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Jonathan Colmer
@JonathanColmer
Associate Prof. @UVA Econ | Co-Founder & Director of the @en_equality_lab | CEPR, IZA & CESifo | Env Econ, Growth & Dev | 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸
Oct 9, 2021 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
#EconTwitter Coming up with ideas is very hard. Questions aren't ideas. Ideas are a question + a plan to answer the question. One of the things I do in my grad class is to get students to generate a new idea each week, summarized in 1-2 paragraphs. I provide feedback on what's not clear and issues that I see with the idea. Common issues are: whether the question is answerable/issues with implementation, clarity/existence of a contribution, size of the contribution... over time the ideas slowly get better,
Aug 8, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
#EconTwitter Online teaching: OBS users, what are your recording/streaming set-ups? I'm using a mix of recording (video = 30fps, 1280x720, CRF=20, ultrafast, mp4; audio = 320 bitrate, lagged 180ms for audio/video sync) and streaming (OBS to Zoom using NDI). Any Alternatives? I also created some png masks, which means you can do zoom like this! I think this will work well for teaching as well as for online seminars! A solution to 16:9 @paulgp!