Heather Sarsons
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grumpy. likes chips and mowing the lawn. dislikes big tobacco and a handful of cults.
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[1/2] Cannot think of a more deserving person. Claudia is one of the most curious, thoughtful, and brilliant people. She is a great advisor, pushing others to think more deeply and go after big questions.
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 “for having advanced our understanding of women’s labour market outcomes.”
#NobelPrize
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lots of advice for JMCs on here! advice for departments?
1. don't be a jerk to JMCs
2. don't be a jerk to JMCs
3. don't tell women/students of colour that they are so lucky bc it's so easy for them to get jobs these days
4. don't be a jerk to JMCs
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woman wins Nobel prize, man uses it to promote his own work
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My take is that EJMR is what happens when people don't go to therapy and instead bully others to temporarily make themselves feel superior/satisfy their egos
My take is that EJMR is what happens when decentralized markets do not by themselves have enough means to facilitate information aggregation in the face of substantial frictions (say, caused by sticky social normals and emphasis on perception of quality over quality).
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"I like this approach to economics. It does not feel like economics"
teaching reviews, 2023
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I observe a strong correlation between feelings about ethics and whether the experimental subjects are economists
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UBC econ is such an incredibly nice and functional department, it is making it annoyingly difficult to pretend that I'm not a dysfunctional jackass
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Human men, do NOT watch this video and think it is ok to do this in the workplace, this IS harassment, despite what you may infer from bird laws
This male Victoria rifle bird trying to impress a female with a mating dance
📹travelandwildlifephotography
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if an R&R is what you want most for christmas then you haven't received a proper holiday gift/diversified your interests enough. give me your address and I'll send you something actually good that I stole from my parents' house.
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every time I talk to a guy in private sector about a potential collaboration, the convo has to start with 5 mins of him explaining to me how the gender gap is calculated and why it's wrong.
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favourite paper to write; didn't do full justice
The SJE is pleased to have this overview by Heather Sarsons of the contributions of Nobel laureate Claudia Goldin.
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whenever economists are like "intuitively, blah", blah is never my intuition.
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"I could not tell when the professor was joking and she would wait for us to laugh at her jokes"
teaching reviews, 2023
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One year ago I decided to run all the streets of Vancouver and today I am saddened to see that I still have 146% of it left.
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Once I lived in a windowless room in a London apartment where Jack the Ripper killed someone. 3 nights a week, a tour group would come look into the kitchen window and take photos. One day we put a tip jar outside and earned 280 pounds over the course of a year.
#Economics
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my 1st research statement (1st bc got rejected everywhere 1st time I applied) was stream-of-consciousness essay about why I thought questions were interesting that led into do academics really do anything useful that led into yeah I dunno about this. I think it's my best work yet
5/ Then use MOST OF THE STATEMENT to develop 1 (max 2) of these ideas as specifically as possible
The idea is not to say “this is what I will do for my dissertation” because no applicant knows that
Show that you know how to ask and answer an original & interesting question
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once when I was really mad at my older brother I put tuna in his pillow and when my parents got mad at me I said "how do you know the cat isn't hiding tuna there?!" and the next day there was tuna in my fave shoes with a note that said "had to find a new hiding spot -- the cat"
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EOY UPDATE.
We made some good progress but a busted toe and running along the ocean distracted me from running every street in Vancouver. 2024 will be dedicated solely to this regardless of the personal & professional consequences.
Best to have no goals except useless ones.
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What are good debate topics for an undergraduate labour economics course?
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how did these karl marx photos get into my slide deck specifically for a talk at uchicago
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Anyway, Canada’s most misunderstood province continues to be the best thing that happened to me
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sometimes I want to move back to my hometown, pop. 300, where people have to talk to rather than yell past each other for life to work. so quirks & flaws are accepted but you're also told to cool it when you aren't being cool.
then again, everyone who lives there is real weird.
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airport security swabbed my hands and it was all "bleep beep" and these guys came and said "you have a chemical explosive on your hands!" and I said yikes and then they asked me about my medical history for 20 mins and told me to leave, and I have no idea if I'm still explosive.
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my keys fell down the elevator shaft so I took a flashlight to see if I could see them on the basement level but my glasses fell off my face and I stepped on them and broke them and now I live in the park I guess.
