Molly Schwarz JMP: "Who Becomes a School Leader? An Investigation of Teachers’ Careers and Value-Added" Website: sites.google.com/view/mollyschw…

The clearest sign that I’m reaching maximum working hours: trying to open my apartment front door with my office key

You are not your PhD.

We can all feel the hierarchical structure that permeates economics, yet it can be difficult to describe. This piece puts words and historical context to these structures and its fascinating

Been suddenly interested in playing Powerball, which the critics reviewing the Bildungsroman of my life would regard as a crude and lazy leitmotif for my simultaneously being on academic job market

I have long wondered about the economics of credit card rewards. Super exciting to see!!

TFW your committee members give you opposing pieces of advice — but then you go home, think about it, and realize it is actually the exact same advice

What we don't have a consensus on is what to do about men who are just misogynist jerks: who treat women like crap, who seem to revel in creepy little misogynist power plays that are often hard to adequately describe?

Qualifying exams should only be based on your two primary fields, not on micro/macro. Yes, there are aspects of both micro/macro that I use in my research, but not nearly as much as labor and econometrics, which ideally would have been my primary focus throughout. [3/3]

Conspicuously missing from The Cut etiquette guide — a verdict on the airplane seat recline controversy. Some things must be too hot to touch!

My first exam of the PhD, fall micro, I got like 30/100 and wondered if I had just made a huge life choice mistake. I failed the course but things really did eventually get better!

perfecting your TeX template instead of your research ideas be like

Recent short paper in the Journal of Public Economics : "Corporate Political Spending and State Tax Policy: Evidence from Citizens United" Vol 221 (May 2023) Caitlin Slattery (Cailin Slattery ), Alisa Tazhitdinova (UCSB Economics ), & Sarah Robinson (Sarah Robinson ) sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Altogether, economic needs, state politics, institutional rules, neighbor competition, and demographics explain less than 20% of variation in state tax policies, from Sarah Robinson and Alisa Tazhitdinova nber.org/papers/w31268

Examining C-section rates across US counties finds that outcomes are better in areas with higher C-section rates but that C-section decisions are less responsive to underlying risks for Black mothers, from Sarah Robinson, Heather Royer, and Silver nber.org/papers/w31871

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Simple presentation advice to JMCs: 1) Show the current slide # but hide the total # of slides 2) Gradually uncover parts of the slide but don't use semi-transparent text for what's about to be shown Audiences should focus on the current moment, rather than worrying what's next

Just published in Journal of Public Economics: "One Hundred Years of U.S. State Taxation" By Sarah Robinson & Alisa Tazhitdinova