Emily Nix
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Labor economist and professor @USC @USCMarshall. NOLA born and raised, UNC @MoreheadCain BA and Yale PhD educated. Views are my own.
Los Angeles, CA
Joined January 2018
๐จNew paper w/ @lsThisMyWorld & @MontonenJerry . ๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ซ๐๐๐ค๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฎ๐ฉ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐จ๐ฌ๐ฌ. Romantic relationships b/w coworkers are common but evidence of implications for those involved & the firm is almost nonexistent. [1/8].
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"Papers are never truly done, one just gets sufficiently sick of them to submit them.". -proverb (by me).
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And here is my first lightboard setup!! Note, just 1.5 days ago I learned of the existence of lightboard (and OBS), built my own small test, learned OBS, so my lighting/delivery/backdrop/etc need some work, but I think this could make for fantastic online classes this fall๐๐
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Teaching my first ever online class tomorrow! Here is a preview of what my class will look like for my students from their zoom windows. Looking forward to welcoming each and every one of the 160 students that I will be teaching this semester in my classes.
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Check out this great article on my teaching innovations to hopefully provide a high quality experience for my students online this fall! Doing my best to turn lemons into lemonade. Also I'm now ready to be an economist youtube/tiktok influencer๐.
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๐งต on new paper w/ @abicadams, @KristiinaHuttu2 & @ningzhang0927: "Violence Against Women at Work". #MeToo demonstrated assaults b/w colleagues are an internationally relevant phenomenon. We study consequences of realized assaults for perpetrators, victims & wider firm. [1/18]
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Incredible news to wake up to!!!!!!๐๐พ๐ฅณ. Claudia Goldin made the quite subversive choice to study women - what shapes their labor supply decisions, their labor market outcomes, and more - at a time when most did not consider 50% of the population worthy of such study. [1/3].
BREAKING NEWS.The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2023 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Claudia Goldin โfor having advanced our understanding of womenโs labour market outcomes.โ. #NobelPrize
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As we're discussing economics culture issues, a personal story. I struggled my first year. I came straight out of undergrad (w/ 1 year between starting NGO) and was behind. When I asked profs how to improve, one explicitly told me "not everyone is meant to be an economist" [1/5].
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This paper was a complete passion project. Too many women experience violence at work. Hopefully, by understanding the costs of these events and role of management in mediating them, we can do better. For it to land in such an amazing & dream journal is such an honor๐๐ฅณ [1/3].
Recently accepted by #QJE, โViolence against Women at Work,โ by Adams-Prassl (@abicadams), Huttunen (@KristiinaHuttu2), Nix (@EmilyNix100), and Zhang (@ningzhang0927):
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I sometimes have students ask me about careers in academia and what I recommend. That is a very hard q to answer. On the one hand, there is lots I love about my job: great co-authors, lots of flexibility, creatively challenging work. On the other hand, some big negatives. [1/6].
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I've occasionally had grad students who seem to think cleaning and doing all the nitty gritty of data collection and analysis is beneath them. Completely wrong, data collection, cleaning, and analysis is usually >75% of my time on a paper, and often the most challenging.
@snavarrol @causalinf Scott, I do think the original point made in your thread is VERY impt for applied people, esp grad students on #EconTwitter. Putting together data is likely NOT why any one decided to get a PhD in econ. But the entirety of a paper is conditional on the data being "right.".
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A big chunk of my research agenda since PhD focuses on violence against women & their LFP. Early on a senior economist told me these weren't important questions. I vehemently disagreed but worried I wouldn't publish well. But this prompted an important career realization: [1/5].
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Paper accepted๐๐๐ Plan to write a full thread once it is officially in print, but just enjoying it today๐ฅณ Very proud of this piece and grateful to have worked with an amazing co-author and a wonderful editor.
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Was feeling guilty about not working more this weekend (I only did some fun work) and then I came across this Biden memo. And I thought, if taking some time off on a weekend makes me not the sort of employee academia wants, then maybe they're not the employer I should want.
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It's me!๐ Been a long week and the kind comments are making my work day better today. Cannot believe so many have watched this interview that originally aired on @KTLAMorningNews with @richontech. Great to have a career with opportunity to have big impact in research+teaching.
