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@qlquanle.bsky.social
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economist at HBS studying old news and new news // qlquanle.github.io

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honeybakedsam.bsky.social @honeybakedsam.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Time once again for one of the canonical soccer Twitter post
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Marcella Alsan @marcellaalsan.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Open access in QJE!📢 Using newly assembled archival data, we show how the AMA's nationwide campaign against national health insurance, labeling it "socialized medicine" and promoting private insurance, helped steer the U.S. away from universal health care academic.oup.com/qje/article/...
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Why Doesn’t the United States Have National Health Insurance? The Political Role of the American Medical Association
Abstract. This article examines how the American Medical Association (AMA) helped shape the development of the U.S. health insurance system in the critical
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quan le @qlquanle.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
my principle is to always choose the most extra industry participant possible to quote from. no shortage of characters in the newspaper business, thankfully.
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James Feigenbaum @jamesfeigenbaum.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Upton Sinclair understated as usual:
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James Feigenbaum @jamesfeigenbaum.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
@qlquanle.bsky.social presenting "Network Competition and Exclusive Contracts: Evidence from News Agencies" at #NBERDAE IO in economic history? Dangerous territory (for reduced form applied micro ppl like me)
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I expect respect on Djed Spence's name from here on out
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
This is honestly perfection
fade shot between Nyland and Neymar as they yell at each other with the net present across the shot
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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
my fundamental position on this FIFA tries every tournament to develop a power structure so heinous, a fan experience so maddening, a revenue plan so exploitive that it will ruin the World Cup and they never succeed. the football always wins. I'm not exactly happy about it? but it's consistent.
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alex remembers the big cow 🐄 @thebigcow.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
The Scots found the Boston cop slide @everyone @edsbs.bsky.social @brianmfloyd.bsky.social @cjzero.bsky.social
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quan le @qlquanle.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
stats.stackexchange.com/questions/18... i'm hoping it's the same people
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What happens if the explanatory and response variables are sorted independently before regression?
Suppose we have data set $(X_i,Y_i)$ with $n$ points. We want to perform a linear regression, but first we sort the $X_i$ values and the $Y_i$ values independently of each other, forming data set $...
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N Sims @copyrightlibn.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
So weird: there's more than one scammy memorial site inviting donations or tree-planting in my dad's memory. We are not asking for that, but if people feel moved, donations in lieu of flowers to www.aclu-mn.org, www.aclu.org, or www.eff.org Econ folks, can you help get the word out?
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Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2011
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2011 was awarded jointly to Thomas J. Sargent and Christopher A. Sims "for their empirical research on cause and effect in th...
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quan le @qlquanle.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
the best slide in an econ history talk
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quan le @qlquanle.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Link to apply here. My projects are a mix of IO, media economics, and economic history. Day-to-day tasks range from structural estimation to managing text and image data pipelines. Check out my colleagues' work as well! careers.harvard.edu/job/predocto...
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Predoctoral Research Associate (Summer 2026)
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quan le @qlquanle.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
My colleagues at HBS and I are looking for predoctoral researchers, starting Summer 2026! The ideal candidate recognizes that the traditional RA role in econ research is obsolete with coding agents, yet loves econ so much that they want to learn how to do it with new tools. 1/2
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quan le @qlquanle.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
i gave a talk recently where we could only open the slides on Edge so it was an ideal scenario where the buttons serve as proof of work but cannot actually be clicked
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Joel Waldfogel @jwaldfog.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Can LLMs help humans to write books? TLDR: sort of. @imkereimers.bsky.social and I have a new paper with a longer answer. 1/n www.nber.org/papers/w34777
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AI and the Quantity and Quality of Creative Products: Have LLMs Boosted Creation of Valuable Books?
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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quan le @qlquanle.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
i've been doing markdown preview -> mathjax but it's not the best
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quan le @qlquanle.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
I’m still trying to codify this with the agent and it is not a obvious thing to codify so I’d love to hear suggestions
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quan le @qlquanle.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
I think the oracle view makes sense for app dev where the bottleneck is “does it fail loudly” vs in social science where the bottleneck is “can I explain this to a seminar audience if they ask how I did XYZ.” the moment I say “I have no idea but Claude said it made no mistake” my career is over.
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Mike Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Great post, and an excellent example of the Bitter Lesson of AI: generalized models are always over time going to beat specialized models. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Gemini 3 Solves Handwriting Recognition and it’s a Bitter Lesson
Testing shows that Gemini 3 has effectively solved handwriting on English texts, one of the oldest problems in AI, achieving expert human levels of performance.
