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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

4 months

Econ PhD programs need to provide health insurance that covers egg freezing. By the time an average female student go on the job market after a predoc + master’s + PhD, they will be in their early 30s, perhaps without a stable partner.

Martha Fiehn

@MarthaF_F

4 months

Of a cohort of 36 predocs at Yale, 21 already have a Master's - Europe: 3 LSE, 2 PSE, 1 Cambridge, 1 LMU, 1 UCL, 1 ENSAE, 1 SciencesPo (yours truly) - US: 3 Yale, 1 Brown, 1 Madison-Wisconsin, 1 Urbana-Champaign - Canada, Colombia, Shanghai, HK, India: 5

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Elisa Xi Chen

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building a community. visa. visa. visa. traveling restrictions. working restrictions. planning ahead of life. this life is very hard

The PhD Place

@ThePhDPlace

2 months

What is the biggest challenge as an international student?

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

1 year

A genuine question: how do people master Stata? I learned tons from open source Python & R code. But the lack of training materials available online for Stata is shocking — no wonder chatGPT can’t write in Stata!

Magdalena Larreboure

@mlarreboure

1 year

I’ve always thought the discussion Stata vs R vs Python is nonsense because I use all of them depending on the task. However, ChatGPT not working for Stata makes me: 1. Happy I know enough Stata already. 2. Think Stata will even more likely become obsolete in the next few years

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Elisa Xi Chen

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4 months

“Trainees who successfully complete the Predoctoral year will be invited to enroll in the PhD without applications.” is definitely a good sign!

Jessica Goldberg

@JessAGoldberg

4 months

UMD Econ is recruiting for a new pre doc. Come spend one year gaining research experience with faculty mentors + taking classes, and stay for the PhD! This NSF-funded program is intended to increase diversity in econ and builds on our undergrad pipeline program. Apps due 3/22.

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

3 months

It’s funny how some people in academia encourage privileged students to go outside and have some world experiences for research while collectively ignoring students’ voice from third world countries with plenty “world experience” — gender inequality, violence, poverty etc.

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

4 months

@KirbyKNielsen Princeton’s predoc training covers the basic technical skills:

GitHub - esoclabprinceton/ESOC-Predoc-Training: This 10-week training program is designed to...

This 10-week training program is designed to prepare incoming pre-doctoral research fellows at the Princeton Empirical Studies of Conflict (ESOC) lab with the skills needed to support faculty resea...

github.com

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

3 months

2015: pre-law 2016: history + math majors and love it 2017: senior thesis in history + real analysis 2018: dropped out & got depressed 2019: LSAT + graduated 2020: need to figure out my life 2021: econ research is FUN! 2022: predoc 2023: predoc 2024: PhD!

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

3 months

honestly putting the number of female faculty members in the department on the first slide for Econ PhD visit day is a huge selling point. #EconTwitter

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

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Getting ready for my first development field trip to the country that was the first to approve R21 malaria vaccine 💪

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

3 months

the best part of phd visit day is to meet your academic idols and Twitter friends! i’m very grateful🥹

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

3 months

I have less than 300 followers and I already got a taste what it feels like to be a woman on this platform.

sanjana curtis! 🦦

@sanjanacurtis

3 months

once you pass a certain follower threshold you simply cannot have normal interactions on twitter. You’ll say “such a relief to get a sunny day between all this rain 😊” and someone will screenshot it for their followers and tweet “climate change denialism at its peak”

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Elisa Xi Chen

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4 months

@SmallJosePhD1 This is definitely a real concern 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

4 months

@HealthEconBlerd I agree with you that programs should provide a variety of choices, including maternity leave and subsidized childcare. But not everyone can find a suitable partner during their PhD, esp when they are moving to a new city every 2 year.

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

4 months

For pre-pre docs who are actively seeking predocs, here are some good resources covering the basic tech skills you may need for your technical assessments.

Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

4 months

@KirbyKNielsen Princeton’s predoc training covers the basic technical skills:

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Elisa Xi Chen

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2 months

@emileigharrison has been a great mentor for me. I learned a ton from creating beautiful visualizations to cultivating a positive lab environment. Everyone please check out her work on the economics of representation, homeschooling, and college access! Congrats!!🍾🎈🎊

MiiE Lab

@MiiELab

2 months

A very warm congratulations to Dr. @emileigharrison , @MiiELab founding member, for successfully defending your PhD dissertation! 🌟🌟

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

3 months

@jujubea87254271 the need to freeze egg is a collective institutional failure

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

4 months

@StatsWorker Many technical companies do provide health coverage for egg freezing. So do law firms.

