Being a 27-year-old professor is all fun and games until you show up to give a tour of your building to incoming majors, get mistaken as one of them, and get asked if you've signed up for fall classes yet. ๐
This is Beacon. He's a therapy dog and one of USA Gymnastics' busiest volunteers. He attended the Olympic Trials with a badge that literally says he's the "Goodest Boy." His job is to comfort athletes and coaches, giving them a belly to rub whenever they need it. 14/10
Really excited to have a new
@nberpubs
WP out this morning with Wenjia Cao,
@emilycook_econ
,
@imbernomics
, & Mike Lovenheim! We find that COVID-19 vaccine mandates by colleges & universities significantly reduced COVID spread & deaths last fall. (1/N)
Excited to share that my paper โIs a Name Change a Game Change? The Impact of College-to-University Conversionsโ is now forthcoming at Econ of Ed Review!
I study what happens when colleges change their names to universities. (1/N)
Our honors students presented like total pros this morning! With their explanations of DIDs, event studies, theory models, and more, you would never know they are all undergrads.
Grades submitted & done with teaching until January 2023!
I love my students, but after two whirlwind, pandemic years starting out as an AP, I'm super glad that my university offers juniors a pre-tenure research leave. ๐
Thrilled to have received my first grant and to have it supporting work with my old office pals
@cody_orr
and Salem Rogers! We're studying how increased funding to rural school districts affects student outcomes and can't wait to share what we learn. ๐ฅณ
My hot take about cover letters on the econ job market is that they matter more than folks realize (esp. anywhere that's not an R1 econ department), BUT with some legwork upfront, you can customize them rather efficiently.
How? Templates & good note-taking! (1/4)
Subject to advisors being happy with your paper, I think spending 2 weeks writing cover letters might actually be the highest marginal value activity a JMC can do!
Happy to share that my paper with
@emilycook_econ
&
@LuedtkeAllison
on how peer institutions influenced colleges' pandemic reopening decisions has been accepted at JEBO! ๐ฅณ
You can find the full paper here: .
Excited to share that my department
@Miami_Econ
is hiring another assistant professor in applied micro this year! Teaching responsibilities to include econometrics & electives in your field. Review of applications begins 11/7: .
Next up for our Faculty Fav Publications: Professor Riley Acton (
@riacton
). Her paper is ,"Effects of Reduced Community College Tuition on College Choices and Degree Completion," from Education Finance & Policy.
@FarmerSchoolMU
Today, the Council of Economic Advisers released the 2023 Economic Report of the President, which includes the Annual Report of the Council of Economic Advisers. 1/
Very excited to share that my paper โDo Health Insurance Mandates Spillover to Education? Evidence from Michiganโs Autism Insurance Mandateโ with
@imbernomics
& Mike Lovenheim is now forthcoming in
@JHealthEcon
!
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Hey
#EconTwitter
, I've had several undergrads ask me recently about summer internships with an eye towards either grad school or policy-oriented work. I know about the Fed & some think tanks, what are others I can share with them?
A nice add-on to this (h/t
@emilycook_econ
!) is to add a global at the start of your code that sets up each coauthor's paths. For example...
if c(username)=="riley" {
global path "Users/riley/Project"
}
if c(username)=="emily" {
global path "Users/emily/Project"
}
cd "$path"
Grading is done & my first fully in-person semester as an AP is just about complete! ๐ฅณ
Thankful for some awesome students, very few COVID disruptions, and more than 6 weeks until our spring semester starts. ๐๐ผ
In the wake of local job losses, how do students attending community colleges make field-of-study decisions? Find out in this Ahead of Print article from
@SOLE_Labor_Econ
's JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS:
Berkey Hall was my office for 4 years and is still home to many MSU econ students. Saying Iโm thinking of everyone there & hoping for their safety barely feels enoughโฆ ๐
MSU ALERT: There have been shots fired near Berkey Hall on the East Lansing campus. Please secure-in-place immediately. Police are active on scene. More information to follow.
JOB ALERT! ๐จ My dept. is hiring an AP in public, enviro, and/or IO.
Miami is an awesome place to work. True research/teaching/life balance. Great colleagues & students. Affordable COL in either a charming college town or nearby Cincy.
Apply & share!
I knew Mary was special when she took my intermediate micro classโฆ during COVIDโฆ as a freshmanโฆ from Vietnamโฆ in the middle of the night her timeโฆ and was top of the class!
Canโt wait to watch her start her PhD journey and become an IO star at Rice! ๐คฉ
Next up: Mary Le (
@MaryLe49298816
) was a recipient of the George W. Thatcher Award. She is a Quant Eco, Math, and Stats major from Danang, Vietnam. She will going for her PhD in Eco at Rice University.
