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Reach out to your students even if you're not getting the $500 incentive!

Per @tony_jack, "doubly disadvantaged" students are much less likely to reach out or seek help. Socioeconomic disadvantage is "less immediately detectable" (@annastansbury @Rschultzzy JEP) so we need to proactively create supportive environments to address these hidden barriers.

New AEJ Pol: @secarrell and @mkurlaender show that acknowledgment and care from authority figures can make a big difference for underrepresented students (Black and Latinx first years). Similar principles could also help increase persistence in econ among underrepresented groups.

What's maybe a little more scary is how the original image published in JECH 2006 (see Alt text) has only 3 Google cites despite being seen hundreds of thousands of times on X (but not this post).

🔔🎃👻 When the normal distribution goes trick-or-treating... Meet the 'paranormal' distribution! #BellCurve #BooCurve

🐝🐝🔄💡Two coauthors working together to uncover this Fanta-stic research bee like: sometimes you have to go in circles first!

As the latest @nberpubs working papers roll out today, I'm excited to share some new work, building on Claudia Goldin's "Why Women Won" from last week—remarkably released the same day as her Nobel Prize win! #EconTwitter #EconX #FirstTweet #FirstX