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@UVA ‘20 // 4th year PhD student @DukeEcon // interests in labor and education // hEH-muh

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Hema Shah

1 year

My new NBER WP with Lisa Gennetian @Gen_Pov : 🔹reviews research on U.S. safety net & cash aid to families 🔹discusses what is[n’t] known about cash aid, family investments, & child outcomes 🔹describes promise of contemporary programs to fill gaps 🧵1/n

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Hema Shah

3 years

economists: my entire career is causal inference also economists: there is literally no way i can predict if you'll be a good researcher unless you have written stata code for raj chetty #econtwitter

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Hema Shah

3 years

Passed my quals, but you still can’t gaslight me into believing that this process was healthy and/or necessary. Open to evidence that condensed studying/“cramming” is a productive method of retaining knowledge long-term, although this seems unlikely …

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Hema Shah

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The Duke Econ Graduate Mentorship Program (GMP) is back! The program is targeted to students from backgrounds under-represented in economics and considering a Ph.D. in economics: 1/11

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1 year

on the agenda for today:

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3 years

Changed my bio to say 2nd year PhD student after overthinking it for a couple weeks. Proud of myself

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3 years

It me

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3 years

getting a phd in interpreting emails sent from my profs iphone

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Passed my prospectus defense!! You may all refer to me by my formal title “PhD candidate” from now on🤠

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2 years

Made one (1) reel for @DukeEcon visit day, so naturally I’m ready to drop out and become an econ influencer✨

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2 years

duke really looked at my cohort and said yeah 2 women is plenty

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Being a PhD student is receiving two identical Thanksgiving emails from your university, but one says “Dear student” and the other says “Dear colleague”

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3 years

me, to a student: it's ok if you're having an existential crisis about the fundamental problem of causal inference! happens to me at least once a week!

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Hema Shah

3 years

My econ bestie from undergrad is going to Yale for her PhD! 🎉 Stay tuned to see if I successfully peer pressure her into wasting all of her time on econtwitter😈

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3 years

🚨 [First] Publication Alert 🚨 Title: "A Glass Escalator for Female UVA Graduates? Gender Gaps Across the Starting Salary Distribution" Link: An anthology of my undergrad thesis has been published in the Atlantic Economic Journal. Read on for more!

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Hema Shah

2 years

New license plate do u guys like it

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3 years

WE ARE DONE WITH QUALS!! (and baby Eden got to meet her aunties and uncles❤️)

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Why haven’t I seen any tweets announcing PhD acceptances @DukeEcon ?? Incoming first years: reveal yourselves so I can aggressively congratulate & befriend you!!

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2 years

Couldn’t find basmati rice R or basmati rice Stata so this will have to do🤷🏽‍♀️

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Dean Phillips

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@seth_kafila i would consider a pilot ubi program in certain urban and rural communities and measure results before expansion.

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3 years

🚨 Calling prospective Econ PhD applicants!! 🚨 Duke's student-run Graduate Mentorship Program launches today! This program will pair underrepresented students with grad student mentors to help them navigate the PhD application process. 1/2

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Sarah Raviola

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1/ Some exciting news: the Duke Econ Grad Student Diversity and Inclusion committee is launching a new initiative: the Graduate Mentorship Program (GMP), targeted to students from backgrounds under-represented in economics and considering a PhD in econ:

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Everyone is tweeting about college admissions testing and I have multiple papers relevant to the debate BUT THEY’RE NOT READY TO SHARE YET!!!! WAIT FOR ME PLS I’M WORKING ON IT

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Hema Shah

10 months

ONE MONTH LEFT to apply for the Duke Econ Graduate Mentorship Program! Prospective PhD applicants: see our website for more info Everyone else: spread the word!

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Hema Shah

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The Duke Econ Graduate Mentorship Program (GMP) is back! The program is targeted to students from backgrounds under-represented in economics and considering a Ph.D. in economics: 1/11

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3 years

spent the whole day working on my own research for the first time in over a year AND i taught myself how to make a pretty picture. yay!

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6 months

Heading to Atlanta today for my very first APPAM! Econ of ed and higher ed policy folks, I would love to see you at my Thursday morning panel on college access. Drop your #2023APPAM pro tips below and please message me if you'd like to meet up!

