David Schindler
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Associate Professor of Economics @TilburgU , behavioral economist, father of two, husband, hockey fan and airplane enthusiast.
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🚨🚨 Can 💰💰incentives effectively enhance team performance in non-routine, analytical work 💼💼?
Answer: yes, they do!
Our paper (w/
@simeonschudy
,
@FlorianEnglmai1
, Dominik Grothe & Stefan Grimm) is now forthcoming in the
@JPolEcon
!
A 🧵:
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Apparently, the new neighbors are fellow academics. I hope they're nice and if not I'll rename my WiFi to eduroam and make them go crazy over their login details not working...
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🚨🚨 Why do we need to tell (most of) our graduate students how smart they are many times throughout their PhD? A short 🧵
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🚨🚨Are you doing a Ph.D. in economics and are completely lost?
@cp_roth
and I have set up a website to bundle advice for all sorts of issues Ph.D. students may run into.
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Come do a PhD in the Netherlands, where graduate students are regular employees. Both of my grad students just bought a house...
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For everyone not following Dutch politics closely, what's being discussed for the future of higher education in this country is truly insane, not even indicted former US presidents could come up with something more stupid. Buckle up!
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One of my grad students said yesterday that they came to realize that picking the right advisor matters more for career success than picking the right school. And I believe that's a message we need to deliver to all prospective grad students more frequently.
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I thought about starting to celebrate Daron Acemoglu day, which is the day of the year that my total citations get surpassed by Acemoglu's citations FROM THE CURRENT YEAR. This year it's today, the first day at which Google Scholar reports 2022 citations. He's at 365 already...
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Economist meeting the colleagues from the business school...
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What does it take to successfully complete a Ph.D. program in economics and become a professor afterwards? Some thoughts and a 🧵
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"Do I use the correct certificate? Maybe change the authentication method? Did you try TTLS?"
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Because let's be realistic: the only reason NL was able to punch above its weight scientifically, was because English was the lingua franca in higher ed (and also universally usable in daily life). Let's not ruin that!
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🚨🚨
@cp_roth
and I have provided a resource collection for econ grad students: which we will keep updating and hope you find it helpful!
👉👉 Now we need your input: What other public good would be helpful? Please respond to tweet or DM!
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I'm thinking about learning Python. Of course, I can always hire RAs to do my Python stuff for me, but I really don't want to become the equivalent of the old professor running regressions in Eviews (or the lawyer with the kitty face on Zoom).
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Für mich als Ökonomen absolutiert schockierend. Wer hätte denn ahnen können dass so ein Unsinn wie eine Mietpreisbremse nicht funktioniert?
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In other news: I've been granted tenure and promoted to associate professor
@TiUEconomics
. I'm so grateful to all those advisers, colleagues, editors, referees, students, and everyone else along the way who made this possible. Thanks to all of you!
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Both Paul McCartney and I can write songs.
Both the vaccinated and unvaccinated can spread the virus.
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I have started to assemble a list of questions and remarks I think shouldn't be asked/made in economics seminars. Submissions and corrections welcome!
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Job Market Update: Thanks to all of you 615 people who applied to our vacancy! The search committee had a difficult time screening all the applications over the weekend but has narrowed it down to 194 candidates who will now receive an in-depth review from our colleagues.
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Germany takes new steps to destroy its own higher education system. After max 3yrs of postdoc (total, not per position), it's either full prof or you're out. All built on wishful thinking that suddenly tenure track positions will appear out of nowhere... But this won't happen:
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Classic example of why we need rigorous evidence instead of anecdotes.
@paulkrugman
could have made the opposite point by plotting NL or DK. I know it's easy to score cheap political points with seemingly convincing anecdotes, but academic economists can and should do better.
One of the defining features of the US Covid debacle has been refusal to learn from other countries. Now, as much of the country prepares to open schools, we should — but won't — look at what happened in Israel
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That's why it's called a t-test.
Wait a second, these are not real error bars … the author literally just put the letter “T” above the bar graphs 😭
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I've observed two broad types of graduate students. Those who think they know everything and are the next Einstein (fortunately they're not too many). And those who have impostor syndrome, are in constant self-doubt, and worry about not being smart enough to make it in academia.
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I have been showered with extremely kind responses from job market candidates for the simple, standard rejection emails we've been sending. That shows how much recruiters need to improve in the way they treat their candidates. A simple rejection message doesn't take long...
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So, what's the obvious solution? Increase funding you say? Haha. No. Let's try to make it uncomfortable for international students. How? Make Dutch the mandatory language of instruction. Eh... What?
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🚨🚨 WE ARE HIRING !!!!🥳🤩🎉 (and I am excited about it, can you tell?)
We
@TilburgU
@TiUEconomics
have SEVERAL positions at the junior level this year and I think we are a really, really cool place to work at. Let me elaborate! A🧵
And job ad here:
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I love the Dutch for taking the bike as a mode of transportation seriously.
