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Matthew Shum

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Professor of economics at Caltech

 Pasadena, California
Joined July 2020
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@KTLA24 Nov 2020
BREAKING: The city of Pasadena will allow restaurants to keep outdoor dining open despite L.A. County's health order. The city will reassess daily. ktla.com/news/local-news/pas…
Pasadena to keep outdoor dining open despite L.A. County health order

Pasadena to keep outdoor dining open despite L.A. County health order

The Pasadena City Council decided Monday to keep restaurants open for dining, despite the Los Angeles County public health order requiring outdoor dining to halt as of Wednesday. While the city cou…

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We mourn the loss of @Caltech professor of economics and alumnus Kim C. Border (BS '74), who passed away on November 19. He was 68 years old. We encourage #CaltechAlumni to share memories of Kim Border in his honor. caltech.edu/about/news/calte… #Caltech
Caltech Mourns the Passing of Professor Kim Border (1952–2020)

Caltech Mourns the Passing of Professor Kim Border (1952–2020)

Longtime professor of economics Kim Border passed away November 19. He was 68 years old.

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thanks Gerelt!
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Win a Stata t-shirt of your choosing for this week’s #StataGiveaway. Retweet this using #StataShirtGiveaway and what year you started using Stata, and you’ll be one step closer to winning any one of our great t-shirts! We’ll announce the winner this Wednesday at 10:00 a.m. CST.
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Updated a new paper with Xiao Liu (NYU) and Matt Shum (Caltech) on viewing and attention to baseball game telecasts: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…! We use detailed viewing & attention data to examine TV content design (e.g., suspense & surprise) and implications for advertisers.
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just curious, for those of you who know spanish (or any other related romance language), would "yo no soy nada" mean "I am nothing" or "I am not nothing"? thx
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Thx everyone I was reading Fernando Pessoa's poem "Tabacaria" which begins "Nao sou nada, Nunca serei nada, Nao posso querer ser nada" and couldn't figure out whether he was expressing a down-&-out attitude or being defiant...
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Reshape 🙃#StataBeanieGiveaway
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We’re starting November off with a #StataGiveaway for one of our cable knit beanies. Retweet using #StataBeanieGiveaway and your favorite Stata feature and you’ll be entered to win! We’ll announce the winners this Wednesday at 10:00 am CST.
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The law of demand according to 12th century Persian poet Rumi: هر که جز ماهی ز آبش سیر شد هرکه بی روزیست روزش دیر شد All except fishes are sated by too much water The day lasts longest for him who lacks his daily needs #Rumi
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Are there any real-world phenomena out there characterized intrinsically by *decreasing* hazard rates (= negative duration dependence)? By intrinsic I mean *not* spurious duration dependence due to unobserved heterogeneity.
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The last time Los Angeles was this hot, Homo sapiens were just venturing out of Africa for the first time.
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❗️Today, the Los Angeles basin will experience our hottest day in 125,000 years. Yesterday was the hottest day ever recorded in several cities. Left image shows 110°F readings at noon yesterday. Right image shows 110°F readings at noon today.
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Should stock splits still matter given that many brokerages now let investors buy fractional shares?
As distraction from the evermore distressing world around us, I've been translating contorted sentences into #farsi
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"Cadilac flambe", a short story by the great Ralph Ellison. Incredibly timely for our troubled times. thefreelibrary.com/Cadillac+…
Trying to translate this letter from Tamerlane to King Charles VI of France... #farsi
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First day of (distance) school for the kids, 102F, smoky air from wildfires.... August in Socal 😰 #ilovela
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Covid bucket list: learn a foreign language: working hard... #farsi
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Bitter melon harvest!
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Covid bucket list, get 10**6 views on Google maps: check
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