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Dina D. Pomeranz 🟣

4 months

Regular reminder that extreme poverty has fallen hugely in recent decades and has never been this low in human history! Even after the short increase due to Covid, the improving trend recovered quickly:

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Dina D. Pomeranz 🟣

@DinaPomeranz

5 years

When infighting distracts us from seeing the big picture: Via @konradweber

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@DinaPomeranz

4 years

The best predictor of entrepreneurship is rich parents

Myk - 🇺🇦🌻🇵🇸🍉 - Here To Help

@mykola

4 years

Please quote this tweet with a thing that everyone in your field knows and nobody in your industry talks about because it would lead to general chaos.

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Dina D. Pomeranz 🟣

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3 months

A strong political divide is emerging between young men and women in many countries:

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@DinaPomeranz

6 years

There's some discussion on Twitter about male academics being unsure whether to mentor women because they're unclear what behavior is ok. Let me try to break it down:

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@DinaPomeranz

6 years

Als jüdische Nachfahrin von Holocaust-Überlebenden hätte ich nie gedacht, dass wir solche Plakate mal wieder sehen würden. "Wehret den Anfängen" wurde uns beigebracht, und alle nickten. Was tun wir jetzt?

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@DinaPomeranz

1 year

There is a persistent myth of "the happy poor". It's just that: a myth. While happiness and life satisfaction are of course driven by many other things as well, people in poor countries are on average much more unhappy. Economic growth matters.

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@DinaPomeranz

7 months

What many people don't know: recent decades have seen incredible reductions in poverty. The poverty rate has *never before* been this low in human history. What new data is now revealing: after the setback from Covid, poverty reduction now continues!

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@DinaPomeranz

6 years

Nike is reading the signs of the time. They are no charity organization. They are investing in a brand that reflects and speaks to the values of the generation of the future. That this is their analysis of the market makes me hopeful. @Kaepernick7

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@DinaPomeranz

6 months

It's possible to at the same time -condemn Hamas -stand against antisemitism -stand against islamophobia -support Israel's right to exist -oppose Israel's policies -feel solidarity with Palestinian victims -feel solidarity with Israeli victims Why is this hard to understand?

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5 years

Amazing animation by @countcarbon showing the demographic transition over the last 150 years! From a world of high fertility and high child mortality to low fertility with few children dying:

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Dina D. Pomeranz 🟣

@DinaPomeranz

4 years

Economics ≠ business Business leader ≠ economist Economics ≠ business Business leader ≠ economist Economics ≠ business Business leader ≠ economist Economics ≠ business Business leader ≠ economist Economics ≠ business Business leader ≠ economist Economics ≠ business

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4 years

The breathtaking decline in child mortality across the world, 1900-2016. By @toddrjones

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@DinaPomeranz

7 years

Child mortality has fallen so much that the global rate today is as low as it was in the richest countries in 1960:

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@DinaPomeranz

6 years

This figure is quite amazing. Never ever before has the world changed as it has from 1990 to 2015. #mindboggling Ht @bill_easterly

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@DinaPomeranz

6 years

Did you know? Every day: - The number of people around the world living in extreme poverty (less than about $2 a day) goes down by 217,000. - 325,000 people gain access to electricity. - 300,000 people gain access to clean drinking water.

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@DinaPomeranz

5 years

Did you know? -Global rates of extreme poverty are falling for any poverty line we choose -Global income inequality is falling -World median income almost doubled from 2003 to 2013 -Income inequality within countries is constant on average (up in some countries, down in others)

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@DinaPomeranz

5 years

It's grad school application season. If you're applying from a lower income country or family, here's an important piece of information that many don't know: Most US schools will waive the application fees for you if you cannot afford them! Just email the school and ask for it.

