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Christopher A. Neilson

@ChrisANeilson

2 years

Turns out I'm now a Professor of Economics and Global Affairs at @Yale !! And an "Assistant" no longer🔥 👴

Yale Economic Growth Center

@YaleEGC

2 years

Welcome, Christopher A. Neilson @ChrisANeilson to @YaleEconomics @JacksonYale & EGC as Professor of Economics & Global Affairs! Explore his research on education & #HumanCapital : And his work with @ConsiliumBots :

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Christopher A. Neilson

@ChrisANeilson

4 years

How it started (19 years ago): How it's going(🎂):

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Christopher A. Neilson

@ChrisANeilson

3 years

Hey PhD admissions committee members - not so random story tonight: NFL recruiters thought Tom Brady had "bad stats" -he barely got drafted (~200 players drafted before him) Moral of the story: Maybe take a chance and admit an "imperfect" applicant this year 🤷🏼‍♂️

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Christopher A. Neilson

@ChrisANeilson

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Likely unpopular opinion on #EconTwitter : Econ PhD programs should require one semester covering the history of economic thought. Some space to exclusively cover ideas💡 Maybe review every Nobel prize? Maybe half a semester with easy readings like "The Worldly Philosophers"?

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Christopher A. Neilson

@ChrisANeilson

3 years

En #EconTwitter hay muchos consejos de como lograr entrar y sobrevivir un postgrado en EEUU. Sin embargo nadie te dice como se llaman los cortes de carne 🥩 en EEUU - y para algunos - un asado con los compañeros es fundamental para sobrevivir el primer año lejos de casa. ⬇️✅

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Christopher A. Neilson

@ChrisANeilson

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Emails with good news from a journal are rare in academia. Mark your calendar :) - The July 2024 Issue of the @JPolEcon will have a paper showing that improving access to college is not just about making college affordable. Its also about how you design the market and…

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Christopher A. Neilson

@ChrisANeilson

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First paper I ever read and it blew my mind as an undergrad in Chile. Simple model of behavior and empirical strategy to then produce relevant policy insight : hooked day one and I am sure 1000s in econ today share a similar experience. Research can be powerful like that.

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

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In one example David Card – awarded the 2021 prize in economic sciences – and Alan Krueger (now deceased) used a natural experiment to investigate how increased minimum wages affect employment. #NobelPrize

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Christopher A. Neilson

@ChrisANeilson

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Random stuff happens when you can leave your house. Met John Nash briefly at my first faculty reception at @PrincetonEcon Introduced myself to John as his "newest colleague" as we were in line for food - and then proceeded to ask if I could take a selfie (playing it cool😅)

Christopher A. Neilson

@ChrisANeilson

3 years

@ben_golub @asv141 John Nash was John Nash!

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Christopher A. Neilson

@ChrisANeilson

3 years

Submitting to Econometrica like 😱

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Christopher A. Neilson

@ChrisANeilson

3 years

I present to you, "Dog with tenure"

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Christopher A. Neilson

@ChrisANeilson

5 years

Sometimes you just need a friend to tell you this. That is why I have @SethDZimmerman

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Christopher A. Neilson

@ChrisANeilson

4 years

Now that a lot of top universities will have most, if not all classes developed and prepared for online distribution, what is stopping them from giving access to students from developing countries as MIT and a few others have done with a subset of classes already?

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Christopher A. Neilson

@ChrisANeilson

3 years

Big thank you to whoever sent this shirt (and no note) for my recent 👍 tenure vote

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Christopher A. Neilson

@ChrisANeilson

3 years

Happy for the Nobel winners and excited for Labor and Applied Metrics getting the Nobel - but can't help but have Alan Krueger on my mind this morning.

