did anyone else see “Kremer trade” trending and think, is Michael Kremer moving again?
Stephanie Wang
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immigrant, behavioral/experimental economics mostly films, occasionally brains, games, and CCSC (Chinese Culinary Superiority Complex)
any essay that is in extensive dialogue with Benabou's work is a must-read. this one is worth returning to again and again. "The articulation of the norm is the ultimate violation because it is articulation that both opens new possibilities and makes meaning out of the trangressive act."
Rafe Meager (they/them)@economeager.bsky.social · 5d agoHappy friday! open.substack.com/pub/rottenan...
🎙️ NEW CASBS PODCAST EPISODE "Confronting Climate Migration Crises" Two 2024-25 CASBS fellows – @maureeneger.bsky.social & @ahsfarmer.bsky.social – discuss thorny scholarly and policy dimensions of the climate migration landscape w/journalist & 2017-18 CASBS fellow John Markoff 🎧 bit.ly/3Rluy3b 👂
since this is a typo from a philosopher, everyone will assume it's a new word meant to represent concepts that were not encompassed by dull words like doubt or point
Edouard Machery@edouardmachery.bsky.social · last wk.It is clear that he doesn’t know what he is talking about. See chapter 3 of my in press book Reasonable Doibt with Princeton
Tang poetry and yuri manga in one math profile, it doesn't get better than that.
Jordana Cepelewicz@jordanacep.bsky.social · 2w agoYu Deng's path to math, and to the Fields Medal, took him through the worlds of competitive Go and classical Chinese poetry. I had the privilege of profiling him for @quantamagazine.bsky.social. www.quantamagazine.org/yu-deng-wins...
Hong Wang, who proved the three-dimensional Kakeya set conjecture, has just won the Fields Medal, making her the third woman in the award’s 90-year history to receive math’s highest honor. Read our profile: www.quantamagazine.org/hong-wang-wi...
Hong Wang Wins 2026 Fields Medal, the Third Woman Ever | Quanta Magazine
Focus, commitment, and insight resulted in a “once in a century” proof. Hong Wang is now just the third woman to win a Fields Medal.
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Research by Hyndman & Bisin seeking to replicate original research by Ariely & Wertenbroch finds no evidence that evenly-spaced deadlines improve performance on any of the three metrics use in the original: buff.ly/Iy548Sx
Spain now has half as many Men's and Women's World Cups as Germany does (2/4 and 1/2). a nice bit of symmetry. these are also the only two countries that have won both Men's and Women's World Cups.
i'm not a philosopher so i can't take the survey, but very much looking forward to the results. i also commend the bravery of forcing philosophers to make binary choices.
Experimental Philosophy@xphilosopher.bsky.social · 3w agoPhilosophers, we need your help We are running a study on philosophers’ intuitions about thought experiments moralsciencelab.com/intuitions/ Only takes a few minutes!
can't believe this mapping didn't inspire more discourse
Arpit Gupta@arpitrage.bsky.social · 3w agoChinese: the French of Asia Japanese: the British Iranians: the Greeks Koreans: the Germans Vietnamese: the Polish Thai: Spanish Burma: Portugal Pakistan: Turkey
Surrogacy is an example of "repugnant markets" and @alroth.bsky.social and @sweiwang.bsky.social find that 🇩🇪s don't actually find it so repugnant. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... But what if a politician 👇🏻 acts against legalizing surrogacy in 🇩🇪, yet he contracts a surrogate mother in 🇺🇸?
Marco Fuchs@marcofuchs74.bsky.social · 3w ago„Bundesgesundheitsminister Jens Spahn (CDU) hat die Forderung der FDP nach einer zumindest teilweisen Legalisierung der Leihmutterschaft zurückgewiesen.“ (April 2020)
French reaction to British food, British politics, British ...
