Elisa Xi Chen

Hardcore students enjoying a regular day on campus:

Very relatable. My number 1 reason for going to UWMadison was the weather & Lake Michigan.

Art is the greatest form of human expression imaginable. I wouldn't dare dream a life without it in abundance.

Radical joy and optimism💜💜

I’ve been watching Alysa Liu’s performance since she was 13, and I love that she’s found her style, her joy, an inner quiet that lets her truly live the art of figure skating. 🐐

Data from 25+ of MDRC’s Postsecondary RCTs Available via ICPSR The Higher Education Randomized Controlled Trial’s (THE-RCT) restricted access file is available at ICPSR, includes de-identified data from 25+ postsecondary RCTs.

This is a fantastic resource for students looking for a paper topic

25 RCTs, with documentation and data

Thank you, @mdrc-news.bsky.social!

www.cos.io/blog/data-fr...

Made a tiny website that pulls showtimes from 3 art house theaters in Cambridge. My friends and I used to sneak off to these places during our first PhD year. Some of the best days I had. We've since scattered, but I hope someone catches something good: elisaxchen.github.io/cambridge-sc...

This is what you need:

lol today I kicked off Harvard Economics' #PhD student workshop on labor and public economics for the semester.

I was VERY nervous but the presentation went so great (and t'was hilarious). Also, the 'fro is back! #blacksky #econsky

Absolutely fabulous presentation - hilarious, engaging, and brilliant!!! You are a star!!! 🌟

The ILWU (longshore and warehouse) was one of the first labor unions to integrate undocumented workers from Central America in the 1980s, and openly oppose Salvadoran military dictatorships

To suggest they “just became woke” is a profound insult to the organizers and workers who built that history

List of Minnesota businesses closing for Jan. 23 anti-ICE strike First announced by faith leaders and unions on Jan. 13, Minnesota businesses have begun announcing plans to join the action.

1000+ Minnesota small businesses joined hands with faith communities, labor unions, community orgs.. to support Friday's general strike.

It was a risky, costly, & powerfully helpful choice. They supported me in the breach and I will support them.
bringmethenews.com/minnesota-li...

I have trained to do the work than the murdered Mpls woman was doing

Non-violent witnessing, to record evidence

-for legal efforts to free the kidnapped

-to bring information to their families

-to document ICE abuses

Congratulations!!! 🎉🎊 you look amazing and can’t wait to read the paper!!

The Green Book Project is dedicated to documenting the businesses that maintained the human dignity of Black people as they traveled in the Jim Crow era. You can add your memories of these establishments to our Community Map! greenbookproject.osu.edu #GreenBookProject
#CommunityMap #EconSky

Do you have a Goodreads account I can follow? 🤗

Some good news in this:
* very effective anti-malaria drug!
* non-opioid painkiller!
* gonorrhea vaccine!
and more

i’m all in on brilliant sassy titles

When I was an undergrad writing my senior thesis I had the exact same question. Reading other people’s undergrad senior thesis helped a lot to set the standards and boosted my confidence. In my school, they are all public record in the department.

Thanks for sharing this thought. We all learn together here and there!

Summers called this female Chinese economist “peril.”

“Yellow peril” was partially built on the claim that Chinese women were sexually immoral threats.

That logic fueled the Page Act of 1875, which barred Chinese women by presuming they were prostitutes, even before the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act.

For Women in Economics, the Hostility Is Out in the Open (Published 2021)

1/ Egalitarianism should begin at home. I link to this article by @bencasselman.bsky.social in light of the communications between Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein that have just been released. The released emails and the fact of friendship are vile.

www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...

Fascinating project

Enough with LeBron versus Jordan the REAL goat is on the premises

Want More Women in Leadership? Tell Them They’re Losing Out A Wharton study found that highlighting the gender gap in competition on a job platform increased women’s applications for leadership roles by over 20%.

Want more women in leadership? Tell them they’re losing out to men when they don’t compete for jobs, promotions & awards. Summary of new research on how to leverage stereotype reactance to close the gender gap in competition led by @sophiapink.bsky.social:
knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/want...

So excited to share new work with
@emileigharrison.bsky.social about the presence and portrayal of topics, values, and identities in U.S. textbooks!

What we teach in our curricula is more similar across our country than political narratives might have us believe.

tinyurl.com/miiebooks miielab.com

Our work now published showing how better AI can improve both accuracy and diversity in hiring relative to supervised learning tools and status-quo human hiring.

In Its Expectations for the Economy, AI Is Surprisingly Human AI, designed to mimic the appearance of human reasoning, also forms predictions about the economy in human-like ways.

"You need some way of actually measuring people’s beliefs or their preferences if you wanna test these behavioral stories around bubbles," says Chicago Booth’s Leland Bybee. www.chicagobooth.edu/review/in-it... #econsky #ai

coming back to uchicago feels like coming home, esp when your old advisor’s biggest concern is that you haven’t been eating, and they start throwing food on your office desk

Beautiful souls!!