Mark Schaffer
@markeschaffer
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Professor of Economics, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh
Edinburgh, Scotland
Joined November 2011
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RT @antonhowes: Britain, they say, was running out of trees, so in the sixteenth century switched to using coal. But this story is not onl…
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RT @AliciaCurth: When Double Descent & Benign Overfitting became a thing, I was a masters student in statistics — and so confused. I couldn…
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RT @instrumenthull: @YFeyman 2SLS can be viewed as a linear control function approach (controlling for the first stage error = regressing o…
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RT @jmwooldridge: You can do almost all of this, with the PS estimated by MLE, using teffects in Stata. Unfortunately, while IPW uses norma…
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RT @jmwooldridge: I think the most commonly used treatment effect estimators when treatment, D, is unconfounded conditional on X, are the f…
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RT @UofGVC: More on ‘fiscal rules’ - this from the EU & NOT the U.K. perspective. I don’t agree with some of this blog’s conclusions: I bel…
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RT @jmwooldridge: It's been too long since I've made a substantive tweet, so here goes. At the following Dropbox link you can access the sl…
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RT @TheIFS: NEW: Public sector pay has declined relative to the wider pay distribution, especially for higher earners. @JCribbEcon @awmcke…
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RT @mkellerressel: So here is my attempt to make sense of the 'in financial mathematics, we use negative probabilities' claim... @ben_golub…
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RT @sjwrenlewis: Austerity is about levels of public provision, not changes. We have acute austerity today. Labour's task now is to start e…
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RT @AdrianPabst1: Labour have dropped the language of Levelling Up but a sustained regeneration of our cities & regions has never been more…
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RT @NIESRorg: Did you join our recent "Rethinking Regional Regeneration" event? ⚡️ Our @AdrianPabst1, @EconArnab & Eliza da Silva Gomes pr…
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RT @logarithmic_h: Origins of inequality, Eurasia: First farmers tend small plots, labor is limiting factor of production, egalitarian. But…
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