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lots of jokes but this is scarier than 2016. this isn't reality tv and it really is not funny.
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Canada's greatest strength is other countries' incompetencies.
@RishiSunak
Students will start looking elsewhere – to America or Europe. The UK, seemingly closed for business and foreign students, is on a slow decline and losing its relevance.
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just when my dad was starting to believe in global warming, it had to go and be -55
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Unless you’re my dad whose advice was to go all in on one stock bc the company needs to know u believe in them
Another thing economics isn’t about.
The most likely answers you’ll get from economists to “which stock should I pick” are:
(1) It doesn’t matter.
(2) The cheapest diversified index fund you can find.
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This paper by
@EmilyNix100
@abicadams
& CAs is incredible. What is striking in studies on abuse is the repeat offender finding. Improving reporting is first order but not easy. When a colleague and I tried to run a study to improve reporting methods, nobody wanted to take up.
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after many years of joking about getting fired, a friend pointed out that I am no longer listed as faculty at my institution. this is the power of visualization.
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Been struggling with insomnia for a few months and the best thing I discovered is the BBC shipping forecast. Thanks BBC 🙏
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personally I would like twitter to turn into the old Facebook where we had personal conversations on each other's "walls" for all to see
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I randomly promote wolf photos but none of you donate to the wolf sanctuary, why
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"Strengths of the class: Not intellectually dishonest"
teaching reviews, 2023
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my nephew started drawing cartoons of our family and in my scene I sit in a chair and then a shark bites me
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does anyone actually know what their comparative advantage is
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It's ok not to like a job market paper, but talking shit about people will inevitably get back to them and make their entire experience pretty miserable. We already have a weird market that unnecessarily stresses people out. 🤷♀️
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I wish we would decide to either abide by ethics board decisions, or that we aren't accepting *any* audit studies. I see some papers get rejected bc a reviewer decides it's unethical and then another sails through. I don't love audits, but we live in audit acceptance chaos.
“thousands of randomly generated fictitious resumes were submitted”
I see that another new study, circulating on Twitter, gets zero pushback
Academics seem very comfortable with imposing a time cost to other working people, as if others’ time is unimportant and our work trumps.
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Carolina is right! Always impressed by APs who put in massive amounts of time and effort to create these kinds of public goods that benefit other researchers (and policy-makers)
It can’t be overstated how impressive the work of
@Econ_mike
is with
@UM_CJARS
for our understanding of the criminal justice system in the US
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This is a really interesting paper shedding light on where bias kicks in (and showing that doing the Nth audit study on discrimination probably isn't giving us that much useful information anymore, my interpretation not the authors')
📝 New Working Paper
“Decoding Gender Bias: The Role of Personal Interaction” with
@amer_5
&
@ash_craig
\begin 🧵
#EconTwitter
⤵️ 1/11
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my comparative advantage is having a perfectly monotone voice but nobody will hire me to announce metro stops :(
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[2/2] And she will 100% stay herself even after winning: Claudia is Claudia is Claudia, in the best possible way!
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let us all be aware that we are affected by social norms, and try not to be triggered by research that suggests we are 🙏
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@paulnovosad
I dunno. I liken my JMP to an annoying 27 year old whom I keep sending off into the world and it keeps coming back to live in my basement. Eventually I give up and give it the house and move elsewhere. That's how I wound up at UBC.
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so which social economist convinced twitter to turn off the likes viewing and is writing a paper on political correctness
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I think Americans should take a 5 day break from twitter
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a nephew's names for me, over time:
aun hay
auntie hay
auntie hayor
auntie hever
auntie poop
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When I was 11 I wrote a letter to myself to read as an adult. It outlined my dreams of what I would become. It reads:
Buy 5 boxes of Kraft Dinner, make one box of noodles, but use all 5 cheese packets.
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realizing the quote tweet was a jerk move when
@JlibDoesEcon
is imo one of the most thoughtful and nicest people in econ! also we dress the same. sorry bff
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can someone in economics be interested in the latest track and field drama so that I can have a friend
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can't believe there's another season of Super Bowl that show was never good
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it's that time of year when I start playing the muppet christmas carol soundtrack on repeat and my downstairs neighbours cry inexplicably and my office neighbours stop coming in to work 🎄
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Vancouver has a street named after every province except for Saskatchewan and Newfoundland which are arguably the good provinces
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@Devin_G_Pope
people always assume I care about women and equality 🙄
(in all seriousness, this is annoying--sorry it is happening!)
