Sophie Li @sophieli_econ Twitter profile

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

1 year

I am on the job market! The paper is (literally) cool stuff (women working as postmasters) + old stuff (historical data) + new stuff (findings showing women benefited little from the work experience) + stuff you need (for future citations, and me as an assistant professor)

Jennifer Doleac

@jenniferdoleac

1 year

Sophie Li JMP: "The Effect of a Woman-Friendly Occupation on Employment: U.S. Postmasters Before World War II" Website:

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

3 years

Hello #EconTwitter , I am teaching undergrad labor and would love to include recent empirical work in the syllabus. Working papers, JMPs, self-promotions are very much welcomed. If you know a paper (or two) that fits the following broadly defined topics, please let me know: 1/2

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Sophie Li

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11 months

Me waiting for interviews on the job market

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Sophie Li

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4 years

Spent my Sunday morning wondering "what happened to slaveowners post-civil war?" and found an interesting paper by Ager, @leah_boustan and @K_A_Eriksson : fathers w/ slaveholding surnames have less wealth comparing to ones w/o in 1870, but no effects on sons in 1900 (except ...

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

3 years

People I went to school with are publishing in Nature. Me: help greshape

NYU Shanghai

@nyushanghai

3 years

Two NYU Shanghai undergraduates have been published in @Nature as first and second authors of research findings that theoretically propose a possible approach to inducing superconductivity in ferroelectrics, a common class of materials.

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

4 years

Partying without social distancing and masks is wrong, but creating a system that incentivizes reporting on fellow students and threatening to suspend them is authoritarian. Just imagine any local government putting people who attend large gatherings in jail

BU PhD Student Coalition

@bu_phd_students

4 years

Looks like @BU_Tweets has now made it school policy to blame students for doing what students do when you bring them back to campus. Maybe they should have provided alternative, outdoor events? #BeBetterBU #AshamedToBU #StillAPandemic #CovidCampus #BostonUniversity #bospoli

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

4 years

@NikhilBasavappa the fact that students have time/energy to complain about grad school on twitter = a sign of a great program

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

3 years

getting accepted into PhD v.s. actually doing a PhD

Khoa Vu

@KhoaVuUmn

3 years

Starting a Finishing an new project existing project

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

2 years

Doing literature review is just going to someone’s website to look for a paper for 5 minutes and stalk them and everyone else they have ever been associated with for 2 hours

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

3 years

Same energy when I covered @JoshuaSGoodman & coauthors O Brother paper. I even included a poster of the movie and students gave me absolutely nothing. The upside is I didn't get it either (because I am also young ✨)

John Paul Helveston

@JohnHelveston

3 years

I used this meme in my undergrad #rstats class and got blank stares...then I realized that this film came out in 2003 when ***most of my students were born*** 😩

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

3 years

(1) internal migration; (2) crime; (3) women in the labor force; (4) marriage/fertility. I could be easily persuaded to teach a lecture surrounding your paper, so don't worry that the paper does not fit. Thank you! 2/2

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

3 years

Since we are talking about PhD admissions, I want to announce that I wrote "casual relationships" instead of "causal" in every statement of purpose I submitted. I believe those PhD programs rejected me solely because of this and nothing else

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

4 years

An article about Yiran Fan written in 2016 is being republished to remember him. It was written to talk about Yiran's experience applying for a PhD program in the US. The article is in Chinese but I will translate & highlight some parts below:

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

4 years

Isn't contact tracing effort = identifying people you stayed with over 15 mins, which would include professors and TAs

MassUnionFaculty

@mass_union

4 years

@BU_Tweets to faculty: we heard your #Covid19 concerns and...nope. If a student tests positive in classes that faculty/grad workers are forced to teach in person, faculty/grad workers wont be notified. #OurRiskOurChoice #HigherEducation = #LowerEthics

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

4 years

@arindube Yes, by smuggling USB drives containing K-pop songs (and K-dramas) into North Korea:

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

3 years

@KhoaVuUmn Everyone has been trying "help reshape" for the past 2+ years and still no one succeeded

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

4 years

Just went through 4-12 under a minute when reading about #fckitwontcutit

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

4 years

Very sad to see the whole conversation went from discussing policy issues to attacking Prof Doleac personally really fast. Not ok

Jeff Brown

@Illini_Hiker

4 years

Lots of subtweets suggesting @jenniferdoleac is anti-worker/anti-diversity b/c she prefers EITC to min wage & her demand curve for RA hours slopes down. I know we’re all on edge right b/c of national events, but please, this is not how we build a more inclusive profession.

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

4 years

New Twitter handle because I am not ok with how often people misspell my last name. It is literally two letters.

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

3 years

I bet no one interrupts their student seminars!!!

