Well, it has been quite a roller coaster journey. But I'm very excited to share that - as of July 2019 - I will be joining
@MITSloan
as an Assistant Professor in the TIES group! A huge thank you to many, especially
@INETOxford
and
@MinesEconBus
for all the support.
#econjobmarket
AK's
@GovDunleavy
is slashing the uni system budget by 40%. This targets UAA, which is a hub for climate research. Non-traditional students also will be hit disproportionately. Campuses will shut down and tenured profs fired. The
#akleg
can stop this.
Honored to be named to
@PoetsAndQuants
Best 40-Under-40 MBA Profs List! Deepest thanks to my incredible colleagues and students
@MITSloan
for their support. And a special shoutout to my fiancé
@markduggan_econ
for always believing in me!
Hey
#econtwitter
: we are pretty well-trained in how to give economics seminars but not necessarily higher-level talks (e.g., keynotes & public lectures), especially for interdisciplinary audiences. I don’t think I got it quite right last time I tried. Any tips?
Very excited for my paper with
@ArthurvBenthem
to be out! We look at solar subsidies in CA and show that buyers capture nearly the full subsidy and more than 100% is passed through to lessees. We also formalise passthrough over-shifting as a simple test for market power.
Uber driver: Why were you here?
Me: I was giving a talk
Driver: what do you do?
Me: I’m an assistant prof in econ/innovation/enviro
Driver: <10 mins re: corporate tax cuts>
Me: <2 sentence rebuttal to everything>
Driver: oh, you know some things about this?
Just 🤦♀️💆♀️
#econtwitter
Had so much fun participating in the
@AEACSWEP
mentoring workshop for women and non-binary PhD students yesterday. Such a great reminder of the amazing and inspirational people in our profession. Thank you
@maya_rossin
and
@jenniferdoleac
for organizing!
We did it! Feeling so inspired by all the smart, caring, funny, honest, and just overall badass mentors who volunteered their time today. And hopeful and excited for the future of the economics profession. Thank you. It’s an honor to get to share this career journey with you all!
Excited to be in Atlanta for
#ASSA2019
! Have gotten tons of JM advice lately, but there are three pieces I’m holding on to closely: be confident, be yourself, and have fun. Good luck everyone!
Trying something new in my innovation strategy class: we're building a collaborative Spotify playlist. Contributions must be justified as explicitly relating to a class topic. Thoughts on whether this experiment will be a success or an embarrassing failure? Will report back.
Had a fantastic time at
@CampResources
this week. An impressive set of papers and I’ve made tons of new friends. Some that were even willing to drive me a few hours in a pinch after a cancelled flight. Thank you for keeping up this tradition!
#campresources2019
Excellent response to George Monbiot's criticism of natural capital by
@camjhep
@t8el
Cohen and Hamilton. "Natural capital does not prepare nature for sale; it calls attention to the worth of what is lost." Check it out:
An interesting fresh perspective on carbon pricing in theory and practice! This is a nice reminder that we should be evaluating policy based not just on efficiency and equity, but also political acceptability.
Great summary of an important AER comment by
@LinusMattauch
et al. With corrections to the Earth science, the implications for climate policy are starkly different. We do indeed need a carbon tax today - one that is high and increases over time.
#ClimateChange
This is a VERY important comment in the AER:
In an earlier AER paper, Lemoine and Rudik (2017) argue that it is efficient to delay reducing carbon emissions due to supposed inertia in the climate system's response to emissions.
@ret_ward
@LinusMattauch
Excited to post a draft of my job market paper! "Are 'Complementary Policies' Substitutes?" I show that R&D grants and tax credits in the UK are complements for small firms but substitutes for large firms. Comments welcome!
#EJMinfo
How do we ensure that R&D resources are directed to the most promising opportunities for
#cleanenergy
innovation? Join us on Oct. 10 D.C. for the Clean Energy Innovation Conference, co-hosted with
@ClearPathFound
,
@ACCFmedia
and
@UniofOxford
:
It’s rare
#AcademicTwitter
, but every once in a while, referees
#1
and
#3
are so positive yet constructive that it actually alleviates the pain induced by referee
#2
for just a moment. Today is a good day.
Ep 5 is on energy economics w/ Dr.
@JacquelynPless
of
@MITSloan
& Dr.
@mu_lynch
of
@ESRIDublin
. How do electricity markets work? How can we incentivise innovation in new energy tech? Will we all become electricity traders? Do we need to regulate tariffs?
