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Ben Golub

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Ben Golub

@ben_golub

econ prof @NorthwesternU, co-founder at refine.ink studying networks past: @Harvard | @Stanford'12 | @Caltech '07

Chicago, IL

Joined June 2011

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Ben Golub
@ben_golub
Oct 23, 2025
I am super excited to share a new AI tool, Refine. Refine thoroughly studies research papers like a referee and finds issues with correctness, clarity, and consistency. In my own papers, it regularly catches problems that my coauthors and I missed. 1/
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Ben Golub
@ben_golub
Jan 20, 2021
Ben Golub
@ben_golub
May 9, 2025
First eigenpope
Leonardo Rizzo
@LnrdRizzo
May 9, 2025
How we "guessed" the Pope using network science: inside the cardinal network. A study by me, Beppe Soda and Alessandro Iorio. Article: unibocconi.it/en/news/networ… @Unibocconi
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Ben Golub
@ben_golub
Feb 2, 2025
Modern supply chains don't look like trade theory 101! They involve constant border crossings, each now hit by tariffs. Tariffs raise prices, but the more important thing they do is disrupt supply relationships. 1/ graphic h/t @scottlincicome .
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Ben Golub
@ben_golub
Nov 11, 2024
Eigenvalues are amazing. (Please like if you can see this.)
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Ben Golub
@ben_golub
Jan 10, 2025
but yeah let's read Marx and chat about him, seems like the best use of time
Johan Norberg
@johanknorberg
Jan 8, 2025
India’s performance before and after the start of economic liberalization in 1991, via @martinwolf_
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Ben Golub
@ben_golub
May 9, 2025
Did they preregister this?!?!?
Leonardo Rizzo
@LnrdRizzo
May 9, 2025
How we "guessed" the Pope using network science: inside the cardinal network. A study by me, Beppe Soda and Alessandro Iorio. Article: unibocconi.it/en/news/networ… @Unibocconi
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Ben Golub
@ben_golub
Apr 17, 2025
It's a provocative thesis, but also completely devoid of empirical backing or clear economic reasoning. C-minus work.
Bryan Caplan
@bryan_caplan
Apr 17, 2025
In the long-run, even cuts to STEM funding are very good. Top STEM researchers belong in industry, not academia.
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Ben Golub
@ben_golub
Apr 9, 2025
Macroeconomics is the natural predator of foolish regimes.
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Ben Golub
@ben_golub
Jan 4, 2025
Randomly reminded of the experience of telling a, say, history student you study economics and their utter surprise at the fact that you haven't worked through Smith and Marx.
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Ben Golub
@ben_golub
Jan 3, 2022
I wish people at Google could get promotions in some way that wouldn't involve large, arbitrary changes in my phone's interface
Ben Golub
@ben_golub
Sep 21, 2024
Replying to @JosephNWalker and @nntaleb
A negative probability (which Taleb discusses here) is the likelihood of learning anything from this word salad
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Ben Golub
@ben_golub
Apr 4, 2025
The main effect of tariff insanity: Uncertainty poisoning supply networks, degrading a lot of relationships at once. That scar tissue will linger for a long time. 1/
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Ben Golub
@ben_golub
Nov 4, 2024
I have a good friend who really respects Nate but he is having a hard time standing up for him. Running lots of random regressions (with non-robust standard errors) and reporting one in this way is the stuff of bad undergraduate term papers !
Nate Silver
@NateSilver538
Nov 3, 2024
Replying to @NateSilver538
There are some confounders here, but the inflation thing is actually statistically significant! Each additional $100 of inflation in a state since January 2021 predicts a further 1.6 swing against Harris in our polling average vs. the Biden-Trump margin in 2020.
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