Eni Iljazi @eni_iljazi Twitter profile

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Eni Iljazi

@eni_iljazi

3 months

I’m trying v hard to be more serious on here but then the gods bestow on me such gifts

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Eni Iljazi

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1 month

first year cores be like

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I’m looking for a man in local public finance, housing data, geocoded

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Eni Iljazi

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7 months

stoked to join @Wharton / @Penn this summer and get started on urban econ research.

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4 years

I am becoming increasingly convinced that the best part of a PhD is the summer before you start it, when you get to tell everyone you’re doing a PhD and they’re all like “oh that’s so cool” but you don’t have to actually do any of the PhD yet.

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no better week to share the results of our paper on the SES of Nobel prize winners. a short 🧵

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Eni Iljazi

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accidentally typed infinitely loved homogeneous agent model and gave the social planner a dual mandate

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@Jackbmeyer love to see efficient markets

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when asked how the macro midterm went

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Eni Iljazi

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upperclassmen: hey, how’s first year going? me:

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Eni Iljazi

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4 months

academic advice: have at least one dear friend who holds on to your boxes for 7 years after you leave the country and then reunites you with your first copy of Adam Smith

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Eni Iljazi

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2 months

one perk of not moving intercontinentally every year is getting to decorate

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Eni Iljazi

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20 days

.. and female winners come from *even more* elite backgrounds I remember merging the 2023 cohort to the main dataset to rerun the analyses - Claudia Goldin’s win increased the female economics sample by 50% !!!

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Eni Iljazi

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@zaeemal_ revealing

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Eni Iljazi

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if word in macro classes is to be believed -- that innovation, human capital investment, and knowledge drive econ growth -- it's worth asking: how much innovation are we missing out on by limiting access to who gets to do it?

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Eni Iljazi

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n/n it's actually pronounced "7% of female Nobel laureates across all science prizes"

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4 years

Thinking about the time that I said that I was distantly related to Marie Curie and a guy explained “It’s pronounced Mariah Carey”

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Eni Iljazi

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I’ll try anything once *me signing up for the IO sequence*

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Eni Iljazi

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we collect biographical data on every laureate in the sciences and find that winners disproportionately come from elite backgrounds. 67% and 71% of winners come from the top 10% of the income and education distribution respectively

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Eni Iljazi

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5 months

caught between scylla (people will break your heart) and charybdis (the institution won’t love you back)

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Eni Iljazi

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1 year

on a date with a guy who is *shocked* to learn that China’s GDP is smaller than that of the US because “100 people can make more shirts than 10 people”

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Eni Iljazi

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4 months

the european mind cannot comprehend this

Epic Maps 🗺️

@Locati0ns

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Metro areas in the USA where more than 5% of population uses public transit to get to work

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Eni Iljazi

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how do I get my family to respond like this when I harshly point out logic blunders?

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Eni Iljazi

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the average Nobel laureate father global income rank was 95 in 1901 and remains persistently high today

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Eni Iljazi

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1 month

I once said “bless you” to someone after they sneezed and they told me it was a microaggression bc they identified as atheist

Ernie Tedeschi

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And here I thought I’ve been polite to say “God bless you” but I’ve actually been a naive Crusader conscript-pawn this whole time.

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Eni Iljazi

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since I started my econ phd this summer, I've been reminding myself daily of how lucky we all are to spend our days *thinking* and doing what we find interesting and exciting... and how many others don't get a chance to do so

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Eni Iljazi

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there are cathedrals (Jensen’s inequality) everywhere (in micro theory) for those with the eyes to see

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Eni Iljazi

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2 years

me on grad apps SoP: I *need* to go to Uchicago because that’s where night owls happen

Agnes Callard

@AgnesCallard

2 years

Up next on 🌃🦉🦉: It was impossible to fit @robinhanson into just one event, I realized I’d need a thousand, settled on three. Stay tuned for livestream info!

