Ilyana Kuziemko
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Detroit sports and ND football fan, self-hating economist, cat lover. Infallible political instincts honed in Macomb County, Mich. The pun is always intended.
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Any day can be improved with a little Frank Drebin. "Hey, it's Enrico Palazzo!"
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I’ve had 4 miscarriages, 3 of which were pretty far along & required aborting a dead fetus. Never grasped the true meaning of "a women & her doctor" until my OB walked me through my options after my first miscarriage. Cops encroaching on that moment would have been obscene.
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Deval Patrick jumping in & Mayor Pete surging will force the Dem establishment to finally address a question that goes to the very heart of its identity: Bain or McKinsey?
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Hear me out:
1. Sotomayor retires.
2. Biden replaces her with Harris (a former prosecutor).
3. Biden chooses Whitmer to be his VP.
4. Biden resigns.
5. Whitmer runs against Trump as an incumbent, cleans his clock.
QED.
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I'm not a Pete fan, but even I can't help but be impressed by the diversity of the crowd at this event in Napa. Looks like there are folks from Harvard *and* Stanford, McKinsey *and* Bain, Google *and* Amazon. Probably also centrist Dems *and* Republicans.
Here are some photos of the Buttigieg fundraiser in Napa -- with the famous wine cave and the chandelier with 1,500 Swarovski crystals -- that
@BrianSlodysko
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Biden & Vox.com-types deplore "Harvard grads" getting debt relief, but then the people they hire are from exactly those kinds of places! We select our ruling class from Harvard, but then kinda scoff at folks who wanted to join the club but didn't have the money upfront?
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If Diane Feinstein were a man, we wouldn't be pressuring her to step down just because she died.
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Not sure how many other academics feel this way, but it's, like, every day that I feel that despite my education, I don't know a f***ing thing and there are just so many subjects (important ones, and ones directly related to my work!) I still need to learn. Sigh.
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@ClaraJeffery
I feel like “crystal chandeliers and $900 bottles of wine aside” is doing a lot of work here...
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@TrevonDLogan
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One of the worst assumptions in our field is that high wage folks have higher opportunity cost of time. As if a CEO is paid by the hour.
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After much soul-searching & knowing that many will think I'm foolish, I decided that some Thanksgiving traditions are worth even serious risks. So, ignoring the painful evidence that has accumulated week after week & disregarding my mental health, I'm putting on the Lions game.
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We are all in shock. I can't imagine Princeton without Alan. I owe him so much, as my mentor, co-author, and colleague. I wish I had another chance to say thank you.
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Just checking and, yup, Mike Bloomberg opposed Obama's nuclear deal with Iran.
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(1) I have an econ PhD, (2) my dad was a loan officer at a commercial bank and (3) I've watched all seasons of Ozark. And I still don't get at even the most rudimentary level what "money laundering" is or how you'd do it.
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In 2009, RBG (age 77 with 16 years on SCOTUS) was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, which in its earliest stage has a 35% 5-year survival rate. Obama had a Senate super majority then, could have confirmed Noam Chomsky. Now here we are. Hope all the RBG fans think it's worth it...
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Macron has Kendall Roy Season 3 energy in this video.
Never good.
Cette image du Président souriant, tellement cool, tellement rock, alors qu’il a provoqué des élections qui risquent de pousser le pays dans les bras du RN (ou l’instabilité parlementaire) est une catastrophe.
Presque une provocation.
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Mayor Pete is looking forward, not back, in an age where a new generation faces unprecedented challenges. We must unite to form a new shape of democracy, free of partisan rancor and equal to the tasks ahead. Join him, as we walk together to the nearest cornfield.
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@Brink_Thinker
@joshtpm
I get the joke, haha, but aren't we over the "it's OK for dads not to know how to parent" humor? Sigh.
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I thank every veteran who fought for my right to choose between the Aetna Bronze Shield High-Deductible Plan and the United Silver Bullet PPO. See you on the Insurance Exchange Marketplace, my friends, where we will continue our fight for FREEDOM.
It is amazing that a liberal socialist won in Iowa and New Hampshire. The idea that we would give up the freedoms our veterans fought and died for is unthinkable. Other countries have to be scratching their heads wondering what we are thinking.
