Linh Tô

Assistant Professor @bu_economics
.(not) on Twitter since 2010.
..on Bluesky (linhto)..

[Kyle Greenberg @greenberg_k]

This full-time, pre-doc RA position working with labor, public, and education economists in OEMA and the Economics Program at West Point is an excellent opportunity to develop skills and work with a great team. https://t.co/a8ppnaMOKd
@econ_ra @predoc_org

[Linh Tô @linhtto]

Reach out to your students even if you're not getting the $500 incentive!

[Linh Tô @linhtto]

New AEJ Pol: @secarrell and @mkurlaender show that acknowledgment and care from authority figures can make a big difference for underrepresented students (Black and Latinx first years). Similar principles could also help increase persistence in econ among underrepresented groups.

[Linh Tô @linhtto]

Per @tony_jack, "doubly disadvantaged" students are much less likely to reach out or seek help. Socioeconomic disadvantage is "less immediately detectable" (@annastansbury @Rschultzzy JEP) so we need to proactively create supportive environments to address these hidden barriers.

[Linh Tô @linhtto]

What's maybe a little more scary is how the original image published in JECH 2006 (see Alt text) has only 3 Google cites despite being seen hundreds of thousands of times on X (but not this post).

[Linh Tô @linhtto]

🔔🎃👻 When the normal distribution goes trick-or-treating... Meet the 'paranormal' distribution! #BellCurve #BooCurve

[Linh Tô @linhtto]

🐝🐝🔄💡Two coauthors working together to uncover this Fanta-stic research bee like: sometimes you have to go in circles first!

[Linh Tô @linhtto]

As the latest @nberpubs working papers roll out today, I'm excited to share some new work, building on Claudia Goldin's "Why Women Won" from last week—remarkably released the same day as her Nobel Prize win! #EconTwitter #EconX #FirstTweet #FirstX

[NBER @nberpubs]

How, when, and why women in the US obtained legal rights equal to men’s regarding the workplace, marriage, family, SS, credit markets, and elsewhere in the economy, from @PikaGoldin https://t.co/LZ6r7odqdl