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Steve B. Holt

3 years

A convo last night noted that, anecdotally, low-income people often take entire days for routine appointments that high-income folks usually schedule for a long lunch. I got curious about the income gap in time spent waiting for things, so I looked it up in the ATUS. 1/n

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Steve B. Holt

@SteveBHolt

3 years

Accounting for time trends and applying sampling weights, this is just the average time spent waiting for stuff. Look at that gap! High-income folks spend 40% less time waiting on stuff that everyone uses! 4/n

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Steve B. Holt

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3 years

Some of this may also be a neighborhood quality story too wherein low-income folks are sorted (often as a result of policy failures) into areas with services that are overburdened, under supported, and struggling to perform. 8/n

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Steve B. Holt

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For the uninitiated, the ATUS collected time diary data on how people spend their time in an average day each year in a national sample. 2/n

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Steve B. Holt

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For a quick and dirty look, I added time spent waiting on caring for kids' health and school, caring for adults, waiting for household, childcare, and personal car services, waiting for financial and government service, waiting for job interviews, and waiting for shopping. 3/n

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Steve B. Holt

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3 years

An this is the gap when we condition on non-zero time. Even among those who spent some time waiting on stuff, high-income folks spend much less time waiting around (about 30 minutes versus 41 minutes, on average - about 27% less time). 5/n

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Steve B. Holt

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3 years

Some of it might be demands and expectations, social capital, or any number of things. Regardless, that gap in time spent waiting around for routine services is less time for work, family, or fun and is another area where poverty has a bunch of hidden burdens. 9/n

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Steve B. Holt

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3 years

@donmoyn has brought attention to the importance of administrative burdens in public programs (and surely that explains part of this), but I think there a variety of admin. and other burdens low-income folks face across sectors and services. 7/n

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Steve B. Holt

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3 years

There's surely a whole bunch of potential reasons for this, this just looks at averages and is not from a research project or anything, but I find it interesting. These are average differences on an average day, so these gaps add up to a ton of time throughout the year. 6/n

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Steve B. Holt

@SteveBHolt

3 years

Finally, excluding waiting for job interviews doesn't change the gap much. One could probably learn a lot just pouring over this with more rigor descriptively. h/t @ajaynemarr . 10/end.

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Steve B. Holt

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2 years

I am just continually saddened and perplexed that 2,582 people died of COVID-19 this week and if it weren't for updating this thread nearly daily over the last 2 plus years, I might not have even realized it. Like, does it even really get much coverage anymore?

Steve B. Holt

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Lest we forget, 602 Americans died Friday and 35 Americans died yesterday of COVID-19, a disease for which there is a safe and effective vaccine.

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Steve B. Holt

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7 years

A brutal critique of everything Chris Cillizza has ever written

Winners and Losers of the Recent Nuclear Holocaust

The nation was recently rocked by retaliatory nuclear blasts that have turned much of America into a barren wasteland, decimating the population, t...

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2 years

I can't get over this company responding to what I assume is a parody joke about hotels with this description of a business that also sounds like a parody but is actually their business.

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Steve B. Holt

@SteveBHolt

11 months

The thing that makes me legitimately angry at cities controlled by Democrats is that we spent all that time when interest rates were practically zero and investors were looking to build everywhere (even Albany!) treating apartment buildings like they were urban highways.

@Alex_Armlovich

@aarmlovi

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Top question for pricey cities fearing doom loops: Do you allow new housing? Boston's growth controls throttle construction despite prices rising >150% of construction cost Boston is still 100,000 people short of its 1950 peak! The doom loop call's coming from inside the house

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Steve B. Holt

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I dunno, David. I think we already know who didn't do their jobs. One of them is named David Concannon, the adviser to OceanGate on the Titan "sub" that skirted safety and design regulations to allow people to book trips in a death trap.

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Steve B. Holt

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2 years

Surely we can all agree that watching a group of trained men with AR-15s fully kitted out in body armor running in fear at the sound of gunshots puts the lie to "good guy with a gun" nonsense and demonstrates unequivocally that firearms should be difficult to obtain.

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Steve B. Holt

@SteveBHolt

3 years

The modern conservative movement is an entire media apparatus built around throwing out offensive takes until they trigger engagement metrics, and then just re-using it to inflate engagement. There's no underlying principle to the culture war, just endless "lib triggering."

Jane Coaston 🏔️

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3 years

Guys.

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@bellachu10 @MrEthanTufts God damn, that last line goes hard. I love it.

