🎉My student Miranda Lambert wins best student poster at the Texas Development Conference #TXDV2024🎉 …for her ongoing work on the impact of childhood abductions on bilateral intimate partner violence in Northern Uganda Texas A&M Department of Economics

There’s an eclipse today. Beware of any unusual plants…

Happy Friday Published Paper Alert! "Improving introductory economics course content and delivery improves outcomes for women" with Jane Caldwell, Christian Schunn, and Katherine Wolfe has just been published open access in the Journal of Economic Education! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

I had to clarify to one of my students today that I’m not just their professor’s assistant, despite what my job title may imply. Still don’t know where they thought their “real professor” was all semester.

In the spirit of the olden days of #EconTwitter, I thought I’d write down some notes on finishing up my first year on the tenure track (in a liberal arts setting) in economics. These will be in no particular order and kind of stream of conscious. Let’s have a convo about it! 1/N

We are very excited to kick-off the BEDI Conference 2024! May 31- Jun 2 We have an amazing set of speakers lined up. Check out the conference program below. bediconference.org

Really looking forward to being a part of this :)

Just published in Journal of Public Economics: "The long-run implications of slum clearance: A neighborhood analysis" by Jessica LaVoice Bowdoin College sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

This fantastic group of "students" made it through the week-long textbook gauntlet of the inaugural Chicago School of Experimental Economics. Yes, the entire book, described here: ideas.repec.org/p/feb/natura/0… Congrats to our participants: ZAFER AKIN Billur Aksoy @BabinJobu47446

Thanks to PJ Healy for a magnificent Economic Science Association meeting this weekend. Pittsburgh was well represented. So very grateful for our community BEDI Pitt Economics Center for Behavioral and Decision Research at CMU

Job market candidates: a quick thread on how the econ market works, incl. at business schools. 1) It is not unusual to get many 100s of applications. Nobody reads them all first-pass. Most places take a quick glance at letter/cv/intro, and keep the top x%.

What about the economy under Trump? I don’t expect great news for workers, and I see big risks from Trump’s overall agenda, both because of his approach to AI and Silicon Valley, and because of his (likely) impact on US institutions.

In all of the debates on inflation, I’ve noticed that commentators have overlooked this fantastic 2001 AER paper on preferences over inflation and unemployment. “the well-being cost of a 1-percentage-point increase in the unemployment rate equals the loss brought about by an

You can catch Daniel next week in DC at #2024APPAM & #SEA2024, where he will present 3 papers: - His JMP - Another solo-authored paper (in progress) on diversity hiring policies - A joint field experiment on strategies to support URM college students #econtwitter American Society of Hispanic Economists

Pooling information can be difficult, but that doesn’t need to be the case here: I can tell you with certainty that priyoma is an incredible researcher and colleague! If you don’t trust my expertise, see for yourself and check out her JMPs/other work sites.google.com/view/priyomamu…

Howdy, gig'em, etc. from Texas A&M Department of Economics at #SEA2024

Lina Lozano studies labor market disparities using lab and online experiments. Lina's JMP shows how gender differences in workers' attribution of credit for their team's success/failure contribute to hiring disparities, particularly when gender is unknown. sites.google.com/view/linamaria…

Econ job market tips (1 of 5, stay tuned for next 5 days): 1️⃣ Refine your pitch! Use ChatGPT to summarize your JMP intro into 5-7 sentences. Repeat 20-30 times, compare, and extract the best elements to craft your perfect pitch. @EconJobMarket Econ Job News #econtwitter

The Economics Department at the University of Pittsburgh is hiring! We have an Open Rank position. You can find details and application instructions here: aeaweb.org/joe/listing.ph…

How do we uncover what politicians focus on in their campaigns? 🤔 For my job market paper, I addressed this by analyzing 13K+ 🇧🇷 mayoral manifestos. Using ML models (NB, SVC, RF, LSTM) and GPT-4, I classified topics such as health and education. Github: github.com/guillelezama/m…