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John S. Olson

@pilotolson

Asst Prof of Instruction at Northwestern. I like macro, I public finance, I like macro-public finance. I’m here for the memes. πŸ’–πŸ’œπŸ’™ www.johnsolson.com

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stupid.

03.04.2025 00:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Census Bureau has taken down American Community Survey microdata.

Thankfully we had a local copy, and now store it on @policyengine.bsky.social servers.

05.02.2025 04:13 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

The CDC is scrubbing their data that records sexuality and gender identity. As of this morning, the Youth Risk Behavior Survey is offline.

31.01.2025 16:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I try to ask questions that are easy to find in the course materials and more obscure elsewhere. I then feed the exam through GPT and make note of stuff it brings up that I didn’t even talk about in class. Students are marked down if they include that stuff with zero critical thinking alongside.

07.01.2025 18:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

CBO uses the following: www.cbo.gov/sites/defaul...

Their lit review is here: www.cbo.gov/sites/defaul...

10.12.2024 02:45 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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05.12.2024 03:34 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

we are from posting and to posting we shall return

27.11.2024 15:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I really appreciate that nobody follows me on here so my neurosis allows me to tweet (what’s the verb here?) stream-of-consciousness again

27.11.2024 15:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It strikes me that around this time last year I was buying Ensure drinks because I was so stressed about the job market that I had absolutely no appetite but at least I could make myself drink those

27.11.2024 15:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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MUNDELL-FLEMING VINDICATED

26.11.2024 01:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

achievement get: R&R

17.11.2024 17:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

maybe I'll be less nuerotic on this site since nobody is here.

19.09.2023 16:28 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0