Alicia Plemmons
@Alicia_Plemmons
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AP/Director @WestVirginiaU Coordinator @KneeCenter_WVU Researcher Nemacolin Lab, Director CFE. Grad @GeorgiaStateU @UofSC . Economist. Regulation & health.
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Econ is lacking in supplementing empirics with real-world insight. When was the last time you wrote a paper on Uber and talked to an actual driver? Or on lending practices where you talk to the people applying for loans? I want those interviews with the long lit reviews sections.
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A group of three PhD students told me today that they were excited to meet a "strong woman in Economics" and I literally have not gotten that moment/statement out of my head. Excuse me while I ride this dopamine through the end of the semester.
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Reminder for those of us at the end of our ropes. If you ssc install dadjoke into Stata- you can just type "dadjoke" into your code when it's making you mad and it will give you a corny joke.
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I'm excited to announce that I will be joining
@WestVirginiaU
in the Fall as a tenure-track AP in Business. My role will be working with Data Driven West Virginia &
@KneeCSOR_WVU
. I will also be the Assistant Director of the Healthcare MBA and Economics MS Programs.
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JMCs, in case no one has reassured you lately. It's okay to not want an R1 research job. It's okay to love teaching. It's okay to leave academia. Focus on your happiness. Most advisors have never worked outside of their current setup, so they are biased towards it.
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I use this paper to show my students how hard it is to publish null results, even if SUPER important. 4 years with rejections of "fascinating, but we don't publish nulls." I'm happy this passion project (and my fave paper) with
@econshishir
has found a great home at Health Econ!!
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I sat down for 16 hours and wrote two complete manuscript drafts today... today was a good day. I earned some sort of chocolate.
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I'm hiring a personal postdoc starting in fall. Does it pay a ton? No. But you only teach if you want, you can do research with any of my centers, have amazing data access to super expensive and rare data, and I'll make sure you can get to any conferences. 1/3
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I have a bunch of students applying/heading off to grad school. So, I threw out today's lecture and gave them an hour-and-a-half of "Here are many data sets you all should be aware of in grad school for each of your fields." I have never seen pens fly across paper so quickly.
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Virtual Econ JMC Advice. This week’s topic is 👩💻Virtual Job Talks👩💼 This is the 2nd in a series of 4 threads I am posting to help JMCs prepare for the virtual market. All advice is from my own experience on both sides of the interview, so take it with a grain of salt
#EconTwitter
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Many grad students told me they're waiting till Thanksgiving or after to get in the Dec 1st deadlines. Don't. Get in your apps now. I must have talked to people from two dozen schools at SEA whose departments entirely jumped the market and are already doing interviews/flyouts.
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Pro tip: The most effective way to get students to show up to virtual office hours is to make yourself a snack and try to eat it while the room is empty.
#EconTwitter
#AcademicChatter
#AcademicTwitter
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Mentioned I turned 31 this month to an undergrad student I'm co-authoring with on a paper. They were shocked because they thought I was in my 40s. Please excuse me as I go crawl into a hole and die.
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I'm seeing lots of tweets struggling with finding reviewers. As someone who submits a ton of papers, I want to balance out that cost by also providing a ton of reviews. I have some bandwidth now. Feel free to send me anything related to regulation and health.
#EconTwitter
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It is always such a joy to see one of your favorite projects leave the nest and fly on its own.
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I just had a student come running into my office excited because they got the Fed internship they had been working hard to get and today is just such a good day. This is why we do what we do.
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I won the Moonshot Award for excellence in university center leadership. This prize money is going to finance my research team and pay for travel to work with legislators on understanding the potential impact of prescriptive authority of pharmacists.
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I am finding that every semester my syllabus just keeps getting longer and longer as I close ingenious loopholes students have found. Will I ever manage a two-page syllabus? How long will it be when I retire?
Fool me once, shame on me.
Fool me twice, it's going in the syllabus.
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My darn students made me this gift basket to say they'll miss me but good luck at WVU and it's filled with thank you cards for the classes I've taught. I'm not crying, you're crying.
#EconTwitter
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Y'all, the College of Charleston has it figured out. This was the first seminar I've ever given where I was provided Corona to drink while lecturing. They are on the next level and we need to learn their ways. (Not to mention all the top tier urban/regional/public people!)