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En route to present very new paper at NBER Organizational Econ: . ๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ซ๐๐๐ค๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ฉ ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐จ๐ฌ๐ฌ: ๐๐๐ง๐๐๐ข๐ญ๐ฌ, ๐๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฌ, ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐ฌ w/ Macdonald & @MontonenJerry . Join us on Youtube livestream:
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Op-ed on my newest paper w/ @abicadams, @KristiinaHuttu2 & @ningzhang0927 out today in @PostOpinions. We provide rigorous evidence documenting what victims have long spoken about: the important role of economic suppression in abusive relationships. [1/3]
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A reminder of the impacts of children on women's careers. Graph from our paper showing women's incomes drop around 20% after birth, persisting at least 5 years. Kids can be great, but are really costly. Full paper with @eckhoffandresen found here:
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Just the other week I had to have this conversation with a student. The "you may have to interact with this person based on this professional thing, but just try not to be alone with them" conversation.
Things you may not realize your female colleagues do in academia:.-teach grad students which creepy men at conferences to actively avoid because we all know they are bad but they are still allowed to be journal editors and advisors.-go out of our way to also avoid them.
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ARGH!!! In my first year of the PhD I was told twice by professors that not everyone is meant to be an economist, when I went to ask about how I could improve in classes I was struggling with. I ended up doing well, but almost left after 1st year. [1/2].
My first week @Princeton I was told by an econ faculty member that economics wasn't for me. That didn't deter me. But, it speaks to the hostile environment Black women face in economics and policy. Thank you for this op-ed @drlisadcook and @itsafronomics .
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The research team that skis together, publishes together. That's how this works, right?๐
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It's official, my classes are too large and will be online this fall. Want to give my students as good an experience as possible, so. What were your 1-2 favorite things (tech, methodology, etc) you did online last spring that you think improved the student experience the most?.
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๐ขThrilled to announce a conference I'm organizing w/ @karsha & @AlessandraVoena: "Economics of Violence and Harassment Against Women" ๐๐จ๐ฏ๐๐ฆ๐๐๐ซ ๐๐-๐๐๐๐๐ฆ๐๐๐ซ ๐ @StanfordKingCtr. Submission deadline: ๐๐ฎ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐๐. More details:ย [1/2]
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๐จNew WP: Employer & Employee Responses to Dobbs v. Jackson๐จ. A year ago Dobbs decision drastically changed reproductive care in U.S. Some companies responded by announcing travel coverage for abortion. These companies experienced:. Fact 1: 8% โฌ๏ธ in job seeker interest [1/n]
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When someone pompously interrupts you at a seminar to pontificate at length about an asinine point he thinks is brilliant and you are trying to think of how to bring the talk back on topic while trying to remain "likable".
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๐จNew WP w/ Martti Kaila & @krista_ri_๐จ We show job loss causes much more damage for those from less wealthy backgrounds, w/ big implications for intergen mobility. Figure shows double unemployment post job loss for adult children born to bottom 20% relative to top 20% [1/9]
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Here me out: the way we teach first year PhD is out of date and terrible. My proposal is to have 8 one semester courses in first year: trade, micro, macro, labor/public, theory metrics, applied metrics, IO, history. (Solves the how do I have a PhD w/o ever learning trade?) [1/4].
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Just received the best Christmas present I've ever gotten: an R&R!!! So very, very grateful for this opportunity and thank you to all who helped us improve the paper along the way.
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Curious to see the Venn diagram of economists who think they are better at epidemiology than epidemiologists and economists who have at one point questioned whether what their colleagues do is "real economics" when we delve into less traditional topics.
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PS - I now love being an economist. The work is really exciting and I have great mentors who believe in me. So grad students if you are in a hard spot like I was, it can be worth toughing it out and if someone says you don't have what it takes, they may very well be wrong. [6/5].
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Did the darn thing๐โโ๏ธ๐๐ฏ
Casual effect of my new house: mile 25.5 of LA marathon literally ran in front of my window yesterday๐โโ๏ธ๐๐โโ๏ธ, and I was so inspired that today my friend and I signed up for next year. It will be my first full marathon (have done lots halfs but never full). Excited!!๐๐๐โโ๏ธ
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Working on finalizing two papers right now. One I am on about the 30th rewrite of the intro, the other I have lost count. Trying to write a good paper takes so much time and humility.
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Thrilled to see this out in print. Hoping that with more evidence on how domestic violence unfolds and with more evidence-based solutions, domestic violence will become less and less relevant to future generations of women. Now, back to work to make that a reality.
#QJE Nov 2024, #3, โThe Dynamics of Abusive Relationships,โ by Adams (@abicadams), Huttunen (@KristiinaHuttu2), Nix (@EmilyNix100), and Zhang (@ningzhang0927):
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Don't know who needs to hear this today, but when I encounter impressive new working papers on here with tools I've never heard of I'm reminded of how little I know, despite my fancy PhD. That's fine, it doesn't make me (or you) less intelligent or capable. [1/2].
