Emma LaGuardia
@emmajlag.bsky.social
Economics PhD student at UMich via Chicago Fed and Miami University (OH). Interested in lots of things, most recently labor and (higher) ed.
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Emma LaGuardia
@emmajlag.bsky.social
· Nov 14
I’ll try to be more active here than I was on the other site (that is, post more than twice a year)!
Okay, I really mean it this time.
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Using the Earned Income Tax Credit to study how an influx of cash affects food expenditure patterns of eligible households, from @emmajlag.bsky.social, Leslie McGranahan, and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach https://www.nber.org/papers/w34007
July 15, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Using the Earned Income Tax Credit to study how an influx of cash affects food expenditure patterns of eligible households, from @emmajlag.bsky.social, Leslie McGranahan, and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach https://www.nber.org/papers/w34007
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Using the Earned Income Tax Credit to study how an influx of cash affects food expenditure patterns of eligible households, from @emmajlag.bsky.social, Leslie McGranahan, and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach https://www.nber.org/papers/w34007
July 15, 2025 at 10:50 PM
I think being a first year is just learning the envelope theorem and forgetting the envelope theorem and learning the envelope theorem and forgetting the envelope theorem and so on
April 22, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I think being a first year is just learning the envelope theorem and forgetting the envelope theorem and learning the envelope theorem and forgetting the envelope theorem and so on
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At a time when many social-media sites have abandoned their safeguards against mis- and disinformation, Wikipedia is a bastion of transparency and accessible knowledge. So maybe it should come as no surprise that Elon Musk has been attacking it.
Elon Musk Also Has a Problem with Wikipedia
Lately, Musk’s beef has merged with a general conviction on the right that the site is biased against conservatives.
www.newyorker.com
March 13, 2025 at 12:48 AM
At a time when many social-media sites have abandoned their safeguards against mis- and disinformation, Wikipedia is a bastion of transparency and accessible knowledge. So maybe it should come as no surprise that Elon Musk has been attacking it.
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First, they said postponed; now the meeting is canceled. That means no flu shots next year.
“'It’s a six-month production cycle,' Dr. Offit said. 'So one can only assume that we’re not picking flu strains this year.'"
Fundamentally, that's a form of mass murder.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...
“'It’s a six-month production cycle,' Dr. Offit said. 'So one can only assume that we’re not picking flu strains this year.'"
Fundamentally, that's a form of mass murder.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...
F.D.A. Cancels Meeting of Vaccine Experts Scheduled to Advise on Flu Shots
The cancellation plays into fears among scientists who worry that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will use his position as health secretary to sow doubts about vaccines.
www.nytimes.com
February 27, 2025 at 8:14 PM
First, they said postponed; now the meeting is canceled. That means no flu shots next year.
“'It’s a six-month production cycle,' Dr. Offit said. 'So one can only assume that we’re not picking flu strains this year.'"
Fundamentally, that's a form of mass murder.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...
“'It’s a six-month production cycle,' Dr. Offit said. 'So one can only assume that we’re not picking flu strains this year.'"
Fundamentally, that's a form of mass murder.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...
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"America has no king" seems like a good theme to rally around
Publicly abandoning American and Ukranian democracy on the same day.
February 19, 2025 at 8:03 PM
"America has no king" seems like a good theme to rally around
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The Federal Reserve is not as independent from the executive branch as we’d like to think. The NY Fed just cancelled this Thursday’s @aeacswep.bsky.social reception at #EEA2025 and withdrew from our summer fellowship program. Both support women and underrepresented groups in economics. #EconSky
February 17, 2025 at 1:39 PM
The Federal Reserve is not as independent from the executive branch as we’d like to think. The NY Fed just cancelled this Thursday’s @aeacswep.bsky.social reception at #EEA2025 and withdrew from our summer fellowship program. Both support women and underrepresented groups in economics. #EconSky
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FANTASTIC
ICPSR at U Mich is coordinating the archiving of at-risk federal data (all of it?)
You can upload data you have & search for data you don’t have
www.datalumos.org/datalumos/
ICPSR at U Mich is coordinating the archiving of at-risk federal data (all of it?)
You can upload data you have & search for data you don’t have
www.datalumos.org/datalumos/
February 14, 2025 at 4:52 PM
FANTASTIC
ICPSR at U Mich is coordinating the archiving of at-risk federal data (all of it?)
You can upload data you have & search for data you don’t have
www.datalumos.org/datalumos/
ICPSR at U Mich is coordinating the archiving of at-risk federal data (all of it?)
You can upload data you have & search for data you don’t have
www.datalumos.org/datalumos/
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The richest man in the world declares that the national government no longer has a Department of Education as elected officials are blocked from finding out what is going on.
