Paul Schaefer
@pauschae.bsky.social
Economist: Behavioral IO, Culture and Institutions, Friendship pauschae.GitHub.io
Looks amazing!
Grant McDermott@gmcd.bsky.social · last yr.To borrow another example, taken from the `dbreg` README: github.com/grantmcdermo... Here I am running a fixed-effects regression on 180 million(!) row parquet dataset... and it completes **< 2 seconds**... on my laptop 🤯 This is powered by @duckdb.org under the hood. #rstats #econsky
ICYMI: you can watch the recording here (around the 5h19m mark) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rpxf...
Econometric Methods, NBER Summer Institute
YouTube video by NBER
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Peter Hull@instrumenthull.bsky.social · last yr.Tomorrow (Thu) at 1:45pm ET: Check out @borusyak.bsky.social's presentation of work w/ Mauricio Caceres Bravo on demand estimation with recentered IVs @ the Frontier Econometric Methods NBER SI. We're honored to have Steve Berry as a discussant! Should be livestreamed at youtube.com/@nbervideos
In der neuen ZDF-Doku über #Lebensmittelpreise geht es um Machtverschiebungen in der Versorgungskette – und ich durfte einige Einschätzungen teilen. 🔗 www.zdfheute.de/wirtschaft/s... Die #Monopolkommission beschäftigt sich seit zwei Jahren mit genau diesen Fragen.
30.000 Kassenzettel zeigen: So teuer sind Lebensmittel bei Rewe, Edeka, Aldi und Lidl wirklich
In Deutschland werden Lebensmittel beim Einkaufen teurer. Wie es zu den hohen Preisen im Supermarkt kommt und was Verbraucher wissen sollten.
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Harmonizing global data is a huge task. Here's a project we did in 2019 looking at how living arrangements around the world vary by religion: www.pewresearch.org/religion/201... We focused our analysis at the individual level because doing so best captures the lived experience of most people.
Religion and Living Arrangements Around the World
Household size and composition often vary by religious affiliation, data from 130 countries and territories reveals. Muslims and Hindus have larger households than Christians and religious “nones,” in...
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Juan Galeano@juangaleano.bsky.social · last yr.Today I'm presenting at #IPC2025 the data infrastructures of the CORESIDENCE project. National and subnational household indicators 🏡 First Global Database on Living Arrangements from an individual based perspective! 🌐📊📈 Catch all the details today! 📍Meeting room P8 🕥 10:30-12:00 am #demography
Today I'm presenting at #IPC2025 the data infrastructures of the CORESIDENCE project. National and subnational household indicators 🏡 First Global Database on Living Arrangements from an individual based perspective! 🌐📊📈 Catch all the details today! 📍Meeting room P8 🕥 10:30-12:00 am #demography
🚨Free data alert!! 🚨 Please share. Large new dataset of Amazon product reviews, including full text and photos and product characteristics, with individual *reviews labeled as fake reviews*. I believe this is the first publicly available data of this kind. github.com/bretthollenb...
Very happy to share the latest from my postdoc! 10 yrs of mouse social networks + 1.25 yrs of acoustic data ➡️ insight into vocalization & sociality in a wild population of your favorite lab model 🐁 paper: bit.ly/4n93yyD data: bit.ly/4lfFBEk code: bit.ly/4kNnMwx #bioacoustics #neuroskyence 1/8
In 2022, I partnered with the student canteens of @unibonn.bsky.social to evaluate the effectiveness of carbon labels on their menus. The result: Emission-heavy meat consumption decreased by 5%. Thrilled to see StW Bonn has now permanently installed the labels!
The political economy of debt brakes is just like the one of debt except for the debt.
Christian Odendahl@codendahl.bsky.social · 2y agoI know it's a long thread in German, but it explains very well the political economy of the debt brake.
#econadvice What are your favorite examples of natural experiments that manipulate the social network structure?
Event studies around birth of the first child: 👉 Pre birth: same labor supply for egalitarian and traditional mothers 👉 Post birth: egalitarians return much faster to the labor market -> 15% more likely to work, work 4 hours more, persistent effects
Does anyone know what Adam Smith means here? Is this a positive or a normative statement? What modern theories of altruism does this map to?
Really encouraging results about the impact of WFH on gender equity.