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Here to learn how we can and must improve. As Janet Yellen states to start "We are not here to discuss IF we have a race problem in economics, the fact we do is abundantly clear and has been well documented"
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Research is so, so, so much fun when I can do it uninterrupted and am getting interesting and exciting results๐ So far, today is a very, very good day.
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I got two papers off my desk this week after months of effort and was completely mentally exhausted so. took a rare morning off and went on a hike & then run. Now physically exhausted but less mentally exhausted๐คฃ Reminder to take care of yourself. Time off can be necessary.
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Thrilled to have this out in print๐ Original paper thread: The paper is much improved since then with exciting new analysis added, so please check out the published version:) . In the meantime, busy working on related follow-up work. More coming soon!.
#QJE May 2024, #5, โViolence against Women at Work,โ by Adams-Prassl (@abicadams), Huttunen (@KristiinaHuttu2), Nix (@EmilyNix100), and Zhang (@ningzhang0927):
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Intense start: @florianederer definitely didn't hold back on how ugly that website often is. Which I think is good - let's call a cat a cat. Or in this case, let's not talk around the fact that this is a website with an insane amount of brutally horrific content about many of us.
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What a moment๐คฉ.
"Today, we celebrate your path-breaking academic achievements. They are more than a baton to be passed. They are giant shoulders from which coming generations will be able to see very far." . Watch Claudia Goldin receive her 2023 prize in economic sciences - congratulations!
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Every year I write a new case for my MBA students to analyze. This year is my masterpiece. Inspired by Ticketmaster Eras Tour ticketing fiasco: 4 phases of market structure analysis, 9 @taylorswift13 lyric easter eggs. Can't wait for my nosebleed tickets to her concert Monday.
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Received Golden Apple award today: voted fave prof in MBA core by our fab students! Also thrilled to receive a school-wide excellence in teaching award. This job- where I get to pursue research I care about deeply while also interacting with great students - is such a privilege.
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@seema_econ This junior, still tenure track scholar appreciates that editors are still doing their best to try and turn around articles during these extraordinary times. Many of us can't afford to lose a year (or more) with zero turnaround of articles. So thank you!.
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First year profs and future first year profs - as evaluation season is coming up, know that almost all of us will get at least one bad student eval. If you're like me, no matter how many good ones you get, that bad one will keep you up at night. My recommendation - [1/2].
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A piece of advice for JMC that worked very well for me when I was on the market not so long ago. Before every flyout, I would read about every person on my schedule's research. I would identify at least one WP that I found interesting and a question I could ask about it. [1/4].
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TIL that only in 1974 with passage of equal credit opportunity act were banks required to give women equal access to credit (and didn't have to get a man to co sign). 1. WHAT!?!?! 1974?!?!.2. Surely there is an econ or finance paper on this, if so please share in comments.
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STOP SAYING THIS TO STUDENTS, especially women and URM, who seem to get this a lot!! It is not helpful and based on people who also heard this, you are often dead wrong on who "belongs" here. [2/2].
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I got asked (somewhat negatively) recently why I'm on twitter. Probably my fave part of #econtwitter is learning about new papers I might not discover otherwise, not only in areas where I research but also in areas outside of my agenda. And I can amplify this great work! [1/2].
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Woke up to the absolute best news to start off my vacation. a conditional acceptance!!!
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Also fun: thinking through the potential career consequences of ever saying anything on this topic at all, even something as minor as the above tweet.
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This is a great job. Nothing particularly groundbreaking happened today, but did some research and had some wonderful meetings with colleagues. I think we mostly tend to post the "thrilled to share. " or "#$@*$^@" type tweets, but the day-to-day of the gig is pretty sweet.
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One of my graduate student co-authors convinced me to switch to Overleaf as tex editor and I have to admit, I am loving it (track changes exists!!). Only downside is you can't work on projects when you don't have internet. That might turn out to be a real problem.
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This makes me very sad. Being a woman in science shouldn't require also dealing with this garbage.
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"In this paper I estimate if judges are more lenient to defendants with a cat filter and if this varies by the background of the defendant, shedding light on potential underlying biases. I randomize defendants to put a cat filter on their zoom hearing with the judge. ".
โIโm here live, Iโm not a cat,โ says lawyer after Zoom filter mishap. โI can see that,โ responds judge
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Btw, I struggled a lot my first year in classes. I ended up doing well only once I got into field courses and then my own research. So if you are also struggling in first year and not encouraged by your first year profs but excited about research, hang in there.