Factual descriptions of American government right now sound positively dystopian
Factual descriptions of American government right now sound positively dystopian
In response to a post on X from @maxwellfrost.bsky.social showing the effort to get into the Department of Education building this morning, Elon Musk replied, "No such department exists in the federal government"
February 7, 2025 at 9:31 PM
The richest man in the world declares that the national government no longer has a Department of Education as elected officials are blocked from finding out what is going on.
Factual descriptions of American government right now sound positively dystopian
Factual descriptions of American government right now sound positively dystopian
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I’ll say this, we need to protect Wikipedia at all costs&try to help other entities not owned by billionaires (Onion/Propublica etc),try to buy up/expand as much as they can.Boycotting isn’t enough.
January 19, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I’ll say this, we need to protect Wikipedia at all costs&try to help other entities not owned by billionaires (Onion/Propublica etc),try to buy up/expand as much as they can.Boycotting isn’t enough.
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More & more people seem to be getting on here (yay!), so here’s a reminder that I have 2 starter packs of awesome women & nonbinary economists. Give them a follow! go.bsky.app/LqBPkQZ
January 19, 2025 at 4:19 PM
More & more people seem to be getting on here (yay!), so here’s a reminder that I have 2 starter packs of awesome women & nonbinary economists. Give them a follow! go.bsky.app/LqBPkQZ
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lol RIP Booktok, y'all won't be missed. You were very dramatic and now every book cover looks like this.
Also you made Colleen Hoover famous. 👎🏿
Also you made Colleen Hoover famous. 👎🏿
January 19, 2025 at 1:21 AM
lol RIP Booktok, y'all won't be missed. You were very dramatic and now every book cover looks like this.
Also you made Colleen Hoover famous. 👎🏿
Also you made Colleen Hoover famous. 👎🏿
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Have been on Bluesky quite a bit the last two days (for info & resources) & it’s not social media that’s broken. I think it’s us that’s broken now. I’ll post about places ppl can donate because LA is in bad shape & my replies are full of “ummmm sounds like somebody’s never heard of Pompeii.”
January 9, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Have been on Bluesky quite a bit the last two days (for info & resources) & it’s not social media that’s broken. I think it’s us that’s broken now. I’ll post about places ppl can donate because LA is in bad shape & my replies are full of “ummmm sounds like somebody’s never heard of Pompeii.”
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Calling her "clairvoyant" and the like is just another iteration of the "magical negro" trope. She paid attention and wrote about issues that wealthy white folks didn't want to see.
Octavia Butler couldn’t see the future. She saw what was happening in front of her and, in addition to studying the past, was able to imagine where it would lead. It’s important to tell the truth about her because mythologizing her is a disservice to her legacy.
January 9, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Calling her "clairvoyant" and the like is just another iteration of the "magical negro" trope. She paid attention and wrote about issues that wealthy white folks didn't want to see.
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“To turn off, go to Settings > Apps > Photos on iOS and turn off Enhanced Visual Search. On Mac, open Photos and go to Settings > General to do the same. You must do it on each of your Apple devices.”
Apple has opted iOS and MacOS users into an AI photo scanning feature which tries to extract landmarks from your photos called Enhanced Visual Search by default with little notice.
www.theregister.com/2025/01/03/a...
www.theregister.com/2025/01/03/a...
Apple opts everyone into having their Photos analyzed by AI
Homomorphic-based Enhanced Visual Search is so privacy-preserving, iPhone giant activated it without asking
www.theregister.com
January 4, 2025 at 10:27 PM
“To turn off, go to Settings > Apps > Photos on iOS and turn off Enhanced Visual Search. On Mac, open Photos and go to Settings > General to do the same. You must do it on each of your Apple devices.”
My new coauthor is incredibly lazy :/
January 7, 2025 at 11:56 PM
My new coauthor is incredibly lazy :/
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IYKYK
shoutout to the 30 tourists who begrudgingly moved out of the way of the shot.
@emmajlag.bsky.social @danebrink.bsky.social @robertskaplan.bsky.social
shoutout to the 30 tourists who begrudgingly moved out of the way of the shot.
@emmajlag.bsky.social @danebrink.bsky.social @robertskaplan.bsky.social
December 30, 2024 at 11:34 PM
IYKYK
shoutout to the 30 tourists who begrudgingly moved out of the way of the shot.
@emmajlag.bsky.social @danebrink.bsky.social @robertskaplan.bsky.social
shoutout to the 30 tourists who begrudgingly moved out of the way of the shot.
