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Assistant Professor at Harris.

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@GallenYana
Yana Gallen
1 year
What happens to women’s careers as a result of an unplanned pregnancy? Does the impact depend on career progression? Find out in a few hours when I present at NBER: with amazing coauthors @gregveramendi Juanna Joensen and @EvaRye
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Yana Gallen
1 year
Why do female students prefer female mentors? Not always for the reasons we think... My paper with Melanie Wasserman is now available at JPubE
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Yana Gallen
4 years
Do female and male students get the same info about potential careers from professionals? How might this affect career choice? Check out my new paper w Melanie Wasserman Thanks to @UpjohnInstitute ECRA for funding!
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Yana Gallen
1 year
Hello! I just want everyone to know that the gender pay gap does not go away when you control for occupation.
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Yana Gallen
2 years
I love a paper I’m refereeing so much that I’m almost moved to tears writing the report. Just to put positive vibes out in the world:)
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Yana Gallen
2 years
Daughter: how long to papers usually take? Me: depends. It can take a short time to do a bad job and a long time to do a good job. Her: well then your papers must be really good because they take yeeeeaaarrrrsss. Me: 😞
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Yana Gallen
4 months
Also was true for childcare subsidies in Austria (Kleven et al) Why??? The hours? The quality? families don’t want childcare?
@lymanstoneky
Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬
4 months
Universal nearly-free childcare in Quebec had.... almost zero impact on the motherhood penalty.
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Yana Gallen
9 months
Claudia Goldin's pathbreaking work: 1. the importance of control over fertility for women's investment in education 2. the importance of expectations when investing in education 3. how changes in the returns to education have pushed women into the labor market.
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Yana Gallen
5 months
This is a strange take. That paper is published in one of the top journals in the profession, has 100s of cites. He gave talks on the paper in the top conferences. Consistent with my model of economists generally like controversy.
@TheFP
The Free Press
5 months
“We didn’t find any racial bias in police shootings.” Economist Roland Fryer tells @bariweiss at @uaustinorg about the 2016 paper on policing bias that led to his need for an “armed guard” for over a month and the academics who told him not to publish.
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@ben_golub Recent convo: Me: “this is such a promising project!” PhD: “thanks! I’ve gotten such mixed feedback” Me: “oh rly? Who was negative?” PhD: “well mostly the other grad students” 🙃 In retrospect I was hilariously negative too as PhD
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Yana Gallen
4 months
There is so much to love about this essay. The by far best suggestion is the below. We need to stop valuing hard work, rather than imagination and novelty. Lots of warm bodies writing papers that anyone could have written.
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Yana Gallen
7 months
@cblatts As soon as we had a 2nd child we were like, “oh, we had nothing to do with any of it. Good to know. Humbling.”
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Yana Gallen
5 months
The hours and income lost are mind boggling.
@AnSoLassen
Anne Sophie Lassen
5 months
Breatfeeding or formula? 🤷🏼‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️ It makes no difference for child development at 2 years! WHO guidelines on breastfeeding for up to 2 years are probably not so relevant for families with access to high quality formula
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Yana Gallen
9 months
I think this one is so, so important. Good for humility but also good for freedom. Just do that thing your so worried everyone will obsess over—they totally won’t. For me It was having a child in grad school. Most profs didn’t even notice 😂
@Econ_Sandy
Sandy Black
9 months
5. Fallacy of Self Importance (my favorite) Nobody else is thinking about you as much as you are! Try not to take things personally (TRY!) Nobody really cares if you cancel a talk, etc. So don’t make yourself miserable doing something you really don’t want/need to do.
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Yana Gallen
4 months
Excited to see some cool presentations today at NBER spring meeting. And I’m sure all the visitors are excited to be in Chicago in late March. ❤️
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Yana Gallen
7 months
@Porkchop_EXP 2 things: 1. In my experience Americans agree with you about socialization and don’t like daycares because of the caretakers who are typically extremely low pay, lots of turnover, etc. 2. Most European kids aren’t in daycare as young babies bc of parental leave.
