Faith, Uncertainty, and the Search for Something True
What I've kept, what I've questioned, and what I'm still trying to understand.
THE JOURNAL
Essays, observations, and less-technical reads. For working notes and mathematics, head to Notes.
What I've kept, what I've questioned, and what I'm still trying to understand.
The words "discretionary" and "quantitative" make it sound like one form of analysis uses math while the other is more whimsical. That's definitely not the case, both are mathematical and both are powerful tools.
How profit-maximizing employers tend to respond to minimum-wage increases, and what that means for low-wage workers.
Econometrics is the study of quantifying causal relationships in a social science setting.