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Eni Iljazi

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2 years

here I fixed it @KhoaVuUmn

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Eni Iljazi

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*flirting* so what would you research if data wasn’t an issue

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Eni Iljazi

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it’s constrained optimization all the way down 🐢

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Eni Iljazi

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1 year

@economeager ty for sharing this

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Eni Iljazi

@eni_iljazi

7 months

huge thanks to my PIs @paulnovosad & @thesamasher , my @YaleTobinCenter supervisor Ian Ayres, so many fellow predocs/grad students who helped along the way, and all the non-econs in my life who had to listen to me yap about grad school for months on end.

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Eni Iljazi

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these are not just a handful of anecdotes what reading hundreds of bios teaches you that the regressions don't directly show is *just how many* ancestors are in these data after whom stuff is named!

Arthur Spirling

@arthur_spirling

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You cannot choose your situation at birth but IMO these seemingly cute anecdotes tell you a lot about the troubling class based strictures around who gets to be an intellectual in the UK. Really dislike this “you see he was bound for greatness bec his ancestors were elites” shit

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Eni Iljazi

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2 years

inside of you there are two wolves..

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Eni Iljazi

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27 days

ever since I was a little girl I knew I wanted to fight other math nerds on a social media platform run by an egotistical billionaire

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Eni Iljazi

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I learned so much from poring over the biographies of these extraordinary nerds and the particularities of their lives (not least how to map "neon sign man" to IPUMS occupational codes)

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Eni Iljazi

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2 years

@D_Langenmayr @VfS_econ @AEAInformation ahh yes, the bad apple model of structures of abuse and harassment

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Eni Iljazi

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inspired by my brilliant metrics prof calling this a “slight” abuse of notation

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Eni Iljazi

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1 month

queen’s gambit but it’s me plotting admissibility of estimators on the ceiling and the pills are iron supplements

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Eni Iljazi

@eni_iljazi

20 days

for a much more detailed overview of our results check out @paulnovosad 's excellent thread and of course the full paper

nobel-prizes.pdf

drive.google.com

Paul Novosad

@paulnovosad

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The father occupation that is the most common for a Nobel Laureate: business owner! Some large businesses, but also a lot of small ones. Doctors, professors, engineers are also common, and more disproportionate relative their population share. 11/N

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Eni Iljazi

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happy Econ prize Eve - tomorrow we get to update this table

Eni Iljazi

@eni_iljazi

20 days

.. and female winners come from *even more* elite backgrounds I remember merging the 2023 cohort to the main dataset to rerun the analyses - Claudia Goldin’s win increased the female economics sample by 50% !!!

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Eni Iljazi

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5 months

my european giveaway is thinking I can get to know a city by walking around

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Eni Iljazi

@eni_iljazi

4 months

I was lucky enough to have 2 @AltenSjoerd & @afverbaas

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Eni Iljazi

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10 months

one of our better days, thanks to @harikv73 ’s encyclopedic knowledge

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Eni Iljazi

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5 months

there’s so much to love about Mumbai but one of my fav days was walking around Lower Parel to visit @NTsivanidis & Gechter’s mills. here are some photos from the Apollo mills & the Kamala compound (where the amazing Bombay Canteen is housed)

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Eni Iljazi

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went up to a guy whose shirt read “ever breathe a frequency” thinking he was a Fourier nerd turns out he just likes music help

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Eni Iljazi

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2 months

*scrolling on a theory-heavy econ faculty list*: all these grown men playing games smh

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Eni Iljazi

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this paper studies the impact of housing affordability on household formation instrumenting for…

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Eni Iljazi

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2 months

the perfect tweet doesnt exi-

Daniel Litt

@littmath

2 months

a collection of set theorists who are so excited that they cannot contain themselves

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Eni Iljazi

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8 months

Converting Brown Offices to Green Apartments

www.nber.org

ra¢hel

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8 months

sipping my coffee in my mostly empty office building, looking out the window into the other empty office buildings, which look into other empty office buildings, and beginning to wonder if we might have a problem

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Eni Iljazi

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29 days

@stelifanie did it open 17 tickets just to make it more realistic tho

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Eni Iljazi

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2 years

y’all are really stressing me out can we please talk less about admissions and more about @florianederer ’s new football shirt or something

