Nina Roussille
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* Some professional news * : I am thrilled to be joining
@MITEcon
as an AP, after a postdoc at
@LSEEcon
.
I am forever grateful to the
@berkeleyEcon
community -esp. my advisors Pat Kline,
@gabriel_zucman
&
@HilaryHoynes
- and excited to join a group of scholars I greatly admire!
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My father died a few days ago. This comes only a few years after losing my mother to Alzheimer’s.
Departing from the usual Econ tweeting, I wanted to share some thoughts on grief, work and resilience:
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TLDR: Asking for what you want pays off!
Very happy to see my JMP out in print 🎊
Recently accepted by
#QJE
, “The Role of the Ask Gap in Gender Pay Inequality,” by Nina Roussille (
@NinaRoussille
):
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🚨Are you from an underrepresented background and interested in an Econ PhD but not sure how to best write your application package? If so, apply to the Mentoring Program
@LSEEcon
by October 31. It gives you access to a mentor (1-on-1 1 hour call) to help you out!
#EconTwitter
🚨 Exciting News 🚨
We're thrilled to announce the re-launch of the Applicant Mentoring Programme (AMP) for individuals applying to PhDs in Economics.
Read on to find out more➡️(1/6)
#EconTwitter
@CamEcon
@OxfordEconDept
@EconUCL
@warwickecon
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Hello
#EconTwitter
!
@orianabandiera
,
@landais_camille
and I are recruiting several full-time RAs to work with us on projects about gender inequality and the representation of minorities in the economy.
Learn more and apply here before May 12th:
@econ_ra
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🚨New paper with
@simon_jaeger
@cp_roth
@Schoefer_B
measuring worker beliefs about outside options reveals systematic biases:
Catch our pres at 1pm EST TODAY at NBER-SI LS
w/ discussion by
@alanmanning4
:
🧵👇
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🚨
@orianabandiera
,
@landais_camille
and I are hiring several predocs to work with us at the
@hubequalrep
🚀 Help us promote a more equal workplace 💪
Deadline: March 23rd!
Apply at: (Research Assistant, The Hub for Equal Representation in the Economy)
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So this time I am going to welcome sadness at the table, give it the space, time, and attention it deserves. Resilience doesn’t always have to mean powering through, it can also be knowing when to embrace winter, with the intimate knowledge that it eventually gives way to light
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I am sharing this because I could use a few (virtual) hugs, but also in the hope that this resonates with some of you. A few years back, when I lost my mother, I wish someone had told me it was ok to press pause.
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In the meantime, a massive shout out to my co-authors who have been nothing short of amazing, both sending heartwarming messages and stepping up to keep the boat afloat. I am sure coming back in a few weeks will be a humbling experience, realizing how much can be done without me!
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The alluring pitfall is however to use work as a coping mechanism, doubling down on professional commitments to avoid the painful grieving journey. I have done that in the past, but if the mind is a marvelous trickster, the body keeps the score.
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In those trying moments, I appreciate even more how lucky I am to have a job I love so much that it remains a compass when everything else seems to go off the rails.
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@simon_jaeger
, Jacob Moscona and I are jointly hiring predocs to work on a wide range of topics, from imperfect competition to technological change and innovation. Come join us
@MITEcon
!
Applications deadline: Feb. 20th.
📢 My wonderful colleagues
@NinaRoussille
and Jacob Moscona (and I) are jointly hiring predoctoral research fellows to work in the exciting research environment
@MITEcon
! Please spread the word! 🙏
@econ_ra
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🔔 New paper on "Worker Beliefs about Outside Options" with
@simon_jaeger
,
@cp_roth
and
@Schoefer_B
(replaces July 2021 conference draft). Right on time to put it under my Christmas tree 🎄🎁
New paper:
"Worker Beliefs about Outside Options"
@simon_jaeger
@cp_roth
@NinaRoussille
+ I
We find: workers, esp in low-wage firms, underestimate wages elsewhere.
A model links such misperceptions w/ employer monopsony & wage dispersion.
Comments welcome:
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I had so much fun going on this podcast :) thanks for having me
@ClemVaneff
@InequaliTalks
[NEW EPISODE]
@InequaliTalks
📜 “The Gender Ask Gap”
@MIT
’s
@NinaRoussille
discusses the impact of women’s salary expectations on wage inequality.
#EconTwitter
#gender
#inequality
#paygap
#askgap
@MIT
@hubequalrep
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I have avidly followed this thread in past years, glad to be featured in it this year! Thanks
@jenniferdoleac
Nina Roussille
JMP: "The central role of the ask gap in gender pay inequality"
Website:
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I have been an avid consumer of these videos, so glad I am featured in one of them now :) thanks
@econimate
!
