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Tim de Silva
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Tim de Silva
@timdesilva
- Apparently, only 16% of people check Uber and Lyft. I'm very surprised! Every time I do, I'm shocked by the amount of price dispersion..
- I'm hiring a predoc to work with me in household finance, macroeconomics, behavioral economics, and public finance starting in Fall 2026! Details are below and instructions here: timdesilva.me/files/postings… Please apply :) I can't wait to work with you!
- Replying to @dggoldstHow high the top marginal tax rate was in 40s-60s?
- Delayed update: the job market is over, and I've defended my dissertation! Thank you to my amazing advisors @ProfJAParker, @dthesmar, Larry, Taha, and Eric. I'm very excited to return to CA, where I'll do a postdoc at @SIEPR for 2024-25 and then join @StanfordGSB as a Finance AP!
- Replying to @dggoldst94% in US! I didn’t realize this until very recently haha
- So happy to announce my JMP will be coming out in the @QJEHarvard! Thank you to everyone who helped this paper from the very beginning to the very end. The project ended quite far from where I originally thought it’d go in the 4th year of my PhD, but that’s the joy of research!Recently accepted by #QJE, “Insurance Versus Moral Hazard in Income-Contingent Student Loan Repayment,” by Tim de Silva (@timdesilva): doi.org/10.1093/qje/qj…
- Very thankful to @BlackRock for choosing my JMP as the winner of the 2023 Applied Research Award! It was fun to hear the other awesome JMPs presented. Definitely check them out!
- Great post! This reminds me of something I was once told during my PhD (by an unnamed advisor), who said that one "identification strategy" that has fallen out of favor in economics, which was actually the first, is "identification by simple historical facts + simple theory"."Causation does not imply variation." A lovely saying coined by Tyler Muir with applications to price pressure in stocks and the causality revolution in applied micro. Just because x causes y does not mean most variation in y is caused by x. grumpy-economist.com/p/causation-do…
- Replying to @timdesilvaAnd search behavior doesn't vary much with income or age, I also find surprising!
- 🎉 Thrilled that my paper with @dthesmar is forthcoming in the Review of Financial Studies @SFSjournals. A special moment for me since this was my first project in the PhD and it's my first publication! Paper: academic.oup.com/rfs/advance-ar… A summary 🧵 ⬇️⬇️⬇️
- Amazing graph from Yuriy’s discussion of @I_Am_NickBloom’s great paper today at @nberpubs Monetary! Bolivia offered energy subsidies in cost during pandemic, and was the only LA country without inflation. But then the government ran out of money, and inflation kicked in..
- Pretty striking result in this paper: there are massively different effects of lowering the cost of education in different places!
