In this episode we talk with Jeremy Weber about applying statistical concepts and lessons into applying to the real world. Jeremy is a professor in the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. He has a PhD from the University of Wisconsin Madison and he is focused on the economics of environmental and energy issues. He has also worked as a research economist at a Federal statistical agency (the Economic Research Service) and as a chief economist at the White House. He is the author of the book “Statistics for Public Policy: A Practical Guide to Being Mostly Right (or at Least Respectably Wrong)”.

You can get his book through bookshop

Books & Papers

• Statistics for Public Policy: A Practical Guide to Being Mostly Right, or at Least Respectively Wrong by Jeremy Weber Book page at UChicago Press

• NBER Paper: "Difference in Difference in the Marketplace" NBER Working Paper 

• Economic Research Service (ERS), USDA ERS Website

• Council of Economic Advisers (CEA), White House CEA Website

Recommendations of the week:

• Show: "Masters of the Air" and "The Bloody 100th" (see above). Masters of the Air (Apple TV+) ⁠Apple TV+ link⁠

• The Bloody 100th (Documentary, Apple TV+) ⁠Apple TV+ link⁠
• App: Readwise – App for saving, highlighting, and resurfacing reading material. readwise.io

Sebastian Tello-Trillo is an Associate Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia.

Alex Hollingsworth is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Ohio State University.

Henry Morris is our main editor. He is a student at the University of Virginia studying computer science and mathematics.