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The former don't need positive reinforcement obviously, but the latter do. It is your job as a good advisor to make sure you support them also emotionally and give them a better sense of their skills and capabilities. Why?
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Because you want your students to succeed, make sure that they learn to believe in themselves and their abilities. It will make it easier for them in academia (and probably beyond).
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Happened to me at the AER. Happy that the colonial origins paper still got published there eventually.
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Economists: Applying for an academic job in Europe? Please see my new guide to the European Job Market.
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Dear
@Bundeskanzler
, what else does it take to shut off Russian gas and implement harsher sanctions? What? Else? Does? It? Take?
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I think having an honest conversation with grad students about priorities is important.
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African American G.I.s coming to the UK during WWII made England a less racist place... persisting until today.
@Mark_Westcott_
's and my paper "Shocking Racial Attitudes: Black G.I.s in Europe" is now forthcoming at
@RevEconStud
. 1/13
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We have ~35 faculty members of which at least half don't speak Dutch at a level that they could teach in it. Our students in the undergrad program are also ~50% non-Dutch. Since we're financed partly proportionate to the size of our program we risk losing half of our revenues.
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Because information is asymmetric. Our academic success is a combination of ability, work ethic, experience and luck. Leaving luck aside for a moment and also work ethic, experience and ability are what makes you "look smart".
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Additionally, those colleagues not willing to teach in Dutch will go elsewhere, very likely bringing the whole department close to collapse. These are, of course, all people with an extremely high research productivity that this country will lose.
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@jenniferdoleac
First they didn't want us abusing our graduate students, then we weren't even allowed to harass colleagues of equal seniority, and now they're going after our strippers? Enough is enough! What's next for the woke mob? Robbing us of the ability to falsify data?
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But it's incredibly hard from a student's perspective to disentangle the two. If you make a smart comment on their research idea, they don't know if you made the comment because you are very intelligent , or if you've just heard this type of comment many times before.
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With European top econ departments gradually closing the gap to US depts plus the Trump presidency, I've already observed a higher willingness of international candidates to return to Europe after PhD. Curious to see how yesterday's SCOTUS decision affects this year's job market.
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For years, the Netherlands have struggled with increasing student numbers while the government has not felt inclined to increase the education budget accordingly. As a result, classes have become bigger and some universities have hit constraints.
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Exactly those are the plans by the education minister
@RHDijkgraaf
(former director of
@the_IAS
, so someone who *should* know the value of an internationally competitive academic system). What do these plans look like precisely?
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This will be catastrophic for some universities in the border region to Germany that get thousands of German students but for us
@TilburgU_TiSEM
it would be terrible too: here's why using my department as an example:
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The most insane aspect of this is that the Netherlands have been struggling for years with a severe staff shortage. So instead of making it more attractive for intl students to stay, we drive them away. Huh?
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Job market candidates: this week seems to be decision week for many of you. Reminder to give weight to factors like quality of life, balancing family needs, or how you were treated during your (possibly virtual) visit. Prestige is not everything.
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Did you miss the European Job Market Info Session at
#EEAESEM22
or do you want to have another look at the materials? You can now download the slides from , a public good with lots of advice assembled by
@cp_roth
and myself.
@EEANews
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In my experience, it's often the latter, but humans tend to over attribute outcomes to static ability in my view. That's why you need to correct your student's perceptions whenever you can.
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This will make education worse, reduce human capital and cost this country dearly. And make no mistake, this will hit other econ departments in this country similarly. Most departments I know haven't hired Dutch people for years (bc they want to hire from the global best)
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Dear European economists working at US institutions. If recent tweets and policy decisions by the President have made you think about returning to the old world, please reach out to me and let me tell you all the exciting things we have to offer!
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What happened after the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting when firearm sales surged? States that implemented laws that delay gun purchases witnessed fewer gun sales and homicides.
Thrilled that my job market paper is now forthcoming
@restatjournal
:
A 🧵:
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I think every graduate student should do this, not only for the top 5 but for all econ journals. If you're not reading at least 40 papers a day, you're lazy.
When I was in 3rd year of PhD, I read every paper published in AER, QJE, JPE from 2000-2020, bc I wanted to get a sense of what everyone was working on. It took I think 3 full time months, spread out over half a year or so? Was great and gave me a bunch of useful perspective
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My job market paper is finally out in the September issue of
@restatjournal
! Bottom line: following the Sandy Hook shooting, impulsive gun sales soared and these additional sales led to many more homicides, particularly domestic ones.
What happened after the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting when firearm sales surged? States that implemented laws that delay gun purchases witnessed fewer gun sales and homicides.