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@DinaPomeranz

5 years

Very cool! A “Bar Chart Race” showing the changing ranks of the 10 biggest cities in the world since 1500. By @jburnmurdoch

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@DinaPomeranz

3 years

This is a nice way to display Covid infections by vaccination status. Hopefully other outlets will follow. The difference in hospitalizations is even larger, since those who get infected despite the vaccine are much less likely to develop a severe case. Ht @EricTopol

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@DinaPomeranz

2 years

A person in Ghana consumes, on average, less energy per year than a refrigerator. A person in Ethiopia obly 1/5 as much. It is morally wrong and practically ineffective to try to address the climate crisis by denying the poorest more access to energy

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2 years

Two facts many people don't know: 1) The global median income has doubled in 17 years from 2000 to 2017. A stunningly rapid progress the world has *never* seen before. (Adjusted for prices, so not due to inflation) 2) Still half the people in the world have less than $7 per day

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@DinaPomeranz

5 years

People have a very warped sense of what personal actions help to reduce CO2 emissions. Highly over-estimated effectiveness: - No more plastic bags - Regional/seasonal food Highly underestimated: - No more meat

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4 years

Nice analogy

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@DinaPomeranz

6 years

Tariffs on imports are taxes

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@Mantia

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What‘s something that seems obvious within your profession, but the general public seems to misunderstand?

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@DinaPomeranz

4 years

0. Be born to rich parents

Coach Kev - Belly Fat Pro

@AskCoachKev

4 years

How to behave like the 1%: 1. Spend time with impressive people 2. Detach emotions from business 3. Be efficient with your time 4. Form your own opinions 5. See fear as opportunity 6. Know how to commit 7. Worry about yourself 8. Value education 9. Embrace failure

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8 years

I try not to tweet about US election stuff, but amid the discussions about primary rules, I found this interesting:

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@DinaPomeranz

2 years

Did you know? After millennia of agricultural expansion, the world has passed ‘peak agricultural land’. The world produces more food than ever, but the amount of land we use is now falling:

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@DinaPomeranz

6 months

Finance vs political economy

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@DinaPomeranz

1 year

How economics has changed through the decades since the 1950s, as seen in the paper titles of the economics journals AER, JPE and QJE. Paper by @hugomoises and Brice: Ht @DurRobert

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2 years

Impressive visualization of geographical inequality. France (population 65 million) has a similar GDP as all of Africa combined (population 1.4 billion), Switzerland similar to all of Central America and the Caribbean:

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@DinaPomeranz

3 years

An Excel error led to some people in the UK not being contacted by contact tracers. This allowed researchers to analyze the impact of contact tracing, by comparing places where this happened to the rest. 1500 more people died! -> Contact tracing has a large effect.

Ethan Mollick

@emollick

3 years

Also an Excel error cost led to an estimated 1,500 deaths in the UK last year. The UK COVID contact tracing effort saved to an old Excel file format (.XLS) rather than the new one (.XLSX) & smaller row limits resulted in names being dropped. They were never contacted by tracers.

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Dina D. Pomeranz 🟣

@DinaPomeranz

5 years

PSA: Your worth as a human being is not your publications, not your income, not your career trajectory or prizes won. If it starts to feel that way, take some time to spend with people who care about none of these things.

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Dina D. Pomeranz 🟣

@DinaPomeranz

4 years

Something cute for this morning

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3 years

Cover of @derspiegel , February 2017 vs today:

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@DinaPomeranz

7 years

Study found Twitter profiles of white men with high number of followers were most effective in reducing racist online harassment.

David Moscrop

@David_Moscrop

7 years

This is interesting: an experiment on reducing racist harassment on Twitter.

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@DinaPomeranz

5 years

For all PhD students feeling desperate struggling with a first paper, this is how Esther Duflo felt:

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@DinaPomeranz

3 years

Rare to find an issue with so much agreement among economists: The benefits to US, Canada, Europe, Japan and other rich countries of paying for 12 billion doses of COVID vaccine and giving them for free to the rest of the world are greater than the cost.

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@DinaPomeranz

4 years

Are macroeconomics and the rest of economics two separate disciplines? The image of the Twitter networks may suggest so:

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@DinaPomeranz

7 years

Swiss newspaper cartoonists aren't very politically correct

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@DinaPomeranz

5 years

At a recent professional event (outside academia): - One man: "It's so hard to get women for senior positions because they lack confidence." - Another, after I made a point forcefully & asked he let me finish when he interrupted: "Wow, you're quite emotional." #WomenLearnToShutUp

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5 years

What many women hear:

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6 years

Correlation vs causation. #Machinelearning ;)

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@DinaPomeranz

4 years

Corona-Economics: We are not in a recession now because the economy is struggling. We are artificially freezing parts of the economy as a medical intervention to slow down the virus. That is a good thing, and economic policy can mitigate the side effects of this treatment: 1/2

