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Brad Shapiro

11 months

As lots of people are liking a post I wrote that has the word "advice" in it, I need to issue my periodic reminder that my advice may in fact be terrible. I know very little, in general.

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

3 years

Story. Name changed to protect the (mostly) innocent. My friend Todd is over 65 and lives in CA. The other day, Governor Newsom goes on national TV and says those over 65 are now eligible for the vaccine. Todd goes online, and makes an appointment at a mass vaccination site.

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

3 years

Unclear if that dose was administered at all or trashed. Moral of the story: SIGH. We are self owning in so many ways...

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

2 years

Professional news: I got tenure @ChicagoBooth ! As of July 1, I'll be Professor of Marketing. I'm very grateful for the time I've had here to start my career. I look forward to continuing to learn from my amazing colleagues.

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

3 years

Check-in worker loses her mind. Says if he gets a vaccine, she's calling the police. She won't be silent while someone tries to "jump the line" Knowing if the police come, vaccines will be disrupted for the rest of the day, the director relents. Todd leaves unvaccinated.

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

8 months

A couple of thoughts to reviewers if you want to be helpful to the AE (particularly if it's me). 1. Be less negative (even if you say reject). If we took the average reviewer's advice, 99% of papers would go directly into an incinerator against a backdrop of evil laughter. 1/4

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

3 years

Director of the vaccination site eventually agrees with him. They have the dose ready. The governor told them >65 was eligible! They gave him an appointment. None of this is his fault.

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

3 years

Funny enough, there's no place to turn around the car, so Todd has to go through the vaccination line, but is not allowed a vaccine. As he goes through the line, he keeps arguing. Shows the article on his phone. Re-iterates that he was allowed to make an appointment.

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

2 years

To enter Canada you need a negative PCR test in the 72 hours prior to your original departure flight time. Does this effectively do anything useful? As far as I can tell, all it really achieves is limiting admission to people who can afford to pay $375 for a rapid PCR test...

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

3 years

Upon arrival, Todd checks in and is asked for his health care worker ID. He's not a health care worker. He says "The Governor got on TV and said >65 was eligible. And the website allowed me to make an appointment" Check-in worker says "NO" and puts a large X on his windshield

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

3 years

Warms my heart to hear from former students with life updates. If you're wondering whether or not to send that life update email to a professor whose class you enjoyed, I say you should send it 🙂

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

3 years

Really proud of this paper. I think the paper has a lot to say about the observed state of the world when it comes to overall TV advertising effectiveness and profitability. I want to be clear about what the paper doesn't say. 1/

Econometrica

@ecmaEditors

3 years

New estimates of TV advertising effectiveness across 288 CPG brands show that advertising generally has little effect on sales and most brands earn a negative ROI. The results cast doubt on the sustainability of financing TV content markets with ad revenue

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

2 years

When I first came to Chicago, ride share was consistently 50% cheaper than taxi. Tonight to get home from dinner, a taxi was $15 to Uber/Lyft $37. And the taxi was 4 minutes (calling on Curb) wait to ride share's 8 minute wait. Amazing how things have changed.

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

3 years

I really miss going to the office and seeing my colleagues on a daily basis. Getting coffee. Talking about research. Talking about not research. It's one of the things I like best about my job. And I really miss it.

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

5 years

Working Paper Thread! “Generalizable and Robust TV Advertising Effects” joint with my talented co-authors, @Guenter_Hitsch & Anna Tuchman. In this paper, we independently estimate advertising elasticities across 288 pre-selected brands. 1/40

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

4 years

I have two students who just accepted faculty jobs, an RA who is joining our PhD program, an RA I'm trying to renew for another year. All immigrants. What are the consequences for all of these wonderful people? What can I do to help them? How can I channel my anger right now?

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

11 months

This is my number one piece of advice on "null results". Before doing any analysis at all, think hard about what you would learn under any contingency of results. If the paper is only interesting if you get one specific result, maybe rethink your research question...

Syon Bhanot

@spbhanot

11 months

6) Be thoughtful when you start a project. I like thinking of a new project this way: “If I DO get a null, is it still somewhat interesting?” If I’m not sure the answer is “yes,” I try to think about the idea some more. Slow science, and letting an idea sit for a bit, is good!

