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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

1 year

Two years ago I was rejected by all 14 grad schools that I applied to. Which is a fun emotional arc, as I'm super happy to announce that in September I'll be starting a PhD in Economics at @HarvardEcon

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

5 years

Find me a better headline on the #economics @NobelPrize ... I'll wait. (Translation: Esther Duflo and two other researchers, including her husband, awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics)

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

1 month

Who are the most mentioned people in a century of US news? Been working on this project since the first year of my predoc, so super excited to put this out in the world

Melissa Dell

@MelissaLDell

1 month

This builds upon our newly released model that disambiguates people in texts to Wikipedia . Eisenhower is the most mentioned person in Newswire. Women are under 5% of disambiguated mentions (Golda Meir is the most mentioned woman).

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

10 months

Just accepted at #NeurIPS2023 ! 🥳

Melissa Dell

@MelissaLDell

1 year

@EmilySilcock1 and I have recently released HEADLINES, a massive-scale dataset containing nearly 400 million positive semantic similarity pairs, drawn from historical U.S. newspapers. Dataset: Paper: (1/3)

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

1 year

Also as justice to Emily-from-two-years-ago, I would like to note that when I got my final rejection on 2021, I was on holiday in Somaliland, which is clearly Very Cool. Still working on the "economist extraordinaire" thing tho

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

5 years

Hi #EconTwitter , I'm writing an academic CV for the first time - any advice? What should or shouldn't be included? (Optimistically tagging @jenniferdoleac @causalinf )

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

4 years

What motivates aid donors? Are they becoming more focused on their own interests? I am very excited that @ODIdev 's 2020 Principled Aid Index has been published today. What do we find? A 🧵 (1/n)

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

7 months

Something fun I've been working on recently!

Melissa Dell

@MelissaLDell

7 months

I’m excited to share News Déjà Vu (), which uses a custom large language model to retrieve historical news articles that are the most similar to modern news articles. (1/4)

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

5 years

Could anyone recommend books relating foreign aid and conflict? (Specifically looking for books, and specifically on aid -> conflict not the other way round) - finding surprisingly little on this topic #EconTwitter #PoliSciTwitter

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

1 year

I have many people to thank, particularly @MelissaLDell , @LeanderHeldring , @pquerubo and @olivervdeynde

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

11 months

📰🔍Super excited to share this paper👩‍💻🗞️ and feeling very lucky to have learned so much from this amazing team

Melissa Dell

@MelissaLDell

11 months

I’m excited to share American Stories, a new billion-scale dataset of structured texts/layouts from public domain newspapers (1780-1960) that we’ve built using our deep learning packages. #EconTwitter (1/13) Paper: Dataset:

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

5 years

Monday evening seems like a good point to reflect on how good our little corner of the internet can be - exhibit A: these two complete strangers who offered to read through my CV for me #EconTwitter

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

1 month

RTs very much appreciated ❤️ @jhaushofer @DinaPomeranz @economeager @_alice_evans @jmwooldridge @JohnHolbein1

Harvard Grad Women in Economics

@HarvardGWE

1 month

Considering applying for an econ PhD? The student-led Duke, Harvard, MIT, and Stanford Economics Mentoring Program (EMP) helps students from underrepresented groups connect with a grad student mentor. Applications are open until July 22nd! Learn more at:

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

5 years

Hey #EconTwitter , can you hit me up with papers on higher education (university or vocational training) in development contexts? Looking for the intersection of HE and development. What should I be reading that I'm not?

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

3 years

@Shooshan5 @econotw There's probably a few, but I find @DaveEvansPhD 's useful (even if you're not writing a dev paper)

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

1 year

And of course @LoeweSimon for believing in me even when I didn't

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

5 years

@bjorkmanmartina @matt_hanhat I'd love to know what they think are the biggest problems with the RCT methodology - I feel like we've heard a lot of broad brushstroke criticism, but a more nuanced discussion would be interesting

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

3 years

So yeah my online username got blocked by my bank for containing explicit content. My username was my name😳

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

4 years

My brother's chemistry paper has just been published 2 months after it was submitted. Yes, I have read it. No, I didn't understand it. And yes this is a subtweet of all of #EconTwitter

Fernanda Duarte

@fjduarteg

4 years

Just accepted in @angew_chem autodE: Automated Calculation of Reaction Energy Profiles. Great work by Tom, Joseph, and Alistair ( @TYoungResearch @j_silcock @ASterlingChem ) @duarte_group @OxfordChemistry @OxfordSynthesis @tmcscdt

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

4 years

Introducing our two new baby window pigeons

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

4 years

This creepy ass pigeon has been sat silently staring through my my (one and only) window for the last 24 hours - planning the overthrow of the human race? Lost robotic spy bird? Laying eggs?