Thrilled that my job market paper is now forthcoming
@restatjournal
:
A 🧵:
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I asked ChatGPT to depict a German economics professor in the Netherlands. And then make him more German and the environment more Dutch.
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The best part of switching to daylight savings time is that Europe and the US do it a few weeks apart to maximize confusion for people setting up transatlantic calls.
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Former job market paper conditionally accepted. Thanks, wonderful referees! This is a much more convincing paper now! So excited to move on to other projects!
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🚨🚨WE ARE HIRING !!!! 🥳🤩🎉
We
@TiUEconomics
@TilburgU_TiSEM
have SEVERAL positions at the junior level this year and I think we are a really, really cool place to work at. Let me elaborate! A🧵
And job ad here:
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I truly believe that if implemented, this policy measure will have disastrous implications potentially destroying several academic fields in this country. I hope that policy makers come to their senses and define exceptions matching reality.
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Just finished teaching my last class for the year 2023. Full time research is waiting, life is good!
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I'm advising an extremely talented undergrad with pre-doc applications, and today, he wrote me: "I finished the coding exercise yesterday. Had to quickly learn LaTeX for it. So eventually, it was a bit more work than expected. But did work out quite well eventually." 🤯🤯
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I am very uncomfortable with the private address and phone number of an individual being released publicly, even if that individual is operating a terrible website that deserves to be shut down.
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The Dutch government announced a budget today that slashes research funding so drastically that we will almost certainly witness mass layoffs at Dutch universities and an inevitable decline of Dutch academia. Dutch voters have been made poorer today.
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🎉🎉🎉 Super excited to spend the next 3 years
@TilburgU
@TilburgU_TiSEM
investigating the drivers of performance in modern work environments using insights from escape games. Thanks
@NWO_SSH
@NWONieuws
for financing this endeavor with a
#Veni
grant.
Good news for 78 young scientists from the fields of Social Sciences and Humanities and Applied and Engineering Sciences: they receive a Veni grant enabling them to further develop their research ideas in the next three years. Find out about their plans
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Apparently the Dutch education minister is submitting a proposal for a law explicitly allowing for universities to terminate tenured (!!!) faculty members who don't speak Dutch well enough (if they teach in programs that will no longer be allowed to be taught in English).
"The five-year term should give institutions enough time to dismiss instructors who do not meet the language requirements. This has major consequences for personnel and financial consequences for institutions in possible dismissal procedures ..."
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Undergraduate programs should contain at most 1/3 courses taught in English (apparently there can be narrowly defined exceptions, but details are still unclear). Graduate programs can still be in English.
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With a week left until the application deadline (if you haven't applied yet, don't forget to do so: ), I wanted to share some insights into the process of how we screen and select candidates for interviews.
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This award means so much to me! Thank you,
@EEANews
, for your support and help in improving outcomes for the next generation of economists! Winning this award together with Anna is a dream come true.
@TilburgU
@TilburgU_TiSEM
@TiUEconomics
We are delighted to announce that Anna Salomons
@UniUtrecht
&
@DSchindlerEcon
are awarded the 2024 Role Models in Economics Award
Full announcement:
Huge congratulations to both!
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I am shocked to just now learn about these allegations against someone who has been so hugely influential on the field of behavioral econ. This needs to be fully investigated. Sexual harassment needs to be taken seriously in our and all other fields.
Yesterday I learned that a senior Prof that I was personally warned abt b4 going to a conference as a gradstudent (bc he had slept with a female student at said conference before), has been accused of having sex w (by which I think we should understand rape) his own Phd students
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Hiring season is finally over! I'm super excited that we managed to attract
@LukasBolte_
to join us
@TiUEconomics
! He'll do a postdoc first, but we can't wait for him to join our ranks!
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Robustness checks in a QJE paper be like...
Einstein. Curie. Turing. Tesla. And then this person. The snacklebox. I am shook.
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🚨🚨 Conference alert: Call for Papers 🚨🚨
I'm so excited to co-organize the conference "The Workplace of the Future" in Tilburg on Sep 3 & 4, 2024.
Keynote lectures by
@orianabandiera
and
@Econ_4_Everyone
Submit now:
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@AarnoudHoekstra
I hate to break it to you, but the world's best academics don't spend all day to learn Dutch...
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Is there any policy topic with such positive economic effects while being viewed so negatively by the general public as immigration?
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Teaching 50 students without mask mandate in person + having 2 kids in daycare... I'm surprised it took me that long...
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Question to
#econometrics
people: What's the current best practice when doing some sort of matching exercise? Everybody hates on PSM, but what should I do instead? Do matching with LASSO? Or sth else? Any pointers welcome!
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I just posted our flyout list on EconTrack: Bolte (Stanford), Szerman (Princeton), Mehmood (NES), Malhotra (Warwick), Seibel (Zurich), Wangner (Toulouse), Vitali (UCL), Grindaker (BI Business School), Fan (Stanford), Ashtari Tafti (UCL). These are all tremendous researchers...
