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Christina Brown
@christinalbrown
Development and Labor Economist Assistant Professor @UChi_Economics @clbrown.bsky.social
Chicago, IL
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    Christina Brown
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    Jun 13, 2022
    New NBER working paper with @supKaur @h_schof @GeetaKingdon showing: - how formal schooling contributes to the development of fundamental cognitive skills, like attention - attention appears to be highly malleable, at least in childhood nber.org/papers/w30133?… 🧵 (1/x)
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    Cognitive Endurance as Human Capital
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    Christina Brown
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    Jun 14, 2022
    Economists (then): focuses most research on 5% of the world's population Economists (now): what if we look at what's happening to the other 95%? Old guard: whoa, whoa, whoa, why are you making everying about race, gender and class?? Those people aren't "the economy".
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    Christina Brown
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    Feb 26, 2021
    I am delighted to announce I will be joining @UChi_Economics as an Asst. Prof. after a post-doc at @BeckerFriedman. I feel so grateful for the many, many people in my life who made this possible. I have been so lucky, so many times.
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    Christina Brown
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    Apr 4, 2024
    New IV just dropped
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    Mike Simonsen 🐉
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    Apr 4, 2024
    This is incredible. From @Jamie_Lane where AirBnBs are fully booked next week.
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    Christina Brown
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    Feb 16, 2023
    Every year around grad school app season, this type of sentiment pops up... It is flat out FALSE and unnecessarily discourages people away from econ phds. Let's take a look at an example + data... 1/
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    Joey Politano 🏳️‍🌈
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    Feb 14, 2023
    The competition in Academic econ is so cutthroat at this point that if you don't know you want to get a PhD by 14 (and how to get one!) the odds are stacked way against you. It's a large part of the reason why the discipline is not diverse and why success is so hereditary.
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    Christina Brown
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    Sep 22, 2021
    JOB OPPORTUNITY: I'm hiring a full time RA in Chicago to assist in the implementation and analysis of large scale research projects studying educational attainment and employment in South Asia. Data cleaning, analysis and impact evaluation experience required.
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    UChicago Economics
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    Sep 22, 2021
    The Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics is searching for a Research Specialist to work under Dr. Christina Brown to assist in research projects with focus on labor and education issues in developing countries: uchicago.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job/H… EOE/Vet/Disability @econ_ra
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    Christina Brown
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    Jun 9, 2020
    By "sensible adults" you mean -- white men protecting a system in which they continue to profit off black labor and abuse black bodies.
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    Christina Brown
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    Apr 6, 2023
    📢 Pre-doc job at UChicago: I'm hiring a pre-doc to begin this summer to work on development, education, and labor econ research. The position would include project management and data work and would be involved throughout the research project lifecycle. uchicago.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job/C…
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    Christina Brown
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    Feb 19, 2024
    I'm hiring two full-time predocs at @UChi_Economics to begin this summer. Will be working on development, labor and education projects. Experience with RCT's and/or data cleaning preferred. Apply here: uchicago.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job/C…
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    Christina Brown
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    Feb 16, 2023
    Replying to @christinalbrown
    Long story short -- if you love math/data and want to understand how people and societies work and how to make them better, there is a place for you in this field. Don't let the naysayers scare you away.
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    Christina Brown
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    Sep 9, 2022
    I wish people cared as much about the billions of people that have died (or continue to suffer) as a result of British colonialism as they do about not speaking ill of arguably the most privileged person to ever live.
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    Christina Brown
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    Nov 2, 2021
    I get this response ALL THE TIME from labor economists. Yes, I understand that institutions/constraints are different and you may be unfamiliar with the setting but the same is true about Sweden vs. Italy vs. Japan and yet labor econ has no problem jumping across those settings.
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    Belinda Archibong
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    Nov 2, 2021
    Replying to @DinaPomeranz
    The funniest thing to me was talking to a labor economist about this paper and our experiments in online labor markets, who was very interested until I mentioned that it was in Nigeria, after which his eyes glazed over and he told me to talk to the 'development people' instead 😂
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    Christina Brown
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    Apr 30, 2022
    Gonna use this to teach omitted variable bias (Wellbutrin is used to treat depression, for those of you not familiar with it)
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    Christina Brown
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    Apr 14, 2022
    Such a wonderful return to Pakistan after too long away -- filled with so much learning, reuniting with old friends, meeting countless new, and endless delicious food. Every time I visit I'm blown away by the beauty, hospitality and kindness 🥰