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

4 years

Star Shapiro, 2008-2020 “How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” -Winnie the Pooh 😭💔

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

4 years

About a month ago, U of I and Notre Dame had upticks in cases that were seemingly on every news site & all over twitter. Hadn't heard any follow-up, so I just looked it up. Both in person and <1% positivity.

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

1 year

"We show that increased immigration significantly raises the staffing levels of nursing homes in the U.S., particularly in full time positions. We then show that this has an associated very positive effect on patient outcomes"

Immigration, The Long-Term Care Workforce, and Elder Outcomes in the U.S.

www.nber.org

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

1 year

I always just lived the life I wanted to live pre-tenure. Figured if I didn't make tenure, I'd just find another job. It's an underappreciated point that if you write good papers but just don't quite write enough for the place you start, you'll very likely get another good job.

Paul Hünermund

@PHuenermund

1 year

"They don't give you tenure until you've ruined your life" 🫤

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

3 months

1931-2024 was a hell of a run. It's been an honor and a privilege. Until we meet again, your memory will be a blessing❤️.

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

3 years

@mattyglesias Maybe read the paper before assuming we haven't thought about this.

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

6 years

I have refereed a lot of papers recently. A lot. When reading the other referee reports, I often see: (1) Reviewers suggest a result is "obvious" (2) Reviewers suggest a result is "not surprising." They are equally annoying to me but not the same thing.

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

5 months

My daughter was so excited for her first Thanksgiving that she came 10 days early. We were home in time for Thanksgiving dinner. You'll be happy to hear that Mona has been an exceptional big sister to baby and protector of her mama. Love to all of you.

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

6 years

As I tell my MBA students, if you don't have a sound empirical strategy, bigger data will just make you more precisely wrong.

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

11 months

Setting the fraud question aside. I think it's likely that we just generally write too many papers. Saying no to jumping on a marginal project opportunity is such an important (and difficult) skill for making sure you have enough time for your best work.

early modern boy-actress (they/them)

@economeager

11 months

i honestly and sincerely think publishing 200 papers is a risk factor for fraud

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

4 years

Plant based meat was never supposed to be about being healthy. It is about allowing people to eat the junk food they like without the environmental and ethical costs of raising and killing animals.

Tamar Haspel

@TamarHaspel

4 years

Fake meat in a nutshell: - Not better for you - Safe to eat - Highly processed but so what - Better for the planet when it's instead of beef but not pork - Better for animals People think it's healthy so it will be a health minus but a planet plus.

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

3 years

@ashdgandhi Yup. This was all figured out ex post. Todd figured he was eligible not just because of the governor, but also because he was able to make an appointment.

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

8 months

Oh other thing. Reviewers are quite often wrong about things. It's OK. We're all wrong sometimes, especially when we only spend a few hours on an airplane while jetlagged. But given that there's a reasonable chance you could be wrong, maybe work in some humility/uncertainty.

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

1 year

Today is my grandmother's 92nd birthday. I don't mean to exaggerate, but she's the greatest human in the history of the universe.

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

4 years

Not just grad school. Elite levels of anything do this, basically by design. If you achieve high enough, you'll eventually be selected into narrower and narrower pools until you feel like you aren't good enough.

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

2 years

New working paper! "Estimating the Value of Offsite Data to Advertisers on Meta," with Nils Wernerfelt, @tuchmanna & Robert Moakler We ask, "how much would it hurt advertising efficiency if Meta couldn't use 3rd party data for ad targeting?"

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

1 year

Drinking shit wine straight out of a bottle in complete darkness and complete silence with my roommates at our dining table right after we took our first micro exam. No words, just shaking our heads and passing the bottle around.

Carly Anne York, Ph.D.

@BiologyCarly

1 year

What is your most unhinged story from grad school? Mine was probably the time I picked a dead flounder up off the lab floor and then ran to a public bathroom with it in my hands and sobbed over its body in a stall.

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

6 months

Job market advice: Remember to eat, sleep and exercise. Don't forget about the people who love and support you. Go rock it.

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

7 months

I go back and forth about whether we academics: (1) genuinely don't realize we're left of the population (bubble effect) OR (2) do realize we're left of the population but just think our way should be the way despite its relative unpopularity ("we're so wise" effect).

Matthew Yglesias

@mattyglesias

7 months

I wish academics, both as individuals but especially as professional associations and other institutions, would think harder about how to maintain and even gain credibility in a world where their political opinions are well to the left of most people.

