Michael Clemens
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U.S. Public Now Divided Over Whether To Get COVID-19 Vaccine
Pew Research Center Science & Society 3d 7 tweets
There are widely held concerns about the safety and effectiveness of a possible vaccine and the pace of the approval process.
Justice Ginsburg Should Not Be Replaced Until After the Election
Brennan Center for Justice 27h 3 tweets
GOP senators invented a new standard in order to deny President Obama a Supreme Court appointment in 2016. Now they should abide by it.
“It Was All About the Election”: The Ex-White House Aide Olivia Troye on Trump’s Narcissistic Mishandling of COVID-19
The New Yorker 3d 40 tweets
The first staffer on the coronavirus task force to go public tells The New Yorker that America’s pandemic response was “derailed by the person at the very top.”
C.D.C. Didn’t Write Testing Guidance Published on Its Website, Officials Say
Nytimes.com 3d 115 tweets
A controversial guideline saying people without Covid-19 symptoms didn’t need to get tested for the virus came from H.H.S. officials and skipped the C.D.C.’s scientific review process.
Michael Clemens This is unconscionable. 3d
Considering a Non-Academic Career: Some Musing from a Scholar-Practitioner
Medium 4d 1 tweets
Even before the pandemic, I received numerous requests from PhD students, postdocs and at times, junior faculty, for conversations about…
Mitigating the Economic and Health Impact of COVID-19 across Africa
Center For Global Development 4d 3 tweets
Join the Center for Global Development, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and the African Union for a high-level discussion with some of the world’s most prominent voices on economic development and global health. The event...
13th Migration and Development Conference
World Bank 3d 1 tweets
13th Migration and Development Conference
Donald Trump accused of sexual assault by former model Amy Dorris
the Guardian 3d 30 tweets
Exclusive: Amy Dorris alleges Trump forced his tongue down her throat and groped her at 1997 US Open
All of the women who have accused Trump of sexual harassment are lying, the White House says
John Wagner - Washington Post 1059d 11 tweets
Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked about the "official White House position" on the issue during a news briefing.
Michael Clemens Here is the White House stating that every single one of the women who has ever accused the President of doing what he literally, explicitly admitted to doing is lying. Every single one of them. 3d
Former Model Amy Dorris Says Donald Trump ‘Shoved Tongue Down Her Throat’ at 1997 U.S. Open
The Daily Beast 3d 1 tweets
President’s lawyers denied the new allegation, saying that the president never harassed, abused, or behaved improperly toward Amy Dorris.
National EMN Conference 2020 "Forecasting the Future of Global Migration" – EMN.at
EMN.at 6d 3 tweets
Organizer: EMN Austria 29 September 2020, Vienna (Austria) NATIONAL EMN CONFERENCE 2020 Forecasting the Future of Global Migration    29 […]
Are there COVID-19 cases in your community? The answer may be in your sewer.
News.northeastern.edu 4d 2 tweets
Researchers from Northeastern are now using wastewater to determine whether COVID-19 cases are present in a population. While this type of monitoring won’t replace coronavirus testing, it could warn city officials when the virus appears and help...
A “Rosetta Stone” for Comparing Test Scores Around the World (and Across the Global Income Distribution)
Center For Global Development 5d 7 tweets
How much do educational outcomes around the world depend on where you were born? In a new CGD working paper, we propose a very simple strategy to overcome this problem and build a “Rosetta Stone” for test scores. We take a single sample of students...
Liberalism and National Greatness: Matthew Yglesias’s One Billion Americans
Liberal Currents - Liberal Currents 5d 3 tweets
Matthew Yglesias’s new book walks the tightrobe between liberalism and nationalism, while presenting a bold vision for America’s future.
Causal Parameters and Policy Analysis in Economics: A Twentieth Century Retrospective *
OUP Academic 5d 1 tweets
Abstract. The major contributions of twentieth century econometrics to knowledge were the definition of causal parameters within well-defined economic models i
Michael Clemens This problem is closely related to 's point in his 2000 paper: Our original claim that the effect of interest is the effect of X on Y implicitly assumes we can cause X to vary independently of Z. (X and Z are 'variation free'.) 5d
Top Trump Health Aide Attacks Scientists and Warns of Armed Revolt
Nytimes.com 6d 83 tweets
Michael Caputo, the assistant secretary of health for public affairs, told a Facebook audience without evidence that left-wing hit squads were being trained for insurrection, and he accused C.D.C. scientists of “sedition.”
ECONOMICS & POVERTY
ECONOMICS & POVERTY 1056d 21 tweets
Martin Ravallion's website on the economics of poverty
Public attitudes towards immigration and immigrants: what people think, why, and how to influence them
ODI 6d 7 tweets
A survey of recent research about public attitudes to migration, and how to influence them.
The Production Relocation and Price Effects of US Trade Policy: The Case of Washing Machines
Aeaweb.org 6d 1 tweets
(July 2020) - We estimate the price effect of US import restrictions on washers. The 2012 and 2016 antidumping duties against South Korea and China were accompanied by downward or minor price movements along with production relocation to other...
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Michael Clemens In 2018 the US Administration taxed Americans for buying foreign-made washing machines. —Washing machine prices rose more than the amount of the tax —Americans also had to pay more for dryers, which were not subject to the tariff New in —> 6d
How construction workers in Ohio view the election
The Economist 9d 7 tweets
A return to Youngstown points to the solidity and limits of Donald Trump’s fan base