Thanks
@JesseJenkins
for the great talk today
@Kennedy_School
on the value of distributed vs. centralised energy resources. Many interesting points, but one key takeaway that really resonates: RE policies that co-exist could be at odds in achieving their objectives.
We're hiring! Anyone working on innovation, entrepreneurship, and/or strategy topics should apply. Looking forward to meeting those on the market this year!
MIT TIES has a tenure-track position open for AY 2021!! For application details see (link corrected)!
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis as of October 23, 2020. The application deadline is November 13, 2020.
Captures just about every day, but I’ve learned over time how to explain what it is I do in layman’s terms, which is a super useful skill.
#firstgenproud
I love this concise explanation of why we don't need to worry about the coefficient estimates for control variables. Much appreciated.
#causalinference
#econometrics
“If you write what you yourself sincerely think and feel and are interested in… you will interest other people.”
Rachel Carson on writing and the necessary loneliness of creative work:
Indeed. In my look at UK firms, higher tax credits greatly enhance the effect of grants on firm R&D expenditures for small firms but they greatly dampen the effect of grants for larger firms. Latest draft can be found here:
Moreover, as
@JacquelynPless
's beautiful job market paper shows, while some mixes of R&D policies can sometimes be very powerful, poorly chosen and targeted combinations mean that policies can undermine one other.
Excellent article on the need for bridging ML and expertise when applying AI to business decisions by
@Susan_Athey
@StanfordGSB
. More conversations like this are needed in order to clarify when ML is the right tool for the job (prediction problems, not what-if scenarios).
Meant to also thank my former colleagues at
@UniofOxford
for kick-starting my career, where I also had the pleasure of advising my first two fantastic PhD students,
@sugandhasri
and Yangsiyu Lu!
Can economic growth and decarbonisation be compatible?
In our latest guest post,
@LinusMattauch
,
@JanSiegmeier
&
@SimonaSulik
take a look at what the data says on this technological feasibility:
@brettwjordan
I’m also not sure what factor is worse: a lack of understanding of what economists do or the ease at which mansplaining flows to women in particular 🤷♀️
We just launched the 'Sustainable Development Goals-Tracker’
The overview below shows for which of the 232 SDG-Indicators there is data available (in green) and for which there is none (red).
If you know data that we were not aware of please let us know.
@SarahJacobsonEc
@AmyEcon
I got really positive feedback from the students on this. They had to make connections to specific class material for each song via our online discussion board to get the credit. How did it work out for you?
Congrats to
@CleanEnergyMfg
Director, Jill Engel-Cox, as the new
@JISEA1
Director! 👏JISEA Exec Director Doug Arent announced her new role at the JISEA Annual Meeting this past week. Learn more about Jill and JISEA
What makes M&A reorgs successful? Just released a short article in HBR on what
@stephenh_r
, Suzanne Heywood, and I learned from our data. There were few surprises:
Glad to see
@amyjccuddy
's new analysis defending power posing effects. As an introvert and woman in a male-dominated field, power posing has done wonders for me before giving seminars & going to job interviews.
@vsiv
@ColumbiaUEnergy
@noahqk
Great piece. Complementing R&D policy is particularly important here. But we can't forget the need for significantly ramping up R&D public spending as well. Right,
@camjhep
?
@TWalk
Really well! The students were thoughtful in how they connected songs to class material and it gave us another space to talk through any misunderstandings. Will continue to build upon the same playlist with each class to come!
Cannot think of more deserving winners!
Banerjee, Duflo, and Kremer have revolutionised development economics by infusing it with experimental rigour. "Poor Economics" is a beautifully written summary of their work and one of the best books about economics.
I love this kind of research. Innovation and complements vs. substitutes are two of my favorite things. Very few policies in the real world acknowledge this kind of complexity. Good luck
@JacquelynPless
!
Excellent panel on the political constraints to making environmental policy work
@WCERE2018
with
@camjhep
,
@andrew_leach
, and others. Setting targets is *not* the same as implementing policy, and framing matters.
While California and the Trump admin. spar over
#fueleconomy
standards, our experts suggest there's a better way. EPIC Dir. Michael Greenstone & Exec Dir.
@samori8
, & Harvard's
@CassSunstein
, have proposed a cap-and-trade program for vehicle emissions:
"Rates of depression and anxiety reported by postgraduate students are six times higher than the general population" - agreed
@nature
@NatureNews
, it's time for a real conversation on this: