Somehow we ended up here

a simple model illuminates so long as you are conscious of what it obscures a nice perspective on the selfish gene model

My new working paper out today with Dan Herbst shows how adverse selection has unraveled private markets for financial alternatives to student debt that would reduce the risk of investing in college. scholar.harvard.edu/files/hendren/… Thread summary below: (1/n)

After advising PhD & Master students for over a decade, there is one thing I find most students need to unlearn: the half-ass work mentality acquired during years of tests and homework. Let me explain (thread 🧵). 1/N #AcademicTwitter

Nice blog post, and useful reminder reminiscent of some of the fun examples in Joe Henrich's "Secrets of Our Success," goodreads.com/book/show/2576…

In case you're interested, I wrote a bunch of visualization programs tailored for admin data analysis in Stata. github.com/jankabatek/sta… The syntax is a bit quirky, but the code is fast and efficient, requiring little time and memory compared to Stata's native graphing commands.

Highly interesting (and fun) discussion of "hot streaks" in careers, finding strikingly similar patterns with artists, film directors, and scientists. nature.com/articles/s4146…

TIL there is a website by Experiment dedicated to crowd-funding scientific experiments My friend Josh Tasoff (w/PhD students Z. Fang and S. Zhang CGU) has an novel experiment on how people choose what to think about & the effects on wellbeing experiment.com/projects/how-d…

Fresh out of Man Sci today, an article by Raviv Murciano-Goroff on women in tech. Raviv matches candidates self reported programming skills to observed programmings skills from open source code to see how self-reported skills vary from observed skills. You know where this is going...

crypto solves the dynasty problem

nice point, and fascinating thread

Over the past few days I've seen a lot of economists tweet about Arlotti's decision. However, none of them really explained what the expected outcomes of either choice, in particular that of remaining a soccer pro, were. A quick explainer 🧵👇