@drivingmzstacey
@SFFDPIO
@baywheels
As a lifelong cyclist, this fever-pitch hyperbole is absurd. To see someone on a rental bike scream at a first responder is disgusting. If you’re not confident enough on a bike to go around, then you should walk.
From an orphanage to group homes to community college to
@UCBerkeley
to
@Georgetown
to
@UChicago
to a PhD in Economics
@CUNY
.
I will make it my life’s work to make sure that this is not as hard for anyone else.
Professors
@eveewing
and
@nomadj1s
during a graduation ceremony for Black students from
@HarrisPolicy
.
During a time characterized by sickness, recession, and protests for racial justice, Professors Ewing and Jones' commitment to the community is truly admirable.
@maxrebosrevenge
@dee_bee_h
If you hate on Hobo Johnson just means you don’t go to a lot of spoken word open mics, because this would crush at the local taqueria at 10:30 pm on a Tuesday.
As an orphan in an economics PhD, I can sometimes have small gaps that my wealthy peers don’t have in math, and even though this would be obvious to anyone familiar with educational mobility research, my peers (or even professors/committees) will sometimes conclude that they’re
Pursuing a PhD in Economics as an orphan, without extended family support and guidance, requires taking a leap of real faith, with no safety net, and just hoping an entire community catches you.
So thanks to everyone who has helped along the way.
@KyrieIrving
It would be really helpful if you didn’t use your platform to advance: vaccine misinformation, flat-eartherism, and anti-semitism.
On the whole, you’re doing much more harm to the public understanding of important topics than good.
It has been a very rough cycle, but after two years of coursework, research and teaching, I have been accepted into the PhD-track MACRM program at
@HarrisPolicy
.
Please clap 🥲
From an orphanage ➡️ to group homes ➡️ to community college ➡️ to a PhD in Economics 📚🎓
The study of inequality is personal. This hasn’t been an easy journey. Support if you can.
Health economist, Mark Shepard, from Harvard just replied to my email.
My goal of writing a paper that will have to be referred to as "Shepard & Sheppard" is slowly becoming a reality. Proving once again that no dream is too big if you believe in yourself.
People need to get more comfortable sitting with the realization that they’re not “smarter” than poor kids from the hood, they just grew up in a zip code and to parents where resources like having tutors was more possible.
I can’t imagine a more consequential academy to have stacked with folks who are born rich and well-off than economics.
That seems like a really big problem.
@JosephPolitano
@rad_planner
People unknowingly argue in favor of extending the de facto effects of segregationist era housing policies all the time. It’s wild to watch.
I would like to wish a very happy birthday to my advisor, Professor
@nomadj1s
. Professor Jones is an engaging and funny lecturer, a once-in-a-generation researcher, a supportive advisor, and most importantly a deeply kind person.
Happy birthday Professor Jones!
#EconTwitter
is so supportive. Any good news is almost guaranteed to go viral.
Doesn’t matter if you just won a Nobel or got an summer internship, everyone is happy for you. And I love that. 🥲
I am getting absolutely wrecked every week in this PhD, and I'm just loving it! I have never been so challenged, done so poorly, and enjoyed it so much simultaneously.
This is a wild ride.
@Adespoto3
@drivingmzstacey
@SFFDPIO
@baywheels
Unfortunately for y’all, societal norms allow emergency professionals a flexibility with parking regulation; but has a no tolerance policy for “Talk to the Manager” vibes of rental-cyclists.
Walk; lower your phone, volume & your octave. You’re not dying —you’re annoying.
In Chicago they removed all the basketball hoops from every court in the city at the start of the pandemic. Tennis nets were not taken down. Golf greens were not dug up. Baseball and soccer fields were not fenced.
Even as restrictions loosen the hoops have not been reinstalled.
Some personal news I’ve accepted an affiliated position at the new Stone Center at
@UChicago
@HarrisPolicy
, mostly to work part-time on data visualization and research communication.
I grew up as an orphan, in part because of sexual violence against my mother. Before the orphanage we stayed in a women and children shelter.
Sexual harassment and the violence against women has incredible consequences. Abuse of women will not be tolerated.
#EconTwitter
#MeToo
@mrmedina
Hobo Johnson is an independent Mexican American spoken word poet, that openly struggled with homelessness in the Central Valley of California, and mostly writes pieces about love.
It’s fine to not appreciate spoken word with musical accompaniment, but the hot takes are corny.
Economics has deep issues with respect gender, race, class, etc., and there’s downstream consequences from that, not just in terms of the scope of research but also in terms of the treatment scholars of color, women, etc.
I think I speak for all aspiring academics on
#EconTwitter
when I say this: there are very few things as wholesome than when a professor follows you or likes your posts.
The economists I admire most are deeply interested in policy & politics. Saez &
@gabriel_zucman
aren’t just incredible empiricists, they advocate for real policy change.
@SandyDarity
is not just a leading scholar, he is trying to make the world more equitable.
As an orphan
#FathersDay
is an odd holiday.
We must invest more in children shelters, group homes, domestic violence shelters, childcare, child allowances, SNAP, etc.,
Happy Fathers Day to the single mothers who shoulder the burden of parenthood alone.
Coffee is important because I have been waiting for students in office hours all morning only to realize after I had coffee that my scheduled office hours are on Friday... and it’s Wednesday.
We know that economics has a gender and racial diversity problem. Socioeconomic background is less often discussed.
@SchultzzyRun
and I use the Survey of Earned Doctorates - a census of all PhDs from US institutions - to study the socioeconomic background of econ PhDs
(1/N)
@JosephPolitano
MTA is both: 1. the best public transit system in the US, and 2. still just a rat-infested, slush fund/violent open-air homeless shelter with a transit side-hustle.
The gender ratio, racial breakdown, and socioeconomic statistics in economics are humiliating.
As the academy discusses ways to protect female faculty, let us also consider young women in the student body, especially women of color, who are not as active in this discussion.
@womenpostingws
This account is just not as wholesome as its counterpart.
Men Posting W’s will be like a bunch of drunk guys setting a high-five record with a dog, this account is like “the opinions of men are worthless” which is fine but it’s not a W.
Reflecting on the discussions over the last couple days on
#EconTwitter
, it just seems like women within the academy face steeper costs in general for speaking out, not just in terms of workplace harassment or misconduct, but for everything —always.
@NC_Renic
I can’t tell if this is meant to highlight that Europe has no real racial diversity when compared to the U.S., if it’s meant to be a remark about the person wearing the college tee, the smiling person, or the person wearing the suit.
Even as an orphan, I wasn’t offered a scholarship for my PhD. We know from the empirical literature that educational “merit” is often a proxy for paternal resources. And if that’s the case, then almost all scholarships should be needs-based.
Otherwise scholarships just become a
@SteveStuWill
@jagarikin
The notion that the images are identical and unmoving, and by extension this is some optical illusion that only occurs in the mind, ignores that the shading is in-fact moving in different directions.
@benzipperer
@john_voorheis
@Econ_Marshall
The World Bank did a survey and found that policy professionals showed consistentbias against minimum wage. Resistance towards the conclusions of the empirical literature seem pretty pervasive.
@Claudia_Sahm
Your contributions are immeasurable.
Criticizing wrongdoing or acknowledging that gross behavior is gross should not be career altering. The academy can and must do a better job of providing a safe work environment, free of harassment and abuse. The moral bar needs to be raised.
@JerusalemDemsas
For all the difficulties that owning a home can pose, it's still preferable to the indefinite threat of homelessness which comes with renting.