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

2 years

Very interesting work on how economists perceive null results TL;DR. 1) Economists do penalize null effects 2) How to communicate the null matters. 3) Surprisingly, they penalize them even if that null effect is "surprising," inconsistent with bias in favor of surprising results.

Ingar Haaland

@Ingar30

2 years

1/ People often say that null results are penalized in the publication process. Is that true? In a new paper with @cp_roth , @FelixChopra , and Andreas Stegmann, we examine whether and why that's the case! Read on to learn more!

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

3 years

Completely insane. We need to end these travel bans now.

Steve Cicala

@SteveCicala

3 years

The COVID-19 infection rate in countries under @JoeBiden 's travel ban is LOWER than the infection rate in countries from which entry is allowed. (And of course, MUCH lower than US). From @ECDC_EU and @OurWorldInData .

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

1 year

If you're submitting an empirical paper to an academic journal, please don't write the intro like you are doing policy advocacy. Maybe it's just me, but it instinctively makes me believe your results less if your introduction reads like it is part of a political campaign rally.

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

2 years

Working Paper Thread! “Preferences for Firearms and their Implications for Regulation”, joint with Sarah Moshary and Sara Drango. We estimate consumer preferences for firearms and run counterfactual simulations predicting the effects of candidate polices.

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

3 years

Really quite excited to say that "TV Advertising Effectiveness and Profitability: Generalizable Results from 288 Brands" with @Guenter_Hitsch and @tuchmanna is now forthcoming at Econometrica @ecmaEditors

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

10 months

I'm heading to Cambridge for the NBER Digitization, IO and Health Care meetings this week. The summer institute is the time I have always felt the most heightened sense of professional & social anxiety. Even now that I'm tenured and am NBER affiliated. I suspect I'm not alone.

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

6 years

There is no bigger piece of *luck* that I did *nothing to deserve* than being born to amazing parents in a country where people aren't trying to kill me for no good reason. I wish every child were so lucky.

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

3 years

Would love to share a new working paper "Depression and Shopping Behavior", joint with @KatherineMeckel . It's a descriptive paper linking shopper panel data from @iriworldwide to ind level health survey data. We're particularly interested in depression.

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

2 years

Lukewarm Take: The biggest difference between a talk that goes well and a talk that goes poorly is whether or not the research question is clearly and precisely stated from the very beginning.

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

2 years

Late in the game PREDOC opportunity! I'm looking for someone to join my team @ChicagoBooth for the next 1-2 academic years. Looking for: -Excited/motivated to learn about quant marketing/econ/policy -Coding skills -Attention to detail Apply here:

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

1 year

Just to be clear, I have more negative feelings towards TurboTax than I have towards any athlete or sports franchise combined.

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

5 years

Important snarky thread. Politically, we hold Warren (and other Ds) to a *much* higher standard of how to pay for their pet projects than any GOP candidate in my adult life. FWIW I prefer holding candidates to high standards, but would rather we did so symmetrically.

Igor Bobic

@igorbobic

5 years

Warren could just say something wild like, oh I dunno, "it’ll pay for itself"

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

8 months

Went to a restaurant last night that automatically included a "suggested" 25% tip. 25%! And not a large group, just the two of us. The only way to give a more customary 20% tip is to cross out the pre printed tip and write in a lower number. This is weird, right?

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

2 years

Today is my grandmother's 91st birthday. I'm so thankful to still have my grandmother. I know not everyone is so lucky. I'm also thankful I'm able to come and see her for her birthday ❤️

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

8 months

2. Evaluate the paper for the question it *is* asking, not for what you *wish* it were asking. Do your best to identify what you think the paper intends to accomplish. If all the reviewers disagree about what they think it intends to accomplish, that's diagnostic! 2/4

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

6 months

Referees are advice-givers, not deciders. Editors are deciders. I also wish that editors mostly didn't send papers back to reviewers after revision. If the reviewer did a good job explicating the concern, editor should be able to tell if the concern was addressed.

