Amanda Agan
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Associate Professor, Cornell University Department of Economics and Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy
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R advice needed - I am (thinking of) switching my undergrad 'metrics class from Stata to R. 2 questions: 1 - what exactly do my students (and I!) need to download to use R 2 - what introductory tutorial is most helpful for students (and me)
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I am really good at LaTeX = I am really good at copying-pasting things I or others have done before, but couldn't type from scratch for the life of me.
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An algorithm decided you should see this tweet! Our new paper shows a big problem with algorithmic curation: it hides content by people not like you (different races for example).
You say: sure, that’s because users themselves are prejudiced.
We say: it's something more!
🧵
Evidence that curation algorithms (recommender systems) can learn and propagate biases that users themselves do not want, from
@AmandaYAgan
, Diag Davenport, Jens Ludwig, and
@m_sendhil
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That feeling when one of your best friends was literally in the room when you got the news! I have been very lucky to have so many incredible mentors, friends, and co-authors in this profession. I am grateful to every one of them!
So excited that I got to be
@RutgersU
when
@AmandaYAgan
found she got tenure!!!! Well deserved celebration drinks are happening.
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Hard to keep track of all the good writing/presentation advice for econ on web to share with students. Started collecting here - Let me know what I've missed.
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Beamer peeps: we really do NOT need the constant reminder of your name/title/date at the bottom of slides (slide nums I like though!) -
\setbeamertemplate{footline}[frame number]
\setbeamertemplate{navigation symbols}{}
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Me, doing a field experiment: I should stick with observational data, this is so much effort
Me, with obs data: Everyone has 8 million opinions on what to run/add - I should just do field experiments
My likely career: repeat ad nauseum
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Anyone have examples of really good figures from economics papers to show students about how to label and write notes so that everything is understood easily?
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Need to merge in State FIPS codes? Sick of having a random merge file around to do it? Use
@Stata
? This user-written command statastates is really helpful (I did not write it!)
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How is "multiple datasets in memory" not the first thing written on this list!? Way to bury the lede
@stata
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Preparing for rally tomorrow. Would like, someday, to stop modifying this shirt...
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How to fold a fitted sheet: crumple it up in a vaguely folded way and throw it in the closet because who cares this is way too much effort. Don’t @ me fitted sheet folders.
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That warm and fuzzy feeling when you are not the only person up early and seeing the Econ Nobel announcement. Congrats to the Laureates and more fun day teaching causal inference today! Hard not to think that Alan Krueger would have been included in a different universe too...
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Oh hey... I know that guy! 😍
We're thrilled to announce that the Princeton University Board of Trustees has approved the promotion of Ezra Oberfield to the role of associate professor with tenure. Congrats to Professor Oberfield!
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Very excited to join the
@JPAM_DC
team as a co-editor! Many great crime and labor papers being published there - look forward to helping identify more awesome work in these areas, so please send yours our way. 😊
We are excited to announce that the
@AmandaYAgan
,
@indigenalysis
, &
@AaronChalfin
are joining JPAM as new co-editors. They will broaden our expertise in the areas of crime policy, labor economics, & economic development. We are thrilled to have them on board. Welcome to the team!
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Our job ad is up!
@jenniferdoleac
,
@annalilharvey
, and I are hiring 2 post-docs for 2 year positions to work with us on research on prosecution! Please apply, details here:
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@MeganTStevenson
@Stata
If you know the value label name (type desc gender to find it), imagine it is GENDER, then you can do sum height if gender=="female":GENDER
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Need a black and green one. I guess she is too young to immediately set preferences -> color scheme: classic.
Anyone else getting creative with their face masks? Post yours below!
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A thread w/ my (very humble) advice for short conference presentations (like AEAs/APPAM). Mainly for applied micro talks. Been thinking about writing this since APPAM, seems just before the AEAs is a good time. Some advice is good for any talk. h/t to many I have learned from....
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Hell is having to use the password reset function, only to have it say you cannot re-use a recently used password! I JUST WANT TO SUBMIT THIS REFEREE REPORT AND GO HOME. Yes this is a subtweet of all editorial websites that make you log-in to submit.
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Why Elsevier - why? Is someone going to log in and finish my reviews for me? And I mean I won't remember this one either, so what's the point.
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Woohoo! I need to get my co-authors on twitter though...
Poverty increases the chance of conviction but changing the way we pay publicly provided lawyers may help.
Just accepted new paper by
@AmandaYAgan
, Matthew Freedman & Emily Owen. Read the WP here:
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See me in Rio in December, thanks to
@claudferraz
. Also, a reminder to be careful how you answer the question "Can you send me the title of your talk"!
