Several years ago, we began an effort to tell more of UVA’s story with portraits of people who have shaped this place. Today, we had the chance to honor the legendary Professor of Economics Ken Elzinga, who has taught more than 50,000 UVA students (and counting)…

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#econtwitter I am thinking of organizing a session for SEA 2025. I have a work in progress on technology and norms. I am considering to collect papers around similar topics. If you have relevant papers, please DM me.

Tenured! Thank you to everyone who helped me along the way!

As I sent off my students for spring break, it is time for my overdue update. I am pleased to announce that I will join the Department of Economics within Charles College of Business at the University of West Georgia in the fall as a tenure-track assistant professor.

I will work with cool colleagues like Erdal Asker. I want to thank my advisors and colleagues Arya Gaduh, Dr. Gema Zamarro (she/her), Ilia Murtazashvili, Jen Brick Murtazashvili, and Allison Luedtke for their immense guidance, support, and patience throughout my search. Friends in Atlanta, see you soon!

Oh my god I thought this was a quippy joke. No. They literally parameterized the model with ε = -4 and φ = 0.25.

I did my first live interview today! I was on MPR’s “Minnesota Now” to talk about tariffs. My husband said “I could tell that several times you had to stop yourself from saying ‘stupid.’” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/eve…

If I have Malcolm Gladwell’s 10,000 hours in anything it’s probably yapping about decision making. College decisions. Grad school decisions. Job decisions. Where to park at work. Etc. So I made a blog about this! Come hang out! open.substack.com/pub/tenacitybl…

New Substack post in which I attempt to define economics (lmao) and explain how it relates to drinking beer open.substack.com/pub/tenacitybl…

New Post! Being sassy about the trade war with this audience is maybe not as spicy a take as it might be on some other apps. open.substack.com/pub/tenacitybl…

It went great!

This August, as we head back to school, my Substack is focusing on all things college. Choosing majors. Going to class. Etc. Would you or your students or colleagues or friends find this useful? Check out the college stuff I’ve written already! tenacityblog.substack.com/t/college

Pregnancy is already hard enough. Let’s not make it harder without a good reason. open.substack.com/pub/tenacitybl…