Arieda Muço @arieda_muco Twitter profile

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Arieda Muço

13 days

We are excited to announce the 'Data Editors in Vienna' event on Oct 7 that will take place at @wu_vienna ! We have a wonderful lineup: Ben Greiner ( @bgreiner_tweets ), Maia Guell ( @maiaguell ), Miklós Koren ( @korenmiklos ), & Lars Vilhuber ( @larsvil ).

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Arieda Muço

@arieda_muco

1 year

@katiedimartin My mom is an actress. I was 4 years old and totally unprepared that I would see my mom on stage saying sweet things to another kid. Puzzled and jealous, I called her out in the middle of the show. "It's not true, I am her daughter," were my words from the loggia seats😂

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@arieda_muco

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Econs using Overleaf: If you learn few basic Git commands you won’t need to manually upload figures &tables every time there are updates. Git can sync everything automatically. Use git push to update Overleaf & track changes with a commit message. #EconResearch #Overleaf #git

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@arieda_muco

22 days

Here’s my article on integrating #Git with #Overleaf , specifically for economists. It’s beginner-friendly and assumes very little knowledge of Git or the command line. Feedback is welcome!

Git for Economists: A Practical Guide

Integrating existing projects

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@arieda_muco

25 days

Econs using Overleaf: If you learn few basic Git commands you won’t need to manually upload figures &tables every time there are updates. Git can sync everything automatically. Use git push to update Overleaf & track changes with a commit message. #EconResearch #Overleaf #git

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@arieda_muco

2 years

@Theholisticpsyc I really like your work, but I found this tweet very disappointing. I fully agree with supporting parents, especially providing psychological help, but many women love their kids & their jobs, and that should be acceptable, too, in a healthy society.

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@arieda_muco

7 months

Very excited about this paper and the line of work it will inspire! 🤩 'Meaning at Work' by Nava Ashraf, @orianabandiera , Virginia Minni, and @zingales . #ModernEconomics

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@arieda_muco

9 days

Economists: 'We can design markets that work. We even teach the stuff.' Also economists: 'Our publication process is a slow, gatekeeping mess, our papers don’t replicate, & we still can’t figure out how to reward actual scientific breakthroughs.' 🤔 #EconTwitter #AcademicTwitter

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@arieda_muco

3 months

I wrote some lines of code for a simple simulation on how to run and plot a plain event study design (and ofc DiD). Check it out: . A @Medium post is on the way!

GitHub - ariedamuco/event-study

Contribute to ariedamuco/event-study development by creating an account on GitHub.

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@arieda_muco

1 year

While AI boosts productivity for coders worldwide, @Stata coders have noticed that ChatGPT isn't providing helpful answers. Despite @Stata 's popularity in the profession, the lack of sharing expertise implies (to me) that the sense of community is lacking. #Stata #economics

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@arieda_muco

4 months

As a student, I never understood why people were slow in replying to emails (or not replying at all). Now, as someone overloaded with emails, I get it. If I owe you a reply and you need an urgent answer, please send a reminder. Thanks!

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@arieda_muco

2 years

@Theholisticpsyc Many out there would say there is a glorification of "stay-at-home moms." Working moms are guilt-tripped by themselves &society for not being with their kids. How about we teach women to be self-sufficient and healthy (including mentally) & let them make their own choices?

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@arieda_muco

2 months

A year after the conditional acceptance and more than 6 months after the acceptance our paper is finally in print 🎉 These past few weeks have been extremely turbulent (& I'll be able to talk more soon) but I'm celebrating this one now :-)

Indirect Savings from Public Procurement Centralization

(August 2024) - Centralization of public procurement can lower prices for the government's direct purchase of goods and services. This paper focuses on indirect savings. Public administrations that...

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@arieda_muco

11 months

Six years ago, I defended my PhD. At the party, my advisor @eriklindqvist1 gave the most amazing speech. He compared me to Ethan Hunt: 'She always ends up in the most impossible situations. You think it's over, but somehow she manages to get out.' It was both funny and touching.

