It was a delight to be involved in this year's Gender in the Global Economy Conference at @barnardcollege.bsky.social! Many thanks to our speakers, attendees, sponsors, and co-organizers who helped make this event such a success. Looking forward to next year's edition :)
📣📣📣 Menaka Hampole (@mhampole.bsky.social), Ashley Wong (@ashleyywong.bsky.social) and I are hiring a pre-doc at UMichigan starting Sept 2025 to work on a project on student debt, innovation, and entrepreneurship.
More details: bit.ly/3UfXp6y
Apply by August 8!
#econsky #econra #econ_ra
This is going to be a textbook study of why "cancelling diversity" will make everyone sicker. If you don't know how your drug works on lots of different types people, you're going to miss important stuff.
@bhashmazumder.bsky.social has profoundly changed our understanding of the empirics of intergenerational mobility. Delighted to post this conversation with him.
Looking forward to being a part of this awesome seminar series 😊
Hi #EconSky,
Not sure if the Starter Pack party's over, but I've made an Econ Starter Pack of Starter Packs! 😄
It's a work in progress, so I may have missed some. Let me know if there's anything to add—DMs are open!
Thanks for support @economista.bsky.social!
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They got slightly smaller without clustering but didn’t change the results substantively :)
A model of female labor supply illustrating how various forces discussed in the literature affect the gender earnings gap, from Claudia Olivetti, Jessica Pan, and Barbara Petrongolo https://www.nber.org/papers/w33153
Submit your papers for the spring 2025 NBER Gender in the Economy meeting!
The theme is "Women in the Digital World".
Submission Deadline: 12/9/24
Meeting: 2/28/25 in Cambridge
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NYU highlights "Stars in the Shadows" with Anna Airoldi and Halina Dang (my pre-doc and co-author applying for PhDs!)
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The James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) captured this striking image of Arp 142, a pair of interacting galaxies. Their close encounter has distorted their shapes and triggered a burst of star formation. A bridge of gas and dust stretches between the two galaxies, showcasing the violent and dynamic nature of galactic interactions.
Space penguin.
This is Arp 142, two interacting galaxies NGC 2936 and NGC 2937.
Processed by c.claude.
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I’ve made a Women in Econ starter pack (s/o @vinisingh.bsky.social for sparking the idea!). Share, follow, and comment below if you’d like to be added! go.bsky.app/LqBPkQZ
One annoying thing about historical research is looking up how long it took to get from A to B in the US by train in 1880 and then looking it up now and realizing it was faster in 1880.
1880 per-capita school expenditures, by state #SkyMaps
Can you add me too? thank you!
I started an economics of science and innovation starter pack, let me know who to add!
go.bsky.app/HETnNr5
I started a starter pack of economists working on gender. It's sparsely populated, so please point out people I've missed.
go.bsky.app/P6kvUEe