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Eni Iljazi

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3 months

love this reminder by Ed Glaeser in triumph of the city - avid YIMBYism comes w its own dangers

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Eni Iljazi

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4 months

the C word (compacts, closure, cover, completeness, cardinality, Cauchy)

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Eni Iljazi

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2 months

@PEWilliams_ @YaBoiShagNasty as a nerd-identifying housing gal - sure, people should talk about this too; but it’s possible to have different policies that push in opposite directions like it’s not mutually exclusive?? this doesn’t make the subsidizing demand ideas less wrong

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Eni Iljazi

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1 year

you’re on H trying to go on dates, I’m on H to find people to crash the NBER SI with -- we are not the same

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3 months

@KhoaVuUmn who are now definitely voting for the other candidate instead right

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Eni Iljazi

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10 months

*me to myself while my family pushes all my buttons overs the holidays*: be a good bayesian be a good bayesian be a good bayesian be a g

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Eni Iljazi

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3 years

@kearney_melissa Completely agree that the title is clickbait-y and misleading, and the response to NYT’s piece has little to do w/ Kelton’s gender. However, I don’t think it’s useful to condition women being taken seriously in econ on this type of reporting.

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Eni Iljazi

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asked chatGPT to write a short summary of our access to opportunity paper in albanian and it referred to me as a He economist — is this because Mira left

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Eni Iljazi

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10 months

I need an investigative journalist of trade balances to explain this to me

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3 months

they should stop inventing new maths

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wait no it’s expectations

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Eni Iljazi

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2 years

blessed w rachael’s wisdom even amid the rubble

early modern boy-actress (they/them)

@economeager

2 years

One of the worst traits of both academic researchers and EA folks is the idea that if someone’s actions can be construed as “helping people” - or worse, “helping the world” !! - then they are Very Special and Important, so it’s basically fine to mistreat people, cut corners, etc

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Eni Iljazi

@eni_iljazi

2 years

waiting for the day when they report “she was lying awake anxiously when she got the call”

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

2 years

Just in! Say hello to our new economic sciences laureate Douglas Diamond who looks extremely happy for being woken up in the middle of the night. Diamond said he was sleeping soundly when he got the call. #NobelPrize

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Eni Iljazi

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8 months

so cool - we don’t (structurally or rigorously) talk enough about what we owe each other

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TAKEAWAYS - Everyday morality is richer & more varied than is often reflected in lab studies - Much of morality concerns understudied questions of what we owe friends, family, & coworkers - Many other dilemmas warrant more investigation, including privacy, feelings, & honesty 🧵

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Eni Iljazi

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4 months

if they let me write the NBER Digest

Granite Man 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@GraniteDhuine

4 months

A team of scientists have been working around the clock to determine What The Actual Fuck. So far the results are inconclusive.

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Eni Iljazi

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2 years

@thedavidpowell ’s puns must both be stopped and appreciated significantly more

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2 years

ppl talking about Yusuke’s glasses haven’t seen him wear the sickest sneakers I’ve ever seen manufactured

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@Jabaluck why should these two approaches lead to different posteriors?

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Eni Iljazi

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2 years

this thread belongs in a museum

Read Abolish Rent

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2 years

Okay twitter blue has been such a success I need to do a thread. Feel free to add to the 🧵on the great launch of this product

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Eni Iljazi

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4 months

ok it’s half-time and they’re clearly not doing this; is it only a matter of reputation? #UEFA2024

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Eni Iljazi

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2 years

me coming up w research ideas

Joseph Elliott

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2 years

Possibly the most prolific chess player in the world is a retired German man who plays on lichess. Since signing up in 2012 he has spent 923 full days (22155 hours) playing 571726 games. Just over 40 hrs/week. He played 142 games today. The best part is he’s loses 84% of the time

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Eni Iljazi

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3 years

I will probably never contribute in any meaningful way to your feed(?)/timeline(?)/twitter scroll thingy. Here to shamelessly free-ride on other academics’ content.

