Neha Betai

PhD Student @GWUEconomics | Amateur Indian Classical Dancer | Sleep enthusiast

[Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs]

All academics fantasize of either opening a bakery or escaping to a remote cabin in the mountains

[Soham @king26_sk]

mumbai local at 9am is the closest i’ve come to being added to a zip file

[Adam Ozimek @ModeledBehavior]

Good news is AI will soon be smart enough to figure out how many jobs AI is going to take.

[Neha Betai @NehaBetai]

Why are these robots so relatable? 😭

[Humanoid Intelligence @HumanoidsHQ]

These are some of the things you should NOT do.

[Khoa Vu @KhoaVuUmn]

When you are not a macroeconomist, nor a microeconomist, but rather a mediocreconomist.

[Khoa Vu @KhoaVuUmn]

Before AI, I can only have about 5 unfinished papers and 1 polished paper. AI boosted my productivity so much that I now have 136 unfinished papers and 1 polished paper.

[Pessimists Archive @PessimistsArc]

You either die a disruptor, or live long enough to see yourself become an incumbent

[Sam Rose @samwhoo]

StackOverflow graph of questions asked per month.

Holy shit.

[Shruti Rajagopalan @srajagopalan]

In the seventh and final episode of the 2025 job market series of the @IdeasofIndia @mercatus I spoke with @Lavanya__Ammu @GWUEconomics. We spoke about financial liberalization and the impact of the 2004 banking reform that increased the ceiling on raising foreign equity.

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

“You dream of having a good career but this is over and on top of that. It’s a great surprise and honour.”

Daron Acemoglu (@DAcemogluMIT) reacting to the news of his prize in economic sciences today. Congratulations to our new laureate!

#NobelPrize

[Markets & Mayhem @Mayhem4Markets]

30 just ain't what it used to be

[Hadas Weiss @weiss_hadas]

ever since i was a little girl i wanted to fill a gap in the literature

[Jason, ex Inferis @benedictsred]

I’ve never used a semicolon with 100% confidence.

[chloe gibbs @chloergibbs]

Not saying that I think about this paper almost daily, and not not saying that, perhaps because...

"Women in Science: Lessons from the Baby Boom"
@Petramoser6 & Scott Daewon Kim (R&R, Econometrica)
https://t.co/PAGOTsS0KF

[Stefanie Stantcheva @S_Stantcheva]

Incredibly moving and exciting to see the amazing @PikaGoldin receive her Nobel Prize! We are so lucky to have her as a colleague and friend.

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

And here’s a piece I did last year looking at how the US’s life expectancy deficit would look if drugs, guns, road deaths or obesity could be magicked away

https://t.co/CcTlCYzuMd

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

I think that bears repeating. *The average American* has the same chance of a long and healthy life as someone born in the most deprived part of England, a place with the highest rates of relationship breakdown and some of the highest rates of antidepressant prescribing.

[Ana Costa-Ramón @anacostaramon]

We use admin data from Denmark and exploit variation in the timing of pill initiation in an event study design. One quarter after the first pill prescription, the prob of a psychiatric visit and a depression diagnosis ⬆️ by 17% and 40%. The prob of antidepressant use⬆️ by 65%.