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John Horton

August 2020

Digital Economics
Thoughts on economics online, by John Horton

November 2018

October 2018

Celebrating RJZ's 50 years of teaching at Harvard
This weekend attended a celebration of Richard Zeckhauser's 50 years of teaching at Harvard. The event started with two panels focusing on different…
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John Horton

May 2018

Why I don't like going to academic conferences
Academics go to academic conferences. I generally go to a few each year---always the AEA and NBER Summer Institute, usually SOLE (Society of Labor…
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John Horton

January 2018

Extending geofacet to algorithmically generate grids from lat/long data
This morning I learned about the very cool geofacet R package for making geographic facets with ggplot2. Unfortunately, my cities aren't one of the…
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John Horton

December 2017

June 2017

May 2017

Why I think ride-sharing companies will win the self-driving future
There is growing interest in who will dominate the self-driving future: car companies, ride-sharing companies or someone else? My bet is on ride-sharing…
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John Horton
AI, Labor, and the Parable of the Horse
Today I attended the 5th year anniversary celebration for MSR NYC. There was a great group of speakers and panelists---I'm super impressed by what MSR…
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John Horton

April 2017

How would we know if "The Bay Area Should Levy a 5% Equity Tax on Startups"
In a recent Information article, Sam Lessin proposed a Bay Area 5% equity tax on startups. It's an interesting idea; I don't know whether it's "good…
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John Horton
2SLS in Mathematica
2SLS data setup. Note that there is RV u that appears in both x and in the error term. There is also an IV, z, that affects x but not u. n = 10000; z …
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