Be sure to learn more about her:
Super happy that our paper on college vaccine mandates (coauthored with Wenjia Cao,
@emilycook_econ
, Scott Imberman, & Mike Lovenheim) is now forthcoming at
@J_HumanResource
! ๐ฅณ
For our next faculty who was recognized by a graduating student for a positive impact: Prof. Riley Acton (
@riacton
). She is "a fantastic professor and very willing to talk about professional development and job opportunities for after college.โ
@FarmerSchoolMU
On board my first flight for work travel sinceโฆ *checks notes*โฆ the 2019-2020 job market. ๐ณ
Looking forward to seeing old friends & meeting new ones at
#2021APPAM
in Austin this weekend! Come say hi!
Very proud of
@emmaj051
, who defended her thesis today!
Emma exhibits the best of the best of our
@Miami_Econ
students. She will graduate next month with a combined BA/MA in econ, as well as a Spanish major, and will join the
@ChicagoFed
as an RA this summer. ๐ฅณ
Great reporting on this important development by
@maddiengo
! I was honored that she asked me for my thoughts, and that they were included alongside researchers I so admire like
@douglasharris99
&
@ckcarruthers
.
President Biden conceded that the plan to offer free community college was dropped after Senator Joe Manchin "and one other person" indicated that they wouldn't support it.
Got my Moderna booster yesterday! ๐ And thus far, have minimal side effects besides a sore arm (vs. the last dose, which really wiped me out for a day).
Such a treat to visit
@BatesEcon
today and spend time with my good friend & coauthor Austin Smith!
And a bonus: my youngest sister (Bates โ24), parents (Bates โ85), and grandmother (lifelong Mainer) came to see my seminar. โค๏ธ
BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2023 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Claudia Goldin โfor having advanced our understanding of womenโs labour market outcomes.โ
#NobelPrize
Happy to have a new
@AnnenbergInst
working paper out this week, coauthored with my awesome grad school officemates
@cody_orr
& Salem Rogers!
We study the effects of a policy that increased school funding to rural districts. Quick ๐งต below.
Looking forward to heading to Cambridge today for the
@nberpubs
Financing Higher Education conference, where Iโll be presenting this new work with
@KalenaCortes
&
@CamilaNtMorales
.
Paper, program, and livestream all available here!
Interested in Women in Economies merch? Option to get it shipped directly to you or for local pick up in Oxford. Orders will close on Tues, Oct. 24th at 4:00 pm.
Here is the link with shipping:
Here is the link without shipping:
@PhD_Genie
I've had good luck using
@perusall
and requiring them to leave comments on assigned readings. Counts towards their participation grade and they seem to like it!
I would totally love this, but after what weโve seen with womenโs labor market outcomes over the past 18 months, I really hope Claudia Goldin is in contention. ๐ค
My prediction for the 2021
#NobelPrize
in Economic Sciences is J. Angrist and D. Card for their contributions to labor economics and developing new approaches to identification.
Absolutely THRILLED for my former
@Miami_Econ
student (and first official advisee heading to a PhD!) and can't wait to see what she does with the fantastic folks in Ann Arbor!
#GoGreen
though, of course. ๐
Hello
#EconTwitter
! Iโd like to officially share that Iโll be joining
@umichECON
for my PhD in the fall. Iโm so excited to join such a wonderful program (and to get to spend a few more years in the
@ChicagoFed
7th district ๐). Looking forward to this new stage in my career!
Want a
#TaylorSwift
's
#Red
inspired
@Stata
scheme? Just install "swift_red" from GitHub:
It will be up on ssc soon as part of the schemepack (ssc install schemepack, replace)
For every swift_red graph you make, a Twitter like is guaranteed ๐
Looking forward to heading to Denver today for
#AEFP2023
. Tomorrow, I'll be chairing Session 3.11 (1:30pm) on college dropout & re-enrollment and presenting in Session 4.10 (3:15pm) on public investments in higher ed. Come say hi! ๐
Attention education economists (& friends!) heading to
#ASSA2023
: Join me,
@steph_r_owen
, and
@AFoote_Econ
for an econ of ed happy hour on Saturday! We will be at the New Orleans Social House starting at 5:30pm.
All are welcome. Spread the word!
#EconTwitter
The economist Lisa Cook was confirmed as the first Black woman on the Federal Reserve Board in a historic moment for the central bank as it tries to stabilize a recovery that serves all Americans.
Not surprised that Matthew Suandiโs fascinating work is making
#EconTwitter
go ๐คฏโฆ That was my cohortโs reaction when he was an undergrad taking
@jmwooldridge
โs PhD courses with us!
Key Insights: Matt Suandiโforced off of his India RCT development-economics project by the COVID plagueโhas taken the plague year to write a brilliant paper: Matthew Suandi: Promoting to Opportunity: Evidence and Implications from the U.S.... 1/
Grades submitted! โ Always impressed with how far students come in intermediate micro over the course of the semester.
