Professor of Economics and Simon S. Selig Jr. Chair for Economic Growth at the University of Georgia. Life is about tradeoffs. #GoDawgs
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“At its core, economics is a framework for problem-solving that allows us to model and understand optimal behavior.”
Congratulations to Josh Kinsler on his recent appointment as head of the Department of Economics at the @UniversityofGA.
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An estimated 26.7M people worldwide are caught in human trafficking situations.
The UGA-based Center on Human Trafficking Research & Outreach pairs social work with economics to curb the impact & unwind this far reaching shadow economy.
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#EconTwitter, my student Pablo Troncoso (@PabloATroncoso1) is on the market this year. In his job market paper, Pablo studies the impact of 2008 pension expansion in Chile on labor supply of older workers, using admin & survey data 🧵1/
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Productive day in the office at @TerryCollege. We produced 2 PhDs. Dr Scott Spitze is going to Burning Glass Tech and Dr Fan Liang @liangfan0911 is going to @LoyolaMarymount. Very proud of both and will miss them.
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John M. Abowd (@john_abowd), Edmund Ezra Day Professor Emeritus of Economics, Statistics and Data Science @Cornell, is interviewed by @ianschmutte and @larsvil in the latest issue of International Statistical Review (@IntStat).
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ALT John M. Abowd
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If you teach prob/stats to first-year PhD students, and you want to prepare them to really understand regression, go light on measure theory, counting, combinatorics, distributions. Emphasize conditional expectations, linear projections, convergence results.
@metricstotheface.
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#EconTwitter Let's welcome @carolcaetanoUGA!!! Carol is a phenomenal Econometrician working on the frontiers between econometric methods and important applications! RDD, IV, Bunching, you name it!
Check it out: carolinacaetano.net/
@carolcaetanoUGA, glad you are here!
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Read about our paper in @voxeu estimate: saved 81000 jobs: The impact of government aid to firms in the COVID-19 pandemic | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal @CBS_ECON @CBScph #CBSinequality @ianschmutte @danielascur voxeu.org/article/impact-gov…
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Terry graduates, we're celebrating you!
Our plans may have changed over the last few weeks, but Terry students are always top of mind.
Click the link to view our Virtual Convocation program:
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#UGA20 #UGAGrad
Chris Cornwell retweeted
Here is a photo of an undetermined Georgia Tech home game during the 1918 college football season. That's when the sport was hit by the Spanish flu and the end of World War I. The photo was taken by a student, Thomas Carter. It was provided by Georgia Tech alumnus Andy McNeal.
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Here's a thread of all the statements I've seen from colleges about what they're planning for the pandemic'd fall semester 👇🏻
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We couldn’t be prouder of you all, Bailey, Jordan and Zach! Go do even greater things!
Congratulations to Bailey Palmer, Jordan Peeples and Zach Weingarten who are among nine UGA undergraduates awarded graduate fellowships this year by the National Science Foundation!
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@ianschmutte is switching up his grad labor course to be entirely COVID-19 readings. I wonder if maybe a Google Sheets as well as responses could be helpful? Might be a good public good to just get a list. Feel free to edit these fields. docs.google.com/spreadsheets…
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Today is the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, and we're sharing this research from @btikofer & Meghan M. Skira on medical innovation and labor supply. What happened when a new drug for chronic joint pain was released in Norway? Read on here: bit.ly/2PeaJq6
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“People get sick over time, and it has a negative effect on earnings.”
Svetlana Pashchenko, assoc. prof. of economics at the @UniversityofGA, quoted in 7 Ways Being Unhealthy Costs You Millions of Dollars Over Your Lifetime
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"Why don't more young women study economics?" Interview with Emi Nakamura of @UCBerkeley, winner of John Bates Clark Medal.
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