Zach Swaziek

Minnesota Econ PhD candidate.
Research Analyst @OIGInstitute.
@UWBusiness & @WIEconomics Alum.

[Alejandro C. García @agcintado]

Terrific project -- PhD Macro Book https://t.co/j1cGIUnu6w

[Asjad Naqvi @AsjadNaqvi]

The #DiD website's #Winter2023 update is here with tons of new packages and code.

It is still being updated but a LOT of new information has been added and the page has been cleaned up. It should now also load faster.

https://t.co/PYsg1N36iB

#EconTwitter

Summary 👇

[Thomas Jørgensen @tjeconomics1]

I tought a new grad/phd course last term:

“Household Behavior over the Life Cycle”.

Focus is dynamic labor and family economics.

Suggestions for (structural) papers to include are very welcome. So is all feedback.

#EconTwitter

https://t.co/BX2y9MkhWI

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

Here’s another way of showing the same thing:

Beyond age 70, US mortality/survival rates are very similar to other rich countries. But between teenage years and early middle age there is a vast gulf.

[Interim Chancellor Eric M. Wilcots @uwchancellor]

I share with great sadness: Our community has lost a brilliant leader.

Chancellor Emerita Blank worked tirelessly to make @UWMadison stronger.

She improved so many lives as a scholar, in government, and leading our great university for 9 years.

https://t.co/30W8FP8xCI

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Oh man, another example of why you should never just drop data points because they don’t fit.

Why didn’t we find all of these balloons and (maybe) other weird flying vehicles until now? Our sensors were likely tuned to filter out anything moving slowly.

[Abigail Wozniak @AbigailWozniak]

📢Know someone looking for a great pre-doc experience in economics? @OIGInstitute is hiring!

Follow the very long URL 👇

https://t.co/Lqh8MpJnPH

[Jeff Potrykus @jaypo1961]

#Badgers Luke Fickell: Change inevitable, growth is optional.

[Wisconsin Football @BadgerFootball]

"There is a tremendous foundation here that I can't wait to build upon."

Last season's National Coach of the Year is excited to be a part of the Badger family.

https://t.co/u2KQ7NvhKi

[Zach Swaziek @ZachSwaz]

Wow.

[Tom Oates @TomOatesWSJ]

Source close to #Wisconsin football program confirmed that #Badgers will name Cincinnati’s Luke Fickell as head coach and plan to announce it later today.

[alz @alz_zyd_]

Random presentation tip for econ/finance PhD students, esp. for technical/theory ish stuff:

When I first started presenting, I assumed a distribution of audience expertise that looked like this. Roughly normally distributed, most people know something about your topic matter

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

The 12 things that make a theory interesting, as classically listed by Murray Davis in a 1971 article, also can serve other purposes: like deciding what is a good topic for a popular article, or as a guide for finding disruptive ideas for the future. https://t.co/5zLLhBVq7g

[Martin Beraja @MartinBeraja]

The more credible approaches (in my view) match conditional moments, like responses to a particular shock, not unconditional ones, like this blog.

There is a nice exercise illustrating why in my paper on regional business cycles: https://t.co/1AYOZl80wI

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[Peterson Institute @PIIE]

Economics is the least socioeconomically & racially diverse of any major PhD discipline in the US, @annastansbury & @SchultzzyRun find. #PIIECharts
Learn more: https://t.co/YGxSFtZajm

[Wisconsin Badgers @UWBadgers]

Statement from University of Wisconsin Director of Athletics Chris McIntosh

📝 https://t.co/n7mOEAeTeM

[mplsphotobot.bsky.social @MplsPhotoBot]

Bicycle Path along Minnehaha Creek, Minneapolis, Minn.
Date: 1910s
Source: Hennepin County Library

[Daniel Litt @littmath]

new QED symbol just dropped

[Kaleb Nygaard @KalebNygaard]

This anecdote from Geithner's chief of staff is just wild 😂 poor guy didn't leave the building for 42 days and said it was scarier than his time in Iraq😳

Crazy amount of free material in the latest issue of @YPFSatYale Journal of Financial Crises 🔥
https://t.co/4b9IgFA2Df

[Lucy Rohden @lucy_rohden]

Never be afraid to stand up for what you believe in.