Paul Novosad

@paulnovosad

6 months

A modest proposal: editors should state which subset of referee comments should be responded to. If it's not in the list, it's not grounds for rejection at the next stage. Some editors do this to some extent already 🙏🙏🙏 But it can be even more explicit. 1/5

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

4 years

Excited to say that this paper is now accepted and forthcoming at AEJ: Micro! I’ve largely explained what it does already, but I want to pitch two reasons why you should cite the paper. One is theoretical about advertising, the other applied (Health Econ, specifically). 1/9

Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

6 years

And now, as promised, a thread on my new *working* paper (feedback welcome): “Promoting Wellness or Waste? Evidence from Antidepressant Advertising” (link) 1/22

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

4 years

It remains a mystery to me why we aren't talking about nursing homes 24/7. Massive share of deaths. Huge scope for improvement, actionable *now*. Seems not enough people follow @DavidCGrabowski . Please do.

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

2 years

Khoa has subtly made an very deep point here. While the causal effect you estimate might be enough to convince you of a policy's merit, it might not convince someone else, *even if they believe the causal effect is correct.*

Khoa Vu

@KhoaVuUmn

2 years

I feel like the pro-gun crowd won't read through the 70-page-long AER papers w/ rigorous analysis on the causal effect of gun policies that you are sharing and reconsider their political stance on the issue though.

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

3 years

It almost doesn't feel like something out of real life. Gorgeous morning @ChicagoBooth @UChicago Gotta love Chicago summers...

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

1 year

My wife is pretty freaking cool.

Thornton Tomasetti

@ttinc

1 year

Our celebration of #historicpreservationmonth continues as we highlight some of our dedicated historic preservation specialists. Elaine Shapiro is a @ttinc MVP in our work on the restoration and modernization of Chicago's iconic Wrigley Field ballpark.

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

4 years

Really annoys me to hear/read "I controlled for everything." If you controlled for everything, why is there still variation in X to estimate beta? Theoretical justification of why residual variation is as good as random > "I controlled for everything" Jason explains nicely why.

Jason Abaluck

@Jabaluck

4 years

There are two facts which make correlations controlling for confounds uninformative about many (but not all) causal effects: 1) the R^2 of the mechanisms we understand is low, 2) our uncertainty about not well-understood mechanisms should be high. (1 / about 13-15)

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

2 years

As far as I can tell from my end, nothing has changed on Twitter other than people on my timeline talking about how all the changes are horrible. Did I miss something?

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

1 year

The perils of relying on achievement for happiness.

Brent Beshore

@BrentBeshore

1 year

I've often believed the lie that if I only got this, or did that, or was included with them, or achieved this milestone that life would finally be good. Helpful for my soul to see Dax Shepard shatter that illusion.

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

4 years

Hey #EconTwitter ! As some of you know, my family is in the wine importing and sales business. (Quigley Fine Wines - @Quigleywines ). They are opening a beautiful Tasting Room in San Diego! The *very same* San Diego where #ASSA2020 will be held! Soft opening will be DURING ASSA!

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

4 years

I think we should probably start a 48+ hour thread with cute pet photos.

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

1 year

I can't tell you just how disappointed I am in this administration's disposition towards asylum seekers. Biden campaigned on a more humane immigration policy and he has failed spectacularly.

Scott Lincicome

@scottlincicome

1 year

"Biden’s New Immigration Policy Cements End of Liberal Asylum Rules"

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

7 months

"I encourage you to think about the other referee comments and incorporate them if/as useful, but if I did not specifically mention them above you do not need to give me a specific “response” to them." Gah I love this editorial attitude...

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

3 years

@JohnHolbein1 "If R2's priors (and lack of surprise) are based upon a paper in the literature we failed to cite, we would be happy to cite it and are happy to provide additional supporting evidence on this important question. If not, we're thrilled to bring rigorous evidence to R2's priors."

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

2 years

I'm a die hard Bills fan. But this is a terrible deal for the people of New York. Giant transfer from the taxpayers to one of the richest families in the state, for almost entirely private gain.

Andrew Brandt

@AndrewBrandt

2 years

Putting player contracts in perspective. This is one of, if not the best deal in Business of Sports history.

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

4 months

It seems the NFL has abandoned the "clear and obvious" standard and instead makes calls if the vibes suggest they overturn.

Matthew Berry

@MatthewBerryTMR

4 months

You can’t tell me that was clear and obvious to overturn. What a ridiculous call.

