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AlexBartik
@AlexBartik
Assistant Professor of Economics at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Illinois, USA
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    AlexBartik
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    Oct 29, 2025
    New pre-doc positions: @arpitrage and I are hiring for two pre-docs, one to start ASAP and one to start next Fall, to help expand our work using LLMs to measure and study zoning codes in the US. Please apply here: apply.interfolio.com/176538
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    AlexBartik
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    Feb 27, 2021
    Never expected Wooldridge to get on twitter and just go so hard. It's amazing. No filter, no bullshit, just metrics to the face.
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    AlexBartik
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    Mar 26, 2020
    Just got rejection email from job I applied to 3 yrs ago on the job market. Savage.
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    AlexBartik
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    Aug 5, 2024
    How do households change their consumption and household balance sheets in response to large, but time-limited, unconditional cash transfers? We study an experiment that provided $1000 a month for 3 years to 1000 young, low-income households. 1/
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    May 17, 2021
    One of the most interesting articles I've read during the pandemic (and a fascinating mini-history of scientific thought in one area) wired.com/story/the-teen…
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    Oct 30, 2019
    I think if ameteurism in college sports is so important, then the really important step is to stop paying the coaches and have student coaches. Why are we denying students who want careers as coaches the possibility of building their skills?
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    AlexBartik
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    Dec 13, 2018
    Autocomplete is great and all, but the Gmail ml feature I really want is a 'it looks like you're reply-alling to a large email chain, are you sure want to do this'
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    AlexBartik
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    Jan 6, 2021
    You can't shake the devil's hand and say you're only kidding.
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    AlexBartik
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    Sep 13, 2019
    Would really like to see a shark tank version of the debates where candidates pitch Joe Manchin on their plans
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    AlexBartik
    @AlexBartik
    Jan 14, 2020
    My parents just sent me this note to the future that I wrote in 1998 and hid in their desk. I have no recollection of doing this, but it's definitely my handwriting as a child. You're welcome, future generations you, for this knowledge I bring from the past.
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    AlexBartik
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    Apr 8, 2020
    How has the COVID-19 crisis been affecting hourly workers at small businesses? I've been working with @joinhomebase along with Marianne Bertrand, Feng Lin @rothstein_jesse @mattunrath @CAPolicyLab @UChiPovertyLab @RustandyCenter @ChicagoBooth to find out [1/10].
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    AlexBartik
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    Jun 18, 2020
    Great chance to resolve co-author disagreements in your favor.
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    AlexBartik
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    Mar 11, 2020
    Always blows my mind when I'm looking at a paper from AER 1978 and it is 4 pages long and basically derives a marginally different version of a theoretical result from a paper released a year before.
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    AlexBartik
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    Mar 20, 2020
    Have to get 50% of my calories from bananas over the next 3 days because I miscalculated banana ripening in my grocery store run last week.