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Yana Gallen
3 years
Stop on by the NBER SI: Children meeting today at 12 EST to see my new work with @gregveramendi and Juanna Joensen What are the labor market returns to delaying pregnancy? You might be surprised…
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Yana Gallen
5 months
@RuxandraTeslo College is super fun though. .
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Yana Gallen
6 months
One of the paternity leave papers I’ve been waiting for. Evidence is useful, even when it’s not the evidence we wish for
@stephmurrayyyy
Stephanie H. Murray
6 months
Dang this study found that the Swedish “daddy month” (use-it-or-lose-it paternity leave) led to a *drop* in kids’ GPA, driven entirely by sons of non-college-educated fathers. No effects for girls or for children of college-educated fathers.
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Yana Gallen
1 year
@_alice_evans presenting at the UChicago Demography workshop! Picture doesn’t capture how dynamic and inspiring she is as a speaker. Amazing!
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Yana Gallen
4 months
“ Those demons who killed my father! Not a single one was punished! Those executioners! Never apologized! They live among us, as if nothing ever happened, as if they were human!”
@YueMillward
Yue.D.Millward
4 months
Yesterday, Netflix officially premiered "The Three-Body Problem," a new drama carefully produced by the original team of "Game of Thrones." The drama is adapted from the long science fiction novel "The Three-Body" written by Chinese author Liu Cixin. The opening scene of the
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Yana Gallen
1 year
Really excited about … organized by @kearney_melissa and @phil_wellesley It’s the huge social question I want to learn more about.
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Yana Gallen
3 years
Presenting my paper with Melanie Wasserman “Informed Choices: Gender Gaps in Career Advice” at 12 EST in the discrimination and disparities seminar! Register here if interested: register here:
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Yana Gallen
2 years
@arpitrage But what’s shocking to me is emailing the editor about why a rejection is/referees are wrong. So rarely done…right??? Almost did once myself but was super discouraged from this by EVERYONE. I get that I \neq Judd but still…
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Yana Gallen
1 year
Hi! I’m going to be in London June 11th-21st! I’d love to meet some people/talk about L-A-B-O-U-R economics while there. Let me know!
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Yana Gallen
1 year
One of my favorite papers of recent years! Presented by Anders Humlum with Jacob Munch and Pernille Plato now at Labor Studies
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Yana Gallen
6 months
The nice thing about ASSAs is that people overcommit to presenting early work. In that spirit, come to the following sessions to see some never-before-presented results 😎 Saturday, 10:15AM @dkoust presents “Complements to Work? Childcare Subsidies and Labor Supply”
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Yana Gallen
2 years
Interested in Gender, Labor, Policy? Want to get predoc experience before applying to grad school? Come work for me and @dkoust at @BeckerFriedman and @HarrisPolicy
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Yana Gallen
3 years
By @v_michelman too :)
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Yana Gallen
3 years
@BarbaraBiasi Both can be true. The job is similar, but how you perceive yourself may not be. For me the hard thing about grad school was all the imposter syndrome/worry. Some people don't have these feelings--one colleague said "oh wait, is that actually a thing?" about imposter syndrome. 🙃
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Yana Gallen
3 years
@JohnHolbein1 Best was, not advice per say, but a nice reminder. "This might be the most interested the profession is in your work for a long, long time. It's exciting to get to share your work with so many others and be so impactful." So, even though it's pretty much impossible...enjoy!
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Yana Gallen
9 months
@cblatts Perhaps Hamas supporters were preoccupied on this day and this random sample is not so random.
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Yana Gallen
2 years
Goodbye to #SEA2022 i saw some great papers, met some new people, and reunited with some great ones. Also 🏝. Highly recommend for next year…and you definitely don’t have to be from the South to attend!
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Yana Gallen
8 months
@saskatchewin Did you ever think that women might *want* to work in different types of jobs? Did you ever think of that? Ever?
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Yana Gallen
6 months
Taking about Econ phd, I think that it’s great for people who are obsessively curious about the world and *people who can’t stand having a boss.* hard to get either of those anywhere else.