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

3 years

First episode: Emily doesn't understand tipping. Has America not heard of wages?

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

4 years

Well I've never written this on an application form before

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

3 years

As an Emily who has recently moved from Paris to the US, the temptation to start an #EmilyinBoston account is pretty strong

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

5 years

@mkguliford Did you ... did you steal my tweet? 😂

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

3 years

Second episode: what the hell is Barbecue Sushi?

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

1 year

Shout out to @supraja08 and the twitter-less Jackie Sullivan for accidentally convincing me on the whole grad school idea to start with

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

4 years

Sometimes when I'm half asleep I try and google things in my head ...

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

4 years

Super excited to be at the @ucl Conflict & Change workshop on Political Turbulence today and tomorrow

UCL Political Science - School of Public Policy

@uclspp

4 years

The PhD Workshop: Political Turbulence brings together doctoral students working on armed conflict & political violence. Each roundtable includes presentations followed by a response and a discussion involving all participants.

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

5 years

@mkguliford I'm yet to work out whether it's intentionally subverting what we see so often, or whether it's just nationalism

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

5 years

Bit late to the party, but finally reading @KateRaworth 's Doughtnut Economics. How many times have I read this Adam Smith quote and not even thought about this?

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

4 years

@jannekepieters @TradeandMoney I'd love to see an AER: Replications or similar

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

4 years

I have just discovered that 't'inquiète pas' which means 'don't worry' in French can be shortened to 't'inquiète' which literally means 'do worry' And I am done with this language🙈

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

4 years

So: what do we find? 👉 Ireland comes first every year since 2013, scoring well on Development Gaps & Public Spiritedness. However it is below average on Global Cooperation, meaning it is not pulling its weight with global public goods, like contributions to climate adaptation

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

5 years

I don't know if this makes anyone feel better, but I just had a dream where I called Boris Johnson "heinous" to his face #UKElection #ElectionResults2019 #GeneralElection

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

4 years

As an Emily in Paris, I can tell you that this is One Hundred Percent what my life is like

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

3 years

Hello pretty graph 😍

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

5 years

Life update: started work today at the Ethiopian Ministry of Science and Higher Education ( @she_ethiopia ). I'm super excited to start after 3 months of visa process - and you can imagine how much I love that acronym.

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

4 years

I think I'm the only person having a better Christmas this year than last year 😅

Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

5 years

Merry Christmas everyone. This is what my Christmas day gas looked like so far. Yes I'm at work. Yes I want sympathy.

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

5 years

Merry Christmas everyone. This is what my Christmas day gas looked like so far. Yes I'm at work. Yes I want sympathy.

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

4 years

👉Some info on GRE scores for econ grad school. Various schools have said that they don't require GRE scores this year, but what does this mean? I chased up a few for clarification. MIT: "All materials submitted with your application will be taken into consideration"

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

5 years

Something that I have heard no one talking about in #GERD discussion: how very literally Ethiopians are invested in this project. 10 years ago, before the government built the dam, they sold bonds to individual Ethiopians in order to finance the dam

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

3 years

I sense my coauthor is not feeling very positive towards our project

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

6 years

. @MiddleEastInst 's rundown of 2019 has been sat in my inbox for a couple of weeks now. Turns out waiting for me to be forced off my bike and onto public transport by the snow to have time to read it - well worth the time

Middle East Institute

@MiddleEastInst

6 years

2019 Middle East preview: Key trends, events, and policies to watch Special briefing featuring @paul_salem @Charles_Lister @fordrs58 @majidyar @j_feierstein @mmabrouk @sarahmargon @JonathanMaWiner @mgweinbaum and Nathan Stock

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

3 years

Come work with me! This is a super cool predoc opportunity, with the chance to develop a lot of v useful skills

Melissa Dell

@MelissaLDell

3 years

I currently have two open predoc positions for next academic year: and Great opportunity for gaining hands on experience applying both deep learning and econometric methods to novel research