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Someone just asked me for one of my papers to potentially share with the advisers of one of the major presidential campaigns. So that's a pretty cool end to what started as a not so great week๐.
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Imagine having to explain now why you didn't make a path for tenure for Janet Yellen. but then again, if she had been granted a path for tenure she might not be our future Treasury Secretary!.
You don't imagine wonderful people like this having setbacks. From the Washington Post, Feb 2 2014.
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2 weeks down, student are still super engaged and multiple times unprompted have referred to my lightboard as magic. Gives me all the fuzzy feelings. Now can focus on research. Goal is 1 new draft + 1 new submission + 2 resubmissions by December๐ค.
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I eventually passed quals, and immediately looked for other jobs my second year. I was not going to stick around. Fortunately, I also met Joe Altonji and @CostasMeghir second year. They were encouraging and treated me as a competent and capable economist. I stuck around. [3/5].
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Super interesting paper by @soumitrashukla9. While we have hundreds of papers that look at potential bias in responses to resumes/initial applications, this is one of only a few that examines the full process, including interviews. Well worth a read!
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Thrilled to share that @KristiinaHuttu2, @hanna_virtanen_, @MarttiKaila, @DC__Macdonald & I are organizing an ๐๐๐ค๐ฃ๐ค๐ข๐๐๐จ ๐ค๐ ๐พ๐ง๐๐ข๐ ๐๐ค๐ง๐ ๐จ๐๐ค๐ฅ in Helsinki ๐๐๐ฒ ๐๐-๐๐, 2023! . Submit papers by ๐๐๐ซ๐๐ก ๐๐. We can't wait to host you in Helsinki! [1/2]
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Having way too much fun learning new software today so that I can hopefully give my students a fantastic online experience this fall! However designing an intro video may have been a step too far (theme music to come)๐๐ I'm definitely not procrastinating on a referee report.
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It turns out that female-managed firms do one very important thing differently: ๐ณ๐ถ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐. And it is this action that explains the differences in the loss of female employees between male vs female-managed firms, as we show in the table below. [14/18]
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Took me years to feel like I am a good economist, and to feel like I "belong". But you know what? I have a great job, I've written some nice papers, and those guys had it wrong. But I worry about the current "me" getting such advice. Does she stay or does she quit? [5/5].
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Some days this profession makes one wonder if you're cut out for it. Today is one of those days for me. Hopefully I'll get up tomorrow and feel inspired to keep submitting papers, but what I wouldn't give for some good luck to come my way.
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We're hiring! Looking broadly in micro, including labor, PE, devo, etc. Please share with your interested PhD students. @USCMarshall has been a great place to start my career plus hiking/surfing/arts/etc all at your fingertips in sunny LA. [1/2]. Apply:
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I remember thinking a few things. 1) they basically just told me I don't belong. 2) even if true, how is that an answer to my question on how to improve? and 3) I am just stubborn enough to pass quals to prove them wrong, get a "free" masters, and then quit this toxic field [2/5].
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It's my birthday today!! 2nd bday in quarantine and dang it's been a loooong year. Hopefully last bday in quarantine. Giving myself the "gift" of ideally finishing a paper I've been working on for a while today, followed by zoom cocktails with friends around the country:)
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If you want to know whether offering paternity leave (with high take up) reduces the gender income gap, we find that paternity leave has no impact in our paper here: I was expecting to find something, so view this as an important null result.
For years I have read (and even written) about why paternity leave (both offering it and normalizing taking it) is key for gender equality. But I don't think I've ever understood it the way I did reading this column from @ylanmui.
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But w/o my inherent stubbornness and need to prove those guys wrong I could see how such feedback could demoralize you and cause you to do even worse, fail out, and never make it to 2nd year. It demoralized me. I despised economics almost the entirety of my first year. [4/5].
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Really looking forward to seeing @florianederer+@paulgp + Jensen's paper tomorrow. Very interesting contribution to research agenda on harassment and violence from workplace colleagues, where I also have work. Also saddening in one way I haven't seen mentioned. [1/3].
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Issue in honor of one of my wonderful advisers. In addition to his multitude of research accomplishments, Joe is also one of the professors who believed in me in grad school and helped me believe in myself. His encouragement helped keep me in the field, and I am so grateful.
Forthcoming issue of the JoLE in honor of Joe Altonji. Much of Joe's pathbreaking research on earnings dynamics, consumption, labor supply, family risk-sharing, and human capital is at the heart of quantitative macroeconomics with heterogeneous households.