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Steve B. Holt

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3 years

@professortacox Yes. The ATUS also measures time travelling and time in transit separately from time spent waiting and this is restricted entirely to waiting time.

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@SteveBHolt

5 years

Everytime someone says, "We can't support public universities the same way we did in the 60s" or "We can't afford to update our infrastructure," or "...invest more in research" or "...replace lead piping" or anything else, play this .gif in your head.

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Steve B. Holt

@SteveBHolt

5 years

"Hi, yes, data police? I'd like to report a crime..."

Valentijn Schweitzer

@schweitzer_va

5 years

Good example of manipulated data visualisation. The reversed y-axis makes an increase look like a decrease.

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Steve B. Holt

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2 years

@jbouie @adamkotsko Another simple explanation for this is she's a senior in college and has rightly realized that joining the conservative culture war on campus speech is the quickest route to a secure media gig. Why the NY Times is reaffirming by giving page space to this is my question.

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Steve B. Holt

@SteveBHolt

2 years

A brief interlude of good professional news: I received notification today that I officially have been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure. A brief thread reflecting on my path and why I truly believe in the importance of public education and institutions.

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Steve B. Holt

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3 years

I am watching Community for the first time, and I think I finally know the meaning of life. We are all born with a void, an emptiness at our core, and life is merely a long search to find what Troy and Abed have with one another to fill that void.

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Steve B. Holt

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2 years

I wish there was a massive public campaign to force editors at news outlets everywhere to set a standardized rule for reporting federal spending bill numbers. It's genuinely misleading the public to report the defense appropriation in 1-yr costs & all other bills in 10-yr costs.

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Steve B. Holt

@SteveBHolt

2 years

It's the "spending only counts as speech when it comes in the form of payments to elected officials and the development of a pay-to-play system of democracy but spending is not speech when it comes to disciplining commercial enterprises in a way I don't like" interpretation.

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conservative judges are steadily coalescing around a theory of First Amendment jurisprudence that basically amounts to "the left doesn't get free speech"

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Steve B. Holt

@SteveBHolt

3 years

The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences should be changed to The Nobel Memorial Prize in Social Sciences and chosen based on impactful social science contributions drawn from a pool of all social science disciplines. There I said it. I got it off my chest. Cancel me.

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Steve B. Holt

@SteveBHolt

2 years

Two achievements this week that I want to celebrate. 1. For five consecutive weeks, I have scored a goal with my rec league soccer team. (I did not play soccer until adulthood). 2. I'm told that the university T&P committee has voted unanimously in support of my tenure case.

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Steve B. Holt

@SteveBHolt

4 years

Starting a daily thread, lest we all forget, 847 Americans died yesterday from COVID-19. Their deaths would have been avoided but for the incompetence of Donald Trump.

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Steve B. Holt

@SteveBHolt

11 months

Now, even if we reform the process stuff, upzone everywhere, and eliminate public meeting requirements for proposed apartments, the macro environment means a lot of stuff won't pencil and cities are going to have to spend some real money to attract development. Wasted opportunity

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@SteveBHolt

2 years

I often find teaching case studies confining. A few semesters back, I switched to building a fictional city (Hopetopia) & each week groups managed a city department through a scenario based on a real event through handouts. This semester, I kicked it up & made a city gov website.

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@SteveBHolt

2 years

A skill I would invest in if I was a second year doctoral student again is the algorithms/techniques that extract data from PDF reports and documents for use in other analysis. Sooo many interesting, unanswered questions are currently variables locked away in PDFs.

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Steve B. Holt

@SteveBHolt

3 years

🚨Working Paper🚨 After the unexpected, exceptional response and level of interest this thread prompted, @KatieMVinopal and I realized we should dig into this a little more and write a paper. Our newly public working paper can be found here: . 1/

Steve B. Holt

@SteveBHolt

3 years

A convo last night noted that, anecdotally, low-income people often take entire days for routine appointments that high-income folks usually schedule for a long lunch. I got curious about the income gap in time spent waiting for things, so I looked it up in the ATUS. 1/n

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Steve B. Holt

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4 years

This is just applying the lesson from Kavanaugh (feigned outrage at a perceived indignity can effectively drive a partisan bandwagon circle) without any underlying, substantive indignity. An experiment in whether the effect can be generated in a vacuum. Pure signal, no substance.

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Steve B. Holt

@SteveBHolt

3 years

The grad student asks for feedback...

