imagine fleeing the Vietnam War and in your arms you're carrying a baby who will one day grow up to correct the US Secretary of Defense on his jeans. like bringing a football into the end zone

Next was the highly recommended 1st day of the @nber.org labor studies conference, w/standout talks by M Notowidigdo (returns to permanent residency) C Miller (effects of a criminal record) & @jessebruhn.bsky.social (long-run effects of early career experience) www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5mY... (3/4)

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And as a kind of meta-point lurking behind this whole discussion: I think we do research a disservice but ceding the point that we need to have real world impact to justify our existence. So many revolutionary ideas started as shit that smart people thought was cool but that was otherwise useless.

But I just don’t see advocating for that change as part of my job. So many factors go into that which are orthogonal to doing good research and I just have no real desire to make that part of my job.

I mean, don’t get me wrong. I would be pumped if someone read my deployments paper and it led them to ask me to help them make some real changes that would improve veteran well being. And I would definitely be excited to help out.