Geoffrey Yip 🔸
@geoffrey_yip
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Incoming 1st Year PhD at Berkeley ARE. Formerly at World Bank and IMF
Joined January 2022
RT @Lewis_Bollard: We already eat "lab meat." McNuggets were invented in a lab, as were the Frankenchickens they're made of. They're now p….
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1.2 million (estimated) people involuntary hospitalized per year in the US is insane. Cool working paper on an important topic.
Around 1.2 million people are hospitalized involuntarily due to mental illness in the US each year. Policymakers are thinking of expanding such programs across the country. We conducted the first study to determine the causal effects of involuntary hospitalization.
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RT @PMoserEcon: When I got tenure, I decided to use it start a new research agenda, studying US science in the 20th century, how it became….
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RT @Jabaluck: The modern economic case for public provision is not about public goods or market failures or externalities. It is about what….
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When's the best time to announce I'm starting a PhD in Agricultural Economics at Berkeley?!.
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RT @momin_rayhan: I've officially ended my job search! While I'm not publicly disclosing the position until I start, I wanted to share some….
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RT @paulnovosad: Big oof: Clustering is associated with a near doubling in the magnitude of effect sizes.
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RT @METR_Evals: We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The resu….
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RT @alz_zyd_: Modern economists, by and large, are an open-minded, evidence-focused group, at least relative to the social sciences. Our ra….
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RT @alexwcohen: We recently did “lookbacks” to see how well 2 recent @GiveWell grants met our initial expectations. 1 went better than exp….
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RT @ryancbriggs: It is a big problem that people wrongly view development as a failed project when it is plausibly the most successful proj….
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RT @ryancbriggs: On a somewhat closer read, I’m not so impressed. There are surely a lot of things going on affecting the uncertainty estim….
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RT @alexwcohen: Do effect sizes/standard errors from econ studies predict future results? This paper finds they often don’t (CIs don’t cont….
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RT @rajivatbarnard: New post on professional distancing in academia (based recent work by @krisgulati and Lorenzo Palladini): https://t.co….
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RT @paulnovosad: Dean Karlan on the funding exodus from development economics research:. "The returns to the work that you were just about….
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Also spent 75% of the time cleaning data before realizing my variation was white noise. never thought R^2 could be so small before (<0.0001).
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Big regret with my master's thesis was trying to internal validity max a data-heavy idea with a gazillion FEs and robustness checks. Better to either do this (replicate paper) or something creative and not-even-remotely causal.
all MSc Econ theses should mandatorily be replication exercises. i’m sorry but 95% (lower bound) of them are not turning into published papers. students would learn a lot more and provide a service to the profession.
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RT @eni_iljazi: all MSc Econ theses should mandatorily be replication exercises. i’m sorry but 95% (lower bound) of them are not turning in….
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RT @AlecStapp: Still hearing a lot about “Blue Zones” being the secret to longevity. But the theory was debunked a while ago. Areas of th….
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