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Third, you probably won't get a job close to any friends or family. This happens in other professions too, but I think occurs to a much greater extent in academia. Living far from family and friends is hard. And if you don't get tenure you will likely have to uproot again. [4/6].
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Finally got a few hours to start finalizing teaching setup. Lighting took longer than expected but looking good! Still have some things left to do, but this could really work๐ค Btw never expected to master 3 point lighting as an econ prof, these truely are strange times๐ [1/2]
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For many months my co-author and I have been reconciling data from FOIA requests to official govt counts. This has been painful and meticulous. It will be in a data appendix most will never read, but we need to be certain the analysis is correct. That's research.
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Only just finished my PhD a few years ago and already my grad student co-authors are making phenomenally nicer graphs than me, teaching me to use overleaf, and just generally being amazing. The next generation is going to school us all.
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This graph. amazing and yet so depressing.
Me and @johannarickneโs paper on promotion to top jobs and marriage stability was just published in AEJ: Applied Economics. This picture shows the main finding of the paper: promotion increases the divorce probability for women, but not for men. 1/10
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Vaccinated!!๐ฅณ So exciting to see the 100s of people lined up and the impressive process just churning people in and getting shots in arms. We're getting to the end yall, feeling so hopeful!
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PS - I think it's easy for people to get caught up in extrinsic rewards (publications, career success, etc) often leading to bad incentives and bitterness. If you're doing the work for its own sake, easier to retain the joy of it and the incentives also better for science IMO.
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This isn't hard guys. For example, I teach ~200 undergrads each yr. After 2nd quiz I email every student at risk of D/F to meet to discuss how to improve. With this small help/encouragement many go on to succeed. This is far easier to do with small phd classes. .
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@jonathan_tebes on end of Stop and Frisk in NYC. Incredible results: stops โฌ๏ธ , no impact on crime. Confirms program was disproportionately burdening Black men with no observable upside. Also co-author part of expert testimony that led to end of policy. Very impressive. [1/2]
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Finally submitted a paper to NBER SI myself for the first time ever! Fingers crossed for the long shot that it gets in #nogutsnoglory.
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En route to Boston for @nberpubs SI. Thrilled to have our paper "Dynamics of Abusive Relationships" on the program. We've been busy finalizing the draft and are excited to get your comments. You won't want to miss it!.Link: [1/2]
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A wonderful statement of the incredible power of studying economics. To this day I absolutely love the subject and the amazingly broad range of applications.
Professor Edward Glaeser is the New Chair of Harvard's Economics Department. In this short statement, he makes a convincing case for why economics continues to be an exciting field of inquiry.
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Going to get a bit gooey here, but since my teaching stuff blew up I've been inspired by how many educators across the country, from elementary, to high school, to college, have reached out to me. Goes to show how much the community of educators cares about their students. [1/2].
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My dog Franklin is having emergency surgery to remove bladder stones. No lie, I'm super attached to this goober. He's gone on multiple moves with me, always game for adventure, and is an amazing canine buddy. Will be nervously doing nothing until he's done, send good thoughts!๐
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My group is looking on the JM! We are looking broadly in microeconomics, including labor, PE, development, experimental, etc. We are a great, collegial department, and in LA you have surf, ski, the arts, and more all at your fingertips๐โท๏ธ๐ฅ. Apply here:
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I was willing to give up tenure/career success to study these questions. Lots of jobs I could turn to if I had to leave academia. Finding these answers and sharing them with the broader public was worth giving up a future in academia to me. Such a powerful realization. [3/5].
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Glad Bocar, whose work I admire and am frequently telling folks about joined Twitter. Yet our profession subjected him to this terrible behavior. What a loss it would have been if this had driven Bocar out of economics. How many great economists were lost bc of things like this?.
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In light of this week's SC ruling, I'd like to share an updated working paper w/ @eckhoffandresen on a) costs of children to women's incomes over time and b) what policies reduce these costs. Short paper, so will do short ๐งต. Let me start with our first figure: [1/8]
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An excellent seminar is a great way to end a tough week on a high note. @natazino presented her fascinating paper showing that the discontinuity in earnings at 0.5 within couples is driven by co-working spouses. Check out the rest of the paper here: [1/3]
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Prob taking a break from Twitter. With increasingly rare exceptions this is no longer the place of comfort and support it used to be, and I am not a health professional able to provide important and accurate health information in these difficult times. Wish you all well.
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These numbers always shock me. I am one of the only 21.9% of women tenure track professors in economics. Table from the @AEACSWEP 2021 newsletter. Hopefully I'll get to that full professor one day and help increase that 14.8% women number.
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