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Christopher A. Neilson

@ChrisANeilson

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They rounded up a bunch of high human capital people, sent them off to (maybe) nonrandom remote locations but in *random proportions* - then come back ~65 years later to find higher education, higher wages and more economic development 🔥 Don’t see papers like this everyday

Pierre-Louis Vézina

@pl_vezina

3 years

Enemies of the people were the educated elite, targeted by the Soviet authorities for they posed a threat to the propaganda-dependent regime. Along with millions of other non-political criminals, they were sent to forced labor camps scattered across the Soviet Union, the Gulag.

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Christopher A. Neilson

@ChrisANeilson

5 years

Today was a good day in academia for me. @Claudiallende gave her mock job talk at @PrincetonEcon and it was a great feeling to see my first real PhD student turned coauthor and now job candidate doing her thing💪🏼. It was exciting to see years of hard work come together finally!

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Christopher A. Neilson

@ChrisANeilson

2 years

Someone is sending emails pretending to be a more douschebaggy version of myself.

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Christopher A. Neilson

@ChrisANeilson

3 years

Thrilled to see this collaborative project finally in the QJE! We present causal evidence in four countries that important human capital investment decisions (college/major) can be influenced by one of the most relevant members of a young person’s social network: older siblings

QJE

@QJEHarvard

3 years

Recently accepted by #QJE : “O Brother, Where Start Thou? Sibling Spillovers on College and Major Choice in Four Countries,” by @adamaltmejd , @andres_bafer , Drlje, @JoshuaSGoodman , Hurwitz, @Dejan_KovacHR , @camulhern , @ChrisANeilson , and @jonisaacsmith :

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Christopher A. Neilson

@ChrisANeilson

2 years

One thing I like about doing academic talks at European universities is that I always get comments I never heard before from seminars in the US. Its like drawing from a different distribution. The second thing are the amazing dinners and long conversations about economics 😍

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Christopher A. Neilson

@ChrisANeilson

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To #RespectTheSubmission I open one of these bad boys each time I submit to a top 5 for the first time (and I think there is a chance). Bought 10 for tenure track and didn't hit the goal of opening them all but catching up now that I'm not teaching!

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Christopher A. Neilson

@ChrisANeilson

3 years

Economists : selection bias is a bitch Also Economist : sees interesting correlations that confirm priors - proceeds to criticize the profession, journal editors, Cambridge, and give advice where to do a PhD based on said correlations (Yale deserve praise just the same 😉)

Robert Dur

@DurRobert

3 years

The Ph.D. Origins of Economics Faculty: by @ToddRJones and Arielle Sloan Least diverse: Harvard and MIT, where 60% of faculty holds a PhD from Harvard or MIT More diverse: Yale and Chicago, where more than a third comes from programs outside of the top

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Christopher A. Neilson

@ChrisANeilson

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Feels good to get the R&R, but you need to celebrate submissions more IMO. When you finish a paper and feel proud when you submit it - that is the biggest milestone worth celebrating. The rest is external - up to others opinions, luck, and who knows when it will be in print.

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Christopher A. Neilson

@ChrisANeilson

4 years

Just checked @PrincetonEcon JM placements. I could tell it was a very talented group but this placement is really unheard of. Congrats to all! MIT Stanford GSB🥳 Harvard Chicago Booth UCL Brown UCSD UCSD UCSD Georgetown Bonn IMF Fed Board consultingx4

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Christopher A. Neilson

@ChrisANeilson

2 years

Ten years since we started working on a paper and tonight we finally submitted !🔥🔥 Feeling pretty epic with @seba_gallegos 🙌🏼🪦

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Christopher A. Neilson

@ChrisANeilson

3 years

Made pisco sour (chilean style) over Zoom for the @PrincetonEcon IR Section (Labor) holiday party. Newbies are gonna be wrecked tonight! 😂

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Christopher A. Neilson

@ChrisANeilson

4 years

Recent PhDs are hardened veterans after the "job market" but some things still scare them.

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Christopher A. Neilson

@ChrisANeilson

6 years

Econ grad student in search of something exciting to work on? Read @Susan_Athey on ML+Econ. Best part for the young and ambitious is at the end: lays out a bunch of topics to work on going forward. Really exciting time to be an economist, so no excuses 🔥.

