anna c

iconomist (in training) ✨predoc @PrincetonEcon, grad of @ubcVSE

part-time professional intl. advocate for the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

[anna c @annakcher]

@DrZersetzung Is it evil that I like this type of hypothetical question because I feel like it could be so revealing. i would hate getting it though id probably respond that I don’t believe in assigning blame to one party like that

[anna c @annakcher]

@iammaryoliver One side is too bulky and too prone to the prongs slipping out of the punch hole, splitting them is the way to go fr

[seiya @systole_]

It’s not right for any animal to have the word Common in their name .. they’re all special to me

[anna c @annakcher]

@KevinJCow Yea makes more sense to me when it’s smaller elite private schools not reporting them, but I would think that in the long term it puts graduates at a disadvantage once the extent of grade inflation is known. I don’t think it’s in the interest of public unis to hide this info tho

[anna c @annakcher]

Seeing so many things about grade inflation and it baffles me there are still places that don't report class average on student transcripts. If every school put class avg + avg major gpa + overall university gpa, so much information asymmetry would be resolved

[anna c @annakcher]

@drea88 Regionalism is huge in the west, a significant amount of identity is rooted in “not being Ontario” to the point where ppl roll with whatever perception they have, whether true or not. Kinda understandable bc you hear about Toronto so much in the media & I think that annoys ppl

[anna c @annakcher]

this is one area in which my alma mater (UBC) stays winning because they do put the course averages on the transcript in percentage terms

[Khoa Vu @KhoaVuUmn]

Trade economists will have to find another job.

[Jeffrey Wooldridge @jmwooldridge]

Everybody’s talkin’ ‘bout the new diff-in-diffs but it’s still two-way FE to me.

[rat king 🐀 @MikeIsaac]

maybe the most succinctly beautiful explanation of what a short is that i’ve ever seen

[Fizza @fizzasuhel]

Me (in initial yrs of PhD): I am just starting and I'm passionate about this ques. I'm gonna read, think, discuss and develop hypothesis+ get hands dirty with empirics.
Meanwhile econ twitter: if you are not vibe coding, developing a full paper in 22 mins with claude code and +

[anna c @annakcher]

It’s crazy how viruses work. I got super sick last week, recovered to a point where I felt 75% fine, and then last night started hacking so hard that I actually think I pulled a rib muscle. Now I am crazy dizzy. Like is it a different virus or can a cold just… do that???

[reia 💕💫 @reiaposting]

the canadian century is now.

[janna @silvqcre]

carol sturka:

[Kris Gulati @krisgulati]

The data collection effort for this is insane and results still stay in the back of my mind when I’m in seminars.

[anna c @annakcher]

therapy is just unpacking what’s cooked into your person fixed effect

[anna c @annakcher]

and I still get them wrong

[anna c @annakcher]

gre is literally like “oh can you do 15 math questions in 26 minutes? btw if you get one of them wrong you’re not going to grad school” and then the questions are like if someone threw my lowest effort high school math tutoring problems in a blender

[Errai @errai]

"The weather" is not small talk. Weather is vast, beautiful, and mysterious. We are never really ready to talk about the clouds

[anna c @annakcher]

(these men were being respectful, but still, always some interesting seminar dynamics. cool paper btw: https://t.co/9GxMT8I1ZF)

[anna c @annakcher]

As an introverted, generally quiet woman who (sometimes, not always) feels like seminars are deeply scary because of how intense the questions can get this is quite validating lol

[AEA Journals @AEAjournals]

Forthcoming in the AER: "Gender Differences in Economics Seminars" by Pascaline Dupas, Amy Handlan, Alicia Sasser Modestino, Muriel Niederle, Mateo Seré, Haoyu Sheng, Justin Wolfers, and Seminar Dynamics Collective. https://t.co/NZDANDK1RL

[anna c @annakcher]

+ random anecdote but this & the lit on who asks questions always reminds me of this time I attended a presentation on gendered coauthorship networks, almost felt compelled to ask some Qs during, didn’t, spoke to the presenter after, & she noted it was ~90% men asking things