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

8 months

3. Unstructured lists of ~18 "concerns" aren't helpful. Would be great if you could highlight the 1-3 biggest issues the paper faces. If suggesting reject, it helps us to know what you think is *the* pivotal reasons for reject. If revise, need to know what's really *needed*. 3/4

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

1 year

This is my argument for why health economists should study opiods, car accidents and guns. Health econ has clearly studied the first a lot. But could definitely use more health economics thinking on the second two.

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

4 years

Contrarian thoughts for #EconTwitter discussion du jour: 1. Getting PhD/doing research is not a good fit for all. 2. Constantly consider your outside options. They are almost always better than you realize. 3. Exercising outside option does not make you a failure at life.

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

1 year

Talk about a well deserved award. @economeager is a certifiable rock star.

AEA Information

@AEAInformation

1 year

Congratulations to Rachael Meager who was presented the AEJ Best Paper Award for Applied Economics at #ASSA2023 for her paper “Understanding the Average Impact of Microcredit Expansions: A Bayesian Hierarchical Analysis of Seven Randomized Experiments.”

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

2 years

This is a disaster. Both for its direct impact on our economy and for what it signals about us as a country.

Alec Stapp

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2 years

Immigration is America's superpower, so this should be raising alarm bells for policymakers: The United States is no longer the top choice of foreign talent when asked where they would move for work.

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Brad Shapiro

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4. If you're suggesting R&R, give a proactive reason why the paper *should* be published. What do you see as the important contribution? How can the authors better highlight and support that contribution? Much more helpful than a list of demands or "concerns". 4/4

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

5 years

I find the note at the bottom concerning.

Sam Ro 📈

@SamRo

5 years

Kitkat and Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup customers won’t tolerate price hikes. For every 1% increase in pricing, volume drops 2.1% and 3.9%, respectively. - UBS

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

4 years

@nonamebklyn I preferred the interpretation of @EstherThePig who says "cupcakes are just muffins who followed their dreams"

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

6 years

Reminder PARALLEL PRE-TRENDS IS **NOT SUFFICIENT** for diff-in-diff to work! You need parallel *counterfactual* trends post treatment! No amount of matching can make that assumption empirically testable. It's an assumption that has to be justified with theory.

Laura A. Hatfield, PhD

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6 years

Do you use diff-in-diff? Then this thread is for you. You’re no dummy. You already know diverging trends in the pre-period can bias your results. But I’m here to tell you about a TOTALLY DIFFERENT, SUPER SNEAKY kind of bias. Friends, let’s talk regression to the mean. (1/N)

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Brad Shapiro

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6 months

I never was a bath guy. Then I moved to a house with an excellent bathtub and Sonos in my bathroom. That and I realized that hot bath water was essentially a weighted heated anxiety blanket. Now incense is burning, Norah Jones playing and I'm shit posting. Life is good.

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

8 months

I find life to be more enjoyable when I assume that the people I talk to are decent people, acting in good faith and aren't out to get me or offend. And I think it's an accurate assumption basically all the time. And even when it isn't, I'm still happier when I assume it is. 🤷‍♂️

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

2 years

Every day when I walk Mona, I pass by a neighbor's house, and say hi to their aging golden retriever. I always told both he and Mona to sit, and I would break a treat in half, giving each half. Almost every day for the last 6.5 years. Yesterday I learned that he passed. 🐾💔

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

3 years

2020 refereeing observation: Every time I said "Accept as is" and another referee still wanted more revisions, other referee became de facto dictator, and my "Accept" largely seemed ignored. Lesson: Don't say "Accept " without an accompanying strong affirmative case for paper.

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

3 years

Found and made an appointment for my 79 year old neighbor to get vaccinated (in IL). Drove her in the snow. Helped her get checked in. Afterward she said she never would have been able to get an appointment on her own. She had tried for weeks before by calling sites directly.

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

2 years

Hi folks! Happy to say I'll be taking on the roll of Public Editor @QME_Journal , together with @SeilerStephan . Follow the account for news from QME and summaries of new papers coming out in the QME!

QME Public Editor

@QME_Journal

2 years

Hello Twitter! This is the official account of Quantitative Marketing and Economics (). The account will be run by the new QME Public Editors @btshapir & @SeilerStephan . Please follow for summaries of new papers coming out in QME!

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I've had the same faculty support person my entire time at Booth, Stephen. He's amazing. Over the years, he accumulated other responsibilities and has little by little supported fewer faculty. He just got promoted high enough that he won't be doing any faculty support anymore.

