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John B. Holbein

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3 years

the spread of COVID-19 visualized

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Can you guess what happens when you give kids food stamps? ... ... ... ... They... ⚫live longer, ⚫invest more in human capital, ⚫are more economically self-sufficient, ⚫live in better neighborhoods, ⚫are less likely to be incarcerated.

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What happened when @MoSalah joined @LFC ? Hate crimes in the surrounding area declined by 19%. The # of anti-Muslim tweets sent by Liverpool fans was cut in half. Evidence (by: @wpmarble @a_alrababah @salma_mousa_ @aasiegel ): "Can Exposure to Celebrities Reduce Prejudice?"

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4 years

Can you guess what happens when you provide homeless people with housing? ... ... ... You reduce crime, increase employment, improve health, and do not increasing reliance on social benefits. 80% of costs are offset by the benefits in the first 18mos.

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Lol who did this

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11 months

Lol who did this

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1 year

it's the second day of 2023 and the most prolific author of all time already has 4,458 citations this year.

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3 years

If PhD programs are, truly, going to prepare students for non-academic jobs, they should, at minimum, stop sending signals—overtly or covertly—that non-academic jobs are inferior.

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1 year

You never forget the first time you learn universities’ overhead rates on external grants.

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3 years

Can you guess what happens when you provide homeless people with housing? ... ... ... You reduce crime, increase employment, improve health, and do not increasing reliance on social benefits. 80% of costs are offset by the benefits in the first 18mos.

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John B. Holbein

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This bears repeating: PhDs who end up working outside the academy (for whatever reason) are not failures. The academy has no monopoly on great and important work. There are great success to be had in other sectors. Enough already with the professional elitism.

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11 months

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3 years

Look at the gender breakdown of who speaks in popular films!

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5 years

A live look at a tenured prof sending their grad student to their first job talk.

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6 months

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3 years

It's impossible to look at this and not think, "we had this thing beat in the Spring of 2021..."

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3 years

If academic articles were written by Youtubers: WE RAN A BUNCH OF REGRESSIONS AND YOU WOULDN'T BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENED NEXT...

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4 years

“I’ll just run this last robustness check and then the paper will be finished...”

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John B. Holbein

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10 months

truth

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2 years

What?????? I'm tenured!!!!!! Is this real life?

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"No one could have seen this coming."

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Can you guess what happens when you provide homeless people with housing? ... ... ... You reduce crime, increase employment, improve health, and do not increase reliance on social benefits. 80% of costs are offset by the benefits in the first 18mos.

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Students often don't realize that being good at coding really just means being good at Googling.

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2 years

I don’t understand academics who flat out refuse to give their students a few extra days to finish up an assignment, but then themselves repeatedly turn in their own work (peer reviews, revisions, etc) months late.

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John B. Holbein

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4 years

GRE score ≠ intelligence ≠ how good of a scientist you are

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1 year

“Among articles stating that data was available upon request, only 17% shared data upon request.”

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2 years

How all author ordering concerns should be settled. "The co-first authorship order was determined via the best of three rounds in Super Smash Bros."

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lol who did this

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John B. Holbein

@JohnHolbein1

5 years

The academic job market

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5 months

Finally found the perfect tree topper

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John B. Holbein

@JohnHolbein1

6 years

Being an academic is tough. You experience tons of rejection. Everyone is constantly telling you what you're doing wrong. Teaching is tiring. Days drag by w seemingly little progress. Working in isolation can be lonely. So, I think its useful for #AcademicTwitter to remember...

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4 months

This is your periodic reminder that you should have completed a PhD in Finland. There the graduation regalia for PhDs includes a top hat and a sword.

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John B. Holbein

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5 years

This figure is striking. It shows the relationship between where people think they are in the income distribution and where they actually are. Observations below the line indicate that people think they are poorer than they really are (and the reverse above the line).

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lol who did this

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What happened when @MoSalah joined @LFC ? Hate crimes declined by 16%. & the # of anti-Muslim tweets sent by LFC fans was cut in half. New @apsrjournal by @wpmarble , @a_alrababah , @salma_mousa_ , @aasiegel : "Can Exposure to Celebrities Reduce Prejudice?"

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How all author ordering concerns should be settled. "The co-first authorship order was determined via the best of three rounds in Super Smash Bros." .

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3 years

Working with good coauthors be like

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4 years

Protip: you don't have to be a prick to be a successful academic.

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5 years

What happens to companies' stock prices when their workers unionize? They become much less likely to crash in the future. Why? "Labor unions constrain managerial resource diversion and overinvestment, demand less risk-taking, and facilitate transparent information flow"

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This figure is striking. It shows the relationship between where people think they are in the income distribution and where they actually are. Observations below the line indicate that people think they are poorer than they really are (and the reverse above the line).

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How many people go to church weekly? Surveys say it's about 1 in 5 Americans. Cell phone tracker data say it's actually closer to 1 in 20 Americans. Fascinating new working paper!

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Can you guess what happens when you increase the amount of cash-on-hand poor workers have? ... ... ... They become more productive and make fewer mistakes. "Alleviating financial concerns allows workers to be more attentive and productive at work."