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Steve B. Holt

@SteveBHolt

7 months

@besttrousers Real "the most serious fires also have the most firefighters at them" vibes with a "AND THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW" tone tacked on.

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Steve B. Holt

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2 years

I wasn't going to comment on the PNAS paper, but I will say this: people in the academy really need to take a breath and work on some empathy skills. The authors wrote a fine paper, it landed in a premier outlet, and have had to spend two days watching people dump all over it.

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Steve B. Holt

@SteveBHolt

10 months

@tobinjstone There are times when I think actions like this are a psy-op to undermine taking climate change seriously.

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Steve B. Holt

@SteveBHolt

1 year

Few things are more annoying and insulting than when tenured faculty reframe not doing something *as individuals* as some kind of principled stand. Unless you have organized a collective action on issue X & put in the work, all you're really doing is putting that work on others.

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2 years

@sam_d_1995 @DeTahmineh This is very obviously disingenuous. DC is an incredibly safe city & one of the best cities in the country for living car free and she knows it. Anyway, this person is pretty obviously doing a bunch of "troll urbanists" posts to get attention. Probably better to block and ignore.

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@SteveBHolt

6 months

Progressives who oppose building apartments and support insurmountable regulatory reviews and public comment periods for building housing should look at the replies here. That's team NIMBY. That's what you're enabling and aiding.

YIMBYLAND

@YIMBYLAND

6 months

Imagine looking at these and thinking: “my neighborhood is ruined”

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3 years

A 4-yr old who randomly won a seat in Boston preschool: -⬆️likelihood of graduating HS (6 p.p.) -⬆️likelihood of attending college (5.4 p.p.) -⬇️suspensions and likelihood of juvenile incarceration -⬆️likelihood of SAT above bottom quartile.

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Steve B. Holt

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10 months

@RottenInDenmark With Chait, this is a "hit dogs holler" thing.

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Steve B. Holt

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1 year

@bellachu10 @VickieforNYC Not to mention the deep literature on the health and wellness costs of vehicle emissions. One wonders why a councilwoman would be arguing for increased harmful emissions exposure for her own constituents and less safe alternatives to driving.

Decreased vehicle emissions linked with significant drop in deaths attributable to air pollution

Decreasing vehicle emissions since 2008 have reduced by thousands the number of deaths attributable to air pollution, yielding billions of dollars in benefits to society, according to a new study l…

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Steve B. Holt

@SteveBHolt

2 years

Alongside Don, I've been saying for years that as bad as all the things happening are, nothing is a more dangerous threat to the foundations of our century plus of prosperity and stability than the conservative drive to unwind the federal administrative state.

Don Moynihan

@donmoyn

2 years

There is a good chance you have not heard of Schedule F, but it represents one of the biggest threats to democracy if Trump or a Trump-like populist takes power. And there is no plan in place to stop it.

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2 years

COVID-19 is the perfect moment that alt-right extremists have been dreaming of for years - a salient, visible problem that required aggressive government action that they could use to trigger a direct conflict that they could use to scale, recruit, & repurpose to broader aims.

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2 years

Public Administration folks - Figured I'd try creating a community for sharing public administration work. Can help create a feed that isolates the research we want to share with each other in one place. Join if you want!

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Steve B. Holt

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6 months

One of the oddities of the Biden era has been the economy reflecting wins on a lot of Obama-era progressive priorities (wages rising at the bottom, wage compression, low-unemployment, slightly higher prices to accommodate higher wages, etc.) and the online left hates it.

James Leckie

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Seeing people nostalgic for cheap Chipotle in 2010 is a trip. You guys know it was that cheap because a lot of us were unemployed or underemployed, right? And the staff were paid way worse.

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Steve B. Holt

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3 years

@MBHastings94 Thanks! Not yet! But that's a good question. I'll try and take a look later today.

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3 years

A plea from capital cities everywhere: please do not use the name of the capital city as a stand-in for elected officials. ALBANY does not have a toxic culture, the elected officials sent here by voters do. Washington, DC is not corrupt - *some* elected officials sent there are.

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Steve B. Holt

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4 years

In my mind, the worrisome part of this whole thread is not just Trump, but that there is a hyper-focused, dark-money fueled network of operatives that spent a decade building a legal theory for this and this admin. filling judicial seats with adherents. That's infrastructure.

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Steve B. Holt

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2 years

@KhoaVuUmn @BarbaraBiasi A superior lake with superior takes.