Marie Le Conte@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 3w agoEvolutionary Psychology: our rigorous scientific inquiries have been unfairly maligned by political correctness also Evolutionary Psychology: turning every Hot or Not? into a paper
Julia M. Rohrer@dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 3w agoSaved you a click
👇🏼 Please see below and if you hear of club with a vacant management… Incredible nice, thank you @steffenhuck.bsky.social! Kicktext is fun and rejuvenating!
Stephanie Wang@sweiwang.bsky.social · 3w agothis story about @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social and @steffenhuck.bsky.social is irresistible so i had to break the no LinkedIn rule. try out the game dedicated to Georg by Steffen: steffenhuck.github.io/kicktext/
this story about @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social and @steffenhuck.bsky.social is irresistible so i had to break the no LinkedIn rule. try out the game dedicated to Georg by Steffen: steffenhuck.github.io/kicktext/
we have to get Reid and Zisserman again to figure out this wire business (iykyk). www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/publica...
Who could forecast that macroeconomics would suck the fun out of something?
Lisa Kramer@lisakramer.com · 4w agoNever would have predicted vector autoregression would become such an important a consideration in football (niche post)
Biddery-Askery Myerson-Satterthwaite Proved that two bargainers, Values concealed, Can't trade both truthfully, Solvent and rational, Ex-post-efficiently Deals stay unsealed.
the title is terrific too: "Bella Ciao! The Political Legacy of Women in the Italian Resistance" carmelaaccettura.github.io/JMP_Accettur...
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David Schindler @david-schindler.de · 4w agoSo incredibly proud of my new colleague, Carmela Accettura, for winning the Best Paper Award on Gender Economics from the Unicredit Foundation. Her job market paper is really great, it's fully deserved! Congratulazioni, Carmela! www.unicreditfoundation.org/en/news-and-...
new perfect reply to end tedious threads just dropped
Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · last mo.All the best to you in your future studies
Blood is supposed to be given, not sold—the WHO wants every country on "voluntary, nonremunerated" donation. So how did a U.S. blood drive this year come with a shot at the Super Bowl? A thread on the ingenuity and diversity of "unpaid" donation 🧵🩸 buff.ly/u2xkGUx
Voluntary, Unpaid, and Handsomely Rewarded: Donor Benefits in the World's Whole-Blood Systems
The ideal of the unpaid blood donor is nearly universal; the practice is more complicated. Whole-blood systems around the world preserve a formal commitment to
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What is the highest number of reviewers you’ve witnessed for a paper? For me, 8 (medical journal, general interest).
what’s your predicted ideology if you think it’s silly to talk about GOATs for team sports, but would pick Beckenbauer if forced to make a choice?
Andrew Martin@andrewmartin.bsky.social · last mo.Political ideology is the strongest predictor of Messi-Ronaldo preference. Authoritarians who like short-form video are more likely to think Ronaldo is the GOAT.
Curaçao, population <0.2 million, has more draws in World Cup history than China, population >1000 million
Stephanie Wang@sweiwang.bsky.social · 2mo agoCuraçao, population <0.2 million, has more goals in World Cup history than China, population >1000 million
stop citing claims that women are more treatment-responsive. no evidence in this comprehensive meta-analysis.
NBER@nber.org · 2mo agoTesting the female sensitivity hypothesis that women are more treatment-responsive than men. Across 200+ studies and tests, no evidence is found, yet supportive citations persist, from Felipe Araujo, Neeraja Gupta, and Lise Vesterlund www.nber.org/papers/w35324
Curaçao, population <0.2 million, has more goals in World Cup history than China, population >1000 million
wow, @vinisingh.bsky.social and @dzeltzer.bsky.social and @aschwartz.bsky.social in one session? what a treat. I’ve already been by bowled over by @vinisingh.bsky.social ‘s Deadlt Stigma paper and the other two look fascinating as well.
Dan Ly@meddly.bsky.social · 2mo agoReminder, if you’re going to @ashecon.bsky.social 2026, come to our Wednesday session of creative uses of recession discontinuity with some of the best in the business, including @aschwartz.bsky.social, @vinisingh.bsky.social, @dzeltzer.bsky.social, and @mlbarnett.bsky.social!