I'll add 1 more name to this list, bc I literally cannot stand having this info anymore. I've heard several credible allegations against GMU's Dan Houser—that he gropes women PhD students at conferences. Apparently this is an open secret; if you have more info, please speak up!
I wanted to downplay what happened to me.
Works sometimes as a self-protection mechanism. I said it's small compared to cases of more forceful harassment or rape.
Or, we can all move back to Facebook, post our papers there, and have the aunts from the village comment with flowers and Teddy bears.
Just think about it.
Back in my day, I managed to get admitted to a couple good PhD programmes in the UK but I had no funding so I applied for an ESRC.
Few months later I received an email saying I didn't get it. So, I got a bottle of wine & went to my friend's house to cry about it
1/
Had a wonderful time celebrating this heartwarming occasion with friends and colleagues!
Today one of my submissions turned 1 year old!
That's 12 months that I haven't heard back from the journal.
Cake was due 😋
Join me for a big shout out to
@ErnestoReuben
(NYUAD), the person initiating and running the
@EcScienceAssoc
Job Market Seminars. Pure public good provider in all time zones 🕐🕙🕚🕝🕑.
Thank you Ernesto!
There are some bad apples in Econ - oh, I know
But the majority I have encounter are shiny, crispy, brilliant apples.
There's also some exceptional
#econapples
, and I can't thank those enough.
Then, a week after that, I received another email saying that, actually, I did get it 😳! So I got a bottle of wine & went to my friend's house to celebrate.
2/
Come on, were you really shocked to find out about sexual harassment and power abuse in Econ? We know it is happening, we understand it needs to change.
We've studied social and intertemporal preferences extensively but separately. We know very little about Intertemporal Social Preferences.
I've put together an
#ASSA2022
session because I wanted to get a discussion started for this important but understudied topic.
Join us!
It's easy for universities to restrict EJMR from their networks & devices.
They should do it not only because it won't allow posts from their premises but also because it'll protect those who've been slandered.
Why let Google return EJMR results when we look up a colleague?
If we want more women in STEM but not more men at home then we need to change family norms and perceptions about childbearing/rearing.
Something's got to give.
Giving a seminar at U.o.Cyprus and wow. This is a different place than the one I left. What a group & campus...So proud of what the colleagues have done here!
Cyprus as a whole is a different country now - but no matter what, it will always be home to me.
JM update🧵
Yesterday I had to reject two fantastic Tenure-Track offers (UK/USA). Turns out I cannot relocate.
My family logistics were always in a limbo between reason & unreason, & beyond my full control.
But I have control over how I choose to see the current situation.
I was thinking of the side-costs to others. His family, students, coauthors. And my family & colleagues & the uncomfortable situation they will find themselves in.
Just returned from giving a talk at Haifa Uni.
Multiple things impressed me.
The colleagues, the well-supplied campus museum, the scenery, the cable car..
Mostly, I was impressed by the determination of people standing up for their shared values & for Democracy.
Salutations🇮🇱
Tonight we're drinking "reject & resubmit"
▪︎1p. Martini bianco
▪︎1p. Martini rosso
▪︎1p. Fernet Branca
☆ Smashed fresh zaatar on top. Pear slice optional.
It's flat and bitter like a good rejection but that zaatar gives it a hope twist.
Today we started our academic cocktails with a *tenure Sunrise* over bbq & we concluded with a nice "Associate Prosecco" by the mangroves.
Recipes available upon request. I'm confident results replicate robustly 🧡
I had a great time at the 1st Matterhorn Symposium. Meeting old friends & celebrating recent publication with coauthors.
Also, cable cars, chocolates, cows, rain, & kirsch!
I hope there will be a 2nd 😉
I really wish I could be at the ASSA this year.
Important
#metoo
discussions that I am missing and so many cool sessions I'd like to attend.
Mostly, it's in New Orleans, & it's Jterm, & I would have loved to cheer a cocktail to Becky's memory.
It was a shock hearing about Nora's passing. It is terribly sad. And scary too.
I do not know what was the cause of her death- but she went through so so much. She won't have to go through anything else anymore..
Ever since the Olympics in Atlanta, when I discovered there's a nearby city called Athens, I've been wanting to move there & tell people "I am Georgia from Athens but I live in Athens, Georgia".
I live in Abu Dhabi now which is not bad, but that's just Georgia's evidence.
It feels bad to damage someone's 💰.For how much would you do it & lie about it? What if the damage is in a week or a month? What if they never find out?
I like studying the dark side of social preferences. Come see my presentation today. Or interview me. I'm on the market!
We researched, we explored, facilitated, taught, learned, we became a great team.
I'm a little emotional completing my postdoc
@ssel_nyuad
soon, but I'm still around and always an SSELer.
Keep experimenting 🔬🎲
Here's the 'More Like a Comment'
Slowly boil
°fresh juice of 2 🍋 & 1 🍊
°pressed ginger (2 fingers)
°cinnamon, cloves, anise
°blue agave syrup
°zacapa
It's long, as a proper 'More Like a Comment' ought to be - but sweet&warm like someone actually listened to your presentation.
ESA mentoring has helped me in so many ways. A big thank you to
@mc_villeval
and Friederike Mengel for the meaningful mentoring! And I just got lucky with the group 🍀
@LSpantig
,
@stephanieaheger
,
@_mirafischer
, Marina Chugunova, you're awesome 🙌
Remembering Becky Morton these days. Jterms were all about WESSI and flying everyone to India for her field experiments course.