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Christopher A. Neilson

@ChrisANeilson

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Looking to hire a weirdly specific background: Economist/engineer/predoc: 1) grew up in Sweden (or Scandinavia) 2) speaks fluent Spanish (bonus if Chilean) 3) interested in tech/econ/education/policy Anyone with that narrow description? DM

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Christopher A. Neilson

@ChrisANeilson

5 years

I have some art in my office made specially for days like today, when you get a tough rejection. It reminds me that like salmon trying to get upstream to spawn, the odds were always abysmal to begin with, and like them, you have to “just keep swimming”

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Christopher A. Neilson

@ChrisANeilson

4 years

Tenure track can be pretty stressful at times. I don't have a lot of deep #EconTwitter advice to give but I do know puppies can help. Proof: Does this look like a stressed assistant professor?

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Christopher A. Neilson

@ChrisANeilson

2 years

Is it weird if you print and frame a tweet? Maybe hang it up in the office? Asking for a friend.

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Christopher A. Neilson

@ChrisANeilson

2 years

This weekend I wrapped up reviews and decisions on three papers - all three got easy R&Rs on my part. This is pretty unusual 😂 Maybe causal, maybe random, but this is where I was reading.

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Christopher A. Neilson

@ChrisANeilson

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Aaaaaand its live at @QJEHarvard ! Not something that happens everyday so we splurged on the open license to download for free 🌟 @SethDZimmerman @adamkapor Felipe Arteaga

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Christopher A. Neilson

@ChrisANeilson

3 years

Development means lots of things to different people. One of them is getting your people vaccinated quickly Chile 🇨🇱 was able to get vaccines only recently - but is quickly making ground on richer European nations 👏💉💪🏼

Rodrigo Cárdenas

@rmcardenas

3 years

Actualización de este mañana. Porcentaje de la población vacunada. IMPACTANTE 😍😍😍 Alcanzamos a Francia en 3 días. #YoMeVacuno

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Christopher A. Neilson

@ChrisANeilson

4 years

OMG peak Gita fanboy now

The Daily Show

@TheDailyShow

4 years

TONIGHT: Trevor speaks with @IMFNews Chief Economist @GitaGopinath about the economic effects of coronavirus.

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Christopher A. Neilson

@ChrisANeilson

3 years

chileans are more worried about the rising price of avocado than a 7.1 earthquake

Boris van der Spek

@BorisvanderSpek

3 years

Dear Chile, M7.1 is an earthquake. Regards, The rest of the world

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@ChrisANeilson

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Its like we're not even trying to be a democracy.

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Christopher A. Neilson

@ChrisANeilson

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This paper started in 2011. Tomorrow we present it at NBER Education in Cambridge for the first time. 8 years later and its still not done 😂 @FrancoCalle @seba_gallegos

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@ChrisANeilson

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My first international conference as a grad student back in 2013. Turned out way cooler than I could have ever imagined. I went to Santander, Spain and had the best time after meeting a random guy at a bus stop.

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Christopher A. Neilson

@ChrisANeilson

3 years

On finishing projects. Don't forget sunk cost are sunk. Just because you have a project does not mean you can't drop it or put it on hold if something really good comes up. Also, finish projects.

Douglas Hannah

@dphannah

3 years

Congratulations to all the new profs and students starting positions this summer. Here's what I wish I had known when I started.

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Christopher A. Neilson

@ChrisANeilson

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🚨new on smart matching platforms: Teachers applying to jobs in rural ecuador were provided information on their chances of getting the jobs they applied for (given algorithm/ applications) + suggested other jobs. Result 1: shifted entire distribution of teacher competency

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Christopher A. Neilson

@ChrisANeilson

5 years

April 15th, deadline for #EconPhD decisions is tomorrow. All I can say is stay strong all you waitlisted PhD applicants💪🏻 Also, if you know what you are choosing, just make it official, and help this move along. Some people are losing their sh*t waiting to hear. I feel them!

