Wei Yang Tham (@wytham88) 's Twitter Profile
Wei Yang Tham

@wytham88

@OSU_Econ → @LISHarvard → @UofT  
Economics of Science and Innovation  
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Dror Shvadron (@dshvadron) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I had the opportunity to speak with Brian Owens at Nature Index about why firms invest in scientific research and what drives their decisions to publish their findings. Grateful for the thoughtful reporting: nature.com/articles/d4158…

I had the opportunity to speak with Brian Owens at <a href="/NatureIndex/">Nature Index</a> about why firms invest in scientific research and what drives their decisions to publish their findings. Grateful for the thoughtful reporting: nature.com/articles/d4158…
mariana Z (@mariana057) 's Twitter Profile Photo

My 76-year-old mother just informed me that she is going to her first "sex party" and doesn't know what to bring. After some awkward questions, I said, "Gender reveal. You're going to a gender reveal."

scott cunningham (@causalinf) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Peter Hull will be doing a workshop on shift-share instrumental variables at Mixtape Sessions starting July 29th. Reach out to me if you are a resident of low income country ($1) or a student/et al ($95) to get those discount codes. mixtapesessions.io/session/shift_…

Burhan Azeem, Cambridge City Councillor (@realburhanazeem) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I’m incredibly proud of the work we’ve done this term. Our “Paris-style” reforms have made headlines, from The Economist to The Daily Show. Many people to me that for the first time they have real hope they can stay in the city they love. But big wins come with big pushback. Our

I’m incredibly proud of the work we’ve done this term. Our “Paris-style” reforms have made headlines, from The Economist to The Daily Show. Many people to me that for the first time they have real hope they can stay in the city they love.

But big wins come with big pushback. Our
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The Economics of Bicycles for the Mind. With Joshua Gans and Ajay Agrawal. A bicycle amplifies human locomotion. Computers and AI amplify human intelligence. We model such cognitive tools, showing when they affect productivity, inequality, & teams. nber.org/papers/w34034

Wei Yang Tham (@wytham88) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Excited to be back in Boston for Summer Institute this week, but we all know the main objective here is to satisfy my Toscanini's ice cream cravings

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Developing a method to estimate producers' productivity beliefs in settings where output quantities and input prices are unobservable and using it to evaluate allocative efficiency in the market for science, from Fabio Bertolotti, @kroymyers, and Wei Yang Tham nber.org/papers/w34000

Developing a method to estimate producers' productivity beliefs in settings where output quantities and input prices are unobservable and using it to evaluate allocative efficiency in the market for science, from <a href="/EconFaber/">Fabio Bertolotti</a>, @kroymyers, and <a href="/wytham88/">Wei Yang Tham</a> nber.org/papers/w34000
John Horton (@johnjhorton) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Slides from my discussion of (great) paper "Conversations at scale" docs.google.com/presentation/d… Interestingly, we're already seeing startups implement these kinds of ideas in market research e.g., Listen Labs & Voicepanel with seemingly great success

Stefan Schubert (@stefanfschubert) 's Twitter Profile Photo

New PNAS paper on US academics' publication rates during tenure-track and post-tenure. Publication rates rise steeply until tenure and then plateau for lab-based fields, while declining for other fields.

New PNAS paper on US academics' publication rates during tenure-track and post-tenure.

Publication rates rise steeply until tenure and then plateau for lab-based fields, while declining for other fields.