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@DinaPomeranz

4 years

Swiss voters today decided by significant margins to - Introduce 2 weeks paternity leave - Reject a proposal to limit immigration from the EU - Reject family tax cuts that would have benefitted mostly the rich (Switzerland votes on issues several times a year) #DirectDemocracy

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@DinaPomeranz

3 years

Excess mortality during Covid compared to usual mortality: Peru 153% Ecuador 80% Mexico 61% Brazil 40% Russia 28% Chile 27% US 22% Italy 19% UK 18% Swiss 13% NL, France 12% Sweden 10% Germany, Hong Kong, Costa Rica 4% Denmark, Japan, Uruguay and 16 others: none Ht @SDullien

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Why it matters much more what you eat than where it's from: transportation makes up a tiny share of greenhouse gas emissions for most products

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@DinaPomeranz

7 years

Same means, standard deviations and correlation! by @JustinMatejka & Fitzmaurice

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@DinaPomeranz

2 years

Hier sind die "child penalties" von Einkommen von Müttern für verschiedene Länder: Wieviel weniger Frauen nach der Geburt eines Kinders längerfristig verdienen. Dänemark 21% Schweden 26% USA 31% UK 44% Österreich 51% Deutschland 61% Schweiz 68% (!)

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@DinaPomeranz

4 years

Unpopular opinion: I think most people who claim to actually study for 80 hours a week are likely deluding themselves. Human brains usually don't work that way. People probably aren't tracking how much time of focused work they really do. Don't let such talk freak you out.

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@DinaPomeranz

4 years

Successful people tend to underestimate the amount of luck involved in getting them to where they are. If things are going well for you professionally or financially, beware.

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@DinaPomeranz

6 years

Today we had a meeting with PhD students about stress management. Here are some of the things that came up. What else do others find helpful?

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@DinaPomeranz

6 years

If the world continues its reduction of extreme poverty at the current rate, we could see an end to the most extreme form of poverty (less than $2 a day) in the next 20 years. 100 years ago, 80% of human beings lived below that poverty line. (This is adjusted for prices.)

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3 years

Food for thought

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3 years

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@DinaPomeranz

3 years

81% of ocean plastics come from Asian rivers. 0.6% from Europe. Reducing plastic straws in Europe will not save the oceans. Measures need to be smart and targeted.

Our World in Data

@OurWorldInData

3 years

If we want to end the pollution of the oceans with plastic, we need to understand where the plastic comes from. @_HannahRitchie recently answered this question here on Our World in Data:

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The world has witnessed incredible poverty reduction in recent decades. *Never* in human history a smaller share of the population lived with less than the equivalent of $2.15 a day. In 1820 around 80% lived in extreme poverty. Today less than 10%.

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Dina D. Pomeranz 🟣

@DinaPomeranz

2 years

Carbon neocolonialism. Ht @toddjmoss

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@DinaPomeranz

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US border agent: What are you doing in Boston? Me: I'm working on my PhD BA: Wow, you work!? But you are on a student visa. That is illegal! Please go to the special inspections room over there... #reallyhappened

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Border agent: why were you in Kenya? Me: I was going research for my PhD in economics BA: What is your research about? Me: How noise affects people’s productivity BA: How is that economics? #reallyhappened

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4 years

Food for thought on a Saturday morning

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5 years

Economics job market Via @lfaliaj

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@DinaPomeranz

6 years

. @ezraklein wonders on his show today whether there are any people out there for whom Twitter brings out the best in them. Since for me, the answer is an emphatic "yes!", I thought I'd share some practices that might potentially contribute to that. 1/n

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@DinaPomeranz

5 years

Economists, are you teaching about the impacts of minimum wages? Then you might be interested in adding this excellent empirical paper. Contrary to what many of us were taught based on theoretical predictions, there seems to relatively little negative impact on employment.

Arin Dube

@arindube

5 years

Pleased to announce that our paper quantifying the overall effect of US minimum wages on low-wage jobs is now forthcoming at the Quarterly Journal of Economics. Here's the current version:

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@DinaPomeranz

3 years

Reviewing a paper about a developing country? Don't be the Referee 2 who's main comment is "How externally valid is this setting?" Research about low-income countries is already highly under-represented. Don't make it harder by thinking it's weird just because you don't know it.

