Brennan McLachlan
@EconBrennan
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PhD student @mcgillu. Labour economics. Canadian, first gen, en/fr
Montréal
Joined March 2019
Halfway done my PhD and I feel stupider than ever.
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Im always shocked when my code takes forever to run but then I remember it’s written by someone who used to pour concrete for a living.
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When you coauthor with your entire phd cohort.
Both households and firms are more attentive to inflation when inflation is high, supporting central predictions of models in which attention is endogenous
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Is this because many of our theories and applications endure in both? Regardless of who takes the bread home, incentives and choices can still be analyzed in similar ways. Economics still exists under anarchy.
In the vast majority of US PhD programs in Economics, you go through the entire program without hearing the words "capitalism" or "socialism" once, and I think that's beautiful.
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If they put Saturday afternoons reading at the park listening to French musicians in the job description, this university could’ve gotten me for free
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Do I adjust my prior or go back and tell my parents to go to university?.
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Ive genuinely never enjoyed moving as much as carrying all of my furniture between apartments alone.
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This but for Hayek.
when an undergrad corners you at a department event to ask if you’ve heard of mark fisher or lacan
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How do university visits as a phd student work? Does one just cold email professors working in similar research areas? How similar should it be? #econtwitter.
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RT @fabalbav: Now add people going for +6 years on the phd, postdoc, and tenure track time. An additional year gets costly over time for wo….
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I always get excited about applied theory papers but then I read Acemoglu and get shy.
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RT @RomCampbell: Excited to share my JMP on how federal oversight affects policing and public safety. TL;DR: After the #DOJ investigated t….
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RT @RevEconStudies: ``A dynamic theory of bargaining via the strategic use of endogenous commitment ability. Limit unique equilibrium outco….
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RT @I4Replication: This is a wrap for the Montreal Replication Games! Thanks to all participants and especially the local organizer, Marie….
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