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Who Claimed the Most Unemployment Compensation During the Great Recession?

This post addresses the question: Who claimed the most unemployment compensation during the great recession? This analysis looks at the demographic breakdown–age, gender, race, and educational attainment–of those who made the most claims of unemployment compensation. The Current Population Survey (CPS) measures unemployment compensation as all pre-tax income a person receives from state or federal […]

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Impact of Housing Turnover on Adoption of Solar

In this post, I am interested in understanding how insights from the energy efficiency industry contribute to understanding the demand for photovoltaics.  I argue that the energy efficiency industry, through its performance contracting business, provides insight as to what are the key determinants of whether residents will invest in renewable technologies.  In this memo, I […]

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Predicting Exponential Growth

This post looks at the impact of exponential growth on projected viewership.  I take Liziqi, a Chinese food and lifestyle blogger with over 1 billion views and over 10 million subscribers, as my example of an internet influencer with exponential growth.  The point of this analysis is to show that projecting growth using a linear […]

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