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@arieda_muco

2 years

And final-final, I previously forgot, #PythonRocks

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@arieda_muco

1 year

@katiedimartin After that, there was a very serious meeting with distinguished party members in communist Albania.

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@arieda_muco

2 years

Today we had the pleasure of having Sergei Guriev @sguriev give a public talk on populism and spin dictators @ceu . Great talk and discussion, plenty of food for thought. #Populism #SpinDictators

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@arieda_muco

5 months

@JessPected I love this book. It's such a read, it feels almost like a hug.

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@arieda_muco

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@SchrodingrsBrat I think I agree. I had to hit rock bottom (and go through existential and midlife crisis) to get out. You also need lots of patience and faith that everything is transitory.

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@arieda_muco

10 months

I think I may have found a favorite opening paragraph of an economics paper: "In July 1940, one of the most durable democracies in the world, one that had endured for 70 years, weathering both a pandemic and a world war, committed suicide."

Heroes and Villains: The Effects of Heroism on Autocratic Values and Nazi Collaboration in France

(July 2023) - We measure how a network of heroes can legitimize and diffuse extreme political behaviors. We exploit newly declassified intelligence files, novel voting data, and regimental histories...

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@arieda_muco

1 year

Interesting results from an "old" survey on programming language preferences among Ph.D. economists and students. While Stata is popular among economists, Python is the top choice among 50% of Ph.D. students, followed by R and Julia. #economics #programminglanguages

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@arieda_muco

2 years

@Theholisticpsyc Expecting anyone to be mentally well when living in harsh conditions (including unsupportive environment) is unjust. I’m happy more of us are now talking about mental health as core component of a healthy society.

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@arieda_muco

10 months

We're thrilled about this. Thread on behind the scenes will follow. (At some point.)

AEA Journals

@AEAjournals

10 months

Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "Indirect Savings from Public Procurement Centralization" by Clarissa Lotti, Arieda Muço, Giancarlo Spagnolo, and Tommaso Valletti.

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@arieda_muco

9 months

One of the perks of living in Vienna is that you get to start the new year listening to Beethoven’s 9th symphony live. Happy New Year!!! 🥳

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@arieda_muco

1 year

@Paromitabardolo Note the choice of words: take care of YOUR family 🤦‍♀️

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@arieda_muco

6 months

@lea_ypi @DarwinCollege @spectator Omg! Women in academia.

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@arieda_muco

5 months

"Writing a paper is a vulnerable process. You share ideas, some of them are not going to work out, some of them are not good ideas, you make mistakes, so you need to have a fair amount of trust and a level of comfort with people to work with them."

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

5 months

Guido Imbens was awarded the prize in economic sciences alongside his friends Joshua Angrist and David Card. He spoke to us about the importance of friendship:

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@arieda_muco

2 years

I finished teaching Intro #Python . The student body was diverse in terms of programs: Environmental, Econ Pol, BusAnalytics, Finance, Gender Studies, & History. The gender ratio reversed in comparison to when I first taught coding in 2018 (👩‍💻/👨‍💻= 1/4) #WomenWhoCode #RoleModels

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@arieda_muco

6 months

@kritipraa The cheatsheet for unapologetic women: 1) you need life to break you down (divorce, job loss, loss of a loved one), 2) therapy to build you back up :-)

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@arieda_muco

18 days

I started writing on Medium just over a year ago, and I was thrilled to see hundreds of views accumulate over months. Today, 14 months in, I’m delighted to see my most recent articles have thousands of views. Thank you for reading and engaging! (Latest articles: views & reads!