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But the ways PhD students are not "ordinary workers" makes them *more* vulnerable to abuses of power. Your supervisor can single-handedly ruin your career. You can't just change programs/labs. Unions can set up arbitration processes that reduce this type of abuse.
Graduate students are primarily students and trainees, not ordinary workers. Academia is a calling. I suspect unionization will tip the balance so faculty prefer, at the margin, to hire post-docs to do research in their labs rather than students.
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@JillFilipovic
@asymmetricinfo
@NYCdisinterest
Aren't all of them technically rape victims, given the age of consent? 😢
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@gerardrolanducb
Honestly i'm just floored by the egotism of Macron's gamble and Biden's refusing to step aside. I'm pretty cynical about politics, but these decisions really surprised even me.
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Why does "women are innately better w people" (which I don't believe) never seems to translate into "most managers, CEOs should be female?"
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“My advice to everyone pissed off is: go see Hamilton, spend some time on your vineyard, take the Tesla out for a spin, do whatever you need to do this weekend. But starting Monday we gotta get back to fighting for everyday Americans.”
Psaki on voting rights bills failing: "My advice to everyone out there who's frustrated, sad, angry, pissed off, feel those emotions, go to a kickboxing class, have a margarita, do whatever you need to do this weekend, and then wake up on Monday morning, we gotta keep fighting."
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@dynarski
One of my advisors told me: "you write your first paper so you can write your second." I always repeat this advice to my 2nd-year students.
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It's an open secret in DC that half the male Senators are in fact corpses. But when it comes to propping up the dead body of a female Senator, we suddenly get all squeamish.
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This is one of my favorite graphs. The US has so few doctors (same graph looks similar but less bad for nurses).
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@mattyglesias
Jordan Peterson, in his Bill Maher appearance, calls for, in essentially the same breath, more civility toward Trump supporters and less political correctness, and then is too dumb to understand the contradiction when someone points it out to him.
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@mattyglesias
questions Vox-style journalism here. No one there had ever thought about travel bans in pandemics before, but felt OK w stories like "why travel bans fail, explained in 2 mins." this glib we're-so-clever vibe is a prob for Dem politicians/media more generally, IMO.
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Wolf: Senator Klobuchar, would you leave any troops in Afghanistan?
Klobuchar: I would leave Mayor Pete there.
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Just found out our daycare is closed due to Covid. I hope my two-year old likes The Crown!
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@mattyglesias
Wasn't Jan 2022 peak Omicron, so was a strike so crazy given the death/hospitalization rate in Chicago?
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Guys, I spent a moment digging into the data, and I worry Giuliani may have a point. How did they find 100,000-plus votes for Biden in Detroit?
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@karpmj
Mayor Pete: still thinking of the best way to work in his military service into his statement.
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#EconTwitter
, Henrik Kleven and I are hiring full-time pre-doctoral RAs to start in summer 2022 (or earlier!). We have a great community where RAs can learn from us, each other, and from Princeton graduate students. Please share widely!
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You can hear the system creak today, yet we continue to worship our "framers." There was a bloody civil war ~80 years after they penned our founding documents; our Senate is controlled by unpopulated "rotten boroughs;" 2 of last 5 elections won by popular vote loser....
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Brava Liz Warren! I hope other Ds follow. Given that women can pretty much only get into the top 1% via marriage, every $1,000-a-plate dinner essentially gives men political power over women. So I love this policy as a feminist as well as a leftist :)
Sen. Elizabeth Warren's campaign will shun fundraising through some of the old-fashioned means: dinners, donor calls and cocktail parties
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One unanticipated benefit of motherhood is how much you learn about the animals your child likes. Like, I defy you to ask a reasonable question about cheetahs that I can't answer off the top of my head at this point. Happy Mother's Day to all moms, including mama cheetahs.
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At a loss for words (an affliction he never knew!) upon news we've lost Alberto Alesina. A fond memory: he ran NBER POL meetings w "no questions except to clarify" rule & then would quickly break his own rule ("organizer's privilege!") to pose a Q. A generous spirit.❤️to Susan.
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Will the current political mess lead economists to revisit the Becker view of education (individual investment in “human capital”) in favor of seeing it as a way to contribute to society & create informed participants in a democracy? Feels like we ignored important externalities.
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The achievements in ethnic cleanliness are especially impressive.
Some exceptionally impressive achievements in India, on issues including cleanliness, public health, safety, and sex equality.
@paramiyer_
@archnavyas
@MamidiPavanH
@SubramanianKri
@NITIAayog
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Excerpts from McCain funeral are both genuinely touching and yet painfully out of touch. Wonder if we will think of it as Edward VII's 1911 funeral: huge gathering of monarchs, many from soon-to-be-deposed royal families and most unaware of how the world was about to convulse..
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Omg, what a perfect example of our insane health care system--charging moms to hold their baby after birth! But then again, if consumers don't have "skin to skin in the game," how will we control health spending?
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#EconTwitter
I'd be very grateful if you could retweet and share widely. Owen Zidar (
@omzidar
), Henrik Kleven and I are hiring full-time RAs for academic year 2020-2021. Apply at this link:
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Very sobering (but not at all surprising) thread. As a first step to addressing power imbalance, Princeton faculty voted a few months ago on a Pre-Doc Bill of Rights. Attaching a draft version (final version was very similar but I don't have it handy).
Seeing the discussion surrounding Econ pre-docs, I thought I would share my experience and my two cents (anonymously, as I wouldn’t do it otherwise). A (long) thread
#EconTwitter
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Calling another country's ban "dumb" is an even better example. The "you have to be stupid if you disagree with us" tone that seems to come so naturally to Dem pundits and politicians is like nails on a chalkboard to me.
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@liz_franczak
Sorry to harp, but literally two sentences in a short paragraph begin with the words "He is a millennial." How did this get back an copy-editor much less a communications person!?!?
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@jonathanchait
@DavidOAtkins
@HeerJeet
What is the actual evidence that any high school uses only Zinn? Do we think there is *any* chance that more than, say, 0.1% of U.S. high school students are taught in this manner?
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@Vanessa_ABee
My cat was nearly killed because she drank the water for the Xmas tree. I was confused, because i hadn't added any chemicals to the water, but apparently the trees themselves have so many chemicals and they seep into the water.
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@rodrikdani
The old David F Wallace joke, going something like: Man looks into a pond and sees two fish. He asks them: "How's the water?" And the fish look at each other & think: "What the hell is water?"
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Other than that, how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln?
For all its very real problems, one shouldn’t lose sight of the fact that the contemporary United States of America is one of the best places to live in all of human history and there’s a reason tons of people of all kinds from all around the world clamor to move here.
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I've long supported M4A, but my nagging doubt was always that maybe for-profit US system & high spending enabled technological breakthroughs. But we seem way behind other countries on Covid technology. Sincerely curious: what is best counter-evidence?
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A female athlete who loses her cool in the heat of competition gets punished; a male judge who loses his shit DURING A PREPARED STATEMENT gets promoted.
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@darth
Our little Bodie Cat tries to keep up with politics, but she just can't take it anymore... :(
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One of the things i hate most about my country is the disdain for "low skill" workers. It's everywhere & it's poisonous. Yesterday at grocery store I saw scared customers thanking delivery workers stocking shelves. Maybe first signs of what I hope is a permanent shift in norms.
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@CoreyRobin
Notably absent in the Times piece is that Bernie was a sponsor of the bill and certainly the energy behind this issue before anyone else.
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@erinhengel
To be fair, that's actually pretty diverse relative to the department as whole, which is 140% male and -40% female.
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Econ Twitter: The center I co-direct at Princeton is hiring post-docs for AY 2019-2020. It's a well-paid, well-resourced position. Job market candidates: Please apply! Everyone else: Please share/retweet widely.
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My 4yo daughter to my friend: Can I have a cookie?
Friend: You need to ask your mommy.
4yo [walks over to me]: Mommy, can I have a cookie?
Me: No, honey. You just had a popsicle.
4yo [impressively mature]: OK, mommy.
4yo [walks back to friend]: She said yes.
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Has anyone made the joke that Ivermectin is the dark-horse candidate to solve the COVID crisis?
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Economists are almost unanimous in support of a carbon tax. Could economics departments put a carbon tax on themselves? It would be an interesting experiment and also force us to think through implementation challenges, inequities, enforcement, etc.
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Tried to buy gadget to keep open bottle of wine fresh. Amazon told me it would be delayed: "we're currently prioritizing delivery of items customers need most." I was like, dude, wine *is* a priority now & then I was like, wait, they're saying just drink the whole bottle. Fair.
