Taylor John Wright
@taylor_wright
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Assistant Professor of Economics at @BrockEconomics. My research interests are law, health, and public econ. @[email protected]
St. Catharines, Ontario
Joined November 2008
Once more into the breach, time to try a Twitter alternative.
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At the risk of exposing how big of a nerd I am, I was so pumped to have met THE @ChrisPerkinsDnD on my flight today! Big thanks for the photo, will always love that 4e adventure with the robot chicken crew.
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I am delighted to be a part of such an excellent research network!
Welcome Andrew C. Dickens to our network - we are looking forward to future cooperations with @BrockUniversity and @BrockEconomics - check out Andrew's Twitter profile @ACDickens and the CESifo Research Network website: https://t.co/Vk6Ewjv5NO
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Not really that on here anymore but Happy Halloween!
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If you are in Toronto it would be great to have you at a book launch for Telling Stories with Data. 4-6pm, Thursday 7 September, Inforum, 4th floor, Bissell Building, 140 St. George Street, Toronto. RSVP:
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What: A book launch for Telling Stories with Data - https://tellingstorieswithdata.com/ - at the Faculty of Information. When: 4 - 6pm, Thursday 7 September (speeches start at 4:30) Where: Inforum,...
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A new DP is out: https://t.co/99o3fV5zus.
@IsabellaMasetto and @diegoubfal reproduced "Targeting High Ability Entrepreneurs Using Community Information" by Reshmaan Hussam, Natalia Rigol and @BenRothEcon. The paper’s results are robust to all robustness checks. See below!
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Updating some of the exercises for my class “Data Science for Business Applications”. If you have/know of cool (clean) data that can be used for causal inference and/or prediction, let me know! (It’s undergrad level, and topics can be broad).
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Wrote a blog post about how understanding factor models help me understand the synthetic control method much better: 👉🏼 https://t.co/ChBeqk929i
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My book about introductory data science was published today. It is available online - https://t.co/IBn1ylpSnV - and you can buy a print copy: https://t.co/RqbbB6HgN5. I would appreciate your feedback and suggestions for improvements.
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This fall I'll be teaching a new online Mixtape class on design-based regression/IV analysis The content will draw on my graduate applied 'metrics class at Brown, and will assume a basic knowledge of causal inference tools and regression mechanics Sign up now! Discounts for
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Going to assign this to all my students, especially the masters students writing their major research papers.
If you want to know what's the problem with WYSIWYG editors like Word and point and click workflows is, read @HDkarlsen great post
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I’ll be using TCwD this coming fall in my econometrics class for business students. I absolutely adore the book.
For those of you starting to think about your classes for next year, your occasional reminder that two of my books--Thinking Clearly with Data and Political Economy for Public Policy--have extensive teaching materials freely available online. 1/5
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I've collected all the presentations, talks, podcasts etc I've done these past months into a single page where you can find them all (as well as code samples):
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Another day, another round of my feed being overwhelmed with people fighting about whether behavioral economics is useful or trash. This following days of "All EJMR All the Time." Can we go back to the equilibrium where people just s#*tpost memes and / or pictures of their pets?
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This is a great beer, highly recommend trying it.
It’s quitting time, folks. Enjoy the weekend! I’m on vacation next week, so I’ll see ya on the 1st!
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Fortunate enough to see @JasonBaron4 present this at WEAI earlier this month and wow, what an incredible project!
New working paper w/@JasonBaron4, Joe Doyle, @NataliaHEmanuel, & Joseph Ryan: the first quasi-experimental study of racial discrimination in foster care decisions https://t.co/qMpsEcud3T I've learned a ton from my coauthors and the data on this project. Here's a short summary
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Excited to see this in physical form! This books hits a really interesting intersection for students, and Rohan’s writing is very clear and engaging.
OMFG it exists (photo from a colleague in the UK). I apologize in advance, but this account is going to be (even more) insufferable for the next month.
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I am *really* looking forward to reading this! Rohan is amazing and this book looks fantastic.
OMFG it exists (photo from a colleague in the UK). I apologize in advance, but this account is going to be (even more) insufferable for the next month.
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