David Powell
@thedavidpowell
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Does stuff and some other stuff too.
Joined November 2017
If I can add a paper to the DiD pile: https://t.co/HdTbEVyvhU discusses how TWFE even without staggered adoption can be biased by covariates. 1/7
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Labor force participation and employment rates have declined in the United States since the late 1990s. An emerging literature considers the role of the opioid crisis on labor outcomes, suggesting...
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Remember, you under-use “How dare you?!” when responding to reviewer comments.
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What would have happened if they never made Sliding Doors?
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New research alert: The nationwide stimulant shortage didn’t affect all schools equally. Our new national study in @JAACAP found much higher rates of ADHD medication interruption in schools where most students are from racial/ethnic minorities or low-income backgrounds
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Conditional acceptance! I just have to write a paper that referees and an editor like!
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To our knowledge, this is the first paper to ignore the prior literature.
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New research led by Catherine Maclean of @GeorgeMasonU in @Health_Affairs finds Medicaid expansion has yielded lasting gains in access to specialty substance use disorder (SUD) treatment—benefiting thousands experiencing drug or alcohol problems.
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Confused about what inference method to use? What level to cluster at? Based on a review of thousands of published empirical studies, we develop a useful heuristic: a good approximation for your standard error is your point estimate divided by 1.96.
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Do I really have to rue the day? Can I just rue a couple hours?
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Pro tip: If the journal has space constraints, replace “unintended consequences” with “whoopsies.”
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My front-of-the-envelope estimate is that it costs 78 cents to mail a letter.
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You get more positive reviews if you call it warm and fuzzy regression discontinuity.
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A true labor economist uses Labor Day as a negative shock to labor.
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The optimal number of times saying, “The optimal number of [terrible thing] is not zero” is zero.
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Quick tip: if your paper status says “Pending Decision,” it’s likely to be positive. If it’s likely to be negative, it’ll say “Impending Decision.”
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Lowering drug prices by 1500% is just hyperbolic discounting.
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A triple-blind study where you also don’t tell the readers which was the treatment arm.
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The replication package is your opportunity to add snarky comments throughout your code about your reviewers.
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I wish there were a word which paid homage to the silent h.
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You just think raisins are healthy since they’re disgusting.
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