John B. Holbein

@JohnHolbein1

3 years

This is your periodic reminder that the graduation regalia for PhDs in Finland is a top hat and a sword.

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

4 years

paper: summary:

The intergenerational effects of a large wealth shock: Evidence from the US Civil War

One striking feature of many underdeveloped societies is that economic power is concentrated in the hands of very small powerful elites. This column explores why some elites show remarkable persist...

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

3 years

Makes me happy to see women academics having a little fun in a disappointing situation; makes me sad that this seems to be the only socially acceptable way for women to voice concerns in academia

Sandy Black

@Econ_Sandy

3 years

The life of a female academic: Conference organizers realize their panel is all men 2 weeks before conference. Ask you to sit on panel--say you do not have to speak, but can if you want. 🙁 Here is how my rockstar colleague dealt with it (go to 1:27).

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

1 year

For no reason at all, I remember that my micro theory professor said he asked "what is that little square on the Blackboard" during his first year of PhD and everyone turned around to look at him. He apparently told that story in class every year and we did feel better!

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

4 years

Saw someone from my college ☺️ (more programs should post this)

U-M Economics

@umichECON

4 years

We are very excited to announce the incoming 2021 PhD students! Welcome to @umichECON !!

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

4 years

Also just as someone who has doubts about my own research taste (because searching for JMP ideas has not been much success during a pandemic), I am just happy to see my random question has been answered by great research

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

1 year

@MartinFiszbein @tpearson_tweets 🥳🥳🥳

Lavar Edmonds

@lavaredmonds

1 year

(For those curious, it was this, and I can't wait to read it. One of the first in a while that I saw and thought, "Dang, I wish I'd done this.")

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

4 years

The article about Yiran Fan can be accessed here: If you can read Chinese I would encourage you to read it yourself. The author is a great writer. My rough translation does not do its justice

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

4 years

I am just wondering who are these people making the reopening decisions: do they have kids who need to go to school? Do they have parents who are in the high-risk group? How do they sleep at night knowing they are indirectly killing people? Like... so many questions

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

4 years

Does the dog comes with the chair 🥺

Simone Giertz

@SimoneGiertz

4 years

I built a chair for needy pets that always want to sit next to you.

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

4 years

@jamesfeigenbaum @JoshuaSGoodman I am off you won't see me again today

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

4 years

This "look at the positive side" narrative seems very Trump-y to me

Benjy Renton

@bhrenton

4 years

Faculty at BU were given guidance in a playbook on how to communicate with their students. "Keep it positive…focus on the innovative features of your courses…on the great educational experiences you expect your courses to deliver." @fergusonreports

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

4 years

I feel seen

Dr Maureen Berg

@MaureenBug

4 years

making this was a mistake but here we are

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

4 years

Between doomscrolling and trying to get something done I got an error message in Stata, and ironically the solution is a command called "sleep" (feel like Stata is trying to tell me something)

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

3 years

@Christine_Cai27 Same here! Every time I call my mom I have to explain to her "no I am not doing homework and my adviser is not grading my research like a problem set"

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

3 years

Great thread! I am hoping to see @econhist_allday appear on John Oliver's show :))))

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

4 years

@EconZach @leah_boustan Thank you both for the encouragement!!

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

3 years

@leah_boustan @pnikolov @K_A_Eriksson Thanks! I did not know that part of the paper before

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

4 years

@NicholasRodelo Personal experience tells me they are not

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

3 years

@femonomics @pnikolov This is definitely going in the syllabus too! I assume the lack of labor market outcomes (hours worked, wage, etc) is due to the data availability?

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

3 years

@femonomics @pnikolov I will definitely mention the working paper too. Would be cool for undergrads to know how to write two papers around one idea (and possibly what an editor in econ journal does)

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

4 years

In March 2015, Yiran was rejected by all the PhD programs he applied for. In his own words: "it is easier to handle the sky falling down than (receiving these rejections)" At that time he was pursuing a master degree at U Chicago and on track for a research assistantship (1/6)

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

3 years

@t_cunningham99 @riacton @EDerenoncourt @AEAjournals This is already included! Thank you

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

4 years

Filled out a mentor-mentee survey to provide advice to first-year students. The question states what topics I would like to give advice on? I wrote "finding a balance between feeling completely useless but being ok with it"

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

3 years

R folks you save $200 but can you read this?! I don't think so (h/t @KhoaVuUmn )

Zach Ward

@EconZach

3 years

program define academia syntax, [1(integer 2) 2(integer 2)] g project_completeness=`1'/100 g month=`2' forvalues i=`1'/99{ display "This project will be done in 6 months" replace month=month+6 replace project=project+0.01 } end academia, 1(0) 2(1)

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

3 years

@pnikolov @jenniferdoleac I already have Doleac and Hansen (2020) Journal of Labor of Economics on the syllabus! This would still be a nice addition. Was hoping to see some job market papers that build on them

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

2 years

@MartinFiszbein It's not a break if you are still at the office Martin

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

3 years

@benconomics it could be vegan thus the answer is almond/coconut

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

4 years

School puppy day! PUPPY DAY!!!! or DOG DAY @bu_economics

Ray Fisman

@RFisman

4 years

We got a puppy. I am sure this is a metaphor for something in our lives, just not sure what... @KhoaVuUmn ?