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@ChrisANeilson

2 years

This guy is my dog and he is the best

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@ChrisANeilson

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OECD analysis shows Chile has the highest social mobility (relative) among member countries - right around the same level as Denmark. Makes sense given progress in education + this measure uses top and bottom 25%. I bet top and bottom 5% might look a lot different.

Raphael Bergoeing

@RBergoeingV

3 years

Ok, no hablemos de la caída en pobreza desde 68% (1990) a 8,6% (2017). Pero hablemos de movilidad: 23% de nacidos en familia de bajos ingresos (1er cuartil) están ahora en el 25% superior. Es el mayor porcentaje entre los 16 países OCDE reportados en 2018 (ver círculos verdes).

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Christopher A. Neilson

@ChrisANeilson

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Me as an AP trying to write my research statement

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Christopher A. Neilson

@ChrisANeilson

5 years

Recently there has been some interesting discussion on how NBER can be more inclusive on #econtwitter . To add one perspective on why this is important in general, I wanted to highlight some NBER efforts to be inclusive that have affected my career directly. \begin{🧵}

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Christopher A. Neilson

@ChrisANeilson

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Bunch of predoc econ jobs to apply for at Princeton. You can take a classes, learn stuff and beef up that CV before applying to a PhD (or learn you want something different) We do visa paper work too so open to all applicants.‼️ @econ_ra ‼️

Princeton Economics

@PrincetonEcon

5 years

Or you could work with the world-renowned Industrial Relations Section, including Alexandre Mas, Orley Ashenfelter, @leah_boustan , @ChrisANeilson , Cecilia Elena Rouse, Henry Farber, and David Lee on research in labor econ, immigration, education, and more:

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Christopher A. Neilson

@ChrisANeilson

4 years

#Econtwitter PSA - This holiday season, when striking up a conversation with the assistant professor in your family (and you know there likely is) :

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Christopher A. Neilson

@ChrisANeilson

7 months

Very pumped about joining the new Center for Algorithms, Data and Market Design at Yale (CADMY) "Hub for faculty and students working at the intersection of economics, computer science, and data science." Check it out here - its just getting started

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Christopher A. Neilson

@ChrisANeilson

3 years

Best explanation for the success I've heard so far Planning : early on gov contracted w portfolio of potential vaccine providers 💉(supply of vaccines) State Capacity: decades investing in a dense network of public neighborhood medical centers🏥 (robust distribution channel)

Max Roser

@MaxCRoser

3 years

Amazing to see Chile’s vaccination campaign. 6 weeks ago Chile had done fewer vaccinations – relative to the size of the population – than the EU countries, the US, and the UK. First they overtook all EU countries. Then they overtook the US. And now Chile overtook the UK.

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@ChrisANeilson

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Not COVID or quarantine related but good news for a change on #Econtwitter . Everyone I was supporting for grad school now has a spot 🎉🥳! @lavaredmonds @FrancoCalle @eduardovars Astrid, Ale I hope everyone out there who applied finds a grad school home🙏

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Christopher A. Neilson

@ChrisANeilson

5 years

So @Claudiallende was my first "real" PhD student and is on the JM this year. Uploaded my JM LOR today (which felt weird) and after looking over the JMP one last time, I sent her this gif.

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Christopher A. Neilson

@ChrisANeilson

4 years

Non predoc grad school question for #econtwitter : What PhD programs outside the most elite top 10-20 are still providing tuition and stipend for international applicants this coming year? Recently heard @EmoryEconomics was fully funding, anyone else?

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Christopher A. Neilson

@ChrisANeilson

4 years

Its official! The stars have aligned and the tenure clock has finally been extended @PrincetonEcon . 250+ universities did this weeks ago and APs at Princeton sweat it....but as they say, better late than never! (or like my mom says: a caballo regalado no se le mira los dientes!)

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@ChrisANeilson

2 years

Sunset was nuts today #inspiring #NewHaven

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@ChrisANeilson

4 years

If your day is going badly, here is a video of my puppy trying to catch snowfakes. Worked for me!