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@arieda_muco

2 years

Today @ceu we had @HallaMartin present "More Bad News for Mothers: The Child Penalty in Mental Health". The work -- coauthored with Alexander Ahammer, Ulrich Glogowsky, and Timo Hener -- delivers indeed some bad news for parents. 1/

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@arieda_muco

3 months

Thinking about writing a book on #NLP for economists and causal inference in Python, using my course materials. Lots of work, but is it worth it? What are your thoughts? #EconTwitter #AcademicTwitter

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@arieda_muco

4 months

Having healthy relationships with (healthy) people outside academia keeps you grounded in what truly matters. They provide a sanity check on acceptable and unacceptable behavior. #DesensitizedAcademics

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@arieda_muco

6 months

At @ceu we had the privilege of hosting Nobel Laureate David Card. During our short exchange I got incredibe insights on research, writing, mentorship, and ML/AI's integration in the field. “Evolution rather than revolution” he said :-)

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@arieda_muco

2 years

During my PhD studies, my mom got sick. She lives in a country with zero public health support, and I needed to chip in. Had I not been in Scandinavia, and paid decently for my job, I would have, perhaps, dropped out of the PhD. Normalize decent pay for PhD students.

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@arieda_muco

6 months

Fascinating work on Kinship Networks, Local Elections, and Female Representation shared by @simonhhess at @ceu today.

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@arieda_muco

2 years

Python, vs. R vs. Stata: Who wins? With my colleagues, we are going to have a heated debate on the merits of each language... Moderated by @GaborBekes . Spoiler alert!!! Python will win✌️: 4/6 debaters are Python users. Short 🧵

Gabor Bekes

@GaborBekes

2 years

How about this. Really cool debate coming up on 6 December at @ceu ! Join in person or online! #STATA team: @korenmiklos + @martonfleck #Python team: @arieda_muco + Gayan Gadyan, #Rstats team: @grand_schemer + Zsuzsa Holler. +Yours truly, as MC.

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@arieda_muco

2 years

@Theholisticpsyc I heard somewhere: if it's "hysterical" it's because it's historical. It seems though that rewiring is a very long road.

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@arieda_muco

2 years

Did you know that you can also convert a video to a gif with MoviePy in #Python with three lines of code? You can do so after a YT download :-)

Mike Driscoll

@driscollis

2 years

Want to download a #YouTube video? #Python can do that with the pytube package 🐍🔥 Check it out:

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@arieda_muco

11 months

Google Bard does a pretty decent job with the literature review.

Mushtaq Bilal, PhD

@MushtaqBilalPhD

11 months

Reading research papers takes time — a lot of time. Google Bard can summarize research papers for you in seconds. And you can ask Bard questions about them too. Best part: Bard is totally free. Here's how to use Bard to supercharge your academic reading:

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@arieda_muco

2 years

Had my first class of Intro to Python this AA year at @ceu . Extremely happy about the diverse group of students -- econ, history, and gender studies. Impressed with their vision on future jobs. Very proud that more women are taking coding courses. In person attendance today.

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@arieda_muco

1 year

Spotted this awesome David Bowie pic on an office door at WU Econ. How cool is that? #DavidBowie #WUEcon #CoolDeptHead @WU_econ

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@arieda_muco

2 years

Does public procurement centralization cause savings for administrations that buy autonomously? With @lotti_clarissa , Giancarlo Spagnolo, & @TomValletti , we have a new paper that answers this question . #Econtwitter

Indirect Savings from Public Procurement Centralization

Centralization of public procurement can lower prices for the government’s direct purchase of goods and services. This paper focuses on indirect savings. Public administrations that do not procure...