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2 years

@mpolikoff @kfc Just a bunch of herbs and spices?

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3 years

This marks the 2nd consecutive week in which more Americans died of COVID-19 than during the attacks on 9/11. Last summer, this count hit 8ish consecutive weeks until I was too sad to continue counting 9/11s. It's more tragic in how much *more* preventable the deaths are now.

Steve B. Holt

@SteveBHolt

3 years

Lest we forget, 1,022 Americans died yesterday of COVID-19, a disease for which there is a safe and effective vaccine.

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Steve B. Holt

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1 year

RT @dynarski @mastodon .social Fantastic new dataset for research on postsecondary education Please boost!

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Steve B. Holt

@SteveBHolt

8 months

One of the funnier arcs on here was watching a "leave academia" account go on and on about how much better life was in industry, go dark, come back to describe a hellish time going through layoffs before being laid off, and then going right back to the "academia is bad" beat.

Arthur Spirling

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8 months

I see we’re at the stage of anti-academia in here that we’re now claiming with a straight face that it offers less time flexibility and intellectual freedom *on average* than non-academic jobs. OK.

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2 years

It really, really pains me to say this, but I'm learning R and wow is it so much better for visualization. I mean, Stata, wyd?

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2 years

Lest we forget, 602 Americans died Friday and 35 Americans died yesterday of COVID-19, a disease for which there is a safe and effective vaccine.

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Steve B. Holt

@SteveBHolt

11 months

1. Too many conferences. Pick 1 per semester to be your Fall/Spring conference and stick to that. 2. Have a notes doc and, the first 2 times teaching a course, after each class meeting, open the doc and jot down everything you thought didn't work/how to change while it's fresh.

Roxana Daneshjou MD/PhD

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11 months

Since there is no manual for starting as faculty, could you share with me the biggest mistake you made in your early years and what you learned from it? @AcademicChatter

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Steve B. Holt

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@donmoyn Almost like a woman following a teen boy who recently survived a school shooting to harass him and call him an actor and then said woman being...elected to Congress.

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3 years

@profmusgrave I mean, Lincoln's moderate platform of "slavery in the south, but not in new territories" seems like the 80% polling option in the politics of that universe and it worked out really well as a policy, iirc. Lead to very reasonable incrementalism.

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3 years

Lest we forget, 2,165 Americans died yesterday of COVID-19, a disease for which there is a safe and effective vaccine.

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Steve B. Holt

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Douthat, born in S.F., educated at Harvard, living in NYC, rants against coastal bubbles from a bubble too thick to see huge public unis.

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Steve B. Holt

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3 years

Oh, you got engaged? Congratulations! Advice. 1. Plan the wedding you think you want and get a price estimate. 2. Go to the courthouse, elope w/ some family present, have a BBQ w/ family and local friends in a park. 3. Take money from 1 and re-do your kitchen.

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2 years

I am begging U.S. state and local governments to invest more in data science capacity so you waste less of our money on consultant up-selling that should be readily sniffed out.

Nicholas Dawes

@NicDawes

2 years

To contain violence in New York jails, Bill de Blasio paid McKinsey $27.5m. for an inmate sorting algorithm that didn't work. Now it's being scrapped. ⁦ @ReuvenBlau ⁩ with the anatomy of a failure.

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2 years

Ask me again why it's important to have a protected civil service with bounded independence. We've done a spoils system here - it leads to bad government and bad decision-making because the incentives to provide good information rather than positive information are diminished.

Kamil Galeev

@kamilkazani

2 years

At this point Putin is trapped. His initial assumptions when attacking Ukraine were wrong. Foreign Department of FSB (N5) lied to him, telling whatever he wants to here. He though Ukraine will break quickly but it didn't. And yet, Putin can't turn back. If he does, he's doomed

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@profmusgrave Imagine being Ossoff & Warnock voters in Georgia right now and watching Sinema. The rage of it. Moved heaven and earth to pull off one of the most unlikely wins in a more hostile state only to have some random yahoo tank the entire party's agenda anyway for no discernible reason.

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Steve B. Holt

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7 years

Quick reminder of civics 101: the Affordable Care Act is still the law of the land. The #AHCA now moves to the Senate. Stop it there.

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3 years

One of the biggest problems with housing is that people cannot conceptualize how much housing cities need to build to accommodate growth, let alone to provide sufficient slack to allow for free movement around the nation and absorb demand shocks.

