Elisa Xi Chen

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!!

Prince of Nicaragua :3

Love it when people turn sorrow into knowledge or other creative expressions

Thanks for the suggestion! Sounds very intriguing. I will check it out.

and who you’ve become over time. Knowledge is my last and most faithful possession.

In moments of uncertainty, I think about my grandparents who lived thru the cultural revolution and read books in camps with no promise of tomorrow. They told me they could take your house, burn your name, erase your records, but they couldn’t take away what you’ve read under the moonlight

for a second i thought i was part of the “animal behavior”

academic folks: Harvard international students may need to begin immediately transferring out in order to avoid having to leave the country

If it sounds insane, that's because it is

what will your institutions do to help?

Congratulations on being an international student at Harvard today. We won the lottery 🎉

🚨 Christmas WP Alert 🚨
New study explores the causal impact of correcting misperceived gender norms on mothers' employment attitudes and expectations. Using a field experiment with German mothers of young children, we find three key results:
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#EconSky

Came for the economic takes, stayed for your Tár subtweets

Love this energy

My coauthor and brilliant friend @itsafronomics.bsky.social just published her first book ⬇️❕

Thank you to @charlesjkenny.bsky.social, @justsand.bsky.social and others @cgdev.org whose careful data work underpins this important and devastating article by @nickkristof.bsky.social in @nytimes.com. A great eg of combining data with the human face of that data.

Congratulations!!🍾🎊

so strong!!🤩

Uncovering systematic gendered effects on family structure and fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa, from Garance Genicot and Maria Hernandez-de-Benito https://www.nber.org/papers/w33505

So excited to share new work on the social construction of race during the US Reconstruction Era, joint with @rickhornbeck.bsky.social, Daniel Keniston, and Benjamin Lualdi!
nber.org/papers/w33502

DHS is basically Census data (and even more) for developing countries and I’m very sad / feel powerless to see this