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

3 months

@KhoaVuUmn @ben_golub I don’t know about the exact number, but with 61k twitter followers, you are among the 0.1% influencers, who brought so much joy to the community😊

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

3 months

I got curious about online harassment research, and turned out I need a white man savior with a large number of followers to reduce the number of slurs I got.

Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

3 months

I have less than 300 followers and I already got a taste what it feels like to be a woman on this platform.

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

2 months

This is a great thread! Marching for immigrants in Madison, WI 2018.

Martha Fiehn

@MarthaF_F

2 months

@kathleen_belew Me in high school, marching in SF

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@elisaxchen

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@MarthaF_F 1) a brief introduction to different topics studied by economists, accompanied by a reading list; and 2) introduce several papers (or at least mention) that challenge a simple model. Econ was one of my majors in undergrad and I had no idea what it studies until my master’s.

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

4 months

It’s 2024. No one really wants to ask female economists how they balance family and career. All we want to know is where to freeze eggs and what are the cheapest reliable options.

Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

4 months

Econ PhD programs need to provide health insurance that covers egg freezing. By the time an average female student go on the job market after a predoc + master’s + PhD, they will be in their early 30s, perhaps without a stable partner.

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

8 months

Gonna start my day like this 😎

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@PikaGoldin

9 years

#ILookLikeAnEconomist http://t.co/wgocgYW5jX

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

2 years

so thankful! :) Best introductory book on running RCT for field researchers.

Rachel Glennerster

@rglenner

2 years

Syllabus & slides for my course on Practicalities of Running RCTs up on my RunningREs website. Based on my book with Kudzai but updated for PhDs doing RCTs for their thesis & masters students. Power, IRBs, measurement, partners etc. Use course tab

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Elisa Xi Chen

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3 months

@pavas222 I think predocs have a very different selection standards than PhD. Coding is way more important for a predoc if you are doing the applied work. If they have exceptional specialized technical skills in Python, ML, deep learning etc, they will stand out.

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

3 months

Can’t wait to check it out once I’m done working with my current project 😍

Melanie Walsh

@mellymeldubs

4 months

🚨New AI for Humanists tutorials just dropped!🚨 We have code notebooks for using LLMs to: - measure document similarity - classify texts with zero-shot prompting We explore narrativity in texts, historical & ChatGPT poetry, and book reviews. Tutorial effort led by @gyauney !

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

3 months

✨✨✨Call for computational social scientists — I’m so excited to learn more about how you use or develop computational methods in your research this fall!!! ✨✨✨

Becker Friedman Institute for Economics

@BeckerFriedman

3 months

CALL FOR PAPERS: The AI in Social Science Conference aims to promote dialogue and explore new methodologies, datasets, and technologies to advance understanding and push knowledge boundaries. All interested researchers are welcome to submit papers by 5/1.

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

3 months

I won’t do a second predoc (very thankful🙏) but anyone who’s interested in development, RCTs, and economics of education should apply!

Christina Brown

@christinalbrown

4 months

I'm hiring two full-time predocs at @UChi_Economics to begin this summer. Will be working on development, labor and education projects. Experience with RCT's and/or data cleaning preferred. Apply here:

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

2 years

@Anna_Brian_ I will save this tweet to make friends 🌈🤝dev econ

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

3 months

Anyone wants to work on this paper with me? I have many thoughts and I think it’s more productive to write a paper. 🫣

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

14 days

@MarthaF_F @pavas222 I’m planning on using lugless to ship boxes too! It seems to be the cheapest option based on my research. For bikes, I would take them with me on the Amtrak train… (I’m taking my harp with me on the Amtrak.)

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Elisa Xi Chen

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3 months

@KhoaVuUmn If they have a US undergrad with relative good grades in math and econ and ok letters, it’s likely they will get in. But I think at least more than 1/3 students outside top 20 Econ programs are international students with non-US undergrads.

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

3 months

@JohnJSSoriano Elite *female* economists are disproportionately childless or have fewer children

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

7 months

@MarthaF_F @HarvardEcon Interesting! In my experience, if you go to a public university in the US in undergrad and are a competitive candidate, you have a higher chance getting into a top 20-30 econ PhD than getting a pre-doc. It would be a different story if you hold a master.

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

3 months

I sent this book as a gift to my lawyer & policy advocate friends and they all very appreciate it!

