Sonia Jaffe

Economist at Microsoft

[Sonia Jaffe @spjaffe]

This week I presented at an IN-PERSON conference😲

[Sonia Jaffe @spjaffe]

@ModeledBehavior @ecarl_economics Share of employment in finance (east coast) and share in tech (west coast)?

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@ATabarrok If you adjust for age the difference flips back
https://t.co/QIsDNTIJ2z

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@MichelleKlieger Unless brand image matters for consumer welfare -- consumers who purchase get more utility from a widgit they own/buy when the brand image is higher. So not necessarily inefficient. (If it doesn't affect consumer value, why would the brand care?)

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It also contains guest slides from experts on work and work technology from around the world, including
@msbernst, @I_Am_NickBloom, @ethanbernstein, @Nathanbenaich, @gloriamark09 and many others!

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It's hard to stay up-to-date on all the amazing future of work research that is happening right now. So, working with people around Microsoft, we put together a deck summarizing the research on the many ways work is changing: https://t.co/6Yu6lsmKrY #newfutureofwork

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We're hiring! https://t.co/nEDMIPm5M2

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@JlibDoesEcon That would require authors who got a 'reject' from a lower tier journal to turn around and submit to a higher tier one, which I think is generally pretty hard to justify

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@UChicago Seriously? You think it's not safe to walk around HP by yourself during the day? I've heard it's gotten a bit worse since I lived there, but that seems like a major over reaction

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@benzipperer Would it be better to have some kind of coordinated feedback/petition process? Or just a bunch of individuals emailing to say they think it's a bad idea?

[Scott Hechinger @ScottHech]

THREAD: This is a story about how police are frontline propagandists. It starts with a violent robbery at a men’s clothing store in Manhattan. It ends w/ NYPD responding, but refusing to investigate. Then lying that no one would face any consequences bc of “reform.” Read on:

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Come work with us to study the effects of hybrid work

[Siddharth (Sid) Suri @ssuri]

I'm looking for a great PhD intern to use causal inference techniques to understand the effects of hybrid work on information workers. We'll be using large-scale telemetry data to study collaboration networks and collaboration media and tying them to business outcomes.

[Mame-Fatou Niang @MameFatouNiang]

When Mary Shelley wrote #Frankenstein in 1818 (aged 19), neither Jules Verne, nor Welles were born yet (Allan Poe was 9).

A teenage girl wrote what is still considered today the 1st science fiction novel. This article continues the long tradition of erasing her.

[Sonia Jaffe @spjaffe]

We're hiring! If you want to join a collaborative team doing interesting applied work (research & internal projects), check it out: https://t.co/NutB705ziu
(Applications due 11/15)

[Jaime Teevan @jteevan]

Research into post-covid work makes one thing crystal clear: Productivity isn't just about getting more done. As work moves hybrid, workplaces must center wellbeing, relationships, and innovation. New piece by @spjaffe, @bhecht and me in HBR today: https://t.co/HfRbTZzjOo

[Sonia Jaffe @spjaffe]

Our paper, just published in @NatureHumBehav, uses diff-in-diff to separate the effects of remote work from COVID-19. Remote work causes more siloed communication between workers, more time spent on IM and email, and, surprisingly, less time in meetings. https://t.co/Mp6daIxKBe

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@ben_golub In WA it is standard for house offers to include "escalation clauses" where you offer to pay x (e.g. $1000) more than the any other equivalent/credible offer, up to a max of y. First price -> second price auction

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Thoughts on getting job applications through AEA JOE vs econjobmarket? I found econjobmarket pretty annoying and am tempted to switch, but it had some useful features, so I could imagine AEA JOE is worse. #EconTwitter

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Seems like there has to be some truth to this, but is selection also playing a role? Did Radio get to 50% as quickly as the internet?

[ColorOfChange @ColorOfChange]

.@POTUS told us he would be the President to end mass incarceration. Instead he’s sending thousands of our elders back to prison.

Read more here: https://t.co/InP8Gw7bcS