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Lots of people are talking about U.S. quarantine law, but I haven’t seen anyone mention one of the craziest quarantine cases in history- the forced exile of leprosy patients in Hawai'i until the 1960s. So… strap in and let me teach you a fascinating history lesson. 1/17
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It feels awesome to see this paper, Occupational Licensing's Effects on Firm Location and Employment in the United States, in print in the British Journal of Industrial Relations after years of work. Thank you to everyone who gave comments and suggestions!
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Hey
#econtwitter
, I recently took over as the faculty advisor for the undergraduate economics club at my institution. It has had low participation for a while and I am hoping to inspire some new life into it. Any advice?
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Woke up to a rejection, an r&r, article proofs, and a request to review. I'll get BINGO if an acceptance shows up. (trying to put that energy into the world for some revisions that have been back under review for eight months...)
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Non-licensing scholars actually showed up to the 8 a.m. Occupational Licensing session! Amazing. This topic has really grown. For half a decade it was a couple of us talking to each other in a room. Now it's scores of scholars, standalone conferences, and new research every week.
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@jmhorp
Make teaching licenses universally recognized so when good teachers want to move to struggling school systems, they can work without years of additional schooling/training.
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I've become a monster.
Person: Oh yeah, I'm expanding my spa and hoping to bring on a nurse practitioner and massage therapist to increase the range of services I can offer.
Me: <breaks through the wall> DO YOU WANT TO LEARN ABOUT OCCUPATIONAL LICENSING AND SCOPE OF PRACTICE???
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A student just said to me "it was probably before your time, but have you heard of Pokemon?" ... just put me out of my misery. Send me out to pasture. I just grew three gray streaks of hair and contemplated buying a walking cane with that comment.
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My new job
@WVU
"officially" starts tomorrow and I'm delighted to get started. It's going to be amazing to work with them all and I'm enthusiastic about all the cool programs and projects I will get to build and grow with my colleagues.
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When I was a student, a prof once said to me "you're going to miss all the free time you had in grad school." I laughed because I could not imagine being more busy... three years and change out of school and I will admit, that professor was right.
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Did you know that Certificate-of-Need restrictions on substance use disorder treatment facilities is linked with higher rates of infants born with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome in the Medicaid population? Why do we have bed limits for critical treatments?
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I joined the American Journal of Entrepreneurship as an Associate Editor. My purpose in this is not only to publish amazing papers but to update with the times- including the journal on lists, DOI for articles, website updates, submission portal, highlighting neat papers online.
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I'm so absolutely THRILLED to be the new research affiliate of the Knee Center for the Study of Occupational Regulation
@CSOR_SFU
!!!
Surprise! 🎉🎉 We added another research affiliate. Congratulations to
@Alicia_Plemmons
! We are so excited to have you join our affiliate team 👏🏼
#csor
#research
#affiliate
#occupational
#licensing
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The end of the semester is kicking my butt. Waking up to a paper acceptance at Annals of Regional Science makes it suck less though! :)
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@jmhorp
@senatorshoshana
Interesting note- professional Santas are a great example case of a professional organization self-regulating as opposed to government regulation. They have online and in-person Professional Santa Clause School, an optional registration and certification process, and conferences.
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Waking up to an r&r at a premier journal: 🥰🥳💖
Remembering I have three other r&r's all due in the next six weeks that require new data collection and coding, with absolutely zero time, and three upcoming work trips on the books: 😵🤯☠
Please send spare time or good vibes.
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I see a lot of JMCs working on their polished JMP right now. A quick reminder of the absolute gold that Economical Writing by Deirdre McCloskey- a short 80-page booklet that will help you improve tone, clarity, and syntax specifically in econometrics papers.
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Hi, your friendly neighborhood licensing economist here, popping in to remind you that for some reason in the State of Illinois it takes 1,500 hours of experience training to become a Barber but only 480 to become a Police Officer. HMU if you want to know about your state.
#BLM
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Virtual ECON JMC Advice. This week’s topic is 📄Job Docs and Website📃 This is the 3rd in a series of 4 threads to help JMCs prepare for the virtual market. All advice is from my own experience on both side of the interview, so take it with a grain of salt
#EconTwitter
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Want a COVID-19 distraction? Here! Some quirky but real tax deductions! Come learn about the magical (and surprisingly fun) world of Tax Econ. Thread (1/11)
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I started marketing Office Hours as "come hang out in the Study Lounge with other students, I'm on call if you have questions" and there are like 10 students in here just chilling and studying for their midterm together and throwing me occasional questions... Framing Effect, huh?