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@ChrisANeilson

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IMO it was a no brainer to drop the name and I look forward to updating my CV. Its also an invitation to work harder to promoting inclusive change within the school, as well as use it as a launching pad for promoting more inclusive policy outside the school.

Princeton University

@Princeton

4 years

The #PrincetonU Board of Trustees has voted to remove Woodrow Wilson’s name from the School of Public Policy and International Affairs and residential college.

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@ChrisANeilson

3 years

Side note : The amount of Orley Ashenfelter mentees/students who have Nobels should provide some kind of prize on its own 😂

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@ChrisANeilson

3 years

This video summary of our paper on sibling spillovers is really cool. Check it out but also the paper published in the QJE 2021 (open access!)

econimate

@econimate

3 years

Do older siblings influence their younger siblings' college decisions? @adamaltmejd , @andres_bafer , Marin Drlje, @JoshuaSGoodman , Michael Hurwitz, @Dejan_KovacHR , @camulhern , @ChrisANeilson & @jonisaacsmith on sibling spillovers in 4 countries:

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Christopher A. Neilson

@ChrisANeilson

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Haha this is me asking my advisors for help on how to respond to tough referees 6 years after graduating 😂 @steventberry

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Christopher A. Neilson

@ChrisANeilson

2 years

Protip: easily distracted by twitter when you need to read? Found out if you take a row boat out into a fjord 🇳🇴 then you lose signal and you can read and think and have zero distractions. Your welcome💁🏼‍♂️

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@ChrisANeilson

4 years

Achievement unlocked : research with @john_eric and @GUlyssea cited in The Economist this week 🥳 Downside is its on a really depressing topic. We hope to shed light on the need for more gov support for very small firms. So far, too little, too late.

The Economist

@TheEconomist

4 years

One study finds that 60% of employees working in a small business in America at the start of the year have since been fired

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@ChrisANeilson

3 years

Too real 😂❤️‍🩹

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@ChrisANeilson

3 years

Five years ago in DR the @JPAL research team celebrated at the presidential palace with the VIP visit of the big boss Esther Duflo 🔥

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@ChrisANeilson

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6 years ago: view flying to Punta Arenas with officials to explain the new centralized school application system. It was the first city in the 4y staggered rollout. Many lessons🧪🧫🔬 - today, Chile has a modern system transparently processing ~2m apps for public/private schools

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Christopher A. Neilson

@ChrisANeilson

2 years

This going to be fun 🔥

Yale Jackson School

@JacksonYale

2 years

New Jackson School of Global Affairs makes strides in building faculty. “Landing these four world-class scholars in one year is a big achievement,” said Jim Levinsohn, @JacksonYale dean.

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@ChrisANeilson

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Sitting in my office this morning at the Industrial Relations Section of @PrincetonEcon and I am still in awe of all the amazing labor economists that have gotten trained or made their careers here. Incredibly well deserved prize today 🍾🍾

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Christopher A. Neilson

@ChrisANeilson

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Love being back in New Haven, love @YaleEconomics and I'm very excited about the opportunity to contribute at the new Jackson School for Global Affairs as well as @YaleEGC , @YaleCowles , and @YaleTobinCenter 🙌🏼

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@ChrisANeilson

3 years

Made me think about how I miss econ seminars

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@ChrisANeilson

4 years

"Journalist"

Laura Ingraham

@IngrahamAngle

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“Researchers.”

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@ChrisANeilson

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Achievement unlocked : A government lab has been born 🧫 🧪 Colab between @poverty_action @JPAL

Gabinete de Política Social

@gabsocialRD

4 years

El #GCPS , @JPAL_LAC y @poverty_action firman convenio de colaboración para desarrollar proyectos pilotos que den respuesta a los desafíos país de cara al logro de la #Agenda2030 y objetivos institucionales para reducir la pobreza multidimensional. #Pol íticasPúblicasRD

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@ChrisANeilson

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With @GUlyssea and @john_eric we have been measuring small businesses' expectations in the Americas since late March (see ) Interesting relationship between policy announcement and beliefs. Take small businesses in Peru expectation of bankruptcy: 1/5

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@ChrisANeilson

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I just had to cancel a household survey my coauthors and I have been planning for months and had just started last week. A precautionary move because nothing says "out of touch" like sending surveyors house to house during a potential pandemic.