But looking forward to getting back to my roots and teaching undergrad labor in the spring! ๐
If you see this and by chance include one of my papers on your syllabus (esp. PhD-level), can you reply here or message me telling me so? Applying for a university thing that asks for this and have no idea how one is supposed to get this info!
Thank you! ๐
Really happy that Miami has made at-home COVID tests available for free to the whole campus community. Just took a nice lunchtime stroll with
@peternka
& picked these up from
@MiamiOHLib
!
๐I am thrilled to share that I will join
@Miami_Econ
as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2024! It is my great honor to join this awesome group! A huge thank you to
@jasonmlindo
, Andrew Barr, Joanna Lahey, Yonghong An,
@danilaserra_eco
, and others who supported me on this journey!
Welcome, new followers! ๐ As a long-time gymnast and lifelong gymnastics fan, it is my absolute obligation to inform you that the final night of Olympic Trials is starting in TEN MINUTES on NBC!
Happy to be part of this Miami feature on our teacher-scholar model. I love working at an institution that values research, undergraduate teaching, and the integration of the two!
Yesterday, I told one of my students that I was hopeful that younger generations of economists were changing the climate of the profession for the better. This letter gives me even more hope. ๐
Really important work here: "I show that in the semester when teaching moved online, female lecturers were evaluated more poorly than in previous semesters. The performance of male lecturers was not impacted by the new teaching environment."
New publication accepted! My IZA WP () titled โOnline teaching and gender biasโ is now forthcoming at the Economics of Education Review and I am thrilled about it! [1/6]
@iza_bonn
In Volume 80: Do Health Insurance Mandates Spillover to Education? Evidence from Michiganโs Autism Insurance Mandate - Riley Acton, Scott Imberman, Michael Lovenheim
On the (almost) 104th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment in the US, women are
* 51% of population
* 29% of House of Representatives
* 25% of Senate
* 18% of full professors at PhD granting economics departments
Happy to have a new
@iza_bonn
WP out this week, joint with Austin Smith (
@BatesEcon
) and our awesome former
@Miami_Econ
student
@jo_ryking
(
@NYUWagner
). We study how local labor market shocks & UI benefits affect student discipline in schools. ๐งต
I'm feeling for
#Simone
so much right now. ๐ Every gymnast knows what it feels like to have your mind not let you do what your body is capable of. To have that happen on the world's biggest stage must be so frustrating & devastating.
"We've just been told that, with regards to Simone withdrawing, it is not injury-related. It is a mental issue that Simone is having." -- John Roethlisberger
Hey
#EconTwitter
, do you know a senior undergrad looking for their next step after graduation? Might they be seeking improved career opportunities or extra prep for a Ph.D. program? If so, encourage them to apply to
@Miami_Econ
โs 1-year MA program!
More info below. ๐งต (1/6)
Congrats to my colleague
@peternka
on having this awesome paper accepted at AEJ:Policy! ๐ฅณ
Investments in public libraries help kids do better in school! ๐ฅณ
The best part of getting mentioned in the Times was sending it to my grandmother, an avid news consumer. Sheโs 88, she can text, and she can even tell you what field of econ I work in! ๐
I see where in the phase of the job market where cover letters are trending on ye olde
#EconTwitter
. Here's some advice I gave in 2021, that I endorse even more strongly after being on a search committee last year!
My hot take about cover letters on the econ job market is that they matter more than folks realize (esp. anywhere that's not an R1 econ department), BUT with some legwork upfront, you can customize them rather efficiently.
How? Templates & good note-taking! (1/4)
Another great
@Miami_Econ
MA thesis defense in the books. Congratulations to Brittany Lowe, who will start her econ PhD at
@JHUEconomics
this fall! ๐ฅณ
I'm a little late this year, but still want to give my annual plug for our 1-year
@Miami_Econ
MA program!
We will consider apps until June 1, so if you have a great student whose postgrad plans aren't panning out the way they hoped, send them our way!
Gifts arrived early this year. Happy to share that our paper (with
@ajhollingsworth
, Thomasson, and
@AnthonySWray
) - The Gift of a Lifetime: The Hospital, Modern Medicine, and Mortality - is now conditionally accepted (subject to data replication) in the AER.
Shoutout to this yearโs ๐ฅ applied micro JMCs for making my first time on the hiring side a lot of fun! So many great researchers & teachers out there; I wish we could hire them all!
Itโs one of my favorite mornings of the year! Our
@Miami_Econ
departmental honors students are presenting their undergrad theses. Watch this thread for some highlights!
It wasn't all fun and games (see: first year micro theory), but overall,
@MSUEconomics
was a great place to be a PhD student! Learned a ton, made lifelong friends, had really supportive advisors, and landed a job that's a great fit for me.