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John B. Holbein

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The most prolific author of all time has 4,141 citations in the first 18 days of 2021.

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"No one could have seen this coming."

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John B. Holbein

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This is your periodic reminder that the graduation regalia for PhDs in Finland is a top hat and a sword.

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John B. Holbein

@JohnHolbein1

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You know those policies that some universities have that admit the top X% of each high school in the state? They're really good for disadvantaged students. They increase graduation rates and annual salaries of disadvantaged students *a lot*.

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Do corporate tax cuts boost economic growth? Nope. "There is evidence for publication selectivity in favor of reporting growth-enhancing effects of corporate tax cuts. Correcting for this bias, We cannot reject the hypothesis of a zero effect of corporate taxes on growth."

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The death knell for nudging? “When this publication bias is appropriately corrected for, no evidence for the effectiveness of nudges remain.”

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What happens when @Airbnb enters an area? Rent prices increase substantially as a direct result. Evidence (from 🇪🇸): "Do short-term rent platforms affect housing markets?"

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What happened when New York City (randomly) increased street lighting? Crime fell by 36% as a direct result. Evidence: "Reducing Crime Through Environmental Design" #SocSciResearch

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What happened when 🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪 Sweden 🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪 made it easier for dads to take paternity leave? Mothers' physical & mental health increased substantially as a direct result. Evidence (by @maya_rossin & @PerssonPetra ): "When Dad Can Stay Home" #SocSciResearch

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3 years

Anyone else feel like being an academic has decreased their ability to read for enjoyment?

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2 years

COVID-19 vaccine mandates at U.S. universities saved *a lot* of lives.

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3 years

Too tired to work; too untenured to not work.

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Can you guess what happens when you provide temporary financial assistance to those at risk of homelessness? ... ... You *massively* reduce the chances that those people experience homelessness. The benefits to homelessness prevention exceed costs.

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Lol who did this

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Clear evidence that employers discriminate against nonbinary individuals. All-else-equal, disclosing that one uses "they/them” pronouns substantially lowers the chances of getting a job interview.

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"We show that Black families whose ancestors were enslaved until the Civil War have considerably lower education, income, and wealth today than Black families whose ancestors were free before the Civil War."

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“Just 27% of [academic] mothers get tenure, compared with 48% of fathers and 46% of women without children.”

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John B. Holbein

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5 years

Let's play a little game. Who's the nicest person you know that's on Twitter? Tag the first person who comes to mind. I'd like to follow more nice people.

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Simpson's paradox [GIF]

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TIL that @JSTOR is offering everyone 100 free articles per month through June 30, 2022. Great news for those of you who don't have a university affiliation & keep hitting paywalls.

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New working paper: guess what happens when you ban felons from getting food stamps... ... You end up *increasing* criminal recidivism A LOT (RDD, Florida). #SocSciResearch

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Students often don't realize that being good at coding really just means being really good at Googling.

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This is fine.

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Men get ahead in the labor force, in part, because male managers are much more likely to schmooze/socialize with their male employees rather than their female employees.

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The academic job market

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Does racial diversity in colleges courses improve academic outcomes? Yup.

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You never forget the first time you learn universities’ overhead rates on external grants.

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Can you guess what happened when South Korea made school lunches free for all students? The number of fights at school went down dramatically. #SocSciResearch

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Remember when your adviser tried to beat those "um"s and "uh"s out of your oral presentations? Turns out, these "um"s and "uh"s--or disfluencies as some people call them--may be really useful! This new paper shows that disfluencies help the audience cue into what you say next.

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Vaccines work.

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PhDs who end up working outside the academy (for whatever reason) are not failures. Enough already with the professional elitism.

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Can you guess what happened when South Korea made school lunches free for all students? ... ... ... The number of fights at school went down dramatically as a direct result. .

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John B. Holbein

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lol who did this

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As if nothing had happened. Remarkable.

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Protip: you don't have to be a prick to be a successful academic.

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I feel seen

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Why the heck do academic journals have such strict/varied formatting guidelines on first submission? (Beyond length) Isn’t formatting for a journal, only to be rejected, just a massive unnecessary cost imposed on scientists? Couldn’t scientists put their time to better use?

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This reading list of recent advances in econometrics looks like a treasure trove!

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Can we just take a minute to reflect on how ridiculous the academic job market is?

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What happened when soccer matches stopped having fans in the stands during the current pandemic? Referees stopped issuing so many yellow cards to the visiting team.

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academics trying to finish their conference papers

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timeless

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Lol who did this

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While we are waiting for Georgia to update the vote count, I just have one thing to say: Stacey Abrams is a Goddess.

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This figure is striking. It shows the relationship between where people think they are in the income distribution and where they actually are. Observations below the line indicate that people think they are poorer than they really are (and the reverse above the line).

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I've never seen anything better capture the life of an academic.

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A pocket translation guide for economics:😜 Political economy=economists doing political science Behavioral economics=economists doing psychology Econometrics=economists doing statistics Economic history=economists doing history Development economics=economists doing development

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Does racial diversity in colleges courses improve academic outcomes? Yup.

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