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@causalinf
My coauthor changed all my instances of "period space" to "period space space." I plan to replace their computer with a typewriter in protest.
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Okay, but seriously, if you're considering a PhD- put UofSC on your list. They treat students so well and are such wonderful people. Prior to my own PhD, I was there for my bachelors and masters and I owe this department so much for their kindness (also for my empirical skills)
Please RT and spread the word. If you are looking for a PhD program where you will be happy, apply to us. PhD program covers tuition, fees, books, computer, software and offers a generous stipend and conference/data etc. More information here: (1/3)
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Check it out, I'm on FOX 2 News talking about the economic impact of job cuts in the St. Louis metro. Honestly, this was pretty fun. I'm so lucky to get to live and work in such an amazing community.
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... If I wrote a short analysis of the occupational licensing within the Pokemon universe would any of you actually read it? Because this stupid thought has been in my brain for like five years and it is a surprisingly super interesting and unique system.
#licensing
If Pikachu were real (sorry hope no kids see this) would he be under FERCs jurisdiction or
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🚨🚨🚨Working Paper Alert🚨🚨🚨 for those interested in how scope of practice laws affects the mobility of nurse practitioners between states. This is joint work between
@econshishir
and
@Alicia_Plemmons
. Read this thread for highlights.
#licensing
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Spent the first night of
#ASHEcon2023
solo destroying an escape room down the road because my hobby is better described as an obsession. Still undefeated 80 rooms in, feeling good about hitting 100 without a loss this year.
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Surreal moment: my student wrote a tax paper and almost her entire citation list is people I know in real life. Maybe I am a public economist, haha.
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Virtual Econ JMC Advice. This week’s topic is ⭐️tech and environment⭐️This is the 1st in a series of 4 threads I will do helping JMCs prepare for the virtual market. All advice is from my own experience on both sides of the interview, so take it with a grain of salt.
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Thank you to editors who send acceptance letters at like 4 a.m. because nothing beats that feeling of rolling over to shut off you alarm and bolting out of bed with excitement over a paper acceptance to start your day :)
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#AcademicTwitter
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@HJWallEcon
@NathanPGoodman
Sure, I get that. But that's why I treat the idea as supplementing the empirical results. I'm tired of reading papers where it is obvious that the author has never, in their entire lives, talked to a practitioner or consumer within that industry- especially rural healthcare.
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WVU Day at the Legislature was a ton of fun. We got to tell many students, staffers, and representatives about our wonderful offerings and outreach in
@wvuchambers
. Bonus, I finally got a selfie with President Gee!
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I do a lot of testifying and advising with legislators on occupational licensing, scope of practice, and CON laws. I'm also super fortunate to be at a university that supports all my research interests and dreams. I can't thank
@SIUE
enough for how amazing they've been to me.
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The secret to finding other economists at the airport? Fly in your super comfy Statasarus shirt and they'll find you.
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Allowing military spouses to have their licenses recognized when they move to new states keeps them in the labor force. The reapplication process for a group that moves every 2-3 years is a high barrier, especially for nurses. Such a simple, yet extremely impactful, solution.
"Military spouse licensing: a case study of registered nurses near military bases"
"full recognition of military spouse licenses increases the probability of employment mobility by around 12%, while more restrictive reforms have the opposite effect"
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@DeAngelisCorey
I'm kinda confused about why people are getting so angry with you over asking what is an interesting question. As a public finance economist who teaches externalities most days, this seems not an illogical question to ask.
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*psssst* hey! Check out the newest member of the Journal of Regional Analysis & Policy editorial board. I'm so honored to give back to this amazing research community.
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I somehow managed perfect teaching evaluations this semester with the main "improvement suggestion" being that the cat needs to be in more of the online videos. All of these comments are so kind after the difficult mid-semester COVID-19 shuffle. I really have the best students.
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Heading down to hang out with the AMAZING faculty in the
@FMI_TTU
! I'm going to be discussing mine and
@econshishir
's work on nurse practitioner scope of practice and opioid prescribing behavior. If you don't catch the talk this time, we are also presenting it at AEA.
