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@causalinf During my first year of master in France, I had a class on computational sociology It blew my mind and since then, I’ve wanted to do some sort of computational social sciencePermalink
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@causalinf When I was in high school, I read a lot of books that were "critical" about economics. The kind of bad criticism bathed in ideology and that relies on a huge straw man about what econ really is In my first undergrad year, I’ve had a professor, Etienne Pfister.Permalink
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@causalinf He taught HET and introductory IO I was expecting an right leaning ideologue. Instead of that, he was always tryingto explain the "good" and "bad" side in every econ theory he presented us in HET And in the IO class… this is where I definitely blew my mindPermalink
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@causalinf He spent his time talking about proofs, empirical evidences He showed an empirical strategy to test I don’t remember what, but I was completely sold to the elegance of the strategy This is when I realized that my vision of econ was maybe not accuratePermalink
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@causalinf I started to wonder what if econ was not what was described in those books I used to read In a matter of weeks, I had to re-update all my beliefs about econ, and it clearly was a transformative experience for me
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@causalinf Etienne was also the first person who talked to me about academia and what an academic job is. For somebody who had no idea what a university was, it helped *a lot*. He was nice, gave me plenty of advices, and he was extremely approachablePermalink
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@causalinf He doesn’t teach anymore and I feel extremely grateful I had the chance to meet him and to enjoy both his classes and the discussions I had with himPermalink
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Mood +7 🙂