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Thomas Barrios
@tbarrios.bsky.social
Applied Scientist, Labor Economist, Econometrician
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Why did that happen, what does it tell us, and what can we do next?

That’s what my forthcoming book, The Wage Standard, is about: how rules, norms, and power in the labor market shape who shares in growth. Coming out March 31. Pre-order here:

www.thewagestandard.com
The Wage Standard by Arindrajit Dube: 9780593471418 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
“The go-to guy on minimum wage” (Nobel Laureate and New York Times bestselling author Paul Krugman) tackles one of the thorniest social issues of our times—income inequality—from...
www.thewagestandard.com
December 11, 2025 at 12:32 AM
I like the status quo of only nationalizing companies when they start to fail
December 6, 2025 at 3:08 PM
There is probably a way for the agenda setter to achieve dictatorship via a series of Condorcet cycles. This is plausible enough that I convinced chatGPT it was true and apparently the main reference is Gibbard Econometrica 1973
November 21, 2025 at 10:37 AM
The context window of an LLM limits how much can be read at once but you can have an initial search step or use multiple model calls to the LLM.
November 14, 2025 at 10:07 AM
It’s also pretty easy to concatenate these and feed them into an LLM and ask the LLM questions about what is in the files.
November 14, 2025 at 9:54 AM
I need to catch up on the last three albums, but long live sandwhich estimators
October 12, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Gradually, then suddenly.
October 10, 2025 at 1:06 PM
The intensive margin is also important here
October 1, 2025 at 1:54 AM
(2/2) Both give discounts for patrons under 30. The two cases are Candelore v. Tinder 2018 (no) and Bay Club / Western Athletic Clubs vs Javorsky 2015 (yes)
September 13, 2025 at 12:08 AM
(1/2) I think it's legal. This is California where the Unruh Act applies. There are two similar cases with opposite rulings that seem to define the threshold as whether access for younger adults is a valid social purpose.
September 13, 2025 at 12:08 AM