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Please apply to work as a full-time research assistant for me, Owen Zidar (
@omzidar
) and Henrik Kleven. Our research interests include inequality & mobility, taxation, gender norms, and political economy. Apply ASAP as applications are rolling!
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Idle thought on a trivial subject, but: the NBA should play the rest of their season outdoors. Lower Covid risk and would distract from the awkwardness of no crowds. H/t
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Seriously, what's the point of the huge endowments if twice in the last twelve years you are doing hiring freezes?
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That Tyler Cowen is interviewing Jordan "Lobster" Peterson, after all the nonsense Peterson has said about women, is pretty dispiriting, especially given the ongoing discussion of gender equality & climate in economics.
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@helaineolen
Historians discuss the Great Depression as the only moment that things were just so bad that Americans didn’t blame themselves, making it a unique moment for collective action. Survey evidence suggests self-blame is more common is US than other rich countries.
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I don't get the RBG fan club's anger at McConnell. **Everyone** knew the risk. So, embrace this outcome as the worthwhile price of the "autonomy" or "independence" or "notorious-ness" or whatever it was you were celebrating in her decision to stay on.
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I'm at the ate-ice-cream-for-lunch-which-was-at-3p stage of my quarantine. How about y'all?
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Without looking it up, what share of US kids ages 5-11 would you guess are fully vaccinated?
I was shocked how low. I'm surprised this basic fact isn't discussed more.
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Is he high?
#BREAKING
Facebook is now "Meta"
"Now we have a new North Star," CEO Mark Zuckerberg says. "From now on, we are going to be Metaverse first, not Facebook first,"
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It’s awesome how Aaron Rogers, a guy who lied about his vaccine status, reps
@StateFarm
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Watching MSNBC and a guest (Mimi Rocah, I assume a Dem?) just said (paraphrasing): "Bernie Sanders makes my skin crawl. I can't understand how young women support him. There is something anti-woman about him." No one pushed back. Weren't we supposed to unify ahead of 2020?
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RBG could have retired in 2009 (when Dems had a super majority) at the age of 76 after having served 16 years on the court. Just sayin'.
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@duane_g_watson
First time I ever traveled abroad (except Canada) i went to London in college and lady at passport control said: `Is this a holiday?' (meaning: am i traveling for vacation as opposed to business?) and I was like, `I don't know if today's a holiday. It's your country!'
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Here is a rationale for Mueller to testify that
#EconTwitter
will understand. No one reads the paper. That’s why we have seminars.
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Absolute power corrupts absolutely; but no power rots the food in your fridge.
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I stupidly took nominal analysis and have lost all my money to inflation. Let that be a lesson to the young folks out there.
Maybe economists make more money because they took real-analysis in undergrad 😏
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Seems like a good moment to share my observation that Musk has the exact same haircut as Kim Jong-Un.
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If NCAA athletes must be amateur student-athletes, why shouldn't we also have amateur student-coaches? Student-coaches would learn valuable lessons about life and leadership.
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Look, my daycare just closed bc of Covid, but the reality is we all need to make sacrifices so that Nancy Pelosi can have a fancy party.
House Dem and GOP leaders are holding respective dinners for new members.
.
@SpeakerPelosi
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Joe Biden promises a cure for cancer ("We’re going to invest billions of dollars to find, and I promise you, cures for cancer") in his speech last night, but Bernie is the one with pie-in-the-sky plans.
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I realize it is not the outcome a lot of people on here wanted, but hard to argue with a thorough, *days-long* investigation.
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I'm at a conference honoring Uwe Reinhardt and
@zackcooperYale
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Devah Pager—through the lives she touched as a friend, wife, mom and teacher and the grace with which faced the last two years—will forever inspire me. But tonight, my heart just aches. Devah, I miss you already. Thank you for ten years of friendship.
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Charming French tradition where the grandchildren of the candidates debate before major elections.
Oh, wait, these *are* the candidates? Candidates under the age of 80!?? Imagine that.
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My three-year-old daughter is convinced that I'm constantly eating things but not sharing with her. `Open your mouth, mommy!' Is this normal?
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Econ students: My colleague Owen is hiring full-time RAs. You would be part of Princeton's PF group (me, Owen and Henrik Kleven). We aim to create an inclusive environment where RAs can learn & grow. We would love to welcome you to our community (hopefully in person by 2021!).
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