Ótimo programa do encontro da SBE, no Rio em dezembro, já está online. Parabéns aos organizadores Braz Camargo e Vladimir Ponczec, muita coisa boa incluindo plenárias do
@DrNathanNunn
e sessão de crime com
@amandayagan
e
@gmastrob
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In response to recent retraction of paper:
I feel the same uneasiness. Why is the fact that the main effect changed a reason to retract rather than update if everyone agrees with methodology is sound? Isn't this the publication bias we are worried about?
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Am I the only one who has to use the "Forgot my username and/or password" feature basically every time I try to submit a referee report?
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Excited to be visiting
@CEMFInews
in Madrid this Fall 2023! Excited to make connections with more people in Europe. If you know about cool conferences please reach out and let me know!
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Need a copy of my own paper, too lazy to look through folders on computer so google it. Find official journal website but hit paywall! Try to log-in through university proxy, doesn't work. Give up and just find submitted version on my computer...🤦♀️
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How often is the code we comment out "OLD CODE HERE IN CASE EVER NEEDED", ever truly needed?
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Rutgers email subject: "A Game-changing $4 Million Gift"
Me: Oh cool, what kind of new research center are we getting?
Opens email: "A Game-Changing $4 Million Gift for New Football Locker Room"
Me: ...
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When
@metrics52
tweets your writing and presentations tips for grad students - hope they help! Good luck to all the grad students on the market. And good luck to everyone hunkering down working on revisions, making slides, or writing referee reports.
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We find that nonprosecution dramatically *reduces* the likelihood of future criminal legal contact. (Our primary outcome measure is a future criminal complaint — basically an arrest w/ probable cause. We see similar effects on future prosecutions and criminal records.)
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Genius. Also unplug wifi router - or throw $10 in trash then leave it unplugged anyway.
Here’s a helpful set up that you can use at home to get referee reports done. Just requires two chairs: one uncomfortable one, and one that reclines
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Honored to be joining the HCEO network!
We would like to introduce
@AmandaYAgan
, the newest member of our Inequality: Measurement, Interpretation, and Policy network. She is Assistant Professor of Economics
@RutgersU
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Great thread on the invisible labor of user-written Stata commands. I can't imagine the questions and "can you make it do this" requests the authors must get!
Also big shout out to
@JulianReif
- author of regsave and many other useful commands:
Software developer appreciation day!
#econtwitter
User-written commands for statistical software is incredibly useful and a public good, yet the payoff from programming in terms of prestige and publications is low. Programming takes a lot of time, particularly the work [1/3]
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People! Stop starting all these new and interesting online conferences. I have no time left as it is, at least in the early isolation phase I didn’t feel like I was missing out on seminars etc... (yes this is a subtweet 😜).
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To conference organizing staff: you do amazing work that we so appreciate, but we will likely not have our slides days before, the day before, or probably even the morning of the conference!
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So...uh... how many people are googling "how to get cat filter on zoom" so they can start their classes tomorrow as zoom cat?? Just me? I mean... asking for a friend!
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Agree... sad day for the profession 😆
Terrible news: some economists developed a way to signal that all authors deserve equal credit for a paper without listing the names alphabetically.
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As I try to beautify my presentation, have to give mad props (again I think) to
@paulgp
and his beamer tips. Re-upping for anyone who has not seen them:
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Me: I'm a serious economists and I only use twitter for work-related stuff
Twitter algorithm: :::eye roll::: nice try, here are some celebrity gossip trends with a smattering of politics
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Hello gray sweater, my old friend
I've come to wear you once again
Because comfy is all I need to be
And you look decent in a Zoom meeting
And the wardrobe I curated, it's all in vain
As I remain
Trapped at home by this pestilence
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Whoops! Started
#TxECW2019
Econ of Crime conference with some real-world contact with a campus cop. The things I do for research....
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Agree! Recalled recently how many of my projects began at conferences-not from the talks per se but talking to people at coffee or drinks! It is devastating for this to continue. There are advantages to virtual but huge disadvantages also, particularly for new juniors.
I can understand why people are happy about virtual conferences, but for juniors needing to network and for those wanting to see friends after over a year of isolation, it's a big blow. Are we really going to do this forever? Clearly, there are benefits to in-person events too!
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My review article "Racial Disparities in the Criminal Legal System: Shadows of Doubt and Beyond" is finally out in the JEL! This article was a real labor of love. A mixture of broad overview and review of the thought-provoking book by Brendan O'Flaherty &
@rajivatbarnard
The June 2024 issue of the Journal of Economic Literature (62, 2) is now available online at .
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Fell asleep during super bowl. Came to Twitter to figure out who won. 5 minutes in and I still have *no idea* who won. Do know a lot more opinions on programs for econometrics...
#youknowyoureaneconomistwhen
?
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Nailed it? (Couldn’t quite handle pants.... gotta thank my Rothys!)
