Rajiv Sethi
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Economics | Barnard | Columbia | Santa Fe Institute | https://t.co/77HCz9cT5R | https://t.co/CbhdzYPN5q | https://t.co/FfwOsUBooJ
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Joined March 2011
It's publication day for my book with Dan so a good time for some acknowledgements (this thread will be more personal than usual).
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Shadows of Doubt reveals how deeply stereotypes distort our interactions, shape crime, and deform the criminal justice system.If you’re a robber, how do you choose your victims? As a police officer,...
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RT @waltzingmonkey: “It's only the behavioral economics perspective that gives you a way to understand why the motivation for violence is f….
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New deal between @PredictIt and @CFTC drops restrictions on total number of traders and raises cap to $3.5K per trader in any given market (up from $850); it will be interesting to see implications for forecasting accuracy: .
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PredictIt, one of the original US politics-betting platforms, said it reached a new agreement with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to allow it expand its operations.
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RT @peterjukes: Familiar from Brexit? . These are markets in which people with inside information (including state actors) can make a lot o….
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RT @krisgulati: I was fortunate enough to get great feedback from several people along the way and Rajiv was very generous with his time, t….
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New post on professional distancing in academia (based recent work by @krisgulati and Lorenzo Palladini):
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The 228 agencies covered were mostly in the South, and comparing them to contemporary counterparts we see a massive decline in the use of lethal force, and also in the rate at which officers themselves were killed.
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The data was collected by the sociologist Arthur Raper, who wrote directly to the agencies; it was stored on microfilm at the Schomburg Center, scanned and digitized in preparation for a conference commemorating 75th anniversary of Myrdal's book 2/n.
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An American Dilemma for the 21st Century is an archive and digital platform designed to preserve and extend the seminal work of Swedish economist Gunner Myrdals on the American ideals of equal...
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Just posted a new paper (with Chiara Chanoi, José Luis Montiel Olea and Dan O'Flaherty) that looks at use of lethal force by police officers in the 1930s, based on data collected as background material for Myrdal's American Dilemma 🧵
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This is a very interesting point.
Author Malcolm Gladwell explains why he thinks driverless cars will fail in urban centers—and why he ran circles (literally) around a Waymo vehicle.
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New post on prediction markets, opinion polls, and the New York City mayor's race:
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I'm always amazed at the level of subjective certainty that some folks have regarding such events, but it's clear that @clary_co had a better grasp of the situation here:
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Market response to the latest from @EmersonPolling
NEW YORK CITY POLL with @PIX11News & @thehill . Democratic Primary for Mayor.Cuomo 35%.Mamdani 32%.Lander 13%.Adams 8%.Stringer 3%.4% undecided. Final round of RCV.Mamdani 51.8%.Cuomo 48.2%.
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RT @MiguelMadeira11: Interesante a passagem que diz que em 1967 o exército conseguiu dominar os motins de foma mais pacifica que a guarda n….
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