Jason Kerwin
@jkerwin.bsky.social
Development Economist @ UW. Hawaiʻi born, Stanford alum, Michigan PhD. Views my own. My website: http://jasonkerwin.com
A fun side note: the seminar is named in honor of the late Paul Theodore Heyne, who was a long-time lecturer at UW. He was one of the undergraduate advisors for Jeff Smith, who was one of my own Ph.D. advisors. Jeff now holds the Paul T. Heyne Distinguished Chair in Economics at (the other) UW.
June 3, 2025 at 5:57 PM
A fun side note: the seminar is named in honor of the late Paul Theodore Heyne, who was a long-time lecturer at UW. He was one of the undergraduate advisors for Jeff Smith, who was one of my own Ph.D. advisors. Jeff now holds the Paul T. Heyne Distinguished Chair in Economics at (the other) UW.
Here's a brief blog post about the talk: jasonkerwin.com/nonparibus/2...
And here are the slides: jasonkerwin.com/Slides/Paul_...
Comments welcome!
And here are the slides: jasonkerwin.com/Slides/Paul_...
Comments welcome!
Why USAID is Great for America and the World - Jason Kerwin
Last Thursday I was invited by UW’s Economics Undergraduate Board to give this quarter’s Paul Heyne Seminar—a public lecture about economics aimed at a general audience. My talk was about why USAID is...
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June 3, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Here's a brief blog post about the talk: jasonkerwin.com/nonparibus/2...
And here are the slides: jasonkerwin.com/Slides/Paul_...
Comments welcome!
And here are the slides: jasonkerwin.com/Slides/Paul_...
Comments welcome!
The highly-touted flowchart revolution didn’t really pan out. Turns out that if you run a garbage can regression with a DAG you’re still just doing a garbage can regression.
May 7, 2025 at 6:20 PM
The highly-touted flowchart revolution didn’t really pan out. Turns out that if you run a garbage can regression with a DAG you’re still just doing a garbage can regression.
Awesome to be featured back-to-back with these other results. Rebecca Thornton was my advisor and the MDICP (now MLSFH) laid the foundation for basically all social science research in Malawi, including mine. I built on their work in innumerable ways.
April 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Awesome to be featured back-to-back with these other results. Rebecca Thornton was my advisor and the MDICP (now MLSFH) laid the foundation for basically all social science research in Malawi, including mine. I built on their work in innumerable ways.
From this post by Leah Bevis & @annefitz13.bsky.social: u.osu.edu/aede/2025/03/0…
https://u.osu.edu/aede/2025/03/0…
March 6, 2025 at 4:13 PM
From this post by Leah Bevis & @annefitz13.bsky.social: u.osu.edu/aede/2025/03/0…
Link to kerwin.sty: jasonkerwin.com/Code/kerwin....
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Blog post: jasonkerwin.com/nonparibus/2...
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Blog post: jasonkerwin.com/nonparibus/2...
A LaTeX .sty file for making clean, clear slides - Jason Kerwin
If you’re using Beamer to make slides, your slides have way too much extra crap on them. Built-in navigation buttons at the bottom left, multiple layers of header and footer bars, dots that count the ...
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February 27, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Link to kerwin.sty: jasonkerwin.com/Code/kerwin....
Color options: en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/C...
Blog post: jasonkerwin.com/nonparibus/2...
Color options: en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/C...
Blog post: jasonkerwin.com/nonparibus/2...