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Ben Davies

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Posts

Protein pancakes

Economic theory as storytelling

Research incentives and artificial intelligence

A model of self-sabotage

Principal repayments

Reflections on grad school: Years 3 and 4

What is an "economic model?"

*Armchair Expert* episodes

Decomposing matrices of pairwise minima

Delayed saving

Learning about a changing state

Learning from correlated signals

Simulating Wiener and Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes

Inverting matrices of pairwise minima

Correlation and concordance

The option value of waiting

Learning in continuous time

Paying for precision

Binary signals and posterior variances

Comparing equal- and value-weighted portfolios

Models of the AI apocalypse

Who reads *Marginal Revolution*?

Loan repayments

*Marginal Revolution* metadata

Five years of blogging

Selection bias and fixed effects

Learning and persuasion

Protecting Planet Xiddler

Learning from opinions

stravadata demo

Social networks in rural India

Optimal pacing with random energy costs

Optimal pacing with varying energy costs

Correlation and concatenation

The friendship paradox

Binary distributions and risky gambles

Estimating treatment effects with OLS

Why do experts give simple advice?

Dollar cost averaging

Homophily and the strength of moderate ties

Reflections on grad school: Years 1 and 2

Paying for the truth

Why should academics blog?

What's it like living in America?

Research incentives and the evolution of knowledge

Truth-seekers and ideologues

Gender sorting among economists

Gender differences in publication rates within NBER programs

Publication outcomes of NBER working papers

Judging economic models

Echo chambers can be useful

Tolerance and compromise in social networks

Persuading with anecdotes

Ideological bias and trust in information sources

Pre-screening evidence

Communicating science

Assortativity and correlation coefficients

nberwp 1.1.0

Hypothesis tests and Bayesian reasoning

Stable matchings with correlated preferences

Learning from noisy signals

A competition model of corruption

Snowball sampling bias in program evaluation

Improving human predictions

Dead ends

nberwp is now on CRAN

Coefficients of correlated regressors

Rationalizing negative splits

Stable matchings with noisy preferences

Stable matchings

Female representation and collaboration at the NBER

Monopoly equilibrium in insurance markets

Dyadic dependence

Assortative mixing

Ordinary and total least squares

Auctioning vaccines

Gift exchange mechanisms

Aggregating preferences: Bird of the Year edition

Polarized beliefs in social networks

Estimating sensitive parameters

Research funding and collaboration

Relatedness, complexity and local growth redux

COVID-19, lockdown and two-sided uncertainty

Lessons from Dave Maré

Product-maximising partitions

Understanding selection bias

Modelling bacterial extinction

Applying to economics PhD programs

Estimating research field similarities

Policymaking under uncertainty

Transitivity in positive correlations

Greedy Pig strategies

Generating random graphs with communities

Insurance and saving

Optimal training loads

Voting along party lines

Matching runners

Spotify Premium pricing

Stanford

Uniform sums and Euler's number

Triadic closure at the NBER

Degree-preserving randomisation

Centrality rankings with noisy edge sets

motuwp is now an R package

NBER (co-)authorships

DeGroot learning in social networks

White elephant gift exchanges

Birds, voting, and Russian interference

How central is Grand Central Terminal?

Climate change and transport planning

Computing epicycles

Introducing nberwp

Information gerrymandering

Sampling the Motu coauthorship network

Updating motuwp

College degrees in the US: Community detection

College degrees in the US: Similarity measures

College degrees in the US: Demographics

Reading the ministerial diaries

Relatedness, complexity and local growth

Accessing the Strava API with R

Guest appearances on *The Joe Rogan Experience*

Coauthorship networks at Motu

Habitat choices of first-generation Pokémon