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@DinaPomeranz

3 years

My two cents FWIW: Having a field called "development economics" makes no sense. It is essentially all fields of economics related to the 84% of people in the world who don't live in high-income countries. It is good to see it gradually absorbed into the other fields of econ.

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@DinaPomeranz

2 years

CEO Lunch at the Munic Security Conference 2022. Via @SawsanChebli

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@DinaPomeranz

4 years

Most research is about rich countries, even though 76% of the world's population live in middle-income and 9% in low-income countries. This imbalance has important consequences for what tools, products and policies are available to decision-makers in the South.

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@DinaPomeranz

5 years

Whatever happened to the hole in the ozone layer? Most countries in the world came together in a treaty, and humanity cut emissions by over 75%. As a result, the hole stopped growing in the 1990s and recently started to shrink again:

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@DinaPomeranz

5 years

Good morning world in 2019! Did you know? Never before in history has the human race been as rich, healthy, long-living and educated as today! To see more details on the ways humanity has changed, check out the many topics on

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@DinaPomeranz

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Amazing how much human condition is improving in our generation! Infant & maternal mortality fell to half since 1990

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@DinaPomeranz

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It's called economic growth :) Thanks to growth, people in rich countries no longer need to work 65 hours a week, as they did 150 years ago, and at the same time they are richer. Leisure is a what economists call a "normal good": as we get richer, we consume more of it.

Holger Zschaepitz

@Schuldensuehner

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Germans have gone from being the most industrious people to the laziest: Hours per worker in Germany halved from 1900 to 2000. The downtrend has been remarkably stable: for at least 150yrs, w/exception of World War II, every generation has worked fewer hours than its predecessor.

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@DinaPomeranz

8 years

. @nytimes is more likely to report on terrorism attack the higher the GDP where it happened

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@DinaPomeranz

7 years

Randomized experiment with 20,000 local public officials confirms everyday discrimination against Blacks across US:

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@DinaPomeranz

2 years

This is what the current President of the larger chamber of the Swiss Parliament looks like (akin to the US Speaker of the House of Representatives). Kind of cool :) And you can run into her on the street. Probably unthinkable in the US and many other countries. #Democracy

Achyuta Samanta

@achyuta_samanta

2 years

Met Ms. @KaelinIrene , President of the National Council, Switzerland, Green National Councilor and President of ArbeitAargau that espouses the cause of going green because we only have one earth.

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@DinaPomeranz

3 years

Unpopular opinion: econ has too many awards and prizes. We're a social science, not a sport.

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@DinaPomeranz

4 years

Christmas wish: an econ online course that teaches new developments of estimation in empirical micro, in an applied way, for people who have already completed their PhD but want to keep up with latest advances. E.g. one lecture a month, with exercises. #EconTwitter

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@DinaPomeranz

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Building more housing leads to lower rents. One reason so many people get confused about this is that they look only at the rent of the new units. To understand the impact, it is key to take into account how the increase of housing supply affects the other rents.

Jeremiah Johnson 🌐

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Every piece of info we have suggests that building housing reduces rents quick thread:

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Hilfreiche Erinnerung, wie man korrekt vergleicht, wie stark geimpfte vs ungeimpfte Leute betroffen sind: #Pr ävalenzfehler

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@DinaPomeranz

4 years

Terms that are often used as synonyms but are not: The economy ≠ business Market ≠ laissez-faire Business leader ≠ economist

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@DinaPomeranz

6 years

Most of the increase in the global population is currently happening due to growing life expectancy, rather than growing number of children:

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@DinaPomeranz

4 years

New paper by economist @MNDjourel showing with rigorous evidence how language can matter: When the Associated Press stopped using the term "illegal immigrant", there was a causal effect on readers' views on immigration policy. ht @ellliottt

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@DinaPomeranz

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I love Israel, I have family there. But sadly, the current government is right wing extremist. A government that speaks like that is dangerous. It is not only dangerous to the Palestinian people, but also for the future of Jewish Israelis and everyone who lives there.

Disclose.tv

@disclosetv

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NOW - Netanyahu: "We are the people of the light, they are the people of darkness... we shall realize the prophecy of Isaiah."

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One of the more shocking realizations of this pandemic to me is how many key decision makers have difficulty with basic concepts of statistics & data interpretation. Across all political parties & sectors of the economy, including finance. Big obstacle to good decision making.