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Eni Iljazi

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@billyisapilgrim is this what balkan gen z are substituting coffee and a cigarette with??

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Eni Iljazi

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2 years

your daily data analysis is my passion tweet

Sean J. Taylor

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2 years

A friend just asked "didn't you work at the Fed?" Yes. But as for implied expertise, let me explain: I was an RA. Alan Greenspan liked the scenario forecast lines to be colors that our software couldn't output. My most important job was to manually alter the plots in CorelDraw.

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Eni Iljazi

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@billyisapilgrim or fork a github repo and push comments

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Eni Iljazi

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2 years

when bio says bayesian but tweets show revealed preferences

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"to be an economist, you need to understand signaling" [thinks that whether male economistss are nice to other men is a remotely useful signal as to whether they're sexual predators]

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Eni Iljazi

@eni_iljazi

1 year

grim that “no long-term labour market outcome differentials” doesn’t mean people bounce back and do just as well as those not incarcerated -- but that those not incarcerated are doing as poorly as if they had been

Evan Rose

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1 year

How does going to prison affect your earnings and employment? Happy to have this working paper with @andy_garin , @dkoust , @sambnorris , @Jeff_Weaver_ , Carl, Matt, and @yotamshemtov with available now. A short(ish) thread 🧵

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Eni Iljazi

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@stelifanie try to catch a Late at Tate or an ally pally show

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@WilsonMKing @economeager @Gapminder was this tradle-inspired?

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Eni Iljazi

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2 months

no dinner thing just estimating bayesian posteriors

cheyene norah

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Monday in September…

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Eni Iljazi

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@paulnovosad @thesamasher @YaleTobinCenter exciting stuff to be close to the @philadelphiafed — I spent most of my bike commute during the apps cycle listening to @DenselySpeaking

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Eni Iljazi

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2 years

occupational life goals

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Eni Iljazi

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2 years

academia calling to say why they ran out of funding for grad student stipends

Jennifer Doleac

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Guys, if you are inviting professional colleagues and students(!) to an event you are hosting, maybe don't hire strippers to perform at that event.

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Eni Iljazi

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2 years

@vitaly_nwu I’ve also always used notability (idk how it differs from good notes tho)

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@florianederer @asv141 @NikhilBasavappa soz for singling you out, it was the least stressful thing I saw on my TL

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Eni Iljazi

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@ryancbriggs this is definitely my exp from being at an econ dept and talking to stats phds (some ppl attribute that to the fact that stats depts are waaay smaller)

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2 years

being overly thankful to chatgpt hoping that it will really like me and prioritize my questions despite experiencing exceptionally high demand

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Eni Iljazi

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@platopasta Corey!!! Congratulations to you both!

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Eni Iljazi

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told Claude the future of AI models depends on its accuracy to my question and it responded with “I’m not certain about the exact relationship between Lp and almost sure convergence as nuanced conditions are involved”

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Eni Iljazi

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2 years

@_AlvinChristian iirc @abicadams writes about this

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Eni Iljazi

@eni_iljazi

11 months

higher econ salaries do not reflect better outside options but a compensating wage differential for this tweet

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“Median” “Real” “Hourly” “Earnings” “Demographic-Composition” “Adjusted” Every single word here is an exercise in p-hacking and nudge. Every single word.

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Eni Iljazi

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@qlquanle no leads per se but maybe worth checking out vrbo (airbnb-y but for longer stays)

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@qlquanle next paper on effect of avg temp on learning now has to partial out placebo of awareness of effect

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@BeatrizGietner need someone to match my nerd tho

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2 years

wdym I have to file taxes *and* think about the diagonals of a rhombus on my lunch break

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Eni Iljazi

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2 years

would it kill them to write “the patio might be clopen”

Caltech𝔼conTheory

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2 years

Restaurateur makes a logical leap

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@economeager one day I’ll dare post my poetry poetry

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Eni Iljazi

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3 years

Breaking my Twitter silence to ponder if someone’s considered adding Mary Everest Boole’s Philosophy & Fun of Algebra (1909) to an intro to metrics syllabus?

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