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

4 years

The idea of college to you is ... interesting

F*ck It Won't Cut It

@fckitwontcutit

4 years

Staying on campus is up to all of us. COVID-19 already took away one semester. If you don’t want to lose another, retweet and use our hashtag everywhereee 😉 #fckitwontitcutit #covid #coronavirus #staysafe #socialdistancing #pandemic #backtoschool #bostonuniversity #college

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

3 years

@KhoaVuUmn what every trip to every city should be like

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

3 years

This is the most hilarious take on the Olympics... People say things like this don't even watch sports or respect athletes...

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

3 years

@jenniferdoleac @pnikolov @rsherrardecon Thank you! This is great

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

3 years

@hanna_schwank Maybe this is how the imperial system works...

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

4 years

When it takes forever to run any code with census data but then you find an error and it takes forever to run it again but then you find an error again and it takes forever...

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

4 years

Yes educated people disagree with each other a lot surprise surprise

Alec MacGillis

@AlecMacGillis

4 years

Brookline MA, the second-most educated town in the country, has decided to overrule the CDC and keep an outdoor mask mandate in place:

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

3 years

@maurer_se Ah this is it! Thanks!

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

4 years

Glad to not have her in econ seminars

Jawn Staley 🐴🤠🇺🇸🍑

@errinhaines

4 years

One thing about @Oprah as an interviewer: She doesn’t miss sh*t and will always circle back just when you think she’s moved on from that thing you didn’t really answer but absolutely will be asked about again. A clinic

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@JoshGoodman_BU Thank you Josh!

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@sophieli_econ

4 years

@KhoaVuUmn "me chasing DID literature"!!!

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

3 years

@AmandaGregg711 If you hate running you might enjoy weight lifting! Small, incremental, achievable progress for the win :)

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

4 years

@AllbriteAllday @historying Me too. Also surprised to find out Hodgson (2018) studying railroads and economic activities in the American West used this data:

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

4 years

Yiran was also once the director at windmill drama, a local drama group in Chicago featuring plays in Chinese. He directed the play No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre in 2015: (4/6)

芝加哥风车剧社2015年冬季大戏《禁闭》

地狱的密室中囚禁着三个罪恶的灵魂，一个男人和两个女人。活跃的思想，掩盖不住他们的冷酷和无情。一个是勾引表弟妻子的伊内丝，一个是自称“和平主义者”的二战逃兵及虐待狂加尔散，一个是以勾引男人取乐的杀婴犯艾丝黛尔——他们相互追逐又相互排斥，彼此折磨永无止境……陈静远饰加尔散田甜饰艾��黛尔朱博饰伊...

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

4 years

yeah like why don't universities just call it a personal attack system

J. Logan Smilges

@jlsmilges

4 years

This past semester was my first teaching as faculty and my first teaching in Texas. I was so excited. I entered break thinking I'd made a difference. But I just received my course evals, and they are cruel. Comments about my body, my makeup, my clothes. I'm heartbroken.

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@sophieli_econ

3 years

Me this morning

Zo!

@Zo3hree5ive

3 years

@Phil_Lewis_ "Conditions are fantastic right now!"

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@dix_rafael Thank you! Will look into them

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

3 years

@hanna_schwank I guess I will switch out your JMP for this one then 🤣 It is a better fit in the topic though

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@sophieli_econ

3 years

@Christine_Cai27 I totally see your point. I was just saying there's a reason Asian names are being misspelled more often.

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@sophieli_econ

3 years

@riacton @peternka omg thanks!

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

3 years

@jmb112485 Not really because you are the Vice President? 😂

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

4 years

... the positive effect for sons above the 95th 1860 wealth ventile (whose fathers lost the most wealth by 1870) Moreover, grandsons from slaveholding surname households are more likely to go to college, hold white-collar jobs, etc in 1940

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

3 years

@nomadj1s EconLit allows you to export these in text files and other citation formats!

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

4 years

@hanna_schwank I have a loop to overwrite files and sometimes the loop is executed before Stata finishing saving the previous file. The solution is to add "sleep 1000" at the end of every loop 🤣

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

3 years

@vivaduuu Thank you!

