Susan Silbey is a @MITanthropology@MITSloan professor whose award-winning research examines how people interact with law in their work and personal lives.
Silbey teaches two MITx courses. This women's history month we're celebrating her contributions https://t.co/Y4kAU0YhZv
Congratulations to @TomKochan@MIT_IWER@MITSloan, who has just been named one of the Charter 30—a list of “30 cutting-edge researchers, visionary leaders, and outside-the-box innovators who are helping us understand and reimagine the modern workplace.”
https://t.co/KfEifonN6G
Throwing it back to a delightful and positive lunch & learn session where we heard from Dr. Bina Patel
about the power of micro affirmations.💡Let’s revisit those moments of insight and inspiration! #TBT https://t.co/1FHqcXKAQv
How bad is the lack of socio-economic diversity in economics? Read our Q&A with Stone Center Affiliated Scholar @annastansbury about how economics compares with 14 major disciplines on 1st-generation college grads & how this intersects with race. @MITSloan https://t.co/y7qTtSiPjR
Could private equity improve workers' job quality? Not without “a massive shift in what private equity firms have traditionally done,” @TomKochan@MIT_IWER@MITSloan told The Job newsletter; he noted private equity's “track record of negative effects.” https://t.co/dSGfIR3c1S
18/ Will economists expand the scope of their diversity-boosting efforts to include inequality along the dimension of class? This paper by @annastansbury and @Rschultzzy showing the gaps in attainment by SES is important.
https://t.co/oP6rqGTkZI
"You’ve got to put employees’ personal needs out front and deal with them at the same time that you’re dealing with the organizational strategies and structures.” – Lotte Bailyn, professor emerita @MITSloan
https://t.co/UJITC6tQ3o
Today is the birthday of @MIT_alumni Ellen Swallow Richards, who 150 years ago became the first woman to graduate from @MIT. She was a pioneer in water quality testing and human ecology; read about her in this month's @MIT_IWER newsletter: https://t.co/9D0RxWMfCE
Join us and @binapatelphd today at 12pm on Zoom for a 30-min skill-builder session to learn about micro-affirmations. For those who can't make it, the program will be recorded. Register here!⬇️ https://t.co/vw2YkbnZoz
New research by Lisa Berkman @HarvardPopCtr, @_elkelly @MIT_IWER@MITSloan, et al. finds that improving work-life balance & increasing workplace flexibility reduces cardiovascular disease risk for higher-risk employees: https://t.co/QL35aMczCF
Trending in #Economics:
https://t.co/TQYzRmOXLI
1) The Economics Profession’s Socioeconomic Diversity Problem
2) Homeowner politics & housing supply (@JUrbanEcon)
3) My Professor Cares: Experimental Evidence on the Role of Faculty Engagement
4) Effects of Maturing Private School Choice Programs on Public School Students
5) Beyond Teachers: Estimating Individual School Counselors’ Effects on Educational Attainment
"The Economics Profession's Socioeconomic Diversity Problem" w/ @Rschultzzy is now out in the JEP
Here's the paper:
https://t.co/gBNi4b5fXY
And here's our Twitter thread on the WP version - published version has new data up to 2021
https://t.co/zCJJ32PvmY
MIT's IWER & DUSP hosted a #LaborSpring Teach-In comparing the Starbuck's stonewalling bargaining with a successful first contract at Forge Baking Company, a locally owned coffee house. Let's all support good labor relations (and great food)when we see it!