Will make gumbo tonight & mix a negroni. She'd approve...
This graph is doing rounds in my head.
We are bothered by socially induced inequalities, but the “naturally” induced ones won’t trigger sentiments.
It’s ok to do better than others as long as you are smarter- not richer.
Yet both are a lucky draw.
It’s better to be born rich than gifted!
Genes predicting academic success are almost evenly distributed... Yet, observed success is concentrated among high-income families.
What wasted potential!
Article:
#mobility
#education
#intergenerational
While Krugman stood as a beacon of responsibility when, without any cultural context or a good understanding of local institutions, he was pushing and encouraging Greeks to leave the euro.
Spare us with the karma parallels. We remember.
Germany's refusal to slash imports of Russian gas is deeply destructive and hypocritical — apparently only other countries should pay a price for being irresponsible
Yes but how many spaghetti per fork bite? What is the optimal time gap between brushing teeth & having an espresso? Is it OK to enjoy lasagne if you haven't talked to your nonna recently?
I hate how Italians stay silent on the important things 😒
Sometimes I complain about chairing the Researcher's Council. Non-stop meetings and emails.
But not today! Today they spoiled me with a nice book & coffee & chocolate and other goodies. In a personalised way. & it worked
Good job up there, NYUAD! Thanks for all the opportunities
Kids got covid, 2 houthi missiles flew above my balcony, I didn't turn that flyout into an offer, BUT IT WAS THIS MEDICINE PRESCRIBED FOR MY BABY THAT HIT MY SPOT.
My coauthors & I published a paper.
Vs
I & my coauthors published a paper.
Both are grammatically correct, but I would have a beer with the first kind and probably an argument with the second.
A moral tension I've always been curious about is how people resolve the conflict of someone being nice to them but nasty to others.
Like, the loving aunt who's also racist, or the fun co-author who's disrespecting the waitress...
How do we handle two things being true?
Fourth and final, I want to be grateful.
I have the best kids in the whole wide world. They are healthy and happy. My husband is the nicest and most handsome guy ever.
Desert, jungle, glacier -anywhere as long as we are all together and there is STATA & coffee.
I found a domain that I liked but it was parked, so I asked and received an offer for 5 million.
I could buy a seafront villa but I don't know, this is a good deal too.
In this small Aegean island called Leros, there's a fisherman who won't sell his catch straight away. Instead, he uses a lottery system.
He makes as much as the fish market price but, if you're lucky, you can get this bad boy for just €5.
I like all of Nina's work. Her JMP, her study on child marriage in Bangladesh (AER), her paper on reputation dynamics with evidence from Malawi (R&R AER). And she has more going...
She's really good!
Tonight, a weekday classic called "CV update".
° 3 p. Red wine (not your best - so, any merlot)
° 1 p. Limoncello
° lemon juice & slices & ice
Tartness hits first, like when fitting new things in old formats. But then sugars bit tannins satisfyingly, like belated gratification.
My favorite ancient lying detector had been the rice method developed by the Chinese – suspects had to chew and spit grains of rice. Dry rice meant the suspect is guilty because fear and anxiety decreases salivation.
But then I started looking into the Indian methods…
Next we're drinking "Field Blending"
° 1p vodka
° 1p lemon juice
° 1p kiwi liqueur
° 1p Ella's kitchen baby food (apples, prunes, squash)
As tasty as a paper co-authored by an engineer and a political scientist.
We find this to be true for antisocial but not prosocial behaviour. Dishonesty is
more contagious than honesty. Individuals switch from honesty to lying
when they observe another lying, they do not switch from lying to honesty when
they observe another telling the truth.
Tons of studies show that if you see everyone perform a certain behavior, you will start thinking that this behavior is "good" or "right"
New work from
@efosterhanson
and
@TaniaLombrozo
shows that this effect also arises for judgments in folk biology!
In my feed, voices of people scared of tomorrow, dead families, fear, and helplessness.
Also voices with exciting professional and personal news. Confidence, gratefulness, and potential.
Life seems too random and too fast.
Whatever your path, keep going.
Does time distort moral justifications? Do we lie more to cover past selfish behaviors? Or to prevent current selfishness from being revealed in the future?
Looking forward to presenting my latest experiment “Concealing-Anticipatory-Premeditated Lies” at ESA Boston next week.
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
1/2 Our brilliant colleague
@KirbyKNielsen
(AsstProf 2020) just got promoted to tenured Full Prof, 2y ahead of schedule. Here's a hint about why:
1. she writes *perfect* haikus describing papers. That is *not easy*
2. Three
@AEAjournals
AER papers in 2 years. Different topics.
Senior EU officials tell me the EU is considering offering qualified Russian 🇷🇺 citizens EU 🇪🇺 passports - to accelerate Russian economic brain drain
This is just one of many innovative measures being considered to complement economic sanctions now in place 🇪🇺🇺🇦
This is called
#First_Draft
◇1 p. Cachaça
◇1 p. Grand Marnier
◇1p. Mango juice or 1/2p. Puree
☆Ring the martini glass with paprika & ginger powder. Orange peel optional.
It's sweet but fiery & like most first drafts, you'll want to revise that glass a few of times 😉