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

4 years

My sister has just reminded me that our high school maths teacher used to call exams "knowledge parties" and I have to admit, that now seems a lot funnier than it did at age 13

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

4 years

Update: @NewCollegeOx has confirmed that they will #HonourTheOffer - really proud of them

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

4 years

Hey #EconTwitter , it's been a solid 3 months since I asked for lit recommendations (I checked), so: I'm looking for literature on the training of university lecturers in developing countries - maybe a bit specific, so related things also super super welcome 🙏

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

4 years

@cblatts Crisis Group is consistently good - and their The Horn podcast is solid, if you prefer your info spoken. They just did a special episode

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

4 years

👉 Almost every donor has declined this year. This is mostly driven by the Public Spiritedness dimension - donors are becoming more likely to link their aid to political gain. This is particularly driven by donors that scored well in previous years (6/n)

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

10 years

@KaraVerkroost "I have enough problems with choosing bras never mind righting the problems of the world" #ragballot2014

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

5 years

Pleased to be attending the 15th Workshop of the #HiCN Households in Conflict Network today at @PSEinfo - check out this packed schedule (and that's just before coffee) 👇

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

9 months

Had the chance to read Emma's super cool JMP through Harvard's peer reading scheme - and it's fantastic!

Emma Rackstraw

@emmarackstraw

9 months

(1/many) My job market paper investigates what police propaganda and its effects can teach us about the institution of policing.

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

4 years

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

2 years

Raise your hand if you have been personally victimised by this tweet

katie

@focusfronting

2 years

why are the only acceptable hobbies for academics running and rock climbing. i will never want to do either of those things and i don't trust people who enjoy them

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

4 years

Clearly the @ecb doesn't pay as well as you think

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

4 years

How are aid donors balancing their interests with their values? @ODI 's #PrincipledAid Index ranks 29 donors on how principled their aid allocations are. Where does each country rank and why? A 🧵(1/n)

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

5 years

Check out this super interesting paper that I did a (tiny) bit of RA work for last year 👇

Martín Fernández Sánchez

@MartinFS13

5 years

Hi #EconTwitter , I am glad to share with you my JMP: "Mass Emigration and Human Capital over a Century: Evidence from the Galician Diaspora". It is the result of two years learning about my ancestors. Find the paper and more info about me at: 1/13

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

4 years

2. Global Cooperation - do donors contribute to global public goods and the multilateral system? (eg. stopping infectious diseases, climate change mitigation, reducing conflict) (3/n)

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

1 year

@AnnaMeierPS I recently discovered (and tried and tested) that if your eurostar is late, they have to give you a free ticket for another EMR train. It's called HOTNAT and you just need to go talk to the conductor on the Eurostar and they'll give you a little bit of paper that you take to EMR

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

10 years

Coming home to find @SherwoodArtweek combining my two great loves: knitting and bunting http://t.co/aUxDWvyCRR

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

4 years

Want to write to Oxford about A Level results? I put together a quick list of petitions and letter-writing info for Oxford grads. Please use and share.

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

5 years

So I'm researching peace talks in Syria, with the search term "Syria meetings" And now this is what I'm getting advertised

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

4 years

Update on the window pigeon: In unrelated news, a baby pigeon is called a squab

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

4 years

#EconTwitter do you have any thoughts/opinions on grad school application videos? The only things I can think of is:

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

3 years

I had a professor who made me read Marx quotes to the rest of the class because he liked my English accent - does that count?

Dr. Adam H. Domby

@AdamHDomby

3 years

Did anyone actually have a Marxist professor in college?

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

4 years

👉 More generous donors (aid as % of GNI) tend to be score higher (8/n)

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

10 years

. @sainsburys It was very nice of you to log it and all, but I'm afraid the @newscientist had not been moved when we went back today

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

5 years

All of this to say, I think the level of individual investment - both in a financial and non-financial sense - should not be overlooked when discussing the #GERD negotiations

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

4 years

3. Public Spiritedness - donors are penalised for using their aid for narrow political gain (eg. tying aid to UN votes, or using aid to sway recipient elections) (4/n)

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

4 years

Can I just stop your day to tell you that 50% of the world's roundabouts are in France? (aka. traffic circles, or if you're from where I'm from, islands)

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

3 years

Tfw you're waiting for a data request approval from the UK Chief Medical Officer, and instead he's having to deal with Nicki Minaj's cousin's friend's balls

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

4 years

I've been casually reading through these lectures in my free time ( #keen ) and can attest that they are great

Francesco Trebbi

@xftrebbi

4 years

If this saves folks a bunch of time in preparing your Pol Econ lectures, I'm happy. Not claiming they are great, but it is 2020 after all...

