Why don't we look much more actively to the East to learn?

🚨 Timely new work on how much tax revenue Biden's plan will raise from giants like Amazon, taking into account firms' behavioral responses - and by my good friend Jordan Richmond to boot. Worth a read! 📊

Flagging this job market paper for health & crime Twitter... cc: Monica Deza Catherine Maclean (@jcmecon.bsky.social) Jason Lindo Analisa Packham David Slusky

Attention #EconTwitter! We present 2020's PhD job market candidates: Louis Belisle, Marijn Bolhuis, Chris Dobronyi, Amina Enkhbold, Ian Herzog, Catherine Michaud Leclerc, Swapnika Rachapalli, David Walker-Jones, Jill Elaine Furzer. Find the details at uoft.me/phdjobmarket20…

A victory speech at the Chase Center is fine, but it's not as good as a victory speech at Chase Center Total Landscaping

Super interesting JMP by U of T candidate (and my good friend) Jill Furzer! If you've ever wondered just how costly and pervasive under diagnosing kids at-risk for mental illness can be (spoiler: it is costly and pervasive!), check out her work 🙌

Swapnika Rachapalli JMP: "Learning between Buyers and Sellers Along the Global Value Chain" Website: swapnikarachapalli.com

Originally posted at the end of 2016 but even truer now: Beholding a raging dumpster fire, the grad student bids a proper farewell to an utter travesty of a year.

The University of Chicago mourns the loss of Yiran Fan, a PhD student, who was shot and killed last night. news.uchicago.edu/story/uchicago…

getting an academic job 80 years apart

Econ friends, this one is for you (please stop me)

When I finished the first edition of my intro book and sent it for editing, I thought I was home free. Then the publisher returned the edited manuscript. The most memorable edit: every instance of “maximum likelihood estimator” had been changed to “most likely estimator.”

Most people commenting on this tweet talk about the board game. I think with monopoly @ArianaGrande means “when a specific person or enterprise is the only supplier of a particular commodity.”

Is it possible the purpose of life is being re-introduced to OLS over and over again?

types of Randall Munroe papers, an econ edition 📈

If you're interested in doing an RAship: here's a great opportunity learn more about the experience from seasoned RAs (and wonderful colleagues to boot). Apply by May 21! 👇

Still reflecting on yesterday's informative (& interactive!) session led by @KYCommishGlass @Byron_Darnall on the key labor market issues affecting the KY teaching profession today. Excited to see the proposed solutions in action 👩‍🏫📚 #KyEd

"We show that Black families who were enslaved until the Civil War continue to have considerably lower education, income, and wealth today than Black families who were free before the Civil War" such a cool paper. lukasalthoff.com/research

Thank you so much Ludger Woessmann and organizers for such an exciting conference, and for making such a welcoming and constructive environment!! A great conference to look out for going forward!

I am excited to be on the job market this year! Here is a quick thread on my JMP 👇 carolyntsao.com