u/Captgouda24

Do unions raise wages? By how much? What effects do they have on the rest of the economy? How do the average and marginal effects of unions differ?
https://nicholasdecker.substack.com/p/what-do-unions-do

I compress everything you would learn in a graduate course on trade theory into thirty minutes of reading.

https://nicholasdecker.substack.com/p/the-theory-of-trade

Dynamic discrete choice models allow us to study the choices that people make over time. This is really important for making accurate predictions of human behavior. This is a comprehensive overview of everything you need to know, put in plain language. There is no need to be mystified by Bellmans and Jacobians and fixed-points -- everything can be understood simply and intuitively.

https://nicholasdecker.substack.com/p/everything-i-know-about-dynamic-discrete

Old-school Keynesian economics focused on disequilibrium due to constraints on the changing of wages. It died out, but is of late coming back. Why? How? What do the forgotten models still have to teach us?
https://nicholasdecker.substack.com/p/sticky-wages-disequilibrium-and-the

I show how the linking procedure used to estimate African educational outcomes substantially overstates their performance on standardized tests.

https://nicholasdecker.substack.com/p/africa-is-doing-worse-than-you-think

This is an essay on rational behavior, economic modeling, and Bellman equations. It is a bit difficult to describe.
https://nicholasdecker.substack.com/p/opening-and-closing-windows