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@arieda_muco

2 years

I'm so happy @CarozziFelipe agreed to present his joint work with @luca_repetto_c in my Empirical Political Economics (Connections). Felipe delivered a very engaging presentation, and he discussed some key aspects of the research process. 1/

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@arieda_muco

2 years

@adhdjesse Actually @dessadarling has a wonderful podcast called Deeply Human. In the last episode of S2, she discusses sleep and sleep patters (& changes over time). I loved the episode, it's extremely informative, creative, artsy and funny. Enjoy :-)

BBC World Service - Deeply Human, Deeply Human Series 2, Sleep

Is insomnia really a problem of modern life?

www.bbc.co.uk

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@arieda_muco

27 days

I think this is precisely why many people dunk on Stata. If you seriously code in any other (real) programming language you can see how that 1000 line code is very likely buggy and unreliable. Please learn to code in another language.

jonahbgelbach

@jonahbgelbach

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@BHarrap Oh I agree with that part. Although I’m not sure he’s aware that many people do regard Stata programmers as unserious, which makes it kind of funny to me when he mentions it as a badge of seriousness.

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@arieda_muco

5 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".

Helen De Cruz

@Helenreflects

5 months

@Ljiljana1972 Yes--when I sent this paper to a couple of general journals, before it was accepted here, the comment was "This is so obvious" "Everyone knows this". No they don't. That's plainly false!

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@arieda_muco

1 year

@generic_void @theLwordtimes @katiedimartin Sure but everyone has their right to privacy. Distrust is not a great gift to give to a child. (Yet we wonder why some people grow up to become paranoid…)

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@arieda_muco

1 month

As coders, we often talk about best practices. Understanding what not to do is just as important. My new Medium article tackles some points involving projects that rely on web scraping and data parsing. Read the article for more insights & tips.

Coding-What-Not-to-Do: Best Practices for Data Scraping and Conversion

Assume you have a task that involves scraping data from the internet; they come in PDF format, process them to look for patterns, and…

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@arieda_muco

2 years

Martin and coauthors find that mental health deteriorates for both parents after birth, but the effect is stronger for women. The motherhood penalty in mental health is stronger in Austria compared to Denmark. Longer periods of maternal leave exacerbate mental problems.

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@arieda_muco

2 years

@timgill924 I'm Albanian, and I found the joke hilarious. For New Year (we weren't allowed to celebrate Christmas) kids would receive a small bag of nuts, figs, and orange/apple. After the borders opened, I got a kiwi and almost threw it away because I thought it was a strange potato.

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@arieda_muco

1 year

@irinibus Close to my 40s and I feel like I’m just getting started (at everything actually), including writing which I’m really getting started now. Never understood this feeling that one can’t be productive after 40. It’s widespread in some academic circles too.

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@arieda_muco

2 years

I'm rethinking my approach to teaching word embeddings and stumbled upon a fantastic video by @AssemblyAI . It provides a comprehensive overview in just under 20 minutes. .

A Complete Overview of Word Embeddings

NLP has seen some big leaps over the last couple of years thanks to word embeddings but what are they? How are they made and how can you use them too? Let's ...

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@arieda_muco

2 months

@arghavan_salles I don't like the guy but he didn't say that. He said that that's what "the hyper-liberalized econ" wants you to do. Many of us who like work-life balance would agree with this point. To me, this is a criticism of the obsessession with productivity &GDP as measures.

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@arieda_muco

5 months

This must end. We have responsibility to credit others' work & cite our sources. Recalling a conference paper I submitted; the organizers rejected my paper but later published similar work without citing me. We should really start respecting intellectual property.

Reka Juhasz

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5 months

I'm disappointed to see that @IMFNews took the data we shared with them and are now using it without citing us. We produced the statistics they were interested in based on this WP: . @straightedge @EmilyOehlsen @VeronicaCPerezP

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@arieda_muco

8 months

Had a great day at Linnaeus University today. Super interesting research done in the department, and we had lunch in a real castle 🏰. Thanks @erik_prawitz for the invitation!

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@arieda_muco

4 months

Beethoven’s 5th ✅

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@arieda_muco

6 months

As a dyslexic, writing an email used to take me hours, sometimes days. AI tools have been game-changing, drastically reducing my writing time & boosting my confidence. I still make mistakes and typos, but I'm extremely grateful for these tech advances. #Dyslexia #AI #Writing

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@arieda_muco

9 months

I love this paper by @DrNathanNunn and @lwantchekon very much (I mention it every time I can, especially to make a point about the diversity of thought in academia). I am very happy to read that it passed the replicators' test.