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@DinaPomeranz
Also this:
showing women penalized more for misconduct. Regardless of one's views on what happened, there shouldn't be a different bar.
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can't believe people are more interested in dude's retirement than the latest track and field drama, continued disappointment
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Yes, Silas is really big in the middle of the photo
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I publicly vow to be 15% less bad at email this year, and accept shaming as a commitment device
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When people say the US will remain democratic -- I think they are picturing North Korea. In many countries you've probably visited for vacation or conferences, democracy is being steadily eroded and you should speak to people who live there to hear what that is like.
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used to think orangutan was pronounced "orange-u-tan" and an "orang-a-tang" was a diff animal. HS classmate referenced the orang-a-tang in life of pie and I said "no orang-a-tang in the book, just an orange-u-tan" and my English teacher took out a bottle of whiskey from her desk
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oh no one of my papers has officially been alive and unpublished for 20% of my life, maybe I'm really young
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women's 100m final, how much can I live tweet before it's over
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nobody likes raccoons in their ceiling and why are there always raccoons in my ceiling
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Is there a classic book on the evolution of language (can be language specific)? I’m learning to read and this seems interesting
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We watched Silas grow from little pupperoni to adult wolf. May he participate equally in childcare and stand up for women who say the other wolves are being creeps.
Silas is getting pretty good at taking selfies! 🤣
Photo credit: Silas
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Elite schools should admit way more students. Some say we should just "diversify" admissions. Instead, why don't we try to make value-added more similar across universities. (A: bc not politically feasible, bloop)
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also they send out notices for town meetings that have the following:
The meeting will be held at 10am.
In the event of rain at 10am: The meeting will be held at 1pm.
In the event of rain again at 1pm: The meeting will be held at 2:30pm
In the event of rain at 2:30pm ...
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back from Vancouver pride, time for my hot takes on swimming as I watch replay. Since I never learned how to swim I'll comment on superficial things, such as the Canadians swim shorts looking the coolest.
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Many were discussing Anders Humlum's interesting paper on ChatGPT adoption at NBER. This paper by
@dorotheafrenkel
provides evidence for why adoption might be different for men and women
Our paper on gender differences in AI adoption and proficiency is now available in the NHH Discussion paper series🤖
We present several interesting , and potentially worrying, results and shed light on how university policies can be leveraged to close these gaps ⛷️check it out
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Definitely the best thread ive ever seen,
#15
and 17 important so that we dont all go try to become lion photographers or whatever
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@itsafronomics
ok that's fair! I guess am more concerned about the mindset of "we survived trump once". another round of trump terrifies me. a trump/putin/netanyahu world terrifies me even more.
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The best coast was never a coast and was always in fact the landlocked part of Canada excluding Alberta
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Savannah Sutherland from Borden Saskatchewan (pop: 287) is competing in the 400m hurdles FINAL today at 12:25pm PT and everyone should watch or have a really good excuse
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Interesting paper looking at tradeoff bw privacy and health outcomes.
"the use of electronic medical records can prevent AIDS deaths by enabling patient tracing [...] patients who initially state a preference for privacy in fact benefit most from improved tracing practices. "
On 16 May, 2023,
@lauraderksen
, researcher from
@UofT
, will be presenting her working paper on the use of electronic medical records and how it can prevent AIDS deaths by enabling patient tracing. 💡Learn more and how to join the SITE brown bag seminar:
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@economeager
@itsafronomics
Next up: people start asking if you have children, then comment on how much money you must have saved and how much sleep you get.
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@economeager
I dunno about this whole thing. "Can you randomly promote this person and we will see if we shift job offers"... and imagine the effects had been negative?
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Paper, which would not fit on previous tweet:
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Dad, using his computer: I am trying to find my desktop
Me: here is the desktop (pointing to computer screen)
Dad: No, that’s not the one I lost
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@paulgp
I understand the concerns here (I don't respond to student emails I dont know) but can't help but notice that people did not raise the same concerns over the massive Kline et al. audit that published in QJE:
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no context needed
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