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2 years

The impact of declining male college enrollment on assortative mating patterns: evidence from engagement announcements on my facebook feed

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1 year

Thank u @Stata 🥰

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@Stata Send me stata socks pleaseeeee

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"You're so lucky that your research is easy to motivate, mine is sooo hard to explain to a general audience" is not the flex you think it is.

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Hema Shah

3 years

MY TWINNY IS GOING TO BE ON JEOPARDY!! Make sure to tune in TOMORROW, July 7th - I know at least some of you nerds are #jeopardy fans👀

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Baby's First Years Paper alert!🧵🧵🧵 "The Impact of Monthly Unconditional Cash on Food Security, Spending, and Consumption: Three Year Follow-Up Findings from the Baby's First Years Study" w/ @MattWMaury , @laurarstil , and Baby's First Years (BFY) PI's⤵️

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Hema Shah

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"Unconditional cash transfers for families with children in the U.S.: a scoping review" forthcoming at REHO! @Gen_Pov and I review U.S. lit studying impacts of cash aid on family investment & children’s outcomes, with an eye to the growing evidence base 👀

Unconditional cash transfers for families with children in the U.S.: a scoping review

Review of Economics of the Household - Children represent the largest indirect beneficiaries of the U.S. social welfare system. Yet, many questions remain about the direct benefits of cash aid to...

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S. Grossbard edits Review of Econ of the Household

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now forthcoming in #REHO June 2024

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Some amazing news - My little sister Leela will be starting her MD/PhD at Wisconsin @UWMSTP this fall!! And yes, she’ll be on twitter soon if I have anything to do with it😊

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3 years

2 weeks till quals and I am straight up not having a good time

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Hello econ of ed twitter! I'm looking to form or join an @APPAM_DC panel related to college access, standardized testing, or student belief updating. I have a paper on college admissions testing strategy that needs a home - please DM me if interested! #econtwitter #2023APPAM

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just submitted my FIELD PAPER OMG

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Hema Shah

2 years

We celebrated my Nana’s 90th birthday this weekend! I am very very thankful to celebrate the man who taught me so much.

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Hema Shah

3 years

current mood: 1) loglinearization sucks 2) discouraged that econtwitter got in a debate today over whether gay people should have rights 3) feeling a sense of comraderie with the carpenter bee who hovers outside my window all day protecting his territory against wasps send help

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3 years

upgraded to stata 17 and i feel ~fancy~

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Hema Shah

2 years

A short thread about my great uncle Manesh, in honor of his 90th birthday celebration this past weekend. Manesh uncle is my grandfather’s older brother and was the first person in my family to come to America, via cargo ship, in the late 1950’s. 1/n

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2 years

A few more incredible Ben Bernanke outfits

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Decided I’m going to complain less on twitter now that first year is over! but first I have to let everyone know that a cicada landed in my hair less than 10 mins after I arrived in dc and I did not like it one bit

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3 years

My boyfriend ghostwrites all of my econ jokes

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!!! Reveal yourselves !!!

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Why haven’t I seen any tweets announcing PhD acceptances @DukeEcon ?? Incoming first years: reveal yourselves so I can aggressively congratulate & befriend you!!

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2 years

Congrats, well deserved

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At a bon iver concert. Have never seen so many tiny mustaches

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Hema Shah

6 months

En route to NOLA for the Southerns! Catch me presenting on Saturday and Monday and message me if you want to meet⚜️ #SEA2023 “College admissions testing and learning about ability: Evidence from strategic ACT and SAT taking” Saturday at 8:00 in Studio 2 1/2

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@DeanShamess @KhoaVuUmn @Gen_Pov thank you!

