
Assistant Professor of Economics at @BrockEconomics. My research interests are law, health, and public econ. @taylorjwright@econtwitter.net
St. Catharines, Ontario
Joined November 2008
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At the risk of exposing how big of a nerd I am, I was so pumped to have met THE @ChrisPerkinsDnD on my flight today! Big thanks for the photo, will always love that 4e adventure with the robot chicken crew.
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I am delighted to be a part of such an excellent research network!
Welcome Andrew C. Dickens to our network - we are looking forward to future cooperations with @BrockUniversity and @BrockEconomics - check out Andrew's Twitter profile @ACDickens and the CESifo Research Network website: cesifo.org/en/network-member…
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If you are in Toronto it would be great to have you at a book launch for Telling Stories with Data.
4-6pm, Thursday 7 September, Inforum, 4th floor, Bissell Building, 140 St. George Street, Toronto.
RSVP: forms.gle/n8EDUB1YF5jnKhDGA
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A new DP is out: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…. @IsabellaMasetto and @diegoubfal reproduced "Targeting High Ability Entrepreneurs Using Community Information" by Reshmaan Hussam, Natalia Rigol and @BenRothEcon.
The paper’s results are robust to all robustness checks. See below!
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Updating some of the exercises for my class “Data Science for Business Applications”. If you have/know of cool (clean) data that can be used for causal inference and/or prediction, let me know! (It’s undergrad level, and topics can be broad).
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Wrote a blog post about how understanding factor models help me understand the synthetic control method much better:
👉🏼 kylebutts.com/blog/factor-mo…
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My book about introductory data science was published today. It is available online - tellingstorieswithdata.com - and you can buy a print copy: routledge.com/Telling-Storie…. I would appreciate your feedback and suggestions for improvements.
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This fall I'll be teaching a new online Mixtape class on design-based regression/IV analysis
The content will draw on my graduate applied 'metrics class at Brown, and will assume a basic knowledge of causal inference tools and regression mechanics
Sign up now! Discounts for students and those in low-income countries, as usual!
mixtapesessions.io/session/d…
Going to assign this to all my students, especially the masters students writing their major research papers.
If you want to know what's the problem with WYSIWYG editors like Word and point and click workflows is, read @HDkarlsen great post hkarlsen.rbind.io/blog/data-…
I’ll be using TCwD this coming fall in my econometrics class for business students. I absolutely adore the book.
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I've collected all the presentations, talks, podcasts etc I've done these past months into a single page where you can find them all (as well as code samples): brodrigues.co/about/talks/
Fortunate enough to see @JasonBaron4 present this at WEAI earlier this month and wow, what an incredible project!
New working paper w/@JasonBaron4, Joe Doyle, @NataliaHEmanuel, & Joseph Ryan: the first quasi-experimental study of racial discrimination in foster care decisions
dropbox.com/scl/fi/1vm4t511r…
I've learned a ton from my coauthors and the data on this project. Here's a short summary
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Excited to see this in physical form! This books hits a really interesting intersection for students, and Rohan’s writing is very clear and engaging. – at Helsinki, Finland
This is why I always add "reddit" to my searches, though with recent stuff going down there I'm not sure what comes next...
I've said this before hut seems to me like Google is a house of cards. Its main value (search) has been degraded enormously, and the ad business built on top of that seems mostly bogus. forbes.com/sites/joetoscano1…




