Should women ask for more?
@NinaRoussille
(
@berkeleyecon
) on the ask gap and gender pay inequality:
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SAVE THE DATE!
@hubequalrep
will be officially launched on 14 January 2022. Program of the launch event below! 🚀
📢 SAVE THE DATE!
@hubequalrep
, the LSE´s new centre to improve representation in economics and the economy will be officially launched on 14 January 2022. Our goal is to set the agenda for a more diverse and productive workplace. With support of
@gatesfoundation
Join us! 🧵
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Very excited to be part of this! Follow
@hubequalrep
to find out about our latest and upcoming research projects 💥
we are about to launch 🚀 a new centre
@LSEEcon
@STICERD_LSE
follow
@hubequalrep
for the latest findings on how to improve representation in economics and the economy
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🚨
@orianabandiera
@landais_camille
& I are recruiting predocs for next year!
🤓You’d get to work with us on projects addressing gender & racial inequality at work around the world (eg 🇵🇰🇺🇸🇫🇷)
Apply below before March 23rd ⬇️
🚨RA Vacancy🚨
1)Are you interested in the determinants of gender&race inequality?
2)Would you like to work with
@landais_camille
@orianabandiera
&
@NinaRoussille
?
3)Do you have a BA/MA in Econ or a related discipline?
If the answer is YES ⬇️
#econtwitter
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🚨Last day to apply!
Come work with the terrific
@annastansbury
and I on core labor questions such as imperfect competition and the role of institutions and firms in shaping inequality.
Details here:
@econ_ra
📢
@NinaRoussille
and I are recruiting for a *Full-time Predoc RA* to work with us at
@MIT
!
Looking for people who are curious & driven to work on big questions in labor economics: imperfect competition, institutions, inequality
Deadline: Feb 25
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I can attest that this is an excellent opportunity to learn the ropes of research from one of the very best. 5 years down the RA road, Stefanie was still there to mentor and cheer me on during the job market. I encourage eager students to apply !
📚Hello
#EconTwitter
! I'm looking for a full-time research assistant starting Summer 2021 to work with me at Harvard & . If you're interested in public economics, taxation, innovation, or people's policy views, apply here:
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🚨 *One day left* to apply!
Come work with me,
@simon_jaeger
and Jacob Moscona on a wide range of applied econ topics, from imperfect competition and unions to technological change and innovation!
📢 My wonderful colleagues
@NinaRoussille
and Jacob Moscona (and I) are jointly hiring predoctoral research fellows to work in the exciting research environment
@MITEcon
! Please spread the word! 🙏
@econ_ra
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🎉So excited to go back to Berkeley for 4 days of lectures and debates on inequality, with researchers spanning a wide range of fields and perspectives.
Come join us this summer — applications open!
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My JMP is about the benefit of information transparency for women yet somehow this information below is NOT making me better off. Should I be concerned about the external validity of my paper??? 😅
As of 2020-10-04, # of job openings on JOE for full-time academic jobs in the US is down 64.1% relative to same time in 2019. 2/6
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Very much looking forward to this!
It is today at 14.30 GMT and the full program is here:
Registration details below :)
📢📢📢 Today is the day! Join us live from 14.30 GMT for our LSE Hub launch. Leading experts from academia and the private sector will analyse why women and minorities are underrepresented in the economy and propose solutions for
#makingequalitywork
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Fascinating sociology book on the gender of capital, explaining how culture and laws have shaped the wealth distribution in favour of men. Great dive into how wealth transfers (inheritance / divorce) supposedly designed to enforce equality end up leaving women behind.
@genre_du
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Stellar line-up 💫 can’t wait to hear about these new papers!
Join us today and tomorrow to learn about new research on the gender pay gap! Organized by the awesome
@SoniaBhalotra
. Registration here:
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I hope you find someone who looks at you like some billionaires look at tax havens 😍
#ValentinesDay2020
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Thanks
@rolandrathelot
! This gives me the chance to share that reading your research on gender differences in job search with
@alexandraroulet
and
@tlebarbanchon
helped me shape a lot of the ideas for this paper!
Women ask wages that are 3.3% lower than men, which results in a 1.8% gender gap in the starting wage. Fresh evidence from a US online platform for engineering jobs on 123,000 workers and 44,000 jobs. Fascinating JMP by
@NinaRoussille
!
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Very cool paper showing that studying with more female peers in business school increases gender segregation in educational choice. Check it out!
