Melissa Thomasson

It’s right up there with “Bueller, Bueller” for things that I find myself quoting.

When I am blue, I just go find this and laugh. My favorite zoom moment of all time.

Honestly my favorite of all time.

As cold and snowy as it is here in Ohio, at least we do not have to play football in it.

I love this one!

🎙️ New Podcast Episode!🎙️
It's currently below freezing in Alaska, so how does a community develop in such a harsh climate? Lloyd and Andrew sat down with Prof. Ann Carlos (University of Colorado Boulder) to chat about life in the most northern State.

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Go Broncos!

He may or may not have caught it but we know the Bills didn’t get a 1st down

Something is wrong with my feed. An awful lot of Bills go this Broncos fan…

Can confirm newsmax in Miami taxis too

Am putting together a video / workshop on how to use LLMs / AI for research projects + coding. What are some things that you would most benefit from seeing? This would be targeted towards economists.

Strip mall sign saying Kennedy Center

Ohio’s version hasn’t been renamed. Yet.

Shudder. Hugs!

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About 20 to 25 ravens sitting in trees

Ok. Creepy.

Siamese cat licking a dish in the sink

Working from home I get to enjoy the Roomba doing the vacuuming and the cat doing the dishes. #snowday

Very interesting!

Pardon power is essentially selling freedom for campaign contributions.

Glass with prosecco and an ice cube with a slice of orange, a sprig of thyme, cranberries, a cinnamon stick and a star anise

Instagram is turning me into a crazy person who makes fun ice cubes!

Interesting perspective! The new barons…

Be sure to take a look at something interesting one of our professors did for his Principles of Micro classes!

Toulouse Summer School in Quantitative Social Sciences

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The timing of this paper is perfect.

I have always admired Miami for its strong commitment to both high-quality scholarship and undergraduate education. This interesting paper really speaks to the mechanisms and explains why schools like mine really punch above their weight with respect to student outcomes.

👋 I'm Danielle, and I'm on the #econjobmarket this year!

Let's start with a student describing her segregated school:

"The school felt temporary. Built like a warehouse with aluminum siding . . . I had a slipshod education"

The twist? The student is white, and her school is private.

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Very important initiative considering the government cant figure out the unemployment rate for October.

Re-upping this as job market season gets going! If you love teaching & working with undergrads, check out this position that my department is hiring this year 👇

Just a reminder to sign up for this webinar on IPUMS International on Wednesday!

I am so grateful for the ATV and TSA staff who made my trip from CVG to ATL and back earlier this week so smooth! Thank you!!

This isn’t true for health care. Attempts at moving in a European/socially democratic direction failed miserably in the 1940s and while ambitious, Medicare and Medicaid left out any “non-deserving” poor and capitulated heavily to hospitals and the AMA in a way that ignited health care inflation.