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quan le @qlquanle.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
very cautiously optimistic about her as Dot
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James Feigenbaum @jamesfeigenbaum.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Applications for the Economic History Association Graduate Dissertation Fellowships are due in two days (January 14) eh.net/graduate-dis...
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Graduate Dissertation Fellowships – EH.net
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quan le @qlquanle.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
what a world
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quan le @qlquanle.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Never heard of jupytext, looking forward to learning
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quan le @qlquanle.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Outing myself as a Python notebook enjoyer but now that so much work happens via Claude Code and Git PR review I've found the format to be basically unworkable.
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quan le @qlquanle.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
I guess I should just read whatever @jeffgortmaker.com does.
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quan le @qlquanle.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Have the agents helped you with these? I found 2) can really be sped up since you can have another agent code up the dataset, and 3) since the agent can suggests properties to check, but I still find manually verify 1). I hear ChatGPT 5.2 is good at math. Maybe that? But then how do you verify?
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quan le @qlquanle.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
How do people write numerical tests for an estimation routine? I have three layers: 1) unit tests: simple numerical examples that I compute _by hand_ (literally on paper with a calculator), 2) synthetic datasets coded up separately, and 3) checking that some properties of the estimator hold... [1/2]
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quan le @qlquanle.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
I spun up another agent whose role is a "Replicator Grad Student" and that agent can pick up obvious stuff like this, but then it comes up with a report and then the original agent writes more test, and now I have more tests that I have not read.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
screenshot of the iconic Onion article of De Blasio with headline "De Blasio: "Well Well Well, Not So Easy to Find a Mayor that Doesn't Suck Shit, Huh?". De Blasio's head has been replaced by a poorly cropped headshot of Ange Postecoglou, his name has been replaced by "Postecoglou", and the word "mayor" has been replaced by "Manager"
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 30/12/2025
Rest in peace, Kate Ho.
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Katherine Ho, esteemed health economist and ‘true role model,’ dies at 53
A memorial will be held at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Dec. 27, at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York.
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quan le @qlquanle.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
She was one of the most incredible people I could ever have hoped to know, and I can't wait to hear more fond memories of her. Thanks for contributing and remembering her together. [2/2]
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quan le @qlquanle.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
sites.google.com/view/memoriesofkateho My advisor Kate Ho passed away two weeks ago. Her students have put together a memorial for her here. With permission from her family, we are sharing the site with the academic community. We'd love to hear from everyone who knew and loved Kate... [1/2]
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Memories of Kate Ho
A place for us to gather and share memories of Kate.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Devastating news. Kate was a great economist and a generous person.
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quan le @qlquanle.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
I have a lot more to say about Kate and how all my life I've wanted to be able to work with someone like her and when I finally got do it she exceeds all of my expectations about how great a great advisor can be. I want everyone to know how incredible Kate was to her students.
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quan le @qlquanle.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
At Princeton's holiday party in 2023, I recorded a version of "Sheena is a Punk Rocker" with the lyrics changed to "Kate Ho is the Best Advisor." I still feel that way. I couldn't have asked for a better advisor. I can't believe she's gone.
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Florian Ederer @florianederer.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
The brilliant Kate Ho has passed away. She was an amazing economist and a genuinely kind human being. Her work shaped how we think about healthcare markets and her generosity touched everyone lucky enough to know her. The profession and the world are poorer without her.
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Judy Chevalier @judychevalier.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Every IO economist's favorite weekend of the year!
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quan le @qlquanle.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
man this is so exciting
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quan le @qlquanle.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Pitch to Shohei you cowards
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Sam Dykstra @samdykstramilb.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Trey Yesavage’s career single-game highs entering tonight: 6 IP (May 1, Single-A Dunedin) 12 K (May 13, Dunedin) 94 pitches (Sept. 27, Toronto) 19 whiffs (Sept. 15, Toronto) Tonight: 7 IP, 12 K, 104 pitches, 23 whiffs It is Game 5 of the World Series against the defending champions.
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quan le @qlquanle.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
this is too much baseball
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quan le @qlquanle.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
it is not often that good things happen for the city of toronto
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quan le @qlquanle.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
i've seen enough, this is rigged against Toronto
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quan le @qlquanle.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
hm blue jays looking suspiciously good
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quan le @qlquanle.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
now we face shohei
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quan le @qlquanle.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
gotta meet them where they are
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quan le @qlquanle.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
yeah i know but this one is good
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quan le @qlquanle.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
i am so stressed
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