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Finished my last final exam of first year! To commemorate the occasion my mom painted this portrait and said it reminded her of me, a hardened graduate student. Thanks mom🙂

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Hema Shah

3 years

how do I get Abhijit Banerjee's cookbook in the us. drop link pls

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Hema Shah

8 months

Amazing opportunity for an experienced RA/data analyst interested in studying child poverty! Working with me is also a perk🤓

@IRP_UW

Poverty Research IRP

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📢IRP job opportunity! Research Analyst for the Baby's First Years study, a first-of-its-kind randomized controlled trial providing an unconditional cash transfer to low-income mothers during their children's early years. Apply by 10/9/23. More info:

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2 years

Real footage of an applied micro student working on their field paper

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Hema Shah

3 years

teaching myself R over winter break. today I learned how to make my graphs look like they were made in Stata. Life is good. #econtwitter

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Hema Shah

3 years

cleanest bathroom on campus? the ladies' room in the econ building on the faculty office floor 😐

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Hema Shah

2 years

Tomato day 2022 at @DurhamFarmerMkt warrants a self timer pic with my favorite purchase 🍅

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Hema Shah

7 months

So exciting!!! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

@NobelPrize

The Nobel Prize

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BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2023 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Claudia Goldin “for having advanced our understanding of women’s labour market outcomes.” #NobelPrize

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my students are taking their final in 1 hr! please drop your best motivational content in the comments

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Hema Shah

3 years

Currently thoughts - Most medical advice I follow is likely based on sketchy statistical methods and sample sizes like n=19 - I see no better alternative, unless someone teaches the medical people about p-values and standard errors - The future is bleak

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Hema Shah

3 years

I followed “the checklist” as an undergrad. I was extremely privileged to be able to do so. Why did I do it? I’d like to make someone’s life better, somehow, in some way. I’m still working on that part.

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At the end of the day, the only reason I went into economics was the hope my work had some chance of making a small difference in making the world a better place. If it weren't for that, I would never have pursued this career.

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signed up to ta for phd metrics next year but i still have to google "how to find eigenvalues" every single time

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Petition to remove the 18293021 parking lots between my apartment and Duke’s campus and replace them with : - more bus stops - a coffee shop - 2+ varieties of fast-casual bowl restaurants - an establishment that serves Alcohol

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@EconDaryl Totally agree with you here! I worry that the pre-doc market has unraveled to the point where a) only the most “prestigious” pre-docs get you a shot at the top 10 and b) you have to follow the insane list to even get a “prestigious” pre-doc position

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Nani’s Hoya is blooming for Mother’s Day🌸🌸🌸

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3 years

Thought it would be good for my mental health to take a study break and grab a beer. This is the song currently playing at the brewery so bye forever I’m never attempting another study break again

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@danascoot the real q is what do we do with beer-quiche? why can’t men eat quiche?? why would anyone have beer for breakfast??

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@Stata Send me stata socks pleaseeeee

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2 years

Casual morning texts from my mother, who is clearly handling her empty nester phase Very Normally

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3 years

Yesterday I read a diff-in-diff paper from 1995 and it sure felt like history to me

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Hema Shah

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@JaalaAlston fun fact: we call them oaxaca-blinder decompositions but the method was created by a woman sociologist, evelyn kitagawa, almost 20 years before oaxaca and blinder got around to it

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Hema Shah

3 years

I'm currently compiling a list of qualifying exam policies and covid modifications! If you're comfortable sharing info about your school's policy pls comment/DM I've already compiled info from @MelissaK_Moore survey and @evelyn_a_smith threads, thank you for your efforts:)

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Hema Shah

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do better bc u literally cannot do any worse💖 @DukeU

@DukeUClimate

Duke Climate Commitment

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This fall, @DukeU is updating its Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan in support of Climate Commitment goals and needs the input of faculty, staff, students and community members. Be sure to participate in the project improvement survey by October 11.

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2 years

DURHAM NC ON INDIAN MATCHMAKING OMG

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MY DADI AND DADA GOT THE FIRST DOSE!! just waiting on my nani and nana to bring the shah-kapur clan to a 100% grandparent vaccination rate

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Hema Shah

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That’s my bestie! #arthistorytwitter #museumtwitter

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Real-world evidence on guaranteed income in Durham @ninthstbakery !!

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3 years

How are your midterms going🙃

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2 years

Most importantly for my story, Manesh eventually brought the rest of his siblings to America. And, he brought us all together again to celebrate him last weekend. n/n ❤️

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Chatting about how we’re 24 today! 🎈

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Hema Shah

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That’s my twinny!!