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

5 years

Added to this, #GERD is a project that is free of (explicit) Western financial backing, making it a huge source of pride in a country where a lot of infrastructure is funded by ODA

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

4 years

@Sydonahi My sourdough starter was called Audrey. Sadly she is no longer with us

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

5 years

In other news, the typo in this tweet really cheered me up, proving I have the sense of humour of a 6 year old boy

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

4 years

More recently, though, I've been running R code

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

4 years

Finally a big shout out to @NilimaGulrajani who has made this project a pleasure to work on

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

10 years

Lovely letter from @RNLI for @NewCollegeJCR 's last formal: "our lifeboat crews rescue an average of 22 people a day" http://t.co/6yS45Ix01x

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

4 years

Want to know more? ☑️ Check our snazzy data visualisation here. (Click on the country you are interested in to get a break down of where their score comes from):

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

3 years

Please enjoy the gender balance in the comments on this 👍🤨

scott cunningham

@causalinf

3 years

An economist and I were swapping stories. They said they chose econ PhD bc they wanted to advocate for people’s stories and Econ would have a big impact. I said I just love Econ and love the research process. Why’d you choose to become an economist? Explain it like I’m 5

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

6 years

@_adriantweets @Amelia_Womack @Poundland Fun/depressing fact: most teabags actually contain plastic 😳

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

9 years

@NCNomads good luck! Enjoy breaking jails

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

5 years

Maybe not a sentence I thought I'd say, but this piece on banks in the Middle East is very interesting 👇

LSE Middle East

@LSEMiddleEast

5 years

A lack of transparency means it is difficult to know the degree to which banks are implicated in human rights abuses, but a new survey of banks operating in the MENA region sheds light on this trend. @RamAbdu for the blog

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

4 years

This is such great news. When I sat on the OU Ethical Investments Board back in 2015, they told me that they didn't know how much was invested in fossil fuels and had no way of finding out. I was more or less laughed out the room😕

Maximilian Kasy

@maxkasy

4 years

Good news, for a change: Oxford divests from fossil fuel

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

5 years

This is an epic crowd funded project and an epic experiment at building the social contract. (I have a lot of thoughts relating to parallels to taxation, overcoming the free-rider problem, but they are not v well formed)

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

5 years

@LoeweSimon to add to your reading list

Sarah F Small

@sarahfsmall

5 years

In our second meeting of the feminist economics reading group at CSU, we're talking about methodology and feminist ethics. For those reading along at home, here is a thread of this month's readings:

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

1 year

@Lea_Dousset_ @HarvardEcon Thanks!!

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

4 years

☑️ Check out our working paper here, where we break down our results and what they mean in the light of Covid-19 development responses. (I might do another thread on this at some point):

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

9 years

@itbboardgames Love that your twitter feed is just pictures of @CumberlandQuail 's face (good beard levels btw)

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

4 years

@supraja08 Nope. Even the causes of WWI somehow manage to be taught without really mentioning this

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

4 years

Signing petitions involves approximately 900x more time identifying pictures of traffic lights than you would expect

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

5 years

Me waiting for a disruptor in the French banking market

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

10 years

Disappointment of the day: guy working at the fruit market offers me his number, but doesn't make any fruit-related puns. Missed opportunity

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

4 years

@chrispdanko You laugh but I had a whole course on this at Oxford without doing any coding at all - it was entirely proofs.

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

4 years

👉 All donors have room for improvements. Only four countries (Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland and Norway) rank in the top half of donors on all three dimensions. (7/n)

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

5 years

Some subliminal messaging going on at the German Development Institute

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

4 years

🇨🇦 Canada is 4th on @ODI 's #PrincipledAid Index 👉 Canada scores particularly well on global cooperation, demonstrating its commitment to multilateralism 👉 This is driven by spending on climate and infectious diseases @AMC_corporatif @CanadaPE @FP_Champagne @karinagould

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Emily Silcock

@EmilySilcock1

5 years

I believe he's quoting @alain_cohn , Ernst Fehr and Michel André Maréchal's 2014 paper, experimenting with bankers and coin experiments

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