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We (
@sonjastarr
and I) are happy to have our paper out! Using data from our large-scale audit study to look at the association between employer neighborhood racial composition and racial disparities in callbacks. One us will try to get a thread up about the results soon!
A large field experiment shows that racial composition of employer neighborhoods predicts employment discrimination (suggesting in-group bias), job availability, and the effects of Ban-the-Box laws, from
@amandayagan
and
@sonjastarr
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Simple R question - from a Stata user. Stata ttest command will give you standard error of mean difference. It seems that simple R t.test does NOT do this. I want the students to be able to get the std error of diff - how can they do it *easily*?
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Just adding another devastated voice to the chorus. He was a character in many an anecdote from my time at Princeton. He will be sorely missed personally and professionally...
We are saddened to share that Professor Alan Krueger passed away over the weekend. A true scholar and public servant, Alan will be deeply missed by the University community:
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Steve Levitt reviews influential econ of crime research in the JPE:
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My paper with Sonja Starr is no longer "forthcoming"! Check it out and the other cool papers in the Feb QJE.
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The outdoor hotel pool is an underrated place to work on slides, highly recommend. (I mean, uh, I totally finished my discussion slides several days ago).
#ASSA2020
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There is never a better time to respond to random tweets, do laundry, and finally organize your closet than when one is staring down 75 project proposals to grade....
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Results appear to be driven by first-time defendants. This suggests that using nonprosecution as a ‘second chance’ to keep people out of the criminal legal system to begin with has the biggest benefits.
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I just turned down a referee report request and I feel like a jerk (too many outstanding reports). Tell me the editor won't forever hate me, and tell me you've said no also? A good friend (and tweep!) told me I have to get better at saying no, but I feel so guilty...
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Excited for our paper to have found such a great home
Officially forthcoming at QJE:
@amandayagan
and Sonja Starr paper showing
#banthebox
increases racial discrimination
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Desperate times lead to toys on the Seder plate - chag sameach all celebrating!
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Needs to write referee reports (yes plural)...
.... decides this would be a good time to organize dropbox folder. And the hallway closet. Oh and weren't there somethings we needed on Amazon!?
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Hardest part of preparing lectures for grad students: choosing what small sliver of all the cool research to cover, I always feel like I'm not doing enough... (2nd hardest: understanding all of it well enough to teach it)
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Beautiful day, beautiful feeling. I just donated to
@fairfightaction
to honor
@staceyabrams
- hope you’ll join me. Enjoy the celebrations! 🎉
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I chaired a great Econ of Crime session at
#ASSA2018
yesterday. Chair job not so taxing when the participants stayed on time so well! Thread on these interesting papers:
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People - stop bringing your leftover halloween candy to work! I bought candy I don't like at home for just this reason, but now I have to eat a mini-snickers every time I walk to the bathroom....
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How much time is wasted filling out IRB forms for analyzing *existing* data, using forms clearly meant for (mainly medical) experiments?
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...and
@PikaGoldin
! Honored for my Ban the Box research with Sonja Starr to appear on this list with so many people I admire.
The best economics research of 2018, according to a star studded cast. Thanks to
@ProfEmilyOster
,
@susan_athey
, Raj Chetty, David Card,
@SandyDarity
,
@davidautor
,
@jenniferdoleac
,
@Alan_Krueger
, James Heckman, Alvin Roth, and John List
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Course eval season! Under Other Comments or Suggestions:
"...this course was far too easy in my opinion"
literally next comment:
"it should not be required for econ majors... it is too difficult"
Hopefully this means I pitched it just right.
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I spend a lot of time with my econometrics undergrads on percent vs. percentage points (and which estimation strategies get you which one!). It's tough at first, but once they get it they start to see mistakes like (1) in a lot of places.
Sometimes it's helpful to go back to the very basics. In 1994, Michigan raised its sales tax from 4% to 6%. Which of the following properly describes the increase?
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When your PhD institution just can’t quit you... even 6 years later 😂 fun to be back for the First (Annual!) Chicago-LSE Crime conference a few days ago - next year in London.
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I have spent nearly my whole day trying to write one footnote.
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Woohoo! Excited to have
@JacobBastian25
as our newest colleague at Rutgers. Awesome addition to our department - follow him if you don’t already!
I am very happy to announce that next year I’ll be joining
@RutgersU
as an Assistant Professor of Economics!
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NBER SI Crime sessions start today! Great line up. Not as good as being together in person but looking forward to these talks. Livestream link:
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We (
@mikemakowsky
and I) once downloaded data where one of the variables was called "statefip" but was actually just 1-51 numbering of the states (+DC). So that was....fun.
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I am planning to host an event at SOLE for attendees who are interested in the economics of crime. If you will be at SOLE and this sounds like you and you haven’t heard from me already can you drop me a line?