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Check out this fascinating JMP on the redistributive implications of the European posted worker policy, by my friend and brilliant co-author
@MathildeMunoz
[1/9] My amazing co-author & advisee
@MathildeMunoz
is on the market this year! On top of her solo papers on taxation & migration (incl. one that won the
@IIPF_org
Young Economist Award), her JMP "Trading Non-Tradables" deals with a super important topic
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Had a blast 💥
We just wrapped up the 6th Rome Conference on Applied Microeconomics at
@EIEF_Rome
Lots of fun, impressive presenters, and a joy to organize with
@MatteoParadisi
,
@WinnieVanDijk
,
@lore_magno
, and
@NinaRoussille
Thanks to all!
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We leverage linked admin data on the universe of workers to construct proxies of workers’ OOs and compare them to beliefs. We draw on the wage changes of coworkers upon job switching as well as firm pay premia. Main finding: there is systematic bias. What does it mean?
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Different firms pay very different wages to similar workers. But are workers aware of these pay differences?
We elicited workers’ beliefs about their rent and outside option (OO) in Germany & compared these beliefs to objective proxies using linked admin data. What did we learn?
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How would firms respond to worker bias? Applying Matejka & McKay (2012) to the labor market, we show that misperceptions about OO lead to monopsony. How? Workers' inattention to wages gives rise to a multinomial logit choice model & lowers firm-specific elasticity of labor supply
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And of course this project would have been impossible without our stellar team of research assistants, including
@HoehneChristian
,
@Nelsonzegt
,
@raymondwhan
,
@sarthak_joshi
,
@shakked_noy
, and
@Tommy_ODonnellT
and Isabel Di Tella.
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So happy 😃
We're excited to announce we've been awarded a grant by
@berkeleyecon
to fund activities related to gender equity! Special shoutout to
@EvaLyubich
and
@MariaDieci
who led the grant writing effort.
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Workers perceive large rents (med= 10%, mean = 14%) but there is a lot of heterogeneity (SD=11.86).These rents are entirely derived from non-wage amenities, that is the average worker believes her next-best job will pay exactly the same. Next Q: how accurate are these beliefs?
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The minimum wage is a racial justice tool. Learn why in this awesome NYT opinion piece by
@cmontialoux
@EDerenoncourt
So excited for the opportunity to present our research, with
@EDerenoncourt
, in the NYT 🙏
👇👇👇
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Objectively low-paid (high-paid) workers are overpessimistic (overoptimistic) about their OOs. Workers’ beliefs about their own wage change are close to zero in high AND low wage firms. Similar results for beliefs about co-worker wage changes, rather than own.
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This project draws on a new link between
@DIW_Berlin
GSOEP survey and
@iab_news
administrative data, thanks to
@DIW_Berlin
,
@iab_news
, and
@iza_bonn
, very grateful for this consortium!
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Je viens d'adhérer à
@unboutdumonde_
pour entrer collectivement au capital du journal Le Monde. Si toi aussi tu veux soutenir l'indépendance des médias, récupère ta part de liberté ici:
super initiative
@CageJulia
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There’s a lot more in the paper, incl. additional benchmarks for the accuracy of beliefs, alternative elicitations in cross-randomized surveys, calculation of the share of non-viable jobs if beliefs were corrected, a simple model of the role of workers' bias in firm sorting etc.
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Very excited about this new direction!
Announcement! We have transitioned to be(e)ing the Berkeley Economists for Equity (BEE) and expanding our mission to promoting equity, inclusion and diversity in economics for ALL marginalized and underrepresented groups. See our full announcement here:
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Looking to hire an Otree programmer to code a negotiation experiment.
Any lead from my fellow experimentalists out there?
#EconTwitter
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Comments welcome! And many other great papers on the program this week at the NBER SI Labor Studies conference, take a look:
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@EmMurphEis
and I built a platform of short articles explaining key policy ideas to combat the current economic downturn. Because we know people are tired of reading, we also recorded audio versions of the posts =). Check it out:
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That was a lot of fun 👌
Can’t wait to listen to the others episodes!
🥳 Excited to announce the new Econ series from
@InequaliTalks
coming up next week!
3 episodes to explore how institutions and organizations affect
#gender
#inequality
With an amazing line-up of guests 🙏🏼
@lagoslorenzo
@_XiaoyueShan_
@NinaRoussille
Stay tuned!
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This is an awesome initiative !
Some news I'm really excited about 🥳: with 30 other PhD students in Economics at LSE, we have launched a mentoring programme for PhD applicants from underrepresented backgrounds.
The programme is called AMP:
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This 👇👇👇 academia needs to be more inclusive not only of gender and racial minorities but also of socio-economically disadvantaged students. IMO this starts with grants/funding based on socio-economic background. Much more can be done...