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One of my SIUE students got an internship at the St. Louis Fed and sent me this amazing hoodie!!! This fantastic woman is a top tier researcher with so much passion. I'm so lucky to get to teach such amazing people who make the world a better place. I'm so proud of my students.
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For West Virginia Day we found some small town escape rooms based on WV history near New River Gorge. One was Hatfield vs. McCoy and the other was a resort soviet-era bunker. Happy WV Day to all! Let's Go, Mountaineers. It's been a great first year working at WVU.
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Since the new round of the JOE opened today, I just want to give a post of encouragement to our Econ JMCs. The market is tough, but you can do it. Remember to enjoy the fun bits- like everyone enthusiastically asking about your research for months. You got this!
#EconTwitter
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I've decided to teach my undergraduate public students the mathematical proof for Arrow's Impossibility Theorem. Please pray for me.
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In updates that nobody asked for: I volunteered and got voted as the program director for one of our undergrad econ degrees. I'm excited, now I get to do one of my favorite parts of academia: admin work. (Not sarcastic, I'm militantly organized and love admin/leadership roles)
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I got my first piece of hate mail over an op-ed I wrote. Do I frame it?
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Just realized that my Health Economics paper went live. Going to leave this here in case anyone is interested in COVID spread during hurricanes.
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This rise in job switching to travel nurses should highlight to policymakers that we need to address the very limited interstate recognition of nursing licenses. This is a simple policy change that can drastically improve access and responses to disasters or health emergencies.
Some hospitals are offering once unheard-of signing bonuses—up to $40,000—for nurses who accept longer assignments, as high-paying contract jobs draw them away from permanent roles
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@toddrjones
Typically networking. But also, just letting people know you'll be in the area. For example, our speaker series doesn't have a supporting budget- so we can't fly people in. But if they are already in the St. Louis metro, we would love them come to visit and say hello!
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@DeAngelisCorey
Half the things you listed require an occupational license, so we don't even get to freely choose those, only from the licensed ones... maybe we need more choice all around.
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Going to go ahead and point out the irony there is in Wilson knocking on Milgrom's door to announce the "no bell" prize.
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Okay, but this one is really cool. In the top 5 projects I'm most excited to be working on right now.
The working paper I am working on right now with
@Alicia_Plemmons
and
@Pradyot30
. This was a small idea that ballooned into something quite fun.
#econtwitter
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Today, one of our
@KneeCenter_WVU
researchers, Dr.
@darwyyndeyo
presented our findings on physician practice growth within the IMLC to the IMLC Commission annual meeting as the invite lunch talk. What a big deal! Great job, Darwyyn, making a difference educating with research.
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I cannot possibly minimize how absolutely wonderful the people at
@KneeCSOR_WVU
are. If you care about occupational licensing, this legislative analyst job would be an amazing job.
We're officially growing!!! We're a pretty awesome team too, so you definitely don't want to miss out ;-)
#csor
#occupational
#licensing
#research
#jobsearch
#JobSeekers
#legislative
#analyst
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@cblatts
@causalinf
Students get excited when you seem excited. Be a little louder and more animated than normal, focus on the positive sides. And, oh! My students always like it when I interject with random odd facts. Like in taxation- "did you know Lady Gaga's meat dress was tax decutible???"
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Very excited to present two papers at the Arkansas Center for Research in Economics. There will be a public lecture about my work analyzing occupational licensing costs and firm behavior. I will also be talking about occupational licensing effects on self-employment performance.
Next week
@Alicia_Plemmons
will be visiting
@acre_uca
to discuss her research on occupational licensing. We're very excited for her to visit!
More details:
Learn about her research at:
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A reminder, we are writing a book on occupational licensing around the world! Covering institutional nuances across all seven continents (yes, including Antarctica). Still would like a few more contributors from Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and South America.
🚨 Call for Proposals! 🚨
@darwyyndeyo
(
@SJSU
) &
@Alicia_Plemmons
(
@WestVirginiaU
) seek chapter proposals for a book on global occupational licensing systems. 📚 They aim to include country profiles from all continents, beyond US, UK + Europe.
👉More:
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Tomorrow, I'm giving a talk on business regulatory freedom and migration at
@SMUONeilCenter
. This paper, in joint work with
@sriparnaeco
, uses a new dataset from
@CSELatASU
: Doing Business North America. Thrilled to get to show this work to the OG Economic Freedom crowd.
