Shanthi Manian

Do loan officers discriminate against women entrepreneurs? In a paper with @ketki.bsky.social & Shibiru Ayalew just published in @restatjournal.bsky.social, we use a field experiment in a large-scale, high-stakes natural context to show that they do not.

This is such sad news. Michelle White was a very kind and generous mentor to many of us women PhD students at UCSD.

Each dot represents 10 people whose lives depend on US foreign aid, just for HIV prevention & treatment. Without it, 1.6m people could die *per year*.

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

**New working paper** How does the under-representation of females in Economics affect the career trajectory of female Ph.D. students? Sahar Parsa and I look at this in a new working paper by exploring sabbatical leaves taken by female professors at top-50 US Econ departments.

Long-overdue on 2024 recap of cool young researcher! #econtwitter #econsky My favorite part of social media + it's exciting to highlight a year's worth of exciting researchers. (Given cross-platform posting, won't link to the original 🧵s but direct to researcher sites)

It is truly wild that it is estimated that more than 20 million people died of Covid and the prevailing vibe is that the world overreacted. That is an astonishing toll! More people died of Covid in the US than in the Civil War. www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...

major life update: went to the beach following high tide and found a message in a bottle.

News from #ASSA2025: There are only about 30 Black economists who received their PhDs after 2006 in economics departments. The share of economists who are Black has remained at 3% over the last 15+ years. The share of economists who are Hispanic has increased to 6% from 4% over the same timespan.

#COVID is again surging in the U.S. www.cnn.com/2024/12/31/h...

I’m coming up on @cnbc.com where I’ll be discussing H5N1 bird flu. This remains a low probability risk but a potentially high impact event we have to take more steps to help mitigate. This includes broadening range of anti viral drugs in the stockpile and developing vaccines specific for this strain

www.theregreview.org/2023/03/06/d... RIP

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Carter used the power of his post presidency to nearly eradicate guinea worm. There were 3.5 million cases when the Carter Center’s work began in 1986. He said in 2015 that he wanted to see “guinea worm completely eradicated before I die.” There’ve been 7 cases this year. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

Final* call for applications for our postdoc position due 1/3/25. I've deliberately made it easy to for you to submit (no LORs**, just a cover letter and writing sample). I'm especially interested in scholars looking to apply novel methods to repro research. *famous last words **b/c they're a scam

Wikipedia is an excellent technical resource for difficult math and statistics concepts. I wouldn’t have made it through grad school without it. Well worth my donation money.

Wikipedia is amazing—a truly great achievement—and we must protect it, especially from the powerful anti-truth forces that seek its degradation.

🧵Well-intentioned ppl often warn that “it” could happen here—state-mandated violent disruption & dislocation of communities, cultures, & families, particularly concentration camps & deportations. US schools mostly don’t teach & US culture mostly doesn’t acknowledge that it already has, many times.

I had mistakenly thought the Dem-controlled Senate was able to pass all the pediatric cancer provisions that the House GOP cut after Musk's tantrum. But only a small funding extension for an existing program ultimately passed. The more significant other provisions (first four items below) are dead.

Adrienne Sabety & I are hiring a full-time RA/predoc to work with us on projects using Medicaid data! The position starts 6/2025, at Stanford’s Department of Health Policy. We are only able to hire US citizens / permanent residents. Please spread the word! Link: www.nber.org/sites/defaul...

Really important, impressive paper from my colleague Yuci Chen. #EconSky

Deadline TODAY! The Race and Stratification Working Group at NBER will have its annual meeting on Friday, April 4, 2025! Dania Francis, Vicki Bogan, Ellora Derenoncourt and I are organizing the program. Submit your paper BEFORE MIDNIGHT! conference.nber.org/confsubmit/b...

Global Collaboration Opportunity: If you are (or know someone) from a country often missed in research, and are interested in a global study on mental health like this one, please write to me! We have many team members in Europe and English-speaking countries, but would love to involve many more!

McGill is late to the market, but we finally can post our position. We are looking across all fields. McGill econ is a fun department with an active, lively group of colleagues. Apply (or repost).

From our AEA cttee on the job market, here's the December update on the status of the job mkt for PhD economists of the 2024-25 cycle. A thread with graphs follows... #EconJobMarket #EconSky @aeainformation.bsky.social @aeacswep.bsky.social @joelistings.bsky.social 1/9

Working parents’ childcare struggles are getting worse (yes, worse than during the pandemic) Return-to-office mandates are only going make this worse. Nearly 1 in 3 US workers is a parent of a child under 18 www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

A friendly reminder that the deadline for our ECBE Conference is in one week (Dec 15). We look forward to seeing your great papers on behavioral economics! Details: sites.google.com/site/ecbecon...

A simple, highly instructive blogpost by experienced #econsky editor deryugina.com/how-to-be-a-... about how to avoid being a terrible referee @tderyugina.bsky.social Seems reasonable to use a science writer and/or AI to screen reviews to eliminate such language? deryugina.com/how-to-be-a-...

A great use of LLMs is to check your review to make sure you aren’t being too blunt.

Just a reminder that no matter what mistakes an author made, as a reviewer, it's *never* okay to be disrespectful. I saw a few incredibly mean/disrespectful reviews recently (not on my own papers) and am shocked by them. Always assume someone is trying their best and wants to learn. It's costless.

Hi everyone - just a reminder that when there’s a big earthquake in your region, it is really helpful to earthquake scientists if you fill our the “Did You Feel It” report on the USGS earthquake event page - even if it was just mild shaking or you didn’t feel it all - all the data is helpful! 🧪⚒️

This is an astonishing number.

Just re-upping this #econsky: I currently have more mentors than mentees/students (can probably match another 10-11 students from LMICs who would like feedback on a research paper from a senior scholar.) Fill out the form here if interested! forms.gle/ekvvoEKBLYQM...