Lars P. Syll

Randomization strategies (student stuff) .[embedded content]

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Tax cuts for the wealthy were supposed to stimulate growth and make everyone better off. There was dispute about this within the profession, but there were also many economists who provided intellectual support for the claim that tax cuts will create growth and widespread prosperity. The evidence from the Bush and Reagan tax cuts does not support this claim, but it is still made by some economists and this gives those who are serving wealthy interests or who want to force...

Synthetic control methods (student stuff) .[embedded content]

My first love (personal) .[embedded content] John Miles (1949-2021) R.I.P.

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Science and crossword solving The model is not . . . how one determines the soundness or otherwise of a mathematical proof; it is, rather, how one determines the reasonableness or otherwise of entries in a crossword puzzle. . . . The crossword model permits pervasive mutual support, rather than, like the model of a mathematical proof, encouraging an essentially one-directional conception. . . . How reasonable one’s confidence is that a certain entry in a...

Econometrics — the danger of calling your pet cat a dog The assumption of additivity and linearity means that the outcome variable is, in reality, linearly related to any predictors … and that if you have several predictors then their combined effect is best described by adding their effects together … This assumption is the most important because if it is not true then even if all other assumptions are met, your model is invalid because you have described...

In the year 2525 .[embedded content]

But once … we were here .[embedded content] One of the greatest movie scenes ever. In loving memory of my brother, Peter ‘Uncas’ Pålsson.