@emmajlag.bsky.social @danebrink.bsky.social @robertskaplan.bsky.social
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Here are the first five sets of slides:
01 Introduction: psantanna.com/DiD/01_Intro...
02 Classical 2x2 setup: psantanna.com/DiD/02_two_b...
03 Clustering issues: psantanna.com/DiD/03_Clust...
04 Functional form: psantanna.com/DiD/04_Funct...
05 Covariates: psantanna.com/DiD/05_Covar...
01 Introduction: psantanna.com/DiD/01_Intro...
02 Classical 2x2 setup: psantanna.com/DiD/02_two_b...
03 Clustering issues: psantanna.com/DiD/03_Clust...
04 Functional form: psantanna.com/DiD/04_Funct...
05 Covariates: psantanna.com/DiD/05_Covar...
December 30, 2024 at 5:19 AM
Here are the first five sets of slides:
01 Introduction: psantanna.com/DiD/01_Intro...
02 Classical 2x2 setup: psantanna.com/DiD/02_two_b...
03 Clustering issues: psantanna.com/DiD/03_Clust...
04 Functional form: psantanna.com/DiD/04_Funct...
05 Covariates: psantanna.com/DiD/05_Covar...
01 Introduction: psantanna.com/DiD/01_Intro...
02 Classical 2x2 setup: psantanna.com/DiD/02_two_b...
03 Clustering issues: psantanna.com/DiD/03_Clust...
04 Functional form: psantanna.com/DiD/04_Funct...
05 Covariates: psantanna.com/DiD/05_Covar...
I got this book for myself as an amateur map enthusiast and I loved it! It’s an overview of various related topics (including econ, excitingly) but it’s not too high-level; Dr. Rowińska does a terrific job explaining the more complicated concepts and I learned quite a bit. Highly recommend!
December 28, 2024 at 6:08 PM
I got this book for myself as an amateur map enthusiast and I loved it! It’s an overview of various related topics (including econ, excitingly) but it’s not too high-level; Dr. Rowińska does a terrific job explaining the more complicated concepts and I learned quite a bit. Highly recommend!
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“Women are asked more questions during a seminar and the questions asked of women presenters are more likely to be patronizing or hostile. These effects are not due to women presenting in different fields, different seminar series, or different topics…”
www.nber.org/papers/w28494
www.nber.org/papers/w28494
Gender and the Dynamics of Economics Seminars
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org
December 24, 2024 at 2:36 PM
“Women are asked more questions during a seminar and the questions asked of women presenters are more likely to be patronizing or hostile. These effects are not due to women presenting in different fields, different seminar series, or different topics…”
www.nber.org/papers/w28494
www.nber.org/papers/w28494
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If universities want to retain female faculty they need to deal with the people who create hostile workplaces.
That means actually dealing with sexual harassers, assholes, bullies, and every else who scores high on the dark triad.
If not, you will lose your best people over and over again.
That means actually dealing with sexual harassers, assholes, bullies, and every else who scores high on the dark triad.
If not, you will lose your best people over and over again.
“Women leave or consider leaving [faculty positions] because of workplace climate more often than work-life balance.” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Gender and retention patterns among U.S. faculty
Women faculty are more likely to leave their jobs than men, most often due to workplace climate, rather than work-life balance.
www.science.org
December 24, 2024 at 4:13 PM
If universities want to retain female faculty they need to deal with the people who create hostile workplaces.
That means actually dealing with sexual harassers, assholes, bullies, and every else who scores high on the dark triad.
If not, you will lose your best people over and over again.
That means actually dealing with sexual harassers, assholes, bullies, and every else who scores high on the dark triad.
If not, you will lose your best people over and over again.
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“It’s ten o’clock somewhere” I whisper, going to bed at seven
May 2, 2024 at 2:16 PM
“It’s ten o’clock somewhere” I whisper, going to bed at seven
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I love a good graph. Always send me good graphs if you see one.
December 12, 2024 at 12:04 AM
I love a good graph. Always send me good graphs if you see one.
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Studying so much for my micro theory final that I’m seeing Lagrange multipliers in the wild
December 8, 2024 at 1:03 AM
Studying so much for my micro theory final that I’m seeing Lagrange multipliers in the wild
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The U.S. needs more walkable neighborhoods. See where yours ranks.
Apparently we're relatively rare middle-age folks for choosing walkability over space. I have no regrets.
Gift link: wapo.st/41lOtkO
Apparently we're relatively rare middle-age folks for choosing walkability over space. I have no regrets.
Gift link: wapo.st/41lOtkO
Analysis | The U.S. needs more walkable neighborhoods. See where yours ranks.
Building more 15-minute neighborhoods would cut pollution and conserve nature. But do Americans want to live in them? See how walkable your neighborhood is.
wapo.st
December 7, 2024 at 12:24 PM
The U.S. needs more walkable neighborhoods. See where yours ranks.
Apparently we're relatively rare middle-age folks for choosing walkability over space. I have no regrets.
Gift link: wapo.st/41lOtkO
Apparently we're relatively rare middle-age folks for choosing walkability over space. I have no regrets.
Gift link: wapo.st/41lOtkO