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David Powell @davidpowell.bsky.social · 1h

Remember, you under-use “How dare you?!” when responding to reviewer comments.

David Powell @davidpowell.bsky.social · 6h

What would have happened if they never made Sliding Doors?

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David Powell @davidpowell.bsky.social · 1d

There should be more top 5 journals.

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David Powell @davidpowell.bsky.social · 5d

Conditional acceptance!

I just have to write a paper that referees and an editor like!

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David Powell @davidpowell.bsky.social · 7d

To our knowledge, this is the first paper to ignore the prior literature.

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David Powell @davidpowell.bsky.social · 8d

Confused about what inference method to use? What level to cluster at?

Based on a review of thousands of published empirical studies, we develop a useful heuristic: a good approximation for your standard error is your point estimate divided by 1.96.

Reposted by David Powell

Bradley Stein @bradleydstein.bsky.social · 15d

New research alert: Medicaid covers nearly 40% of treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD), but recent “unwinding” of pandemic-era enrollment protections led many to lose coverage nationwide. How did this affect life-saving buprenorphine treatment?

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David Powell @davidpowell.bsky.social · 19d

Do I really have to rue the day? Can I just rue a couple hours?

David Powell @davidpowell.bsky.social · Sep 14

Pro tip: If the journal has space constraints, replace “unintended consequences” with “whoopsies.”

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David Powell @davidpowell.bsky.social · Sep 12

My front-of-the-envelope estimate is that it costs 78 cents to mail a letter.

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David Powell @davidpowell.bsky.social · Sep 8

You get more positive reviews if you call it warm and fuzzy regression discontinuity.

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David Powell @davidpowell.bsky.social · Sep 1

A true labor economist uses Labor Day as a negative shock to labor.

David Powell @davidpowell.bsky.social · Aug 30

The optimal number of times saying, “The optimal number of [terrible thing] is not zero” is zero.

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David Powell @davidpowell.bsky.social · Aug 28

Quick tip: if your paper status says “Pending Decision,” it’s likely to be positive. If it’s likely to be negative, it’ll say “Impending Decision.”

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David Powell @davidpowell.bsky.social · Aug 28

Lowering drug prices by 1500% is just hyperbolic discounting.

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David Powell @davidpowell.bsky.social · Aug 27

A triple-blind study where you also don’t tell the readers which was the treatment arm.

David Powell @davidpowell.bsky.social · Aug 25

The replication package is your opportunity to add snarky comments throughout your code about your reviewers.

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David Powell @davidpowell.bsky.social · Aug 25

I wish there were a word that paid homage to the silent h.

David Powell @davidpowell.bsky.social · Aug 23

You just think raisins are healthy since they’re disgusting.

David Powell @davidpowell.bsky.social · Aug 22

I recommend constructing a file called omitted_variables.dta so when a reviewer asks about omitted variable bias, you can just merge it into your dataset.

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David Powell @davidpowell.bsky.social · Aug 21

The concept of opportunity cost is so important that I don’t understand why we don’t dedicate six years of graduate school solely to learn about it.

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David Powell @davidpowell.bsky.social · Aug 20

Stop asking what the counterfactual is and start doing whatever else it is that you could do instead.

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David Powell @davidpowell.bsky.social · Aug 19

GDP is such a flawed measure. Why does it only count gross stuff? What about countries that make a lot of non-gross stuff?

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David Powell @davidpowell.bsky.social · Aug 17

I don’t think people without kids understand how many songs there are about going to the bathroom.

David Powell @davidpowell.bsky.social · Aug 14

Sometimes I wonder if there’s more to life than spending all day preparing for a virtual meeting which gets cancelled five minutes before it starts.

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