@NateSilver538
Nate Silver
6 months
Real, non-trollish life advice: If you're a smart young person and you really want to go to graduate school, then by all means go. But if you're on the fence, probably don't. That's not where the action is. And it's not where the action is going to be for the foreseeable future.
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Yana Gallen
2 years
@TDeryugina Thanks for sharing. Like so many other instances in this profession, I did not know you could ask.
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Yana Gallen
7 months
@Porkchop_EXP Yes. I’m saying a lot of the concern in newborns and very young babies.
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Yana Gallen
2 years
Looking forward to my first in-person conference since 2019! Also Minneapolis weather trumps Chicago weather this week—an unexpected bonus
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Yana Gallen
4 months
Policy wise it’s truly the most depressing and surprising result. I have a hard time letting go of the idea that affordable early childcare is a no brainer. It’s hard to make a case given the body of evidence.
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Yana Gallen
3 years
My amazing coauthor Melanie Wasserman is presenting our work on homophily in mentoring (for the first time!) on Sunday in an exciting session organized by @NinaRoussille and @HaegeleIngrid ,
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Yana Gallen
1 year
@gregsasso I try to adjust for resources available. I'm guessing lots of people do. There is a different expectation of people who had a huge pipeline of advice, etc relative to those coming from less well known places. I get pretty excited about the latter---no working papers required.
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Yana Gallen
1 year
@k_sonin @ethanbdm Ah twitter. Always a joy
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Yana Gallen
3 years
Presenting a new paper with @gregveramendi , Juanna Joensen, and @EvaRye on the causal impact of unplanned pregnancy relative to planned pregnancy on careers on Saturday ,
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Yana Gallen
2 years
@toddrjones & follow up even when you think it’s painfully awkward. So if someone throws out a casual “we should have you out to give a talk sometime,” you email them the next day being like “oh hey! You mentioned me giving a talk. Just wanted to let you know I’m available whenever!”
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Yana Gallen
1 year
@mwanamak I try to understand the world we have made for ourselves. Why do some people have really big houses and some have really little ones? Why are there homeless people? Why do you have to go to school everyday, and what should you learn while you’re there? Why is there war?
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Yana Gallen
3 years
@random_walker I think the primary purpose of academia is understanding the world. If your ultimate life goal is impact, there are career paths better suited to that. The two aren’t mutually exclusive, of course, but I feel like for most big issues, disagreements would not be solved w more data
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Yana Gallen
1 year
@TDeryugina I didn’t know people did sign it! I just write some additional comments/overall take on paper (as needed) in the text box. Usually just3-5 sentences….Is that not what we’re supposed to do?
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Yana Gallen
3 years
@AgnesCallard Alleging that they have experienced gender discrimination
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Yana Gallen
6 months
Suppose a population is so racist/antisemitic/antizionist/whatever that they believe the doctors in that group are out to get them. The doctors are not, in fact, discriminatory. But the patient’s belief leads them not to follow doctor’s advice and bad outcomes ensue. What to do?
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Yana Gallen
1 year
@Econ_4_Everyone Most referee reports have ~10 points. I’m sure one could make those in 10 lines, but then they would be contextless and not well explained. I think it would be better to say “make at most 4 points/comments,” other than minor corrections. And responses should be free!
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Yana Gallen
3 months
@_alice_evans The argument is that firms aren't people. That firms have no expectation that they are interacting with real people, or that they *won't* be audited for discrimination. But people also do this with non-firms. That seems bad.
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@GallenYana
Yana Gallen
3 years
@cmMcConnaughy Oh my gosh my horror every time someone says they want to go into Econ to “change the world” or “influence policy.” Not just because that’s not even remotely the reason I’m an academic but also because it’s a recipe for academic dishonesty.
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Yana Gallen
6 months
This paper is so amazing, everyone read it and think about what it means for our models of human capital accumulation.
@BeckerFriedman
Becker Friedman Institute for Economics
6 months
Research from @ChicagoBooth 's Anders Humlum, @jrmunch , & Pernille Plato shows injured workers who pursue bachelor's degrees earn 25% more, on average, than before their injuries.
