Alex Tabarrok

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    13 hours ago

    The Museum of the Bible, my visit:

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  2. 4 hours ago

    The best time to make decisions is when you are highly emotional. (Half my twitter feed right now.)

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    18 hours ago

    Noted imperialist war monger Noam Chomsky says the US should stay in Syria

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    13 hours ago

    Virginia plans to end driver’s license suspensions for court debt, governor says

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    9 hours ago
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    This is the go-to explainer of the EMH imo, not sure what's funny about it

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    6 hours ago

    UCSD's Geisel Library: Fantastic, I learned so much there.

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    9 hours ago

    All I want for Christmas is peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice.

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  8. 9 hours ago

    Entrepreneurial Economics "For true connoisseurs of the dismal economic science, this is a true BANGER OF THE WEEK." Banger is good, right?

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    10 hours ago

    The Great Grownup In The Room swallowed dozens of wild abuses of power only to resign in protest over Trump declining to continue an illegal war. Perfect end to 2018.

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    Dec 20

    Does the USA want to be the Policeman of the Middle East, getting NOTHING but spending precious lives and trillions of dollars protecting others who, in almost all cases, do not appreciate what we are doing? Do we want to be there forever? Time for others to finally fight.....

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    21 hours ago

    “Another approach”! Why do anything else? IV in this scenario identifies the effect of treatment on the treated, presumably the target in the first place.

    Another approach to deal with imperfect compliance is the use of Instrumental Variables (IV) where one instruments for treatment using (random) treatment assignment-- ie using 2SLS to estimate treatment on treated; another method from economics that is underutilized in medicine.
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    23 hours ago

    I'm willing to wager that within 6 months most major airports will be deploying laser-based anti-drone systems.

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    23 hours ago

    It is common for researchers to correct for imperfect adherence in a RCT with "as-treated," "per-protocol" and "on-treatment" analyses. These are all wrong, always and everywhere, because these methods reintroduce the confounding that necessitated an RCT in the first place

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  14. 22 hours ago

    Child abuse.

    DEPRAVED Sheriff's dept. planned shooter drill, but didn't tell school it was fake. Kids and teachers thought they were going to DIE. "Captain Francis said that the unannounced Code Red drill was necessary." Yeah? Kids vomited, passed out in fear.
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    23 hours ago

    Generals gathered in their masses Just like witches at black masses

    A senior US defense official tells me they have never seen the morale in meetings at the Pentagon worse than they have in the past few days, following announcement that President Trump is withdrawing from Syria, drawing down in Afghanistan.
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    Dec 20

    Sources: Facebook is developing a stablecoin for money transfers on Whatsapp, looking first at the remittances market in India w/

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    24 hours ago

    More for the rest of us!

    Members of Europe's far right have called for a mass boycott of Toblerone, after discovering that the popular triangular chocolate bar is halal-certified
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    Dec 20

    The Top Ten Marginal Revolution Posts of 2018

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  19. 24 hours ago

    Trump getting us out of Syria is something I agree with so obviously he will soon be impeached and out of office.

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    Dec 19

    In just the past few days, Trump: secured passage of a criminal justice reform bill that's arguably more sweeping than any Obama-era reforms, unilaterally banned a gun accessory (something Obama wouldn't have dreamt of) and ended a military engagement Obama started. Strange times

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