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Bulk PDF Compression with Imagemagick. October 6, 2014. Just a quick line of code to bulk compress a range of PDFs using imagemagick on a MacOS. This was necessary as some of the graphs I was using for my talks made the PDF files for the presentation incredibly large. For f in $FILES; do convert -density 300 -depth 8 -quality 85 $f $f.png ; done. These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. Fracking in your neighborhood? Leveraging R for Econ Job Market.

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Leveraging R for Econ Job Market. October 23, 2014. UPDATE] I just was told that the new features on EJM actually allow you to download an XLS spreadsheet of the job listings on EJM. This is accessible when you login to myeconjobmarket.org. And is part of their new AIMS (Application and Interview Management System). I wanted to describe a little helper I am using to help refine the places I want to apply at since I am going to be on the Economics Job Market. Job Openings for Economists. This leaves you w...

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Leveraging R for Job Openings for Economists | fReigeist

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Leveraging R for Job Openings for Economists. November 1, 2014. Quite a few people emailed me regarding my post on Econ Job Market. This post is about how you can use very basic and simple R tools to help you in sorting through the Job Openings for Economists list from the American Economic Association.This definitely helped me in developing my spreadsheet of places to apply for. Before I begin I would like to quickly revisit EJM again. Revisiting Using R for Econ Job Market. Leveraging R for JOE? Now I ...

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Telefon: 49 176 21784401. Internet*: www.devmag.net. Inhaltlich Verantwortlicher gemäß 55 Abs. 2 RStV: Thiemo Fetzer (Anschrift wie oben). Haftungshinweis: Trotz sorgfältiger inhaltlicher Kontrolle übernehmen wir keine Haftung für die Inhalte externer Links. Für den Inhalt der verlinkten Seiten sind ausschließlich deren Betreiber verantwortlich. These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. You may use these. Studium an der LSE.

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Bulk PDF Compression with Imagemagick. October 6, 2014. Just a quick line of code to bulk compress a range of PDFs using imagemagick on a MacOS. This was necessary as some of the graphs I was using for my talks made the PDF files for the presentation incredibly large. For f in $FILES; do convert -density 300 -depth 8 -quality 85 $f $f.png ; done. The Welfare Cost of Lawlessness: Evidence from Somalian Piracy. January 25, 2012. What is the tax rate at with which Somalian piracy taxes world-trade? We argue...

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Fracking and House Prices on the Marcellus Shale | fReigeist

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Fracking and House Prices on the Marcellus Shale. April 21, 2014. Starting last summer I worked on a short project that set out to estimate the potential costs of externalities due to unconventional shale gas production in the Marcellus shale on local house prices using a dataset of roughly 150,000 recently sold houses in Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania. The data suggests that proximity to a natural gas well is correlated with lower housing prices, which confirms previous studies. In Fall 2013 I dow...

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Fracking and House Prices on the Marcellus Shale. April 21, 2014. Starting last summer I worked on a short project that set out to estimate the potential costs of externalities due to unconventional shale gas production in the Marcellus shale on local house prices using a dataset of roughly 150,000 recently sold houses in Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania. The data suggests that proximity to a natural gas well is correlated with lower housing prices, which confirms previous studies. In Fall 2013 I dow...

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Is rainfall reporting endogenous to conflict? | fReigeist

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Is rainfall reporting endogenous to conflict? July 17, 2014. For my paper on the impact of social insurance on the dynamics of conflict in India. I use some new remote sensed weather data. The data comes from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellites. The satellite carries a set of five instruments, and is essentially a rainfall radar located in outer space. ASCII source files from the GPCC website. On my personal website. I make a dta and an rdata file available for the whole world. ...

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Mobility from Mobile Phones | fReigeist

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Mobility from Mobile Phones. April 12, 2014. I have worked on big data in my work with QuBit. In London. In my research. Dakar Region only small in size relative to rest of the country. The accumulation of users in the Dakar region implies that there the mobile phone network is quite dense. In total there are 1666 antennas reported, but 489, or 29.3% of these antennas are clustered in the Dakar region. Dakar Region and Mobile Phone Network Masts with overlayed .01 degree grid. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.

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Shifting Centre of Gravity of US Fossil Fuel Production | fReigeist

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Shifting Centre of Gravity of US Fossil Fuel Production. July 27, 2014. My research Fracking Growth. The fact that these shale deposits are geographically located in distinct places within the US can be highlighted through a very simple graph. Taking Energy Information Administration. State level crude-oil and natural gas. The resulting two pictures are worth sharing, because they highlight the dramatic changes that have happened in only recent years. Plotting Centre of Gravity by Energy Content. Note th...