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Yana Gallen
9 months
@saskatchewin At least it’s a solo-authored Nobel 😂
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Yana Gallen
1 year
@instrumenthull Noooooooooo, stay away, stay with the crime people. There is nothing here for you. Nothing at all
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Yana Gallen
3 years
@sambnorris @ubcVSE @HarrisPolicy Congrats but also 😭😭😭
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Yana Gallen
1 year
Check out my session later today if your attending..presenting brand spankin’ new work with @dkoust
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Yana Gallen
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Happy Mother’s Day to all who celebrate 💕💐
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Yana Gallen
1 year
@ben_golub @economeager @momin_rayhan @instrumenthull @danascoot This has been a fast change though. It was extremely rare in 2016 when I got PhD to coauthor JMP. Then 2 or 3 years later became common. Advisors may not have caught up with the times.
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Yana Gallen
11 months
@stelifanie Just another reason to attend UChicago!!
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Yana Gallen
8 months
@toddpugatch My hot take: fine to tell people to tailor, but also tell them how un-gameable this is. If you don’t have a family/spousal or somehow otherwise credible connection to a place, how do you tailor? It’s just cheap talk. Do we want to make everyone do 150 cheap talk signals?
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Yana Gallen
2 years
What are you doing at 7:45AM on Saturday at the SEAs? Attending this awesome session of course!!
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Yana Gallen
7 months
@CHSommers University admissions seem focused on getting these hard headed, closed minded, incurious warrior-types. In contrast, open minded inquisitive people benefit from education. Strange outcome.
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Yana Gallen
1 year
@instrumenthull No we are not, thank you.
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Yana Gallen
5 months
@ben_golub Except when logging in to submit referee reports or letters for grad school:)
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Yana Gallen
3 years
First dose! Yay! 💉
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Yana Gallen
4 months
I’m sad Steve is retiring. He is a brilliant economist. Ridiculously modest and self deprecating, hilarious, and probably the most insightful person I’ve ever met. And cliche as it is, Freakonomics led me to the field.
@Jon_Hartley_
Jon Hartley
4 months
In latest @CapAndFreedom ep, Steve Levitt talks his career & retiring as @UChicago prof while still leading RISC & Freakonomics. We talk applied economics, Chicago econ dept (price theory failure, macro success, personalities), Freakonomics origin & more
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Yana Gallen
4 months
I am curious to get thoughts on that. Many academics have relocated with kids. Was it horrible? SR vs LR? Etc
@zaeemal_
Zaeem-Al Ehsan
4 months
@analisapackham Yeah. Can’t imagine what ppl with kids have to go through when relocating
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Yana Gallen
6 months
Had a great experience with this at @JPubEcon
@RDMetcalfe
Robert Metcalfe
6 months
If you have a great short paper, send it to @JPubEcon !
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Yana Gallen
3 months
Frightening. Am Yisrael Chai.
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Yana Gallen
2 years
Just sos ya know, authors literally have a paper concluding the opposite. Adoption—>same lr effect
@VitalikButerin
vitalik.eth
2 years
@DeepCipher @shl @elonmusk Disparities in economic success between men and women are far larger once marriage+children enter the picture. Synthetic wombs would remove the high burden of pregnancy, significantly reducing the inequality.
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Yana Gallen
2 months
I once heard “everything good is obvious in retrospect” (from Levitt’s believe). Rings true.
@arieda_muco
Arieda Muço
2 months
I've had a similar experience. An Econ editor told me: "We already know this". I pushed back by asking where we knew it from, because I had to cite such literature. Of course we didn't, it was just that the results were too "obvious".
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Yana Gallen
7 months
I agree, and I’m in the literature:)
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Yana Gallen
1 year
Everyone should meet Alice!
@_alice_evans
Alice Evans
1 year
Yo, friends in Chicago. I’m visiting your beautiful city & giving talks at the University of Chicago. DM if you’d like to meet. 🌺
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Yana Gallen
11 months
For me too—I think the worst advice I got was to do quick fixes and re-send.
