Jodi Beggs: Economists Do It With Models

[unable to retrieve full-text content]but what if I want my specials to have intrinsic value…

[unable to retrieve full-text content]So How Should We Feel About NDAs? Economics Can Answer That!: Don’t ever tell me that economics doesn’t have real-world applications…

[unable to retrieve full-text content]The Econ Nobel Announcement, AKA I FINALLY CALLED IT FOR ONCE…: It’s the one day where everyone is talking about what I teach- just let me have this, ok? =P

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Access to Birth Control Versus Affordable Birth Control- Choose Wisely…: I didn’t get yelled at enough on Twitter for making this point so I wrote a thing.

I want to talk about an interesting overconfidence experiment that one of my professors subjected us to back in the day… So the deal is that you are given 10 numbers you are supposed to come up with guesses for, say like the current Wal-Mart stock price (you’re not allowed to check), the number of jelly beans in a jar, whatever. More specifically, you’re asked to come up with a “90% confidence interval” as your guess- in other words, give a range where you think the real number is going to...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Causal Friday: In Which I’m Supposed to Believe That Kneeling Makes One Worse at Sport Ball…: This should keep data nerds occupied for the weekend…. :)

[unable to retrieve full-text content]So You Think You Know Golden Parachutes…: Did you know that words mean things? :)

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Maybe It’s the “Job Creators” That Should Be More Grateful…: I guess the good news is that Trump was just doing what everyone else dows. The bad news is that Trump was just doing what everyone else does.

In case you wanted to spend your evening reading me not knowing much about 5G… :) Technology knowledge gaps notwithstanding, I think there’s a lot to consider regarding new communication technologies from an economic standpoint- as you can probably tell from the transcript, the big thing that I find interesting is that existing broadband and, to some degree, wireless companies have higher opportunity costs of offering new technologies since they would at least partially be cannibalizing...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Causal Friday: Some Real Effects of the Flint Water Crisis…: Depressing and a good use of data analysis tools, all in one…