Ethan BdM

@ethanbdm

3 months

Dear Google, We'd be happy to send along a copy of Thinking Clearly with Data. Page 110, containing definitions of some of the key terms from Chapter 6, may be of particular help.

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

27 days

Absolutely a great experience learning from these amazing people!

Agustin Hurtado

@AgustHurtado

27 days

There is hope in the economics profession (see below why) @gaiagdossi @TaniaMocanu @hruebeck @christinalbrown . Thanks @BeckerFriedman @RustandyCenter @alexolegimas @veronesi_pietro @conradcmiller

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Elisa Xi Chen

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3 months

@belindaarch @econ_robinson I’m so sorry to hear that, Belinda. I hope the discipline as a whole can do better.

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

3 months

@MarthaF_F Thank you for your public service ✍️

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

3 months

Congratulations to one of the coolest scholars I know! 🥳🥳🥳

M. Adelaida Martinez C 💚💚

@MariaAMartinez3

3 months

I’m thrilled to be the co-recipient of the Jean Flanigan Outstanding Dissertation Award! Thank you @aefpweb @HarrisPolicy @bentleyu

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

2 years

@thomas_fullagar @Econ_4_Everyone @DrDanaSuskind Once a badger always a badger

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

3 months

@zaeemal_ @pulkit_econ @akshaygn01 I will be so jealous! I recently found a great place for chai in Hyde Park so if you ever visit UChicago I need to bring you there

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

2 months

@McmullenIsabel @ImRachelWhite @Dcollier74 ha, apparently Twitter is the best way to reach people! @ImRachelWhite you on that appam email thread :))

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

2 months

@instrumenthull @JhengShao @MGF91 I’m so jealous seeing what current undergrads are learning at metrics class😭 I didn’t learn any of this at my undergrad metrics class.

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

2 months

@instrumenthull @BrownUniversity @UChicago @jondr44 🐐🐐

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@JhengShao @qlquanle

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4 months

@JessAGoldberg @econ_ra @predoc_org

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1 year

@MariaAMartinez3 @sndurlauf @aadukia @HarrisPolicy @UChicago Congrats!!! 🎈🎊

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

9 months

@Econ_4_Everyone Woohoo!! Thank you!!! I wonder if you actually got the shirt between 1984-1988, instead of the years Brockington served? The collar on the jersey tricked me!

Infographic: 100 Seasons of Packers uniforms

Take a visual look at the history of Green Bay Packers uniforms

www.packers.com

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

2 years

@thomas_fullagar @Econ_4_Everyone @DrDanaSuskind Spot the Scales of Justice!

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

2 years

@Econ_4_Everyone @DrDanaSuskind Madison state capital!

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

1 year

@mlarreboure that’s a good idea :) I’ve been always afraid of being judged so I refrain from asking these questions unless we are in the same research group. But it’s worth trying for sure

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

3 months

@pavas222 Many people I know don’t get perfect math grades, including me. Do not let that stop your passion. And don’t discount your personal experience. They all matter for your research, once you get into the programs.

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

3 months

@ShuklaAngira I have similar experiences. People of my ethnicity, tell me my research was of “foreign influence,” in my native language. I think that’s how they learn to talk to women in the old world, and can’t deal with anyone who may challenge their authority.

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

3 months

@MarthaF_F @zacharylhertz same, girl. same!

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

4 months

@JhengShao I understand why they hire students from elite institutions — prior relevant RA experience with professors and easily interpretable transcripts. Some professors also have a regional focus - so they hire students who can speak a particular language. These are exceptions.

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

14 days

@MarthaF_F @pavas222 Oh… that’s an arduous journey! Can you disassemble bikes and ship them too?

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

3 months

@pulkit_econ @_ADeshpande @MaurizioBussolo @soumya_kmehta love the artwork!

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

3 months

@economeager @MarthaF_F I love that book too. It clarified many things to me when I felt trapped.

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

3 months

I would absolutely love this …

Ryan Rhodes ⚙️🧠

@langofmind

3 months

this is the ideal authorship ordering scheme, absolute peak

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

2 months

@MarthaF_F I always wondered why you are interested in tax policy because I also h8 filing tax and did not enjoy the process of reading treaties, documents… but apparently you knew something about tax econ / law that I don’t!!

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

2 years

my first week using STATA

Stephanie Sezen

@stelifanie

2 years

My regression output after I output them into excel

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

3 months

@ThomasS14239891 I 100% agree with you.