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@ryancbriggs

9 months

Good to remember that serious replications of past work don't always make it look questionable. I upped my belief in Nunn and Wantchekon (2011) on slavery and trust a lot after reading this replication.

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@arieda_muco

1 year

@fetzert Now imagine the costs for a junior or people who don’t really have possibilities to outsource some parts of their tasks. Research is costly and good/careful research even more so.

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@arieda_muco

5 months

Great workshop! Thanks for organizing @luca_repetto_c , @erik_prawitz and @mkaradja . I had a great time.

Mounir Karadja

@mkaradja

5 months

Wrapping up a great workshop in economic history in Uppsala with lots of exciting presentations! Thanks to all participants and @JeanetBentzen for an excellent keynote on the Causes and Consequences of Religiosity.

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@arieda_muco

1 year

As more and more people discuss mental health, I felt it was also time for me to share my own experience. To those reading this, know that you're not alone.

Invisible Chains: Confronting Mental Illness in the Shadows of Life

Sometimes, the memories of the early days of my mother’s illness revisit me. It was a time when she appeared so shattered, so vulnerable…

link.medium.com

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@arieda_muco

2 years

@brendaprallon Having said this, here are my notes for Intro Python

GitHub - ariedamuco/Introduction-to-Python

Contribute to ariedamuco/Introduction-to-Python development by creating an account on GitHub.

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@arieda_muco

9 months

🎉 Wonderful news: @ceu has been awarded another Horizon Grant. @mihaly_fazekas (PI), Agnes Batory, and I are super excited about this.

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@arieda_muco

3 months

Book it is, then. I'll dedicate part of my sabbatical to writing a free/online basic version of the book, with updates to be added later. If anyone is interested in collaborating, I'm open to it!

Arieda Muço

@arieda_muco

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Thinking about writing a book on #NLP for economists and causal inference in Python, using my course materials. Lots of work, but is it worth it? What are your thoughts? #EconTwitter #AcademicTwitter

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@arieda_muco

8 months

Great tip. It works better than the default. I tried it out and the majority of the references are not made up.

Mushtaq Bilal, PhD

@MushtaqBilalPhD

8 months

Worried about ChatGPT making up fake research papers that don't exist? Here's a simple trick to make sure it doesn't. This will take you only two minutes. And it works with ChatGPT 3.5.

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Lady Gaga once said: there can be 100 people in the room and 99 don't believe in you, but one does... Well, 1 person at @Stata /Latex community on Linkedin circulated my Event Study article & it got picked by @TDataScience . So happy 😊

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@arieda_muco

1 year

@tax_endowments @AlexKontorovich It should be “Profs that manage to work” instead… most of us have to spend time in meetings, committee work, grant apps (& in search of prestige). Yes, we teach and tbh some of them, not all, really just want that degree. But having grants and prestige is what allows us to work.

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@arieda_muco

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At @ceu , we had @tesei_andrea give a talk on 'The International Transmission of Democratic Values: Evidence from the African Diaspora.' Inspiring work and lots of food for thought.

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Messages like this from my students make teaching so much more than just a duty. It's amazing to see how what we teach can inspire future research pursuits 💡 These moments remind me that I love being an educator (ok, to those who want to learn) #TeachingImpact #InspiringStudents

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@amydiehl Sorry but he still thinks a man would have done a better job, and the woman in the workplace is just occupying a man’s position …

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@arieda_muco

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@KSchaferPhD My syllabus is no longer than a 1 & 1/2 pages long. Do I still have to reply to all those qs? Yes. Does it increase email traffic? Also yes. So dear students: please have a look at the syllabus more than once before writing that email. Your instructors get flooded with emails.

