@Bizresearch_CP@CalPoly @OrfaleaCollege What a beautiful gift from my students! Thank you so much. I feel lucky to work with such an incredible group of young people 💚
@marcfbellemare @galinahale_ucsc It sounds like you are thinking of natural language processing and topic classification (as opposed to topic modeling)? You want to do supervised learning and will have keywords? Might help to clarify. I've heard good things about NLTK and gensim
**How socioeconomically diverse is the economics profession?**
New @PIIE working paper by @SchultzzyRun & myself, building on some stats I showed in an (unexpectedly viral!) Twitter thread in November.
10 Key Facts - and some discussion - below:
https://t.co/TF9P7ReGbA
@deMouraBernardo@simon_jaeger@DrDaronAcemoglu I wondered about this, too. On p21:
Following a switch to business manager, return on assets increases by ~ 3 percentage points (US) / 1.5 percentage point in Denmark. Higher profits also translate into higher stock market prices...a significant increase in shareholder returns
1/ Wanted to do an #EconTwitter 🧵 on a new + important topic that's growing in the literature: rigorous evidence about how policy-makers use + respond to evidence! Most of these papers are very recent, many still WP
I find animations useful to teach metrics to undergrads. I believe it improves understanding to see what goes on. Here is a thread with my favorite GIFs, most of them are re-makes of stuff from #EconTwitter.
@N_Ulibarri Our paper coming out soon in @JEEM_tweets points to energy assistance in summer as vital: low-income households aren't as able to increase electricity spending on AC in response to extreme heat: https://t.co/q3BXWJuUHt
@CalPoly check out this year's upcoming series of Women in #Data#Science conferences, which feature outstanding #women doing outstanding work in the field of data science 📊 All genders are invited. #EconTwit
Register here! https://t.co/Hf5JurHVCv @WiDS_Worldwide
Here is a cool hidden curriculum thing that I just learned...
Say you got rejected from a journal, but one of the referees obviously put a lot of time into their report and you found it really helpful.
You can send an anonymous thank you note to the referee via the editor.
@UofLEcon Not a PRJ, but a student senior project tested if being randomly assigned to a female instructor in principles affected female student retention in econ and whether class size mattered. Class size also randomly assigned. Retention improved, bigger effects for smaller class sizes
If you have an URM undergraduate who is interested in an Economics PHD, then here is an opportunity. Deadline for applications is coming up, Jan. 15
Here is the link to apply https://t.co/65kF5ZaQ4I
I will point out this program received @AEACSMGEP diversity incentive grant.