Farnaz Nasiri

Econ @penn_state

[Gonzalo Ballestero @ballesterogh]

I am sharing a set of slides from my lecture on agentic AI tools for Applied Economists at @penn_state. Materials are available here: https://t.co/2tcpPY4uhS

This builds on this thread and great work by Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, @aniketapanjwani, and @VelikovMihail

[SugarSpicedxdy @SugarSpicedxdy]

Constantly torn between "there's no harm in reaching out" and "the world will end if I send one more text than necessary".

[Farnaz Nasiri @Farn_Nasiri]

@NicholasD91704 feeling the same way abt my undergrad years. No one ever told me I needed to take my studies seriously :)) Seems so obvious now, but back then I just had no idea. Wouldn’t have wasted those years if I knew.

[Melissa S. Kearney @kearney_melissa]

Very excited for this paper to be forthcoming at JEL!
We learned so much working on this project and are indebted to the many excellent scholars whose work we draw on, who participated in the @nberpubs conferences on fertility, and who carefully (and anonymously) reviewed drafts and pushed us to clarify and deepen our thinking-

[John Cochrane @JohnHCochrane]

Refine. A rave review of the economist paper-improving program.
https://t.co/c5ju02IPmH

[Farnaz Nasiri @Farn_Nasiri]

@tennisalt @Sugarc0ating Same! Can’t believe it

[NYC Photographer @NYCkopp]

Amazing “Snow Mannequin” created by Colette Komm in Central Park, New York City

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

One of the most stunning looking animations ever made - Disney's ONE HUNDRED AND ONE DALMATIANS (1961).

[Farnaz Nasiri @Farn_Nasiri]

.@THON 2026
#ForTheKids

[Tyler Donohue @TDsTake]

Donkoh: "Nobody is being forced to donate or stand for 48 hours. People are going out of their way to help people that are struggling in life and need help and need answers and need a cure for whatever they're dealing with. That's the biggest thing @THON represents — humility."

[Farnaz Nasiri @Farn_Nasiri]

@mandynmurphy So inspiring ! 48 hours is no joke

[Penn State CommRadio @PSUCommRadio]

THON 2026 is underway, and the National Act was performed by a guest performer.

Read about it below:
https://t.co/SqDjsA0Afn

[Farnaz Nasiri @Farn_Nasiri]

Nights at a place I’m slowly falling for!

[Dave DiCello @DaveDiCello]

A few more frames from Penn State a few weeks ago, this time on film. These were shot on CineStill and KodaColor which is why they have different tones to them, but I really like how both sets came out, especially the first one of Old Main.

[Farnaz Nasiri @Farn_Nasiri]

Being at a Lunar New Year party and I found so much in common with Nowruz (the Iranian New Year). House cleaning, symbolic fruits, money for kids, new clothes. Same vibes!

[John A. List @Econ_4_Everyone]

I have recently received several DMs from both first year grad students and first year assistant professors. The link is not surprising because there is a specific kind of vertigo that comes with Year 1 of grad school and Year 1 of a professorship. It's the gap between who you think you should be and who you feel like you are in the moment, where two worlds collide:

The Imposter Syndrome: "They're going to realize I'm just guessing."
The Uncertainty: "There is no map for this, and I'm the one driving."

For all of those out there, please hear me: the first year isn't a test of your intelligence; it's a test of your endurance through the "I don't know" phase.

But I want to go further than just reassurance, because reassurance alone doesn't build anything.

That discomfort you're feeling? It's actually diagnostic information. It means you're operating at the frontier of what you know, which is exactly where you're supposed to be in a research career. The people who never feel that discomfort are often the ones playing it too safe with their questions.

And the fog doesn't just clear on its own. It clears because you do specific things: you read papers you don't fully understand and struggle through them anyway. You sit in seminars feeling lost and eventually start recognizing the shape of arguments. You write terrible first drafts and revise them into less terrible drafts. The endurance isn't just emotional, it's the endurance to keep doing the work when the feedback loop is painfully delayed.

One more thing: there actually are maps. Advisors, reading lists, established literatures, methodological frameworks. The real challenge is that nobody hands you the map. You have to go find it and figure out which one applies to your particular problem. That's a learnable skill, not a character trait.

So yes, you are not broken. But pair that knowledge with this: start building the thing you're missing. Find the map. Do the next hard read. Write the next bad draft.

The fog clears for the people who keep walking through it. I'm rooting for you.

[Farnaz Nasiri @Farn_Nasiri]

In my case, it already works once I find a good research question. :))

[Scholarship for PhD @ScholarshipfPhd]

Chapter 6

[Nicholas Decker @captgouda24]

As I argue today, many economists should see themselves as reporters.

https://t.co/751EPahnSw

[Ben Golub @ben_golub]

stories about people told with eigenvalues

[Research Platform Mobile Cultures & Societies @MobilityStudies]

Excited to welcome @lvpraag next month to share research about #Migration & #EnvironmentalChange in Morocco 🇲🇦!

🗓 Wed, December 13, 5pm UTC+1
💻 hybrid: in-person at Hofburg & online via Zoom
🔗 https://t.co/MyEnyZyI1r

#MobilityStudies #MobilityLecture #AcademicTwitter

[Farnaz Nasiri @Farn_Nasiri]

@ScientistsLift I also took a course that my TA took it one year after me.😁

[Javad Shamsi @mjavadshamsi]

My new paper on #sanctions is now published as a WP and featured in a @VoxEU column. Using a text-based approach, I explore the impact of multi-layered sanctions on firms.
WP: [https://t.co/hCdGYRSUbK]
VoxEU: [https://t.co/vEgzZOx1IX]
A short 🧵 below 👇 1/9