AspiringEconomist @spatialecon
an undergraduate student interested in urban economics, economic geography, public policy, and mathematics. Joined December 2019-
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Meta’s Segment Anything Model (SAM) is the ChatGPT of geospatial data. It’s transforming geospatial analyses. Here’s what you need to know:
@DHSprogram 2. Methodology—ML Models: Machine learning (gradient boosting) is used to train a model on the relationship between the alternative data and survey data. This is then used to predict wealth (out of sample) for 2.4km x 2.4km grids across 135 countries.
Geospatial data science is all about having access to good data. Here are a list of my favourite free geospatial resources:
This handbook chapter presents the major advances made in the field of economic geography over the past decade. NEW in @nberpubs, by @TrebAllen (@DartmouthEcon) & Costas Arkolakis (@Yale): nber.org/papers/w33436
Geographic access to colleges shapes degree outcomes. Students in community college deserts face disparities while White students pivot to 4-year colleges and Black/Hispanic students often forgo college, from @riacton, @KalenaCortes, @lois-Miller, and @CamilaNtMorales…
Ce papier sur l'Allemagne montre deux choses : 1⃣ Évident : pour faire baisser les loyers, il suffit de construire. 2⃣ Subtil : construire des appartements pour les plus aisés fait baisser l'ensemble des loyers et bénéfie donc à tout le monde. Dans l'étude en question, plus de…
Ce papier sur l'Allemagne montre deux choses : 1⃣ Évident : pour faire baisser les loyers, il suffit de construire. 2⃣ Subtil : construire des appartements pour les plus aisés fait baisser l'ensemble des loyers et bénéfie donc à tout le monde. Dans l'étude en question, plus de…
An overview of recent empirical and methodological advances in the study of historical intergenerational mobility trends, from Ran Abramitzky, @leah_boustan, and Tamar Matiashvili nber.org/papers/w33330
Mathematics of neural networks (Lecture notes graduate course). ~ Bart M.N. Smets. arxiv.org/abs/2403.04807 #NeuralNetwork #Math
🚨 New paper: Beyond Congestion Pricing 🚨🚨 As we celebrate, let's not forget how uncertain the journey was. That's because it wasn't within NYC's powers. And there's much more NYC *can* do. What should NYC do next, on its own?👇 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… #TRBAM2025 #TRBAM
These are 10 of my favourite #UrbanEconomics articles published in academic journals in 2024 (continues a tradition started in 2018, order is alphabetical by first author, no ranking implied):
We study how the welfare gains from trade and growth decompose into quantity, quality and variety using trade data and theory. In the general equilibrium model, trade follows a gravity equation and prices rise with importer and exporter GDP per capita econometricsociety.org/publications/e…
arXiv is down, subtly telling us to stop downloading these pdfs and maybe start reading them instead.
Now I have truly seen everything
Out now: Do households value lower density: Theory, evidence, and implications from Washington, DC dlvr.it/T7QFsw
Me when a math textbook tells me to recall some theorem that I have no recollection of encountering before, even though I read the said theorem the day before…
Recently accepted by #QJE, “Crowding in Private Quality: The Equilibrium Effects of Public Spending in Education,” by Andrabi (@AndrabiTahir), Bau (@BauNatalie), Das, Karachiwalla (@NKarachiwalla), Khwaja (@aikhwaja): doi.org/10.1093/qje/qj…
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