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First I'm seeing this - proposal from BJS to collect public court records from across the U.S. into a giant dataset, hopefully available to researchers? This would be an amazing resource.
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Great opportunity for junior sabbaticals at SIEPR! I am here at Stanford now for this academic year and loving it already thanks to this program. See thread below with info - deadline for 2020-2021 AY is Oct 1 (for Visiting Fellows).
SIEPR is pleased to announce that applications are now open for the SIEPR Young Scholars program for the 2020-2021 academic year! We offer a vibrant and collegial environment to work on applied policy-relevant topics for new and recent PhDs in economics. More info below…
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Two opportunities to see summaries of my research on salary history disclosure with
@bocowgill
and
@LauraKGee
this week! One at
@voxeu
: and in
@nberpubs
NBER Digest:
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Feeling similarly. Also, with all my upcoming seminars/conferences cancelled I feel unanchored - the ability to work on *anything* has me close to working on nothing!
Just want to be honest and say that while I’m at my desk, it’s quiet, I’ve got plenty to do and all the means to do it, I can’t focus. I suspect I’m not alone in this. Trying to be forgiving of myself. This is an unsettling time.
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And the results are in:
49% of you are too young to remember classic/too lazy to for the series of clicks it takes to change it
31% are correct
3% are monsters
17% are sanctimonious
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I have complained so many times about referee report log-in procedures. Every time you all yell at me: get a password manager. SO I DID. And I use it religiously. And... here I am just trying to submit this report 😩
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Spouse filled in male for our daughter at first. I yelled “measurement error!”.
(He corrected it!)
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Hope you enjoy this podcast covering our new NBER WP on criminal record remediation policies and employment:
I am trying for the Probable Causation 5-timers club jacket, which
@jenniferdoleac
promises will be a thing!
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*EXACTLY* how I feel whenever someone knocks and says "have a minute?"!
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A gif(t) for all my fellow new, current, and future associate profs!
(Courtesy, of course, of Wet Hot American Summer)
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@paulgp
I don't think they are advocating F-statistics in the 100s "or nothing". They are saying that with lower ones you need an inflation factor for the critical values for 95% CIs. Generally they would advocate estimating Anderson-Rubin CIs which are robust to weak instruments.
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This is an amazing resource for researchers AND especially professors. Plan to use this in my criminal justice research methods course - the students can play with data, learn about rates vs levels, etc...!
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The Michigan AG has filed two amicus briefs citing plethora of rigorous evidence from researchers to argue the sex offender registries are not effective and are actually punishment:
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@leah_boustan
Do you think I'm crazy? I feel like R is really taking off and that it would be better for them? Also course is already expensive between the textbook and "myeconlab" which I feel bad about, so R being free feels good to allow flexibility to use at home.
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Overall, it appears that scaling back prosecution in Suffolk County, MA has big beneficial results. Of course, effects might be different in other places. We’re already working with other DAs’ offices to consider the effects of similar policy changes elsewhere. Stay tuned!
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This is true in NJ as well. I registered on NJ's COVID vaccination portal a few days ago and they asked for my occupation sector (Higher education) and this morning I got an email that I would be in Phase 1C.
Virginia just updated its
#COVID19
vaccination guidelines to deem university faculty “additional essential workers.”
This puts us in phase 1c of the state's vaccination plans.
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Please, please skip the literature review slide. You only have 15-20 minutes, don't spend 3-5 of them on other people's research.
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Yes - exactly! I have heard over and over that you will get compared to people who graduated the same PhD year as you. But then what good does the "clock stoppage" really do?
I have been writing some tenure letters this week. No one provides clear info about clock stoppage. All you know is PhD year.
So, if men stop and work but women stop and engage in infant care, I will divide by same number of “years since PhD” in error
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Why do the usernames and password have to be so complicated? Am I worried someone will submit my referee report for me? I would relish it :)
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Finally a WP version of my paper with E. Owens and M. Freedman on indigent defense:
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#2020APPAM
is this week! On Thursday from 5-6pm et there will be 15 policy area receptions.
@ProfEmilyOwens
and I are co-hosting the Crime, Justice, and Drugs one - so grab a drink and join us! No need to RSVP, and you can hop around between receptions
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@jenniferdoleac
In a similar vein - buy a bunch of power bars/granola bars/iced coffee in a jar things/whatever you like. You likely won't have time to "stop for lunch", and again lines will be long! This was my shopping before interviews in San Diego!
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Communities across the U.S. are debating whether low-level offenses should be prosecuted in a criminal court, or whether prosecution does more harm than good. Many places have elected reform-minded District Attorneys who promise to scale back the prosecution of these offenses.
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My co-worker is running around in his underwear
For everyone trying to work from home: Tell us something your kid(s)/pet(s)/significant other did, but call them your coworkers.
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