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@arieda_muco

7 months

Today, I received bad news that feels both bitter and liberating at the same time. A door has closed. Let's see what other doors and windows will open :-) #celebratingbadnews

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@arieda_muco

5 months

I tell this to my students too, especially women: critically evaluate advice and only follow what aligns with our desired lifestyle and career goals. What works for me shouldn’t necessarily work for you. If role models are not there to inspire you, carve your own path!

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Took me ~30 years to say it

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10 months

@Anthony_Bonato Maybe because it came out before the egg paper?

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@arieda_muco

6 years

Application fees may detain many students, from lower-income countries and families, to apply to good Ph.D. programs. Info is missing in most cases. Thank you @DinaPomeranz for the tweet.

Dina D. Pomeranz 🟣

@DinaPomeranz

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It's grad school application season. If you're applying from a lower income country or family, here's an important piece of information that many don't know: Most US schools will waive the application fees for you if you cannot afford them! Just email the school and ask for it.

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@economeager I think this story is super sick in all aspects. The father of the 9yo sent his daughter back to that house, accompanied by another child --to protect the first. The stepfather admitting the abuse, calling her temptress/ Lolita. The mother taking the child abuser back...

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The article is now posted on @Medium . What are other common misunderstandings about DiD and Event Studies? Check it out and let me know if I missed anything. Feedback is absolutely welcome!

Event Study Designs: A Beginner’s Guide

Event Study Designs: What are they and what are they not.

towardsdatascience.com

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@arieda_muco

3 months

I wrote some lines of code for a simple simulation on how to run and plot a plain event study design (and ofc DiD). Check it out: . A @Medium post is on the way!

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@arieda_muco

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This is excellent advice. I am currently working on papers I started a decade ago. If I hadn't found the questions interesting, I would have found the process suffocating. Teaching loads & mentors/coauthors can make or break careers. Negotiate the teaching load 👏.

Anant Sudarshan

@anantsudarshan

11 months

My advice for JMCs is to pick jobs that maximise the prob. that 10 years on you've answered questions you find meaningful. Helps avoid academia's most soul destroying outcome-writing papers only for tenure. Low teaching & mentors/coauthors are more useful than dept rank or money

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@ThatEricAlper Is it weird that I love the parody more than the real song? 🎵

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@arieda_muco

2 years

@Enigma_Soul01 @tunguz Yes, a proud beginner here. I started programming (python) in 2013 and still do i = i+1. I don't see how i+=i makes me a better programmer. The latter is a shortcut for American keybords (I use spanish). i ++ is faster to type, but never seen it in python (and not cleaner to me)

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@arieda_muco

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I teach Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing by slowly introducing the distinctive features of text data. Foundations are essential; we start building from Linear Regression. Easier to introduce new concept if building from what's already familiar. #ML #NLP #Python

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@arieda_muco

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This year, my teaching evals for two popular courses, were around 7.4-7.8/10 despite excellent oral feedback. (I know they aren't entirely representative.) I reached out to students for feedback to understand what happened. Here's a response that makes teaching truly worthwhile.

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@arieda_muco

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@YujungHwang3 @orianabandiera and @elianalaferrara :-). For my MA thesis, I worked on a project closely related to Oriana's work, finding her truly inspirational. In my Ph.D., I came across Eliana's work, and I was in awe. Grateful for these incredible women in academia.

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@arieda_muco

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@vboykis It's unreal how much I have to look up almost everything when using pandas.

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@arieda_muco

7 months

@clintmharris1 Well, any 4 year old would totally go for Moana again 🤷‍♀️

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@arieda_muco

1 year

@cameron_pfiffer Is it not?

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@arieda_muco

2 years

@Aliceinalbania The last one should be Tungjatjeta (Tu-ngjat-jeta) which would be translated to something means may your life get longer. I assume it derives from the geg dialect. In the south we don't say ngjat, we say zgjatet.

