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econ phd candidate // she/her 🌈

oakland (via london)
Joined May 2019
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@charoo_anand
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2 years
ghosted, it’s brutal out here
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2 years
honestly same
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3 years
david card once sent me an email so this is a really exciting day for me
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3 years
@_AlvinChristian @NafisaIstami @arnoblalam didn’t actually need to double check this one
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3 years
my mum just asked me how i’m doing and i ended up explaining how first and second price auctions have the same expected revenue
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7 months
thinking about an rct where i randomly get really hot, seeking funding
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The "beauty" paper is finally published! @taliregev1 - what's our next project?
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3 years
@mindykaling @meena it means "can be served hot or cold" in sanskrit
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@charoo_anand
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3 years
always start my problem sets too late bc I assume we haven’t covered that topic yet but then it turns out that we are never going to cover that topic and were meant to just work it out
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3 years
dropped a lot of marks on question in my macro exam…feedback said "wrong, but a nice explanation"….which is ironic…for a macro exam…on RBC models? 👀
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2 years
my fave econtwitter hack is that you can literally just tweet “mas-colell whinston green, am i right?” and get ~100 likes
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2 years
kuhn tucker must die
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@NorrisButNoChuk also works with “the UC is whack”
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2 years
publishing times in econ are getting ridiculous 😩
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2 years
i live in a house of 8 girls in Berkeley so, in our fridge, there are 4 types of almond milk, 2 types of oat milk and a coconut-based coffee creamer
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3 years
probability/measure theoretic formalism is low-key really funny…like, trying to be super precise but you’re saying stuff like “almoooost suuuurely”/“almooooost everywheeere”
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2 years
every time I tell someone I study econ I add “but like I don’t know anything about inflation lol” but the jokes on me bc now I’ve accepted a 5-year funding offer and inflation is…very high(?)
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3 years
consumption, in response to anticipated income shocks me 🤝 excessively sensitive
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4 years
americanisms I have embraced: - math, singular - fall, instead of autumn - semester, instead of term - '…ize', instead of '…ise' - '..or', instead of '...our' americanisms I haven’t embraced: - mm/dd/yyyy
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2 years
if econtwitter dies and you’re a professor, *please* remember my tweets and hire me in ~4 years
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2 years
get me out of here
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2 years
pov: offering breath strips to my classmates before exams
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3 years
I reckon some of us should read the classics and some of us should focus on the math. It’s what Adam Smith would have wanted…I think??
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3 years
how far can i get, career-wise, without learning how to log-linearize equations?
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3 years
i didnt read any news stories about elizabeth holmes for a year because i literally thought 'theranos' was the name of a marvel movie
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@charoo_anand
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2 years
this one goes out to the non-resident aliens 🙌🏽
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2 years
really sad about twitter, it’s been a good time. i’ll be moving to EJMR ✌🏽
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1 year
am teaching at 4:20pm on 4/20 at berkeley and there are 3 students in my class rn
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3 years
can’t wait for the semester to start so i can go back to posting lazy af jokes about MWG and getting like 100+ likes from econtwitter
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3 years
spent ~23hrs of my 24hr micro exam tryna understand which way around the subscripts went
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3 years
born in 1997 so i identify as socially millennial and fiscally gen z
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2 years
controlling for peer effects by consistently bailing on all the econ dept happy hours
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@charoo_anand
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3 years
such a good vibe out in London rn 💕 like, we are literally all going to die but the vibes are immaculate
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10 months
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during first-year macro, david romer took 2 minutes of each class to give us career/life advice and one of them was straight up "do not ever look at or post on ejmr"
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2 years
goal is to get off the job market without finding out what the envelope theorem is
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2 years
s/o to the combinatorics enthusiast at this ethiopian place
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3 years
stg all i do is take first order conditions and go on walks
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2 years
you should be able to fork a spotify playlist? create a new branch?
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2 years
crossed a line i thought i’d never cross
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goal is to get off the job market without finding out what the envelope theorem is
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1 year
can i get an extension if i just wildly overestimated how many days were left in february?
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2 years
@inika__ very much this energy
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2 years
if a cali-based scandi-looking smoothie bar sold a mango/yogurt smoothie with cardamom/saffron, i’d probably pay like $17 for it
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3 years
@economeager "the function f(x) is continuous, but unironically"
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4 years
optimistically drawing a little square below some algebra, with absolutely no idea what i've just done and whether it completes the proof in my problem set 🔲
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4 years
started this year typing up lecture notes in latex and adding them to a git repo...today i'm watching a recording from last week at 1.5x speed, taking screenshots every couple of mins and dragging them into a folder on my desktop
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@charoo_anand
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3 years
p cool how at primary school you work for a couple of hours and then they send you outside to just run around and yell for 30-60mins 🤔 something to think about when you wfh
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3 years
can I skip all this and write a medium-O for everything???
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3 years
just hit 1k followers! another big win for the labor group at @berkeleyecon 💪🏽 what a week?!
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in R, using `=` instead of `<-`, terribly cosmopolitan
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2 years
unironically getting lowkey into econ?
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universities love buying loads of funky chairs for study spaces that have absolutely no lumbar support
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self-care is skipping every item on the reading list that wasn't in JEP
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3 years
lovely pic of david!
