Stephanie Sezen
@stelifanie
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current @bse_barcelona , former @AtlantaFed | your favorite Brazilian Turkish delight, econometrics’ trash talker
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3 economists walk into a bar. I walk out.
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I really believe Brazilians are the cleanest people in the world
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One time I was on a conference call with Jerome Powell and no one was answering him when he asked how everyone was doing, so I unmuted myself and told him “I’m good. I just finished eating a sandwich.” I hope he never forgets me.
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When you choose an academically challenging profession and you get academically challenged
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Hot take: We need to find a better way to increase diversity in the profession without rewarding students for dumping their trauma on applications.
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I stopped tweeting on this account cause a bunch of economists started following me and I didn’t really have anything profound to say. But now I realize that I have a lot of garbage to say and these economists followed me precisely for that content. I must deliver.
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Yea economists are flawed but I think 5+ years of an Econ PhD will get you farther in understanding the economy then a couple of YouTubers trying to convince you to buy crypto and that stimulus checks cause inflation.
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Macro papers be like: “simply put, it’s very clear and any dumb person would understand that the following straight forward equation holds”
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Breaking: PhD economist who has spent more than 10 years mastering statistics and theory spends 5 hours trying to fit regression table on one page in Latex.
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Job interviewer: “Are you well versed in R?”
Me, who has used R once: “Me? I’m very well-versed in R. I’m so well-versed it’s crazy.”
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I talk to my parents about the economy the same way I talk to my colleagues about the economy. I don’t use jargon n explain anything they don’t understand in an accessible way (and I always ask 4 their opinion). Stop talkng abt economics like u belong in an elite secret society.
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My research ideas that I’ve never told anyone keep getting stolen by people I’ve never met before
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Would you love your child even if they want to be an economist?
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1st year PhD student after their first semester: “It was tough, but at least I’m doing what I love.”
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I just ran a regression I love research
I don’t know how to merge these two datasets I hate research
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The problem with some of these Masters' degrees in Economics is that they are so insanely theoretical that a lot of students end up getting stuck in the little details and never end up running a regression.
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I got into economics after my Brazilian mom and Turkish dad spent my entire life complaining about their god-forsaken economies. Now my dads asking me for investment advice and yelling at me for not knowing why Germany’s interest rates are negative.
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Me smiling at the Professor during the lecture because I have no idea what they’re talking about but still wanting to give them moral support
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Me trying to participate in a coauthor meeting as an RA
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Economists advising others on whether they should get a PhD:
“You must be very passionate in economics, you have to cry tears of joy every time you run a regression, econometrics must haunt your dreams, everytime you blink you must see the image of a supply and demand curve”
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“Hey babe?”
“Yea, babe?”
“Would you still love me even if I was a PhD student?”
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Today my friend talked about how after she gave her boyfriend crystals good things started to happen to him. I told her that “correlation doesn’t mean causation.” There was a long pause and then she told me to never say that to her again 💀
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Hi! I’ve just received a full-time offer as a research assistant at the Federal Reserve of Atlanta!! IM CRYING!!! I DID IT 😭😭😭 ❤️
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Hey sorry, I’m not interested. I only date broke PhD students.
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“Yea, my RA ran these regressions. I think she would be able to answer that question better than me. What do you think?”
The RA:
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My hot take is that people work in finance to make money and there’s nothing wrong with that. The fact that I prefer academia doesn’t make me better than someone who takes a job at an investment bank. People are allowed to choose what they want to do with their lives.
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I’m sure a lot of people are intimidated by how competitive this profession is becoming and that a pre-doc is no longer sufficient to enter a top PhD program. But there’s a solution. A pre-pre doc that gives underprivileged students access to competitive predoc opportunities.
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Academics watching their non-academic friends get paid more and have a better work-life balance
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How do economists constantly deal with criticism and not cry?
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Now that I’m almost done with my first semester, I can confidentially say that doing a Masters degree in economics in a European institution (
@bse_barcelona
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Can I do my PhD in a European country just for the adventure yes or no?
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Personally, I think universities shouldn’t consider the GRE in admission decisions because I just don’t want to take it.
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I only applied to California schools for PhD programs because I knew it was going to be a tough couple of years and the least I could do was provide myself with the reprieve of having consistent good hair days or else I don’t think I could have made it. This is not satire.
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It’s official official! I did what my gut told me to do and this fall, I’ll be attending the Barcelona School of Economics to pursue my Masters in Specialized Economics. I’m looking forward to nerding out again. PhD 2025?
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*He* is a macroeconomist, while *she* is a microeconomist. This summer, Hallmark presents, “Search and Match”
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To think that I’m 21 years old—first to go to college in my family and I’m going to work at a FEDERAL RESERVE BANK! Did not realize it would feel this good to get a job.
