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Paul Novosad

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Paul Novosad

@paulnovosad

econ prof @dartmouth, founder @DevDataLab r2: "a morass of disjointed streams of consciousness" 20% satire 🤷

Joined January 2012

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Paul Novosad
@paulnovosad
Oct 9, 2024
What kind of childhood makes a top scientist? Is it enough to have all the right traits (brilliance, grit, etc) or do you need the right family too? And why should we care? A 🧵 on our paper on the Nobel Laureates. A teaser: the income distribution of the laureates' fathers.1/N
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Paul Novosad
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Sep 5, 2025
How stupid is this? Hyundai is building an $8 billion factory in Georgia, and ICE is imprisoning company staff who are on business trips from South Korea. So much for investing in manufacturing!
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Paul Novosad
@paulnovosad
Apr 12, 2025
This is fucked up man. We made this country great by welcoming people like this.
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Paul Novosad
@paulnovosad
Mar 7, 2025
emily is in sf
@emilyinvc
Mar 7, 2025
to me, the greatest sadness of all is the banality of most people's lives i'll spend time with my non-elite friends, and it's clear that their lives are devoid of heroism and lore they lock in/clock in, but they fight no great battles, they dash no great foes they drop by a
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Paul Novosad
@paulnovosad
Nov 15, 2021
I knew scientists were territorial but this is next level. Remember Katalin Karikó, the unsung hero of mRNA vaccines? Her advisor Robert Suhadolnik tried to have her deported when she accepted a competing offer in another lab.
Paul Novosad
@paulnovosad
Jul 31, 2024
Corporate landlords are pretty good actually. The real terrors are the ones who own 2–3 houses.
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Paul Novosad
@paulnovosad
Dec 6, 2024
Fascinating paper on where 6000 global elites went to college. Billionaires, CEOs, heads of state, central bankers, etc. In a word: Harvard. Fully 10% of global elites went to Harvard. Elite US schools are over-represented (23% IvyPlus), but nobody comes close to Harvard. 🧵
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Paul Novosad
@paulnovosad
Feb 8, 2025
Efficiency = Output over costs. DOGE so far has shown no understanding of efficiency. If you save 5 billion dollars and bring cancer research to a halt, you have not improved efficiency.
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Paul Novosad
@paulnovosad
Apr 21, 2022
I hope the staff at @OpenAI are checking their server logs carefully.
Paul Novosad
@paulnovosad
Jun 4, 2025
Deep meritocracy is fundamentally unstable, because elites can't tolerate their kids losing. They will engage in destructive status competition with each other, and also just directly corrupt the institutions. 1/
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Paul Novosad
@paulnovosad
Jun 15, 2023
📣 New working paper on residential segregation in India. We’ve been working for 5 years on this. 8 facts about residential segregation in India, from new administrative data. The situation is not great 🧵 1/N
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Paul Novosad
@paulnovosad
Nov 2, 2024
A new India-China fact (to me): The Chinese state prioritized primary education over secondary/tertiary, while the Indian state did the opposite. Chinese primary enrollment rate passed India in 1950, secondary 1975, and tertiary only in 2000!
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Paul Novosad
@paulnovosad
Apr 13, 2025
Replying to @IvanaKrumi
It’s pretty clear you’ve never done PhD level recruiting before.
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Paul Novosad
@paulnovosad
Sep 5, 2025
Replying to @TalosDreams
It's a joint LG / Hyundai plant
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