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Brad Shapiro

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1 year

My grandmother's nursing home is badly understaffed. This issue hits very close to home for me. It's quite clear that having insufficient hands harms her quality of life. Upsetting but not surprising to learn that it also harms health outcomes.

Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

1 year

"We show that increased immigration significantly raises the staffing levels of nursing homes in the U.S., particularly in full time positions. We then show that this has an associated very positive effect on patient outcomes"

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

1 year

It's been 12 years of adventures with @misselaineous21 . I couldn't be happier or more grateful. 😍❤️😍

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

1 year

At the time it seemed like a coordinated effort prevent economist influence on policy. Many economists had good ideas that were suggested in good faith and were attacked or mocked. I wish we had listened more to @ATabarrok , @IvanWerning , @ProfEmilyOster , Eric Budish & others.

Ivan Werning

@IvanWerning

1 year

Fauci interview “we should have listened to economists” Painfully takes me back to early 2020… My coauthors Acemoglu Chernozhukov Whinston and I put out a paper studying costs vs benefits and plus one overlooked essential economic idea: Targeting.

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

2 years

To those who design conference lunch boxes and are thinking of putting in oatmeal raisin cookies in them. Please don't.

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

8 months

I spent the last few days in Buffalo visiting my Grandma Fran. It's always a good day when I can play cribbage with my Gram. Visiting her nursing home it makes me smile every time she interacts with a nurse or aid. She treats every last one of them as if they were her grandkid.

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

6 years

@economeager @hamandcheese @ne0liberal I've always been a big believer that further explaining a joke when everyone already understands the references and the punchline makes it much funnier. :-)

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

3 years

Reaction: Not entirely satisfied with the paper after revision, but it's not wrong and it has a clear contribution. Recommendation: Accept I feel like this is a place that typically leads to reject or another long list of revision demands. But I think it should be an accept.

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

2 years

I've crossed 4,000 followers without noticing, it seems. Why 4,000 of you follow me is beyond me. 😂 Sending much love to all of you. Peace, love, dogs and soup.

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

3 years

Sarah Moshary & I are hiring a pre-doc @ChicagoBooth . Looking for someone who is: - Organized & pays close attention to detail - Excited to learn about research in IO, marketing & policy. - Interested in going on to a PhD in related field. @econ_ra

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

4 years

I somehow missed the official tweet :-) I'm proud of my paper. Thanks for publishing it, @AEAjournals !

AEA Journals

@AEAjournals

4 years

Forthcoming in AEJ: Microeconomics: "Promoting Wellness or Waste? Evidence from Antidepressant Advertising" by Bradley T. Shapiro.

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

2 years

@KevinZollman Everyone here is lying. They'd obviously make it on their own papers, as it would minimize prep time. ;-)

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

2 years

Apropos of nothing: I know the "optimal" number of pages for an academic paper can be unclear, but... 125 pages is too many damn pages.

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

1 year

Has anyone started (or finished) writing the empirical IO paper about the non-alcoholic beer market? Incredible how much the quality has increased in the last few years...

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

1 year

Smaller cities have also become better to live in in the last decade IMO. Renewed downtowns, better restaurants, museums, etc. I think the superstar cities managed fine w/ terrible housing policies when the outside option wasn't great. But now there are lots of good options!

Emily Badger

@emilymbadger

1 year

It is truly remarkable when lawyers, consultants, educators + advertising folks feel they can’t afford to live comfortably in your city. That is where NY, SF, DC, LA and Seattle are now.

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

2 years

Beautiful morning @ChicagoBooth @UChicago .

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

4 years

Come work with us @ChicagoBooth ! Sarah Moshary, @GioCompiani and I are hiring a full time research professional. Apps welcome from any undergrad inst/major. Coding skills helpful, but mostly we want an interested and motivated colleague. @econ_ra

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

3 years

@mattyglesias @Noahpinion Page 1870 of the manuscript, we have some discussion:

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Brad Shapiro

@btshapir

7 months

R1 round 1: I don't like this💩paper. It should be lit on 🔥. Reject. (gets an R&R) R1 round 2: I'm very disappointed in the authors. I had high hopes and they really came up short. Reject. Did you *really* have high hopes? Seriously? I kinda think you didn't...

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