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@DinaPomeranz

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I'm going to live tweet Esther Duflo's Master Lecture at the NBER Development Economics meeting on "Machinistas meet Randomistas: Some useful ML tools for RCT researchers"

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Wow, this graphic showing wealth to scale and in relation to other things blew me away. I study such things for a living and still found it very instructive. Keep scrolling to the right. Ht @j_theriault & @NeilLewisJr

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The share of humans living in the worst form of poverty (less $2.15 dollars a day) has fallen by 3/4 since 1990(!) The share of people with less than $3.65 has fallen by half. The share with incomes over $10/day grew from 25% to over 40%. (All of these are adjusted for prices)

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University students from low- and middle-income countries: This semester many courses take place online. Several professors in Europe & North America have opened their class for international students to participate remotely! See full list & apply here:

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Unpopular opinion: selecting job candidates based on extent to which they follow etiquette, etc. can often end up selecting for class and having unintended discriminatory effects.

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In 1950, the US had the highest GDP per person in the world. Today, the *worldwide* GDP per person is as high as it was in the US back then (adjusted for changes in prices). Global living standards have grown tremendously. Ht @frank_pinter @MaxCRoser

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@DinaPomeranz

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GDP per person, 1950-2016 (adjusted for price changes): - 9 countries saw a reduction - 9 countries saw over 15-fold increase - DR Congo: fell by half - World: grew 4.4-fold - Botswana, Panana, Portugal: 9-fold - China: 16-fold - Taiwan, SKorea: >30-fold

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Today, 10 of every 100 people live in extreme poverty. Back in 1820 it was 94 out of every 100! By @MaxCRoser

Max Roser

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I have written a short history of how living conditions have changed globally over the last two centuries:

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@DinaPomeranz

4 years

This should go without saying but PLEASE DO NOT PUBLICLY TRASH A PHD STUDENT'S JOB MARKET PAPER WITHOUT READING IT FIRST! Wow. People. Please.

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@DinaPomeranz

6 years

Inequality can increase and poverty can fall at the same time.

Louie Mantia, Jr.

@Mantia

6 years

What‘s something that seems obvious within your profession, but the general public seems to misunderstand?

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@DinaPomeranz

4 years

For the New Year, I'll share a few trends of the past decade. Since for many longer-term trends, data is not yet available until 2019, I will post the last available 10 years. Happy New Year!

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Dina D. Pomeranz 🟣

@DinaPomeranz

4 years

Excellent news!

FDA Approves Ebola Vaccine With 100% Effectiveness

U.S. regulators have approved a vaccine to protect against the deadly Ebola virus, a crucial step in the battle against an infection that’s considered one of the world’s deadliest killers.

www.bloomberg.com

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Dina D. Pomeranz 🟣

@DinaPomeranz

4 years

In recent days, since I tweeted more about #BlackLivesMatter & the need to address racism in all our institutions, I notice that more people than usual unfollow me. I understand the reflex to look away. These are uncomfortable topics. But we white people need to stop looking away

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Dina D. Pomeranz 🟣

@DinaPomeranz

6 years

If a study doesn't replicate in a new context, that doesn't imply researchers of the original study did something wrong or that science is a bunch of crap. It doesn't even necessarily mean the replication is better than the original. It means science is constant work in progress.

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Dina D. Pomeranz 🟣

@DinaPomeranz

5 years

Things we should teach to prepare people for academic careers, but typically don't: - Management skills (hiring, giving feedback, conflict resolution, etc.) - How to write effective referee reports - How to apply for grants - How to choose co-authors - Time management - Self care

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Dina D. Pomeranz 🟣

@DinaPomeranz

5 years

Income inequality within countries has *not* risen overall. Over the last 25 years, inequality has gone up in some countries and has fallen in others. The average Gini measure of inequality fell somewhat, from 39.6 to 38.6.

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Dina D. Pomeranz 🟣

@DinaPomeranz

6 years

In honor of American Thanksgiving this week, here's a thread of a few global developments I am thankful for:

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Dina D. Pomeranz 🟣

@DinaPomeranz

5 years

Whenever someone claims to know the single cause of a complex societal problem and an obvious solution, I tend to lose my motivation to read further...

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Dina D. Pomeranz 🟣

@DinaPomeranz

3 years

Cool! @TheEconomist invites suggestions to cover research papers:

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