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@ChrisANeilson

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When traveling for work : Does anyone else feel weirdly energized and super pumped to work when your plane lands in some cities? Just landed in Bogota 🤓

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@ChrisANeilson

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And its submitted 🔥🙏- its a night to celebrate and to not check email anymore! Kudos to the coauthors on twitter - @andres_bafer @JoshuaSGoodman @jonisaacsmith @camulhern @Dejan_KovacHR

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@ChrisANeilson

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PhD app recommendations are finally done for 2023! The level of inefficiency is pretty nuts - below I only show one of maybe 4+ platforms where applications happen - if only submitting applications and providing reference letters were faster and more efficient 🙋‍♂️🙏

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@ChrisANeilson

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A prof once told me to celebrate the milestones, because in academia, they are few and far between. When I got my first paycheck I bought a case of wine planning to open one each time I submit a paper to a top journal. 🔥Folks, tonight one got opened🔥 #notdeskrejectedyet

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@ChrisANeilson

3 years

Too real

Khoa Vu

@KhoaVuUmn

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1st year 2nd year Assistant Assistant Professor Professor

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@ChrisANeilson

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#EconTwitter Know someone on the market who might be interested in a postdoc doing education/IO/labor? John Eric Humphries and I just posted an ad to get someone to work with us based at @YaleEconomics Little late but hope we get some good applicants!

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@ChrisANeilson

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Teaching undergrad class on education economics and policy with a focus on Latin America and the Caribbean. Any suggestions on recent reviews? Any papers looking at the effects of COVID on the education systems in the region? Inequality of impact? Thank you hivemind! 🙏

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@ChrisANeilson

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Key here is that when people come to a market with unequal outside options - manipulable mechanisms can contribute to reproducing structural inequality in access to educational opportunities. Theory+Empirics team collab: @akbarpour_ @WinnieVanDijk @SethDZimmerman @adamkapor

Princeton Economics

@PrincetonEcon

3 years

New research shows how public school lottery systems with "strategy-proof mechanisms" can provide all students with an equal opportunity to receive the most popular public resources. Read more from @ChrisANeilson , @adamkapor & co-authors:

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@ChrisANeilson

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I really hope that I won't need this mug much longer.

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@ChrisANeilson

3 years

@florianederer The "not causal, but will make a big stir because people will interpret as causal" is my least favorite type of paper.

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@ChrisANeilson

4 years

#EconTwitter Trying to expand on my PhD class at @PrincetonEcon given student interest on education and signaling. Help me out and suggest the best recent papers (unpublished) and please self promote here, you may get a bunch of student ref reports in exchange 🤓

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@ChrisANeilson

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Gaia seems to be celebrating too #BidenHarris2020 #newhaven

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Christopher A. Neilson

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Abstract must include: Research question Hypothesis Intervention Sample Size Outcomes 150-200 words

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Christopher A. Neilson

@ChrisANeilson

4 years

A new country 🇵🇪 adopts! -online enrollment and centralized choice and assignment for primary schools in Peru. Glad to have been a part of the first phase of this public policy. Special congrats @gregoryelacqua , Caro Mendez, @danavitarte and IDB, MINEDU and CB teams

ConsiliumBots

@ConsiliumBots

4 years

Happy @ConsiliumBots has been able to participate and help @gregoryelacqua and his team at @the_IDB support MINEDU design and launch the pilot for digital matriculation in Peru 🇵🇪

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Christopher A. Neilson

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Should have posted yesterday's but just wanted to say I really appreciated the warm welcome @CEBI_UCPH @MeltemDaysal 🥰 Also, these are some really bad ass offices in a great part of town🙌🏼

