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Have you ever wondered whether higher education can be an important driver of growth in developing countries?
My job market paper tries to answer this question by looking at a national expansion of higher ed in Vietnam.
Over 100 new universities were opened during 2006-2013!
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PhD student: There's a word limit and I don't know how to cut this paper any shorte...
Senior coauthor:
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Economists writing papers on topics that other social sciences have written about be like.
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Real footage of a grad student trying connect her research to the existing literature.
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PhD student: Can you take a look at my first draft and let me know if I should cut down anythi...
Adviser:
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Academics as Encanto characters:
Newly hired Assistant Professor, always excited, curious, but always nervous with lots of self-doubt. Protective of grad students and always try to be helpful (but not sure how).
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First year PhD student presenting the first time at a conference be like
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Tell me you have never met a daycare teacher without telling me you have never met a daycare teacher.
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A movie about social scientists seeing economists writing papers on their field for the first time.
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Coauthor in Europe: I'm giving birth in a month, so I won't be able to work on this for the next 4 months.
Coauthor in the US: I'm giving birth tomorrow but let me know if you need me to join the meeting via Zoom.
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Real footage of an MDPI editor accepting papers for their new special issue.
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Whenever I feel like life is too good and happy, I'd go on Twitter.
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Teaching macro this year. Can't wait to put all these memes in my slide.
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Excited to welcome a new RA in the Vu Lab. A bit inexperienced but hoping to contribute more in near future.
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I'm so happy that my job market search is over! I'll join Charles River Associates, the Competition practice in Chicago, as a Senior Associate!
It's a bit sad to leave academia, but I'm very excited for this new chapter of my career! If you are in Chicago, would love to connect!
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When you wrote "Data is available upon request" in your paper and they emailed to request it.
A Nigerian official fake fainted after he was grilled about missing funds.
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Normal economist: I spent 10 years on this paper so it can be published in a top 5 journal.
Acemoglu:
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This sums up every debate between economists and medical researchers.
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Applied microeconomist accidentally attending a macro seminar be like
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Planning to spend only half an hour making graph in ggplot be like
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Real footage of an economist seeing a sociology paper on his topic.
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"We are the first study to collect retrospective self-reported data on accidental deaths."
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Being an econ grad student is 45% people telling you to use Stata, 45% people telling you to use R, and 10/1/2001 people telling you to use Excel.
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Acemoglu already has 379 citations in the first 3 days of 2023. That's definitely more citations than I will get for the whole 2023.
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It is nice to see so many economists got rejected at the top PhD programs like MIT, Harvard, Stanford, Yale, and still got in really good programs like Yale, Stanford, Harvard and MIT.
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Can't believe Elon Musk spent $44 billion to pay for a social media platform, when he could have spent the same amount on sponsoring Stata licenses for 100 econ students.
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Congratulations, you invented the first order condition of a utility maximization problem.
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These journalists are seriously going to argue that someone like George Borjas, a Harvard Economist and leading researcher on the economics of immigration is WRONG because they hold a sacred ideology that "no human is illegal".
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Unpopular opinion: I think the trend towards predoc before graduate school is really good. It opens up a lot of doors to prestigious PhD programs like MIT, Harvard, and Yale, for students from lesser-known schools like Yale, MIT, and Harvard.
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If you value your spouse, why call them by cheap names like honey and sugar? Call them by expensive names, like Stata license, PhD applications, GRE fees, or 2 years of postdoc.
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Public health experts' communication about the vaccine booster be like
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"I don't know why people use LaTex when Word has everything you need."
Word's bulleted list:
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Academia is a complex system that cannot be summarized by one wor...
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Real footage of a group of economists waiting for a natural experiments to write papers
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🚨New paper highlighting differences between the difference-in-differences estimators that have been recently developed🚨
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Sociologists:
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The world: 🔥🔥🔥
Academia: Thrilled to accept this new AP position 🤩🤩🤩
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"We show that our results are robust across different RAs who did the analysis."
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Walking into a seminar presentation when your p value < 0.05 be like
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Are you overwhelmed with the recent reviews on the new difference-in-differences methods? In this paper, I discuss a new method to synthesize this growing literature.
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R user: It's actually really easy once you are used to it.
A square wheel can roll smoothly only if the ground consists of evenly shaped inverted catenaries of the right size and curvature [The square-wheeled tricycle at the National Museum of Mathematics in New York City. Full video: ]
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