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3 years

@rachdele What's interesting about this is most cities have one left and it's almost always so in demand that it undermines coziness. Tryst in D.C. comes to mind. One would think looking at the crowds would lead to *more* cozy coffee shops to try to siphon off the obviously excess demand.

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Steve B. Holt

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3 years

Thank you @AChilkoti and @TheEconomist for covering the SES gap in wait time! The article adds my subsequent analysis examining the SES gap in waiting time by race. As @alixabeth notes in the article "waiting is part of the experience of racism in the US."

Black Americans spend more of the day being kept waiting

Numbers from the Bureau of Labour Statistics show how time is wasted by race and class

www.economist.com

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2 years

Lest we forget, 673 Americans died Thursday and 657 Americans died yesterday of COVID-19, a disease for which there is a safe and effective vaccine.

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Steve B. Holt

@SteveBHolt

3 years

Exciting news! We're hiring at Rockefeller! We're looking for someone with a strong applied econometrics background and a public policy research orientation. As you can see below, we are flexible on research area. Join us! cc #EconTwitter @APPAM_DC .

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Steve B. Holt

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3 years

Awesome paper with both neat data and sweet visuals shows that white men exposed to a black neighbor are more likely to be racially liberal and Democratic. Another bit of plausibly causal evidence that intergroup contact alters social and political views.

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Steve B. Holt

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2 years

The graduate student approaches the simple difference-in-difference literature...

Roberto Trobajo Hernández

@Roberto_Trobajo

2 years

Titi Pigmeo...fascinado con un insecto.

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1 year

@lionel_trolling Not only that, but the idea that DeSantis is the best chance to make the GOP a majority party is just softly doing DeSantis PR for him. The guy won big in a red state and is generally uncompelling on camera. But the GOP definitely wants folks to think/say he has general appeal.

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Steve B. Holt

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3 years

Oh hey, a pleasant greeting from Google Scholar. There are, of course, holes in my record and so on (so don't interpret this as overly prideful), but it was a nice motivator as I head into wrapping up some working papers.

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I've never seen two senators with so much leverage do so little with it, for either their states or the country.

Jeff Stein

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2 years

. @seungminkim on Dems voting rights push: Even if they persuade Manchin, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) "remains stubbornly opposed to getting rid of the 60-vote threshold. She reiterated her opposition in a virtual lunch last week with other Dem senators"

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Steve B. Holt

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3 years

This situation underlines an under-discussed aspect of decades of cuts in state contributions to public universities - that it, in effect, transfers outsized power to wealthy donors. That universities make up the money elsewhere obscures the political trade-off that's being made.

Jemele Hill

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3 years

The University of Texas insisted to black students it would fight for social justice. But when that fight pissed off some wealthy, white donors, their response was unfortunately predictable. My column for @TheAtlantic on the school song controversy

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Steve B. Holt

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2 years

The year is 2032. You are preparing your syllabi. The required statements to insert are 200 pages long. People no longer make jokes about students not reading the syllabi because their creation is largely a ceremonial task carried forward by the inertia we call tradition.

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Steve B. Holt

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@donmoyn @kenklippenstein Like @ProfessaJay was saying the other day, unions exist to protect your livelihood from people like her - over-demanding, petty tyrants who operate in bad faith and believe they should command the power of a feudal lord because they spent fifty bucks on a delivery app.

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Steve B. Holt

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@janeplyons Look, if the poorest person in a city can't afford a brand new apartment, obviously we would all be better off if we never built any new apartments ever again. Yes, I have a direct fiscal interest in restricting supply as an incumbent homeowner, why do you ask?

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Steve B. Holt

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@besttrousers @RomanianLiberal To be fair, on this one in particular, you probably learned the value of the process of claim verification and source searching/checking, which is transferrable to new technologies for doing the basic task need.

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Steve B. Holt

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2 years

The truck situation at the border is insane - all because Abbott wants to engage in groundless theater for cheap, empty talking points by engaging in redundant checks. Redundant because, contrary to his claims, customs still check trucks at entry.

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Steve B. Holt

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1 year

@mpolikoff @joelalanhart If you're still in NY and can get tickets to Prima Facie, do yourself a favor and go. Jodie Comer is an absolute treasure and I don't think I've seen a performance that brilliant...ever. I still think about moments from it almost daily.

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Steve B. Holt

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3 years

Trains are good. We should have more of them.