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3 years
Introducing David Card, the 2021 Nobel Prize in Economics winner who made the minimum wage respectable: @UniCanberra @ConversationEDU @ANUCrawford #ausecon #auspol
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9 months
ok, so the good news is I’ve found the data
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@charoo_anand
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2 years
extremely British moment recently where I reached into my pocket to remove what I assumed was an old receipt but it was actually an earl grey tea bag? how did it get there? idk
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that part of admits’ visit day where they meet older years, look deep into their eyes, search for their soul and discern how joyful they truly are … “so, is department culture good here?”
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2 years
@wwwojtekk same energy
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1 year
following union-won salary gains, berkeley econ faculty just confirmed plans(?) to reduce department-funded top-ups (which “supplement” grad student salaries)… email says “Since salaries are now higher, lower top-ups are needed to reach the total funding amounts we committed”
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@charoo_anand
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3 years
heard an english accent in a coffee shop and decided to interrupt/strike up a convo about being british 🇬🇧 ironically it was the most american thing I’ve ever done? v uncomfortable for both of us
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3 years
i think i understand econometrics less than i did 3 years ago but i've started saying "gaussian" instead of "normal" and i feel p good about that
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@charoo_anand
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9 months
made up some equations that i think woulda been HUGE if i wrote them in the 70s
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@charoo_anand
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6 months
spent $7 on a sourdough-starter-flavored ice cream, i hate this city and the person its made me
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@charoo_anand
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10 months
a cultural moment!! sooo ready to watch both of these this week 🎥 🍿 💅 💣
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@charoo_anand
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2 years
happy international women’s day
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1 year
third year :)
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My Work Doesn’t Define Me, but Only Because I’m Not Succeeding at It Right Now:
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hello #EconTwitter ! i’m preparing a lecture on data viz (in stata) for an “intro to econ research” class. any resources i should know about? much appreciated 😊
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3 years
going on woodland walks while listening to a podcast about mindfulness/"slowing down" at double speed, and then lying wide awake in bed at night listening to a nature sounds app 🙏🌔
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3 years
upped my game this semester by organising a cohort tour of a farm in lancashire 🇬🇧🐐
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4 years
i like to really play up my britishness for my classmates by chugging a pint of earl grey during every zoom lecture/class
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1 year
found the only 3 hour window in the entire month of june for which 4 profs are available, just give me the phd now 🙏🏽
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2 years
any time i see a kronecker product in lecture notes/slides i’m instinctively just like “yeah, this bit defo won’t be important”
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1 year
evaluations are in, thank god
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When students don't mention your comedy in the teaching evaluations
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brother told me he stopped watching Everything Everywhere All At Once because “it got too stressful”…turns out he didn’t even get to the multiverse stuff…he just got really anxious about filing taxes
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apple adding the 🫡 emoji has been huge for the labor movement tbh
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1 year
some professional news:
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1 year
vending machines on campus have completely stopped mistakenly dispensing two items…that’s like…100% inflation
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3 years
how many more months until a Bay Area company starts selling an oxytocin-infused zero-sugar flavoured seltzer? i haven’t hugged anyone in so long
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my latte is in a bowl? wtaf
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me, interpreting a 2SLS estimate:
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3 months
fourth year of phd :)
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1 year
made it
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@UnionDrip
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The UC Academic Workers are a vibe. Future of the labor movement. Get it. ✊🏻
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2 years
something about hotelling’s law idk
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2 years
talk about a toxic work environment, huh?
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3 years
who wore it better?? like for @NikhilBasavappa , rt for hasan
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3 years
aug 2020 vs. aug 2021 💙💛
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4 months
asking non-academia friends about personal finance is soooooo humiliating
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3 months
some of you:
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2 years
cannot stress how important it is to set attainable goals and to celebrate the wins #phdlife
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typical berkeley sidewalk
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3 years
was very aware that I had midterms at the beginning of march but I’ve been totally blindsided by february having NOT ENOUGH days????
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2 years
no doubt going to do a long photo thread soon but, for now, some scenes from nevada, aboard the california zephyr
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v important to make the most of the incredible hiking trails we have in the bay
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2 years
can’t believe they made a video game version
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1 year
just remembered that on the first day of my 2-year pre-doc i made a typo entering my name in front of the IT guy so i just used a misspelled username for the entire RAship bc i was too embarrassed to tell him
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3 years
was extremely foggy so i took the day off to walk around and listen to folklore
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4 months
i don’t even wanna know what sf::st_make_valid() does to a shapefile, it’s none of my business!!
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3 months
brought the point-and-shoot to campus last week
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1 year
i cashed out after field exams and stopped working on weekdays too 🤫
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I, too, have not regularly worked evenings or weekends since the field exams and have zero regrets.
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@charoo_anand
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3 years
way better than math camp! #live #love #lake
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3 years
an emotional farewell to my hometown nando’s 🇬🇧🙏🏽
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1 year
berkeley inflation is wild??? october 2022 vs. january 2023
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1 year
evans hall and sproul plaza on 35mm
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pleased to announce that i paid the $90 fee to officially advance to candidacy. really excited to write a paper one day! 🤞🏽
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