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

3 months

@markyzaguirre @maya_sen @mattyglesias Tons of litigation lawyers with insufficient statistics/math training argue in court with empirical evidence they (mis)interprete. People only pay attention to high profile cases.

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

2 months

@cadaleyu it’s good to share this journey with people who are in the same boat as you⛵️hang in there, my friend

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

1 year

this is amazing - i have to share it with alll the python people in the wild doing development econ

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1 year

@elisaxchen If you have a python background, check out from @Dan_M_Sullivan and from @arthurturrell

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

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@MarthaF_F @pavas222 Good to know;) I may use it next time … my current bike was totaled and I’ve been waiting to buy a new one once I move to Cambridge. It’s hard to live without a bike for months!

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

3 months

@fabalbav if you have any insights please share :) thank you! Congratulations on your new position!

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

3 months

@belindaarch @BarnardCollege @barnardecon Congratulations!!! 🍾🎈🎉🎊

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@elisaxchen

3 months

@pulkit_econ @zaeemal_ @akshaygn01 Agree!

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

3 months

@itsafronomics I’m so sorry you are experiencing this. I didn't close my comment section, and some tweets are full of hatred and misogynistic comments. A reminder of the world we are living in.

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

2 months

@toniwhited @Andrew___Baker Haha, that’s how I feel about Madison. I had a great time as an undergrad at Madison, but I was so eager to get out to explore the big cities. I just visited Princeton a few days ago for a PhD program. It’s gorgeous! Maybe I will change my opinions if I live there longer…

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

3 months

@MarthaF_F Correction: @ShuklaAngira just informed me that BFI predoc’s salary is $62k. In Chicago you can live a luxurious life. I didn’t realize this 🥲

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

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@MarthaF_F @pavas222 Very useful - thanks!

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@elisaxchen

3 months

@hpostel @DukeSanford Congrats, Hannah!!!🌟🌟🌟✨

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

3 months

@MarthaF_F more “scientific” explanation I guess. after all, some people don’t even believe in misogyny. As they say, it’s just a different opinion …. LOL

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

2 months

@MarthaF_F When I did my admitted phd student visits, they arranged the lunch table by subfield. Of course, I was at the table (dev econ) with 6 other women and 1 man. All other subfields have 1~2 women + all men. Pretty divided. 😂

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

3 months

@p_purushottam -6 C tomorrow?? We are living in a surreal world.

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

4 months

@MarthaF_F That’s so exciting! Congrats! 🎉🎊

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

3 months

@femonomics @AlisonBaulos @_alice_evans @Barnard Omg! Thanks for letting me know! I will be there! Here’s info in case anyone else is interested:

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

3 months

@pqblair @hgse @Harvard Congratulations, Peter!!

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

3 months

@MarthaF_F I think it’s triggering for multiple reasons 1) a fraction of liberals and conservatives don’t like “artificial babies,” including egg freezing & IVF. 2) conservatives think it’s an opportunity to take down higher edu. 3) guys get insecure bc women don’t need them to have kids.

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

3 months

@MarthaF_F We kept missing each other - I was in DC & Boston the last few days!

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

4 months

@DSchindlerEcon @KhoaVuUmn I heard that’s exactly how the opportunity insights lab (ironically) at Harvard selected their predoc candidates. Not exactly 50 points, but some extra bonus points.

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

3 months

@salonigupta435 @StanfordKingCtr I’m so happy for you!!! I remember last year at AEFP you talked about your experience going to the do the field work with your PhD stipend… all hard work paid off!!! 💗💗

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

3 months

@sarameghanbeery @MIT @UN @WildlifeDay @WILDLABSNET A star!! 🌟🌟🌟

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

3 months

@reformedbear25 @HealthEconBlerd Well, many current female job candidates are childless and single. What do you suggest them to do if they want to have the option to have kids at later stages in their lives?

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

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@toniwhited @Andrew___Baker Absolutely agree Madison is amazing. beautiful lake, mountains, independent bookstores, great student centers, walkable, friendly to bikers. My second best college town is Princeton!

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

3 months

@JingyiFang5 @USC_Econ @MinneapolisFed congrats!!! 🎊🎉🍾🎈

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

2 months

@AlisonBaulos @kearney_melissa I love the book “Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage” written by 2 amazing sociologists. Maybe you will be interested in it too!

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Elisa Xi Chen

@elisaxchen

3 months

@lymanstoneky I think that’s an interesting point. Thanks for sharing. I would appreciate it when you engage in a convo with a specific person online, don’t use passive aggressive words like “hoo boyo.”

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