Vic Marsh, Ph.D.

DIVERSITY | Postdoc @GenderEconomy | PhD | x-diplomat @StateDept | Profile pic? Tweeted on Jan 6th.

[Vic Marsh, Ph.D. @vicmarsh]

Not liking DEI staff jobs ≠ the people in those jobs are bad at accomplishing more diversity. Compared to the average chief Risk officer at a bank, the average diversity staffer is doing more effective work at the goal society as their job description.

[Jennifer Doleac @jenniferdoleac]

I can’t wait to read this.

A big challenge in dealing with sexual misconduct in academia is that too many (mostly male) professors think it has no long-term consequences. They can’t understand how it could. “So she had a bad day? We’ve all had bad days. Shake it off.”

Economists know to take our disagreements to the data. I think this matters and you don’t? Let’s run the numbers.

Research like this is showing that bad behavior has real and lasting consequences — for individuals and the field. I hope it changes minds and priorities. We can’t keep sweeping this stuff under the rug.

[Angelica 🌐⚛️🇹🇼🇨🇳🇺🇸 @AngelicaOung]

A lot of people support affirmative action earlier on in a student’s development but not for higher programs and posts. It gives the disadvantaged a leg up…but you don’t get “DEI docs.”

Counterintuitively, the Chinese imperial exams did affirmative action the other way around. To prevent the slots from being dominated by coastal provinces, it did affirmative action, but only on the “last gate.”

300 years of records analyzed by Melanie Meng Xue of LSE suggested this affirmative action didn’t impact candidate quality and the ripple of its positive impacts on equity can be seen to this day.

Melanie hypothesized that by only applying affirmative action at the last gate, substandard students were weeded out early and people aren’t given an incentive to slack if they are from an advantaged province.

[Sasha Gusev @SashaGusevPosts]

So the race-IQ stuff is not just an intoxicating hobby, but actively makes one worse at understanding how the world actually works. A kind of collective p-hacking that requires regular epicycles and retcons to keep afloat.

As the saying goes ...

[Sasha Gusev @SashaGusevPosts]

Hanania advocated passionately against "race mixing" for years, so he knows what he's talking about here. But it's worth adding that race-IQ obsessives also tend to make very poor predictions about the future. Let's review ...

[Vic Marsh, Ph.D. @vicmarsh]

@GreenDotBank @Wealthfront @hannahdlang This is the structural problem with fintechs and partner banks: no one takes full responsibility when something goes wrong. The money’s real. The silence is not acceptable.

[Vic Marsh, Ph.D. @vicmarsh]

Transfer initiated April 1 through @Wealthfront, and the funds still haven’t arrived. The receiving bank, @GreenDotBank, keeps saying “we opened a case” with no resolution. I’ve called 4 times. No interest, no access to my savings. I can’t pay my bills. #bankfail #failedbank

[Vic Marsh, Ph.D. @vicmarsh]

@GreenDotBank @Wealthfront @hannahdlang .@GreenDotBank referred me to a phone line that requires a 16-digit Green Dot card number. As a @Wealthfront customer, I don’t have a Green Dot card — just a stuck transfer you already failed to trace.
Fintech users deserve real support, not a dead-end phone tree.

[Vic Marsh, Ph.D. @vicmarsh]

@GreenDotBank @Wealthfront @hannahdlang .@GreenDotBank Thanks for the DM — but referring me back to @Wealthfront after already confirming you can’t find the funds is not helpful. The loop between fintech and *partner bank* is the problem. We provided additional trace data. This needs real follow-through, not PR triage.

[Vic Marsh, Ph.D. @vicmarsh]

@GreenDotBank @Wealthfront I wonder if @hannahdlang might find this interesting. FinTech “partner institutions” run amok, with a technology stack for customer care that is all about emails to a middleman WealthFront. It’s bizarre.

[Vic Marsh, Ph.D. @vicmarsh]

@Wealthfront @GreenDotBank Been dealing with an unresolved transfer issue for 10 days between @Wealthfront and @GreenDotBank. No access to funds, no accountability, and a support team that says they “can’t call” their own banking partner. Story here? #bankfail

[Vic Marsh, Ph.D. @vicmarsh]

@Wealthfront calls itself tech-forward, but says it can’t even call @GreenDotBank — their own partner — to resolve a 10-day-old transfer issue. I earn no interest while my money sits in limbo, but I bet someone does. This isn’t innovation. It’s negligence. #bankfail #failedbank

[Vic Marsh, Ph.D. @vicmarsh]

@AllyBank is holding a significant amount of our savings — transfer requested April 1, still no funds on April 9. Repeatedly told ‘1–3 business days.’ This delay is unacceptable. Escalate immediately.

[Andy Kim @AndyKimNJ]

In 2020 I was one of 7 dems that won a district that Trump won, so I held a series of listening sessions with people who voted for Trump and voted for me to understand their actions. I reread the transcripts yesterday and much of it felt like it could have been said today. THREAD

[Will Stancil @whstancil]

all of twitter: "don't analyze exit polls"

*exit polls drop*

*all of twitter immediately begins analyzing exit polls*

[BuccoCapital Bloke @buccocapital]

Whenever I'm stressed at work because my boss is being unreasonable I remember the emails Donald Rumsfeld used to send to his staff

[Paul Fairie @paulisci]

A Brief History of Nobody Reads Anymore

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[Jacob Edenhofer 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @edenhofer_jacob]

Let me celebrate today's Nobel Prize for Acemoglu, Robinson, and Johnson by summarising the work of the first two laureates on the relationship between inequality and democratisation. In fact, AR kicked off the literature on redistributive theories of democratisation. 1/n

[Vic Marsh, Ph.D. @vicmarsh]

@jenniferdoleac @cblatts lol - I need some. No poker face here.

[Jennifer Pahlka @pahlkadot]

The top 10 democracy-focused organizations are surviving on around $200M/yr, about what the Sierra Club alone spends. There is a dramatic underinvestment by philanthropy in the much needed structural reform work. https://t.co/Jbgg3pPQUa