Unlike most PhDs, I grew up socioeconomically disadvantaged. Neither of my parents went to college
#firstgen
. When I was born, the WIC program paid for my formula and food for my mom. When I ate lunch in high school, I paid less than everyone else, while working a part time 1/10
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Submit your papers to the 2021 RIDGE workshop here: ! Looking forward to it 🤩
🚨 Call for papers for the 2021 RIDGE workshop on Public Economics!🚨 The event will take place virtually Sep 30-Oct 1. The deadline for submission is June 30. Send your most awesome papers!
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@mioana
@AmandaYAgan
I definitely can! The closing of the ask gap is roughly due 2/3 to women asking for more and 1/3 men asking for less indeed. I should emphasize that next time I present :)
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My fav coffee shop just reopened « to go ». I can’t overstate how much I had missed paying $5 for a latte. I mean, the foam IS heart shaped!
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This is an awesome RA opportunity! Grad students in labor / international trade (even outside Berkeley!) can apply. Check it out:
🚨Come work with us !🚨
@EDerenoncourt
@lagoslorenzo
@fgerard_BE
and I are recruiting an RA this Spring to work on racial disparities in Brazil
Students in labor/development/trade, check this👇👇
🙏
@Berkeley_OLab
@HilaryHoynes
@tedmiguel
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Great advice indeed! Thanks for this summary :)
Yesterday, I was fortunate enough to take part in the
@AEACSWEP
mentoring workshop for female and non-binary PhD students. Great advice and insights were shared by mentors, panellists, and organizers. Here are my 10 key take-aways for those who could not join:
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@nhendren82
@MITEcon
@PolicyImpacts
Amazing news Nathan! Can’t wait to be your colleague and learn more about your upcoming projects :)
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Super article sur le rôle des stéréotypes de genre dans la détermination des carrières et des salaires. Bravo
@anne_boring
!
Anne Boring : « Pourquoi les filles sont-elles moins payées que les garçons ? » via
@lemondefr
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What Do Americans Think Should Be Done About Inequality? :
http://t.co/CNomws1cAk
via
@equitablegrowth
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The Oscars and economics: "We need to talk about the poverty image in Parasite" (PS: I really enjoyed this movie)
#Econ133
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Only 3 more days to apply to our predoc program!
⬇️ ⬇️⬇️
🚨RA Vacancy🚨
1)Are you interested in the determinants of gender&race inequality?
2)Would you like to work with
@landais_camille
@orianabandiera
&
@NinaRoussille
?
3)Do you have a BA/MA in Econ or a related discipline?
If the answer is YES ⬇️
#econtwitter
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Couldn’t have said it better!
Overheard my mom tell her friends: "No, she's not the Wall-Street-type economist. She can't make you rich, but she can tell you why you are poor."
Show me a more accurate description of a development economist. I'll wait.
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Fascinating!
The US election is tomorrow. If you, like me, are tired of horse-race-style reporting, and need to zoom out, I wanna tell you a story. It’s about an ancient force influencing the election. And, as a bonus, it’ll give you an Easter egg to watch for as the returns come in. THREAD
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@caleconwomen
@AEACSWEP
@AEACSMGEP
In France, the main statistical agency, INSEE, designated the male as head of household until 2004… then changed it, in most surveys, to the oldest (active) person...
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Trying v. hard to find glimmers of hope here: new research shows that the coronavirus crisis has increased Americans’ feelings of solidarity with others.
#econ133
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@livia_alfonsi
@HarvardHBS
Congrats!! And very excited to have one more Berkeley alumni in the Cambridge area :)
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@simon_jaeger
@berkeleyecon
@simon_jaeger
thanks !! I remember when this was just a vague idea in my second year of the PhD and you still took the time to listen and give me feedback at a LS conference!
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@annastansbury
@MITEcon
@LSEEcon
@berkeleyecon
@gabriel_zucman
@HilaryHoynes
Right back at you, can't wait!
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@NoraHamzawi
, merci pour ce spectacle : je vais enfin pouvoir justifier mes soirées Nutella par des séances de (air)-sport!
@CelineSchoen
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@EmilyNix100
@MITEcon
@LSEEcon
@berkeleyecon
@gabriel_zucman
@HilaryHoynes
Thanks Emily! Loved our chat at USC, looking forward to seeing you again!
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« All in the same boat »
It’s a modern dilemma for the ultra-wealthy: a yacht awaits, but how to safely reach it without exposure to the germ-ridden masses?
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@juliana_londono
Thanks so much for your caring words and for sharing your story Juli. It does make a difference. It must have been incredibly painful to lose your father at such a young age, I can’t imagine. Sending hugs your way 🤍
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@JohnRGrigsby
@MITEcon
@LSEEcon
@berkeleyecon
@gabriel_zucman
@HilaryHoynes
Thanks for cheering for me since the very beginning :)
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4/4 Some awesome graduate students have already contributed - see the about page- and we would love to get more involved! Just DM me to learn how =)
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