I will post the names of the people we fly out (subject to their approval) on EconTrack in the next few days.
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Job market season is finally over and I'm super excited about the outcome! We've had three junior positions to fill this year (apart from some ongoing senior hiring), and I couldn't be more thrilled about the great people that will join us this year (or later after a postdoc):
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My flight to Atlanta is full with economists. The lady next to me is refereeing a paper. Lucky for her not mine...
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Why am I writing this? I want (future) students to be aware of what matters: Picking the "right" supervisor who is interested in your progress and can train you in the right things; Find your personal stance on how much you want to work; Acknowledge the role of luck an be humble.
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I wonder how many candidates fall through the cracks simply because their letter writers don't know how to write a recommendation letter...
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Dear job market candidates: All the best of luck in these stressful times. I'm sure you'll do tremendously well in your interviews this week.
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I hope that when all of this is over, the EU instantly admits Ukraine as a new member. A country full of people willing to give their lives to save their democracy from a tyrant. What else do we want?
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Super thrilled that our paper won a prize! Thanks to the many, many people who helped us with this project!
African American G.I.s coming to the UK during WWII made England a less racist place... persisting until today.
@Mark_Westcott_
's and my paper "Shocking Racial Attitudes: Black G.I.s in Europe" is now forthcoming at
@RevEconStud
. 1/13
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Simon was such an outstanding CEO of IZA. Attracting him to that role was really the best thing that could have happened. Sad to see him go!
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Economics paper claiming to investigate sth for the first time while huge literature in sociology has done so extensively for decades...
h/t
@KhoaVuUmn
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Pregnant job market candidates: No need to hide pregnancy when interviewing with
@TiUEconomics
. We think: Starting to raise children in NL only means you're more likely to stay for good! Sorry for all those having made negative experiences elsewhere!
When I entered academic job market, I was pregnant w/my 1st. Had 5 campus interviews near due date & told the only female search committee chair of the bunch know. She cancelled my visit & I never heard from them again. I think about this a lot serving as search committee chair.
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I found this perpetual license of Stata 12 IC I bought when I was an undergrad. Since I don't need it anymore, I'm giving it away (for free) to the first student from a low or middle income country who sends me a DM.
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Job market candidates: We have now completed a first-round review. Out of 860 applications, we have passed 218 for in-depth departmental review to our colleagues. They have until November 28 to finish their reviews. The committee meets the week after to determine interviews.
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Five years ago today I went on my last flyout and received my first offer. Doing the job I love, I still can't believe how privileged I am and how much luck I've had! Hang in there job market candidates, you're doing tremendously well!
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As someone who has been on the academic job market I can attest that this is not true. You can already hate your paper and still have to work on it for two more years...
How to know when your thesis/paper is done?
You hate every inch of it.
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Advisor: "I think a model would nicely tie your empirical findings together."
Student:
This is the single worst facadism job I have seen in my life. They didn't even try!
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Outsiders (e.g., students) often don't see how many of our projects fail. I've supervised many undergrad theses where a lack of statistical significance made the student worry about their grade. We need to be more transparent about our failures!
On Twitter, it's easy to think everyone else's research is spectacular and no one else is hitting roadblocks. So today I'm sharing a DiD graph I made that...isn't so spectacular. To younger scholars out there: Research is hard! Things don't always work perfectly. Keep at it.
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Driving the Christmas tree home in my cargo bike... I love this country!
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This tweet is gaining some traction. If you want to get a PhD in economics, check out our program
@TiUEconomics
: It's an excellent group of students and we give everything to make them successful academics. Deadline soon! Join us!
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I find Francesca Gino's approach to dealing with the fraudulent data scandal morally reprehensible. But I'm astonished how many people on LinkedIn think that this frivolous lawsuit is an acceptable response...
LinkedIn is wild. Also, She’s going monetize this thing regardless of outcome and that is true grifting 👏🏽
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If you want to access the slides from yesterday's job market session at
#EEAESEM24
, we posted them here: and also on EconGradAdvice (where you'll find plenty of other resources concerning the job market and career advice):
@EEANews
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Last year, my Daron Acemoglu day was January 4th, this year it was January 3rd. It seems that his current year citations are rising faster than my total citation count...
I thought about starting to celebrate Daron Acemoglu day, which is the day of the year that my total citations get surpassed by Acemoglu's citations FROM THE CURRENT YEAR. This year it's today, the first day at which Google Scholar reports 2022 citations. He's at 365 already...
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The European Job Market Morning at
#EEAESEM24
is underway. Around 130 job market candidates showed up to learn about what the European Job Market is all about.
@EEANews
@RoyalEconSoc
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I love it when foreign dignitaries visit the Netherlands and get "treated" with the same "sandwiches" as the locals.
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