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@SteveBHolt

2 years

@alixabeth @tressiemcphd Yep! One example we found is that while money leads to shorter wait times to receive services for White people, Black people have longer wait times regardless of income.

Steve B. Holt

@SteveBHolt

3 years

Third, race plays an important role. When we look at the length of waiting spells, we can see that while non-Black high-income folks experience shorter waiting times than their poorer, same-race counterparts, wealthy Black folks face similar wait times to poor folks. 6/

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Steve B. Holt

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In this context, "The Left" is sophomores at elite colleges booing speakers or doing some trivial and perhaps misguided protest on campus. "The Right" is government officials passing laws that ban speech and employing political litmus tests to faculty hires.

Jonathan Chait

@jonathanchait

10 months

stop saying you want the media to start covering bad things the right is doing when what you really want is for it to stop covering bad things the left is doing

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Steve B. Holt

@SteveBHolt

3 years

Well, okay Yosemite. Hello there!

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Steve B. Holt

@SteveBHolt

3 years

@ProfessaJay I worked on a paper idea awhile back (2017-ish) that tried to estimate the effect of state budget cuts to state police, who are primarily responsible for highway patrol, on bias in police ticketing. Every once in awhile I think about resurrecting that project.

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Steve B. Holt

@SteveBHolt

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I don't often give job advice on Twitter because it has a set of people who think all advice should account for every edge case or audience, a set who confuse advice for navigating a system as an unconditional endorsement of that system, and a set addicted to righteous anger.

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Steve B. Holt

@SteveBHolt

4 years

Every semester when I get to the section about collective bargaining in the public sector, I ask which unions are the most influential and powerful. Nearly everyone answers teachers' unions. Almost no one names police unions. Many people forget they *are* unionized.

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Steve B. Holt

@SteveBHolt

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A common academic experience is a post-tenure sense of a loss of direction and (I think) accompanying emotional dip. It's something not discussed much I think in part bc we all recognize the privilege that comes with tenure, but conflating achievement and happiness plays a part.

Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

1 year

The perils of relying on achievement for happiness.

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Steve B. Holt

@SteveBHolt

2 years

@benegotherit Co-authored with highway spending, which is famously not costly at all. What's $82 billion in annual infrastructure maintenance spending between friends? And train tickets? Please. I give you debt on a depreciating asset you must insure as an entry fee for users. Such cheap!

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Steve B. Holt

@SteveBHolt

3 years

Seems like passing the Build Back Better plan to make the expanded Child Tax Credit permanent and create a universal pre-k system for all 3 and 4 year-olds nationwide would be a great way to help the economy, support labor market participation, and reduce inequality all at once.

Heather Long

@byHeatherLong

3 years

Important pt: Black women are struggling the most to get back jobs right now. They are also reporting the biggest struggles w/childcare and eldercare. As one woman told me: She had to quit her new job b/c of the bus drive shortage.

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Steve B. Holt

@SteveBHolt

4 years

My latest work, co-authored with @HeasunChoi (an excellent doctoral student here at Rockefeller), is now up @ReviewofPPA . In it, we use data from a national sample of HS student to test the possibility that diverse secondary schools ⬆️PSM. (It does.)

When Knowing is Caring: Examining the Relationship Between Diversity Exposure and PSM - Stephen...

While public service motivation (PSM) provides an important theory for understanding the motivations that underpin public sector worker behavior, theoretical co...

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Steve B. Holt

@SteveBHolt

2 years

If the New York state legislature was wise, they would be meeting to sign a budget amendment to give a big pot of money to SUNY/CUNY to go on a hiring spree of top scientific and academic talent from the country looking to move. It would pay 10-fold dividends down the line.

Bryan William Jones

@BWJones

2 years

As of tomorrow, I am on the open market. A well funded, internationally successful scientist is accepting offers from academia and industry in order to leave the state of Utah, taking my team of neuroscientists if they chose to leave with me. I will not endanger my team.

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Steve B. Holt

@SteveBHolt

2 years

In Buffalo, an armed security guard was outgunned because the shooter - just some young adult - had armor and firepower appropriate for war. In Texas, the police engaged before the shooter entered the school and failed to prevent this tragedy. A good guy with a gun means nothing.

Natasha Bertrand

@NatashaBertrand

2 years

Sgt. Erick Estrada of the Texas Dept of Public Safety tells @andersoncooper the shooter crashed his car near the school, got out with a gun and wearing body armor, was engaged by law enforcement, but made his way into the school anyway and went classroom to classroom shooting.

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