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Shosh Vasserman

@shoshievass.bsky.social

IO economist + assistant prof at @StanfordGSB. I use theory + data to study how risk, commitment and information flows interplay with (good) policy design. shoshanavasserman.com

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Daniel Zhao@danielzhao.bsky.social · 2y ago

A cool analysis based on congestion pricing based on traffic passing by the Bloomberg office. Still early obviously but interesting that there's no big shift toward for private vehicles towards more expensive private vehicles (as a proxy for higher income drivers)

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Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 2y ago

NYC’s new congestion fee has changed Manhattan’s traffic mix with fewer private cars and more cabs, a Bloomberg analysis of 75,000 cars shows — but the impact may already be diminishing

Jonathan Berk 🏠@berkie1.bsky.social · 2y ago

BREAKING: Over 100 Massachusetts cities & towns have now passed zoning reform to allow for multi-family housing near transit in compliance* with their MBTA Communities Law requirements. (*subject to final approval)

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Eva Vivalt@evavivalt.bsky.social · 2y ago

Think you know about guaranteed income? Prove it: forecast the results of two pilot programs in Chicago and Cook County before they are known: socialscienceprediction.org/predict/r/bf... Accurate forecasts get a prize.

Unconditional cash transfers in Chicago and Cook County

The regular provision of unconditional cash transfers to individuals is a tactic to fight poverty that has attracted significant interest from researchers and policymakers. Despite this interest, many...

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Shani Cohen@shanicn.bsky.social · 2y ago

I am on the job market, which seems like a great opportunity for my first post on here! My job market paper is about failures of contingent thinking -- the act of reasoning about hypothetical events. 1/

Shosh Vasserman@shoshievass.bsky.social · 2y ago

Jeff has been one of the biggest providers of public goods in my side of economics since before even starting his PhD. He’s now written some great papers, this very interesting jmp, among them. I don’t think he needs the boost, but I hope everyone takes a close look at his file.

Jeff Gortmaker@jeffgortmaker.com · 2y ago

Hey #EconSky, I'm on the job market with an #EconJMP about open source software. OSS is a global public good, widely used and provided by the private sector, but the target of recent industrial policy. Paper: jeffgortmaker.com/files/Open_S... 1/

Elliot Lipnowski@elliotlip.bsky.social · 2y ago

Reminder for new users here: Two people are said to have common knowledge of an event E if both know it, 1 knows that 2 knows it, 2 knows that 1 knows it, and so on. Thm: If two people have the same priors, and their posteriors for an event are common knowledge, then these posteriors are equal.

@lastpositivist.bsky.social · 2y ago

Reminder for new user Misery in the sound of the wind, In the sound of a few leaves, Which is the sound of the land Full of the same wind That is blowing in the same bare place For the listener, who listens in the snow, And, nothing himself, beholds Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is

Shosh Vasserman@shoshievass.bsky.social · 2y ago

One of the best things about bsky (imo) is how easy it is for ppl to make network-level public goods. Lots of ppl have been doing this by making starter packs (thank you!) but that just makes it easy to follow ppl en masse. You can also make feeds directly. Plz make more of them, I will subscribe 🙏