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Christopher A. Neilson

@ChrisANeilson

3 years

So true 😂

Erik Mohlin

@karlerikmohlin

3 years

Not so sure. Hierarchy seems to be: US data = reveals true principles of economics European, incl Scandi data = cute but weird Rest of the world: development economics

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Christopher A. Neilson

@ChrisANeilson

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In the US: I can't mention my name+I'm from Chile without having to explain the entire history of European influence in Chile to justify my existence. Why you no more gringo? In Chile: No one has ever bothered to say my name and just call me "El Gringo"

Marcus Vance 🗡

@MarcusCVance

4 years

What's the biggest problem you have with your name? My biggest problem? Me: "Hi, I'm Marcus. Nice to meet you." Business people: "Hi, Marcus. Do you go by Mark?" Me: "No. If I did then don't you think I'd introduce myself as that?"

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Christopher A. Neilson

@ChrisANeilson

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I will use a different mug starting today 🙌🏼

Christopher A. Neilson

@ChrisANeilson

4 years

I really hope that I won't need this mug much longer.

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Christopher A. Neilson

@ChrisANeilson

5 years

The sunset over Yale University and New Haven is pretty breathtaking tonight, had to share.

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Christopher A. Neilson

@ChrisANeilson

4 years

@MN_Econ Math helps and is necessary, especially to get into PhDs. However in the long run the econ intuition built over time will serve as a motor for creativity and will help relate econ ideas and concepts in original ways. Not a waste of time!

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Christopher A. Neilson

@ChrisANeilson

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I was lucky enough to present a paper at #NBERSI ED (w/ @Claudiallende and Francisco Gallego). A lot of people paid attention to me for 50min which is very nice/scary. Behind the scenes, our group is big and a shout out is appropiate: @MohitK_ @alvcarril @seb_otero @JPAL_LAC

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Christopher A. Neilson

@ChrisANeilson

4 years

“Peru and Chile have very large rainy day funds which give them an incredible flexibility to weather this shock ... ” Peru "has unveiled a stimulus package that equals about 12% of its gross domestic product, the biggest in all of the Americas."

As Some Fret on Stimulus, Peru Goes All In and Gets Rewarded

While Latin America’s two largest economies, Brazil and Mexico, fret over the wisdom of pursuing large economic stimulus packages that could erode fiscal targets, Peru is going big and getting...

www.bloomberg.com

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Christopher A. Neilson

@ChrisANeilson

2 years

Do you ever go on @coursera and just want to learn everything? I did a whole bunch of CS stuff on my last leave in 2017 and I am looking forward to piling on my next leave. Any suggestions of well constructed classes in the CS/AI genre? I chug that tech KoolAid!

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Christopher A. Neilson

@ChrisANeilson

5 years

Wondering what this years NBER Summer Institute “memorabilia” will be? An NBER mug? An NBER umbrella? A branded koozie for wonky summer pool parties? I have no idea what it will be, but these boxes are piled up outside my NBER office and they look suspicious. #EconTwitter #nber

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Christopher A. Neilson

@ChrisANeilson

4 years

To all those #econtwitter folks going to the #ASSA2020 , I wanted to promote two sessions I'm presenting IO-Education work. Back to back sessions on Friday 3rd 1) Frontiers in Market Design: 8:00 AM 2) Search and Matching in Education Markets: 10:15am Hope you stop by!

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Christopher A. Neilson

@ChrisANeilson

4 years

Not even done yet!

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Christopher A. Neilson

@ChrisANeilson

3 years

This is what you call an instant classic straight - still warm right out of the oven. 🥖📚🕯 If you do applied micro and want to learn about demand estimation, this new review is manna from heaven🧖‍♂️🧖

Phil Haile

@PhilHaile

3 years

Just posted “Foundations of Demand Estimation” w/Steve Berry, ultimately for the Hbk of IO. We discuss the distinct challenges of demand estimation and strategies for overcoming them.

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