@marcfbellemare
Marc F. Bellemare
11 months
Two schools of thought about what to do with rejection comments: 1) Do nothing, you'll get a different reviewer draw next time, or 2) Fix what you can fix, you might draw (some of) the same reviewers. I went from the former to the latter during my career; it definitely pays off.
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Yana Gallen
1 year
@stelifanie Stay strong. I only do custom tables with locals now. I gave up the fight.
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Yana Gallen
8 months
This is a very cool paper
@jenniferdoleac
Jennifer Doleac
8 months
Nina Buchmann JMP: "Paternalistic Discrimination" Website:
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Yana Gallen
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@_alice_evans Firms can send fake customers to one another to spy on techniques, the gov't can (and does) do audits of firms and banks. These studies provide evidence that can be used in court of illegal behavior. Firms should not expect "good faith" interactions.
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Yana Gallen
7 months
@sarahmrose @MattBruenig @bechhof @tomer_stern @Andrew___Baker My paper:) empirically hard to disentangle intentions to have kids (we tried) other than clear Ivf. We see a lot of heterogeneity—children can be v disruptive to career path if unplanned, esp when young. Planning reduces measured impact of children.
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Yana Gallen
3 years
On seminar culture, real question: a lot of what I read is along the lines of "someone pointed out a huge problem with my paper/alternative interpretation and it was very stressful." But I would rather hear criticism before getting referee reports...isn't this a good thing?
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Yana Gallen
1 year
@_alice_evans I’ve got to tell you about this great app that the capitalists have invented though…
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@GallenYana
Yana Gallen
2 years
@thenoclub …sort of ironic that today dozens of women sit on women’s day panels 😬😬😬 I just did! It was fun, but pretty sure it wasn’t promotable 🤓
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Yana Gallen
1 year
@annastansbury This huge undertaking by @TillvonWachter @NicoleMaestas2 Kathleen Mullen, David Powell, and Jeffry Wenger
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Yana Gallen
3 months
Sometimes, 1 reply to ONE of the referees. 🙃
@Patrick_M_Econ
Patrick Mellacher
3 months
What can you do with 30 pages? medicine: 15 papers physics: 3 papers political science: 1 paper economics: 1 reply to the referees
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Yana Gallen
1 year
@Econ_4_Everyone @HarrisPolicy @uclaanderson Thank you John!!!! So lucky to have learned from you!!
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Yana Gallen
6 months
@saskatchewin Quotas for underrepresented groups, non compete contracts, minimum wage
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Yana Gallen
1 year
Looking for new Beamer theme. What are the cool kids doing nowadays?
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Yana Gallen
3 months
@_alice_evans "The acceptance of tester evidence by the courts is no doubt attributable in part to the strong national policy favoring vigorous enforcement of our civil rights laws." -Seventh Circuit in a fair-housing rental case that relied on tester evidence. (Raich and Rich, 2004)
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Yana Gallen
4 months
@Econ_4_Everyone Awww shucks, thanks, John! I was lucky to have learned from the very best!!!
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Yana Gallen
2 years
Today at 12:15 eastern!
@GallenYana
Yana Gallen
3 years
My amazing coauthor Melanie Wasserman is presenting our work on homophily in mentoring (for the first time!) on Sunday in an exciting session organized by @NinaRoussille and @HaegeleIngrid ,
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Yana Gallen
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@jenniferdoleac @florianederer @JohnHCochrane You think that people feeling pressured to have kids is causing them not to get promoted/leave the profession? Children hugely impact work, this is well documented. Seems like a very good thing to think about how to improve.
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@GallenYana
Yana Gallen
3 years
@BitsyPerlman Sometimes you see a joke/pop culture reference in the footnotes. Those are the best ones. Imho good footnotes go on tangents for the interested reader. If not interested, don’t read ‘em. Bad footnotes that bury important material, of course, should go.
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@GallenYana
Yana Gallen
3 years
As much as remote job market is 👎, checking the temperature in Chicago this morning triggered memories of an even more horrible job market experience🥶
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