@keshavshah_

Keshav Shah

1 year

I had a fantastic time presenting my work and co-chairing a session at the #TERMISAM2023 meeting in Boston! Many thanks to the organizers for putting together an amazing program. Looking forward to continued involvement with @TERMISAM @SyisTermis

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Hema Shah

1 year

in nyc for the summer & would love to meet econ twitter friends who are here! message me, internet acquaintances!

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3 years

my study group just welcomed a new member and it is a wholesome and happy time

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Hema Shah

4 months

New paper just dropped, but more importantly so did our new office door🐟 @catgonz_ @NUrdanetaA

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Hema Shah

4 years

Finally met (most of) my @DukeEcon cohort in person! Secret’s out: I’m the smallest one

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Hema Shah

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@J2dubyas To be clear, I’m not sure that Duke is uniquely “bad” at recruiting women. I think the problem lies somewhere in the way the economics profession selects and filters students (and this impacts all schools, not just Duke)

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Hema Shah

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Missed out on the cookies, but still got to engage in a thoughtful discussion about how the social safety net is shaped by changing perceptions of what constitutes “American values”

@Gen_Pov

Lisa A. Gennetian

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Taking time this summer to learn & reflect w/ @DukeSanford @dukechildpol scholars on #poverty in the U.S. & children (ChildPovertyResearch Summer team🙂); today launched Ch 1 "welfare is dead" in $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America by @profshaefer & @KathrynEdin ⬇️

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1 year

My home and my second home within 10 days …

@WTKR3

WTKR News 3

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UPDATE: Chesapeake Police have confirmed 7 fatalities, including the shooter at the Walmart on Sam's Circle last night. We'll keep you updated online and on air. MORE:

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Hema Shah

2 years

Also, this sort of statement typically comes with a healthy dose of condescension. send tweet

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Hema Shah

3 years

in the meantime buy my nani's cookbook for delicious punjabi recipes

Cooking for Life Cooking for Delight

This cookbook with simple, easy-to-follow recipes focuses on restoring balance with proper understanding of how to use herbs and spices. Food is not just for the palate; it has to satisfy and appeal...

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Excited to read this book bc I want a job one day

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I’ll spare the details of Nana’s story (survived displacement during partition, moved to America, brought the rest of the family to NYC, had a successful career, etc). But, I can’t resist sharing this gem from his days at @BancoNacion . Hoping to make this banker proud😊

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This program is awesome! Prospective economics PhD students- apply by August 25th for help with your applications from a current Duke student. Maybe you’ll get lucky and be matched with me😝

@jeremy_lebow

Jeremy Lebow

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1/3 Last year @DukeEcon PhD students launched the Graduate Mentorship Program – an opportunity for people from under-represented backgrounds in Economics to get advice on the PhD application process from current PhD students. This year it’s back! The deadline to apply is Aug 25

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2 years

Question for #econtwitter and #edpolicy people: Do students who intermittently qualify for free or reduced-price lunch qualify for SAT/ACT fee waivers? Example: If I was FRPL eligible in 10th grade but not in 11th/12th when I want take the SAT, am I out of luck?

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Triangle-dwellers, my apartment is overflowing with plants. Pls dm if interested in a free baby begonia🌱

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Hema Shah

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Manesh uncle was also the first person in the family to earn a PhD. He studied chemical engineering at @UCBerkeley and had a successful career at @IBM . He learned FORTRAN in the 1960’s, which also makes him the family’s first coder. 3/n

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@NikhilBasavappa Me rn. so far I’ve got the fisher equation down and that’s it

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Hema Shah

2 years

University communications offices: please keep public-facing commentary positive and productive Economists: no :)

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Hema Shah

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hello, #econtwitter ! my grandmother has informed me that she would like to learn about cryptocurrency - any recommendations for primers on the subject, appropriate for someone with an undergrad economics degree from ~1955? (don't worry y'all, nani will not be buying bitcoin)

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Real footage of me slowly losing my mind🌀live love Matlab🌀🌀🌀

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Hema Shah

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To conclude: 🔹The U.S. is embarking on a # of experiments 🔹?s regarding optimal transfer size & eligibility remain unanswered. More research is needed! 🔹By allowing families to address needs while respecting dignity, unconditional cash can unleash investments in children n/n

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Why does Tillamook Creamery have a more functional public transit network than Durham?

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