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@arieda_muco

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Historical persistence. Despite having moved to Vienna, we keep maintaining some of our Hungarian heritage -- see surname, name. But let's not dwell on the past :-)🚀 Big changes coming! We are rolling out a MA in Economics, Data, and Policy next year 👇

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Arieda Muço

@arieda_muco

5 months

🧵My body used to literally paralyze itself during periods of high stress. The first time was after the academic job market. I accepted a job & the legislation changed, making it illegal for my employer to operate in Hungary.

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@arieda_muco

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This is how it ended. Submitted replication package to openICPSR - buggiest platform I've used lately! 😅 Discovered to never upload unzipped folders. Took hours for a very small package, but super happy it's done! 😊 #ReplicationPackage #OpenICPSR #LessonsLearned #SoonInPrint 1/

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@arieda_muco

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@ignaciojduran I agree! We suspected it mattered, but now we have evidence. A low-cost, time-efficient intervention showed significant effects. Imagine where we could end up if we helped people choose, earlier on, career paths aligned with their interests rather than societal expectations.

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@arieda_muco

1 year

@M_Ignatieff Congrats @M_Ignatieff !

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@arieda_muco

10 months

Please don't do this. Job market candidates are already paying huge costs (mental costs included). Perhaps we could look more at ways to automate the first screening.

Fabian Lange 🇺🇦

@fabolange

10 months

We really need to find a way to curb the flood of applications for each position. No way a search committee can do 887 (currently) applications justice. Maybe a limit on the number of positions each applicant can apply to on EJM so as to impose a cost on # of applications? 100?

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@arieda_muco

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Of course, @AsjadNaqvi is an example of Stata community builder. His help on this platform, and on @Medium , has been exceptional.

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@arieda_muco

1 year

This article by @OwenOzier has some great points

Can AI write your Stata code?

I tried asking OpenAI’s ChatGPT for six pieces of Stata code (with one of them in some other languages as well), and results were… mixed.

blogs.worldbank.org

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Arieda Muço

@arieda_muco

11 days

Did you know you can live a better (research) life through reproducibility? And if you’d like to see four data editors walk into a bar (but only after presentations 😉), join us on October 7 @wu_vienna for our 'Data Editors in Vienna' event. #econtwitter

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@arieda_muco

2 years

We had the wonderful Julien Labonne, as a guest speaker, talking about the creative process behind his work on Politician Family Networks and Electoral Outcomes. @jblabonne also talked about the importance of knowing well the institutional details, reading broadly

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Arieda Muço

@arieda_muco

6 months

Albania is NOT the 'Maldives of Europe' or anything similar. It's a country rich in history, diverse landscapes, & warm hospitality. Traveling to Albania does not equate a luxury destination at a lower price, but rather the opposite. It's chaotic & unpredictable +maybe charming.

martha

@mxmsworld

6 months

In a work call yesterday, someone said they’re going Albania, someone else said ‘apparently it’s the Maldives of Europe’. Bare people laughed. Anyways, did my Googles and was angry at the UK again.

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Arieda Muço

@arieda_muco

3 years

A copy of the @Gabors_Data book is finally in my @ceu office. Looking forward to diving deeper into it!

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Arieda Muço

@arieda_muco

2 years

On Wednesday, I will present at the @CEUpolsci my work on the role of novel communication technologies in facilitating the fall of autocratic regimes. We use the Hungarian setting, the mid-80s, and investigate short and long-run outcomes. Join if you can!

CEU Political Science Department

@CEUpolsci

2 years

We cordially invite you to the @CEUpolsci seminar 📚The Xerox Effect: Communication Technologies and Political Actions in Autocracy 👩‍🏫 Arieda Muco, CEU 🗓️ Wed, Nov 16, 2022 ⏲️ 1:30pm CET 📍 CEU Vienna Campus, B-505, or online on Zoom Registration:

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