Hey
#EconTwitter
! I am beyond excited to share my JMP
🚨 "Following in the family footsteps: Incidence and returns of occupational persistence" 🚨
Do children gain from following their parents in the same occupations?👨👩👧
Here is a short thread to find out!🧵
Some very much belated
#jobmarket
news: starting today, I am a Lecturer (AP) in Economics at
@EdinburghUni
! Very excited for this new chapter 🏴
Please do say hi if you are in the area!
Do dynastic doctors gain from having a parent in the same profession?
Yes, a lot! Their income returns from medical school are 54% higher⬆️ than for other doctors.
What a lovely crew! Wrapping up the AIEL
@dSEA_Unipd
"economics of human capital" workshop after two days of presentations and interactions. Thanks everyone!
🚀Starting tomorrow:
📢2nd CESifo/ifo Junior Workshop on Economics of Education
👇What a fantastic program! (incredible >130 submissions)
So much looking forward to learning & discussing new research!🤩
Keynotes:
@CamilleTerrier1
&
@PetterLundborg
"Bob Solow was probably the best undergraduate teacher I ever had, but not necessarily the best PhD teacher because he made things so clear and simple. I think that for undergraduates, that’s incredibly important, but for a PhD student, being confused is just fine." Rick Mishkin
I also document population wide patterns of occupational transmission, and find that it is strikingly prevalent among individuals from the highest income backgrounds.
These returns translate into a 23% increase⬆️ in income (15-20 years from application) with respect to the 'non persistent' population, but build up over time.
The substantial gains also come with large negative selection bias⬇️. In other words, people selecting into following their parents perform worse than their peers when they are pushed into different occupations.
I study the labour market returns from following parents into the same occupations. I focus on medical doctors👩⚕️ in the Netherlands🇳🇱 and exploit rich admin data and the random variation provided by lottery admissions to medical school.
➡️62% of self-employed workers report being worse off as a result of the pandemic.
➡️‘Glaring omissions’ in government support for the self-employed need to be fixed, say report authors:
@jackrblundell
@s_machin_
@mariaventura05
@LSEnews
@ESRC
Read:
Great to hear
@mariaventura05
on
@LBC
now talking about the latest CEP research she's carried out with
@jackrblundell
and
@s_machin_
on how self-employed workers are still being hit very hard.
Read the full report:
Last but not least, I am extremely grateful to my supervisors
@landais_camille
, Johannes Spinnewijn and
@s_machin_
for their continuous support and guidance, as well as to my PhD colleagues and other LSE faculty members for their comments and feedback!
💼 NEW 📈
The self-employed are still struggling after the pandemic. Many would switch to a salaried job if they could.
Will their discontent show in the next general election?
@CEP_LSE
I compare causally estimated returns of being a doctor for children of doctors and children of non doctors to identify the additional income gains/losses experienced by dynastic doctors📈.
@anacostaramon
Very interesting and important! Would be cool though to put these magnitudes in relationship to mental health outcomes had these girls, at the same age, not taken the pill (what is the common alternative? What is the risk of early pregnancy? What happens to mental health?)
It was a great pleasure to participate in the Second Edition of this workshop jointly organized by
@cdf1530
and
@KingsCollegeLon
!
Thanks,
@AndrieuElodie
and
@OCutinelRendina
for organizing this and all the participants for the great papers and feedback!
My (two!!)
#Erasmus
experiences taught me so much and greatly contributed to the person (and researcher) I am now. Sad so many students will miss out on a great chance!
The day after my 20th bday I went to Rotterdam with the Erasmus program. I learnt to live without pasta and made friends for life. Most importantly, it opened doors to worlds i didn’t know existed. Generations of UK students will never see that door
@remain_central
@ItalyinLDN
More tips for success in
#academia
:
* Don't ever question the meritocracy
* Don't be disabled. If you are, keep it quiet
* Don't have kids. Unless you're a man
* Don't show any signs of a working class background
* Don't be non-native English. If you are, smile & show deference
💡How to generate ideas💡
@ubcVSE
students have started to ask me how to generate research ideas, now that they are moving to 2nd or 3rd year. I don't know whether I answer this question well, but here is what I tell them: [1/N]
@gigidepalo
Aiuti alle donne a partita Iva, a meno che il congedo maschile non sia anche incentivato in modo intelligente (spesso non lo é e non spezza la barriera culturale)
The fight will be managed by my and Zuck’s foundations (not UFC).
Livestream will be on this platform and Meta. Everything in camera frame will be ancient Rome, so nothing modern at all.
I spoke to the PM of Italy and Minister of Culture. They have agreed on an epic location.
@ClaraSievert
@vbolotnyy
@mattbasilico
Among respondents, 34.7% of Econ PhD students were experiencing moderate to severe symptoms of depression or anxiety. This prevalence is higher than among adults in Europe at the time (~25%) and higher than among Econ PhDs in the 2017 U.S. study (24.8%). 5/N
It's almost job market time, so here's a reminder that your job market paper does not define who you are.
It's only one part of your entire research agenda, a small footprint in your entire journey, and the only factor determining whether you'll be hired for the next 6 years.
@aidthoughts
@anacostaramon
I guess it's true as long as the treated's outside option is the same as the control's contraceptive method (e.g. treated don't sort into hormonal contraceptives based on distaste for, say, condoms)?
@Claudia_Sahm
@markgsheppard
@instrumenthull
Econ Phd student here, who recently realized how much racism and toxic sexism is on EJMR and who also cannot understand how it could still be up. What can top economists do about it? Would they have any power on it?
Bella l'indignazione per Vannacci. Ma la Presidente
@GiorgiaMeloni
nel 2019 ha pubblicato un libro al cui confronto quello di Vannacci è il libro Cuore.
🧵 Mi sono inflitto la lettura di "Mafia Nigeriana - Origini, rituali, crimini". Lo riassumo nel thread 👇🏼