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Andrew Whitten | @[email protected]

@rawecon

Public finance economist / human. Tweets ≠ my employer's views. Leaving twitter... catch me on Mastodon: https://teapaw.org/t.co/oV8EwTy6vZ

 Washington, DC
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Time for me to leave twitter. Catch me on Mastodon: mas.to/@whitten
Andy Whitten (@whitten@mas.to)

Andy Whitten (@[email protected])

24 Posts, 56 Following, 27 Followers · Economist working on topics in public finance, labor, corporate finance, household finance, and adjacent areas. Views are my own, not my employer's. My hands...

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Why the shift into pass-throughs specifically? Private businesses, sure, but why not private C corps?
If I could magically make one change to PhD metrics training everywhere, it would be to add a week on power.
Nick HK (@nickchk) profile pictureNick HK@nickchk17 Nov 2022
Guess at how many observations you need to have 90% statistical power to detect an effect that increases a rate from 50% to 55% (not an inconsequential boost in many settings!). Assume perfect randomization, half treated/half control Answer in third post.
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#EconTwitter Office of Tax Analysis at Treasury is hiring RAs; this is a wonderful opportunity for budding economists. You have the chance to work with world-class economists on important problems using the best data available! And as a bonus, the culture is supportive and fun.
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Website where you can copy in a table from an excel spreadsheet and AI will translate it to LaTeX code: tablesgenerator.com/ HT @rcassill
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Congrats Brandon!!
“Who doesn’t like the IRS? Who?” 🤣 #ilovetheIRS
scott cunningham (@causalinf) profile picturescott cunningham@causalinf14 Sep 2022
I feel like @wwwojtekk and @SHamiltonian can figure out a use for this video since they're huge tax fans
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Replying to @kpomerleau
Right, buyback myth # 2, buybacks do not mechanically increase stock prices, as described by my colleauge @dmarron dmarron.com/2018/04/12/three…
Three Things You Should Know about the Buyback Furor

Three Things You Should Know about the Buyback Furor

Record stock buybacks—driven in part by the corporate tax changes in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA)—have sparked a media and political furor. Unfortunately, they’ve also created a great deal of c…

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Replying to @kpomerleau
Here is the most recent evidence on the relationship between buybacks and price: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
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New #FEDSNote shows Census data understated the increase in unemp. benefits in 2020 - particularly among low-income families. As a result, official poverty rates were overstated by about 2 pct. points, and corrected poverty reached a 6-decade low: federalreserve.gov/econres/n…
Figure 3. Distribution of UI Benefits by recipient income (by year)

ALT Figure 3. Distribution of UI Benefits by recipient income (by year)

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New work analyzing the returns to Army service in the 90s and 00s and how they vary by race with @greenberg_k @AdamIsen1 @corbinlmiller @Richwpatt is just accepted at the QJE: teapaw.org/QJEHarvard/status/1542… 🧵👇1/9
QJE (@QJEHarvard) profile pictureQJE@QJEHarvard29 Jun 2022
Recently accepted by #QJE, “Army Service in the All-Volunteer Era,” by Greenberg (@greenberg_k), Gudgeon (@MatthewGudgeon), Isen (@AdamIsen1), Miller (@corbinlmiller), and Patterson (@Richwpatt): doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjac026
Army Service in the All-Volunteer Era*

Army Service in the All-Volunteer Era*

Abstract. Since the beginning of the all-volunteer era, millions of young Americans have chosen to enlist in the military. These volunteers disproportionat

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Comprehensive and insightful analysis of racial gaps in labor market returns to military service from @greenberg_k , @MatthewGudgeon, @AdamIsen1 , @corbinlmiller & @Richwpatt in the @QJEHarvard
QJE (@QJEHarvard) profile pictureQJE@QJEHarvard29 Jun 2022
Recently accepted by #QJE, “Army Service in the All-Volunteer Era,” by Greenberg (@greenberg_k), Gudgeon (@MatthewGudgeon), Isen (@AdamIsen1), Miller (@corbinlmiller), and Patterson (@Richwpatt): doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjac026
Army Service in the All-Volunteer Era*

Army Service in the All-Volunteer Era*

Abstract. Since the beginning of the all-volunteer era, millions of young Americans have chosen to enlist in the military. These volunteers disproportionat

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After 5 yrs of iterating on math, simulations, writing, we updated our working paper on clustering. Lots of time working on single formulation that captures intermediate cases, simple after-the-fact, math matches intuition. arxiv.org/abs/1710.02926
When Should You Adjust Standard Errors for Clustering?

When Should You Adjust Standard Errors for Clustering?

In empirical work it is common to estimate parameters of models and report associated standard errors that account for "clustering" of units, where clusters are defined by factors such as...

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