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Marc F. Bellemare
Personal blog · marcfbellemare.com/wordpresseconomicsscience
Marc F. Bellemare's personal blog at marcfbellemare.com covers economics and science. Since 2012, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-03, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Marc Bellemare's blog, especially its "Metrics Mondays" series, for practical advice on applying econometrics and causal inference to real-world data. Other posts cover speeding fines, quinoa economics, and transformations.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Agricultural Economics—Without Apology
Most-linked posts?
- /wordpress/2012/02/speeding-fines-that-vary-with-income-absolute-vs-relative-risk-aversion-and-public-policy/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-06-05
What Hacker News says?
If you're interested in econometrics, I highly recommend checking out Marc Bellemare's "Metrics Mondays" blog posts, which are full of useful, pragmatic advice for applying econometric methods to real-world data: http://marcfbellemare.com/wordpress/metrics-mondays . If you're coming from an ML-focused approach to statistics, studying econometrics can be an interesting change of pace, because the focus is totally dif…
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on “Lectures in Quantitative Economics with Python [pdf]”Submitted The Trading Game: A Simple, Easy to Run In-Class Experiment as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThey do that with traffic tickets in Finland and Switzerland. You've probably heard of the $290,000 speeding ticket levied against a wealthy Swiss guy. http://marcfbellemare.com/wordpress/2012/02/speeding-fines-t... (The link is an interesting discussion of relative vs absolute risk aversion, with regard to tickets.)
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on “The Sean Parker Wedding Is the Perfect Parable for Silicon Valley Excess”Submitted Why a Soda Tax Is Unlikely to Work as a story · 1 points
HN discussion- wf · 2013-07-11
This is debatable.[1] After hearing about this through NPR I initially thought that it was terrible; however, after doing more reading it seems to be unclear what kind of effect this is actually having on their economy.[2] [1] http://marcfbellemare.com/wordpress/2013/01/quinoa-nonsense-... [2] http://ain-bolivia.org/2011/05/bolivian-quinoa-questions-pro...
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on “Quinoa should be taking over the world. This is why it isn’t” The name "inverse hyperbolic sine transformation" or "IHS transformation" is common in econometrics. https://marcfbellemare.com/wordpress/12856 https://worthwhile.typepad.com/worthwhile_canadian_initi/201... https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w29998/w299... https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevaluations/interpretin... https://academic.oup.com/ectj/article-abstract/24/2/334/5948... https://marcfbellem…
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on “Logarithmic Scales”Marc Bellemare's Metrics Mondays posts are pretty good: http://marcfbellemare.com/wordpress/metrics-mondays Lots of practical tips for causal inference on real data.
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on “Actual Causality (2016)”If you’re interested in quantitative economics, I would highly recommend the “Metrics Mondays” series of blog posts by Prof. Marc Bellemare: http://marcfbellemare.com/wordpress/metrics-mondays They have a lot of pragmatic rules-of-thumb and best practices for doing causal inference on real data.
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on “Quantitative Economics with Julia”> Just because someone has money it does not mean > they will flaunt the law because they can afford > the fine. Apparently, it does: "It is generally the case that people getting less absolutely risk averse as they get wealthier." http://marcfbellemare.com/wordpress/2012/02/speeding-fines-t...
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on “Six Figure Speeding Ticket”
