd0MJkt
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