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I tattooed this on my body because I thought it looked pretty and now people keep pointing at my tattoo and laughing. What does it mean???!?? Have I made a mistake??
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I just want stable internet connection, a vegetable garden, and a lifetime of books and maybe MAYBE a robust understanding of instrumental variables
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One time I was at a bbq and a guy came up to me and asked me “how it felt to work for the largest mafia organization in the world” and I replied (with a kebab in my hand) “idk man I just run the regressions”
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Baby, I’m sorry. I have to go. They need me. I have some regressions to run.
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Is it mandatory to become a cross country runner if you pursue academia?
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My villain origin story began when I asked an economics professor what I thought was a simple question and he responded with “it depends” and proceeded talking about my question for another hour
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This is how economists look like when they give interviews on TV
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“Hey you work at the Fed—how do we stop inflation?”
Me, a first-year research analyst:
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Me highlighting all my errors in Stata/R and copy pasting them into Google
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In this paper, we use an instrument to address endogeneity concerns. Inshallah my instrument is valid.
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Do I want to get a PhD because I love economics or do I want to get a PhD because Dr. Sezen sounds hot? Can it be both?
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You don’t want to get a PhD in Econ because you would feel guilty for going into finance. You want a PhD because you’re a NERD.
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“Yea people always ask me for investment advice because I study economics. It’s all math to be honest. But I’m actually into like wage inequality like I want to improve my country’s economy and I see myself working as an academic. Idk I guess it’s kind of boring. What do you do?”
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Having no hobbies outside of economics means you will either get a Nobel prize one day or will be very mentally ill or both
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Economic research division: “We carefully hired a cohort of RAs that we knew had potential for a phd in economics. You are all an important asset to our research team.”
The RAs:
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Nick Cox preparing to send his 8373638293th “You don't give us a data example to make clear what is going on. Please do read and act on FAQ Advice
#12
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A couple of years ago, a mentor of mine was generous enough to fund my Stata license for 2 years, while I was an undergrad in college during the pandemic. This person’s generosity allowed me to complete my capstone more easily and helped me train for my current role at the Fed.
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Being an RA sometimes is so hard because economists don’t just give you the menial work they don’t want to do, they give you the work that’s really difficult and that they don’t even know how to do 😭
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Every time I read papers by senior economists, I make sure to glance at the appendix because I know that with every appendix comes hours of work exerted by super stressed out RAs
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Thinking about the reason I got into economics makes me quite emotional actually. I was an ill-informed 17 year old girl applying to university and I wanted to be rich.
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Because I’m Brazilian, I drink coffee in the morning. Because I’m also Turkish, I drink black tea in the afternoon. Because I’m American, I drink both every day and consume an inappropriate amount of caffeine.
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My mom’s justification on why my name should be on every published/working paper that I assisted. She has a fair point
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I’m just gonna just say it—Beamer is just a whopping waste of time and Microsoft PowerPoint is easier and prettier to use.
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Interviewer: “How often do you use R?”
“Yea I would say I use R regularly, but I probably use E’s or I’s more”
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I learned MATLAB today. I know how to stop inflation now.
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There was a time where I was eating papaya in Brazil and now I am in Barcelona failing econometrics
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Girl maths is now a prerequisite for a PhD in economics at a top 10
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Stanford’s Econ PhD application will NOT be considering the GRE and that’s kind of a big deal
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Visual representation of me trying to understand code I inherited from another economist
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Would you rather have professor parents or have your job market paper quote tweeted by Acemoglu saying “best thing I’ve read in years”
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Every time this person looks at my LinkedIn, I get a notification and so I look at his profile and when he sees that I looked at his profile he looks at mine and now I’m committed to doing this for the rest of my life until I die. I do not know this person.
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I just spent the last two days trying to understand what instrument variables actually are and frankly? I’m disgusted
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Today I found out that economists often make mistakes when writing code. That’s good to know because I might be an economist
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Once this paper gets published my name will be a common household name
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Hello! I'll be graduating with my Master's degree at the Barcelona School of Economics by the end of July 2024 and I'm looking for research job/graduate program opportunities within macroeconomics/finance. If you're aware of any organization hiring anywhere please let me know :)
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Me in front of my computer realizing that I’ve been spending hours running regressions on the wrong sample
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Why would you want to spend your 20s doing a PhD?
PhD students:
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Do I hate economics now or do I hate doing really difficult problem sets that make me feel dumb hmmmmmmmmm
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American/European breakfast is no match to the magnificence and excellence of a Turkish breakfast
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