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Every time a student emails me to let me know they got into grad school or got a fancy job, the day gets a little bit brighter.
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I'm giving a series of talks for student clubs on How to Get an Economics Job in an Online World that is getting strong positive responses. If your students are meeting online and need this info, let me know. It's a tough year, I want to help our future economists.
#EconTwitter
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All the final exams are in and I am proud to say after hunting down a few students, sending out DVDs/hard copy packets, and helping students work with internet providers- I did not have a single student ghost or disappear from my roster during COVID-19! That was tough, I'm proud.
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While sad packing up my work office, a letter showed up in my box from a student b/c the project they did in my local & state public course got them an internship in the governor's office and a full ride to law school. I needed that. I love that course. What awesome students.
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FYI: as we expand, our name needed to change. Moving forward, we still go by Knee Center, but it stands for Knee Regulatory Research Center instead of the beloved Knee Center for the Study of Occupational Regulation.
🚨 The wait is finally over! 🚨
The Knee Center has changed its name. Formally known as the Knee Center for the Study of Occupational Regulation, we will now be known as the Knee Regulatory Research Center, but of course you can still refer to us as the 'Knee Center'!
#KneeCenter
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Quick reminder for my fellow migraine friends: to put Stata in Dark Mode you need to go to Edit > Preferences > General Preferences and change the overall color scheme to Dark.
#EconTwitter
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You can now overlay yourself in your Zoom presentations without using an OBS program, and this should not make me as happy as it does. <3 So excited.
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Virtual ECON JMC Advice. This week’s topic is 👩💼Mentorship and Networks👨💼 This is the last in a series of 4 threads to help JMCs prepare for the virtual market. All advice is from my own experience on both sides of the interview so take it with a grant of salt.
#EconTwitter
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I spent weeks investigating the minimum training requirements for police officers in every state so you don't have to. Policy brief this afternoon, data will be available for download.
Happy
#Monday
!
#CSOR
is releasing a police officer
#policy
brief this afternoon! Kevin's enthusiasm describes our feelings perfectly.
#requirements
#analysis
#variables
#Police
#enforcement
#education
#training
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I don't talk about my non-academic life on here mich, but we finished a goal of ours. Finished our 100th escape room and are still undefeated! So my friends and family helped up celebrate. Alice and Wonderland themed. An EXCELLENT room to get our 100 goal on.
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I see JMCs freaking over the AEA notice. We are here for you. Reach out if you want advice on virtual interviews or to do a mock interview. I have a lot of experience with both sides of virtual interviews. I will do a series of tweets with tips over the next week
#EconTwitter
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I'm trying to do my best to start providing childcare for our multi-day conferences during the summer. I'm glad it's been popular! All the kids seem very happy with the video game/board game room. Though next time I need to order more pasta for them!
Attending a scope of practice conference. Child care provided!!! There’s a separate room with video games!
@KneeCenter_WVU
@PacificLegal
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We had so many high-quality applications for the in-person Scope of Practice conference that
@TheIHS
was kind enough to fund an additional workshop. Today, I am hosting the Further Investigation of Healthcare Regulation papers workshop! And oh my gosh, do we have some rockstars!
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When your problem paper finally finds a home and gets accepted at a great journal.
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I actually got on a PhD student for having excessive memes in their presentation... I guess if you live long enough, you see yourself become the villain.
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I'm debating on starting a twitter post series where once I week or so I write up a summary of an important occupational licensing research paper. Would anyone be interested in that?
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"The unregulated market can't incentivize people to avoid hoarding using pricing mechanisms"
The unregulated market: ... bet.
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Reduced restrictions on doctors practicing over state lines, reduced restrictions on telehealth, curbside pickup to-go margaritas, publishers temporarily dropping paywalls, and holding office hours in pajama pants... maybe we should keep some of these changes when this is over.
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NEWSFLASH: Eren Bilen, PhD Candidate from
@UofSC_Econ
, will be visiting
@SIUE
Friday to give a seminar on Superstar Effects. Great for people interested in peer-effects and artificial neural networks. Come on out and support this next generation of researchers, hmu for Zoom link.
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I understand why we got rid of spring break with COVID, I do. But geez am I bummed out writing a sixteen-week schedule with zero breaks in it.
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@causalinf
There is a book on this- Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. Actually a pretty interesting read
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