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

3 years

Useful comments in the thread! I honestly just go watch tv and come back 6 hours later 🥲

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

3 years

See the significance just disappears for third-year students gets me like 🥺🥺🥺

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@sophieli_econ

4 years

@hanna_schwank I am definitely learning 😆

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@sophieli_econ

3 years

@leverefamily @thomasfujiwara Undergrads are gonna love this paper. Thanks!

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

2 years

I, an international student, thought all my professors have very bad handwriting -

Dante Ramos

@danteramos

2 years

In my dotage, I somehow assumed that students who don’t learn cursive would still be able to read it. This, from Drew Gilpin Faust, is mind-blowing.

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

2 years

Tri is not on Twitter and like a real friend I will retweet this to embarrass him

Matthew E. Kahn

@mattkahn1966

2 years

I thank my @usc_econ student Tri Hoang for his good humor. When he recently visited @UChi_Economics , he took this selfie with the 1988 versions of me, Ed Glaeser, Alberto Bisin, Peter Ireland, Bernadette Minton, 1/2 of Erzo Luttmer and many other talented young scholars.

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@sophieli_econ

3 years

Every day I teach

Elisa Granato

@Prokaryota

3 years

Ah, yes. A productive day.

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3 years

@ferpayroc @masyhurh That's more stressful than uploading the video for only internet people to see honestly

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

1 year

@wagonweill This looks super interesting. Did every business need to submit a report?

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

3 years

@pnikolov This was written before 2017 🤯Will definitely add this into the course. Thank you so much for all the recommendations!

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

4 years

The path to a PhD is not straightforward for Yiran but resonates with many Chinese students: he wanted to be a doctor when he was a teenager, but later he went to business school thinking that he can earn a lot of money: "I don't know what I like, but everyone loves money" (5/6)

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

3 years

@Christine_Cai27 WHY (Insert Asian Screaming)

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

4 years

logging onto Twitter turns out to be a huge mistake

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

4 years

@matteoferroni93 and students be like: is this going to be on the test

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

4 years

great it only took me 28 hours to figure out ,r in xtreg means random effects instead of robust standard errors

Stata

@Stata

4 years

@OwenOzier Hi Owen, The state of Texas is in an unprecedented weather emergency at the current time. Energy is having to be conserved. The state government has mandated rolling energy blackouts, which limits our capacity to be fully functional. We appreciate your patience. ^EH

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@sophieli_econ

4 years

In rare occasions I miss NYC and this is one of them

Read Abolish Rent

@JoshuaPHilll

4 years

Beautiful rally about ending violence against Asians, and against white supremacy, in Washington square park right now

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

4 years

😎

Olivia Raisner

@OliviaRaisner

4 years

so this was absolutely insane

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

4 years

me googling: is jake tapper married

Jake Tapper

@jaketapper

4 years

Evening treats for the 🐕 🐩

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

3 years

#EconTwitter I saw a paper saying providing slides to students after class is better (as opposed to before) on here a while ago but could not find it. Could someone point me to the paper/thread?

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

3 years

Would be super helpful to hear from the authors about how to navigate the null effects when you have an important question & large project like this!

John B. Holbein

@JohnHolbein1

3 years

School closures during the 1918 flu pandemic didn't harm student educational outcomes.

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

4 years

Retweeting because I have been looking for it for months...

Jesse Bruhn

@jmb112485

4 years

Anyone have a good paper / reference to recommend for best practices on "event-study" type visualizations when the treatment is continuous and varies every period?

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

4 years

received an email saying that students at the department are organizing JMP idea presentations during the winter break; (1) great opportunities which won't exist if were in-person (Boston-winter-travel, NO) BUT (2) which part of the phrase "winter break" do people not understand

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

4 years

Should have picked up the signal when they made young Sheldon

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

2 years

The actual wait time is much much longer. For example, the website says the wait time for a student visa in Canada is 30 days, while in reality no embassy except the Vancouver one has any appointments and the earliest appointment in Vancouver is Aug 2023.

Marginal Revolution

@MargRev

2 years

The Insane Wait Times to Get an Appointment for a US Visitor Visa

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

4 years

Later the author visited Yiran in Chicago and stayed at his place. It was cold. Yiran went ahead to adjust the heating pipes and the pipes generated extremely loud noises. Yiran shrugged and responded: "there's nothing to do about it" (3/6)

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

4 years

This. Not being able to walk around and move my hands like a crazy person during presentation has been weird. Also not being able to read the room when I tell a joke.

Ben Grodeck🔸

@benleo_econ

4 years

I don't know about anyone else, but I really miss in person seminars and conferences. They were my favourite aspects of my PhD journey to date and would reinvigorate my own research. Despite other benefits, I have struggled to engage with the online format.

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Sophie Li

@sophieli_econ

4 years

and obviously need to tag @JoshuaSGoodman

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