Melissa S. Kearney @kearney_melissa
Economics Professor at Univ of Maryland; Director of @AspenEcon; Non-resident Senior Fellow at Brookings; Mom of 3; from NJ econ.umd.edu/facultyprofile… DC/MD Joined September 2011-
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What's the best paper or essay out there explaining why the number of college administrators—at expensive schools, certainly; at all schools, possible—is growing infinity-times faster than the number of tenured faculty?
What's the best paper or essay out there explaining why the number of college administrators—at expensive schools, certainly; at all schools, possible—is growing infinity-times faster than the number of tenured faculty?
All the people on here accusing me of having a profit motive for writing my U Chicago Press book - 😂😂😂😂 Guys, if my goal was to make $ as an economist, there are way better ways to do that than write a book with an academic press. 😉
I gave another talk about the Two Parent Privilege to college students today. And again, during the Q&A, a college student asked me why I don’t talk about porn/TikTok/OnlyFans, and how addiction to those sites is affecting young people’s ability to form healthy relationships. I…
It’s tax time again, so I’m going to continue to brag about this (and give you all lessons learned).
It’s tax time again, so I’m going to continue to brag about this (and give you all lessons learned).
.@WendyEdelberg and @kearney_melissa make the case for an expanded Child Tax Credit that would reduce child poverty while addressing concerns about labor supply and net fiscal cost. hamiltonproject.org/publication/po…
It's an immense honor to be named as one of the "Class of 2024" Distinguished Fellows of the American Economic Association with Bronwyn Hall, John Haltiwanger, and Margaret Simms. I have no idea who penned the citation, but it's lovely. aeaweb.org/about-aea/hono…
Price drop on the audio version of the Two Parent Privilege! 50% OFF The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind audiobooks.com/promotions/pro…
Excited to see this @LEOatND paper out in the world. @CCFortWorth is doing great work down in Texas to help support families experiencing poverty. Our RCT shows the fruits of their labor—in particular helping those out of work find their way to stable employment.
Excited to see this @LEOatND paper out in the world. @CCFortWorth is doing great work down in Texas to help support families experiencing poverty. Our RCT shows the fruits of their labor—in particular helping those out of work find their way to stable employment.
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I wrote about a truly impossible question: What makes us happiest—marriage, social well-being, or financial security? And came away with a new theory: that the correlation between these 3 things—the “happiness trinity”—helps explain why marriage is falling most, and loneliness…
My advice to university presidents is that your policy should be as follows: We honor freedom of speech and therefore do not impose and will not impose viewpoint-based restrictions on speech. We will, for the sake of protecting everyone's rights to teach and learn, strictly and…
Me: "I'd like to copy and paste from this pdf please" Adobe Acrobat: "no worries, I took the liberty of stacking each word on top of each other in a vertical column, adding mysterious symbols, and removing every instance of the letter 't'"
My Ph.D. advisor Prof. Roger Betancourt passed away. I can't compete with the stories about prominent academics I see here, so I simply want to tell you that he was a very good man. He gave me his time, kindness, and patience. He remained a friend, exchanging emails until the end
@kearney_melissa Interesting. Maybe this can be your next book? Loved your first one!!
Kudos to @Purdue for the innovative ways it’s serving its community: 1) Has not raised tuition since 2012 2) Created STEM-focused charter high schools to increase # of underrepresented students at Purdue via preferred admission 3) Partnered with comm college Ivy Tech to offer…
@kearney_melissa @mattyglesias I am led to believe the modal grade at my institution is now an A while median GPA is around 3.7. Of course, we don't know for sure because the registrar won't tell us.
@kearney_melissa Yes, a well reviewed academic book, that seeks to every academic library worldwide might get you up to $1.50 an hour for your troubles.
@kearney_melissa Impressed by your resilience Melissa!
@kearney_melissa Tell me about it ... 😂 Fifteen minutes of quasi-fame, but not a lot of $$$. global.oup.com/academic/produ…
@kearney_melissa Not with those Ikon or Epic prices! 🤣
@kearney_melissa I have profited greatly from reading your book. Sorry.
@kearney_melissa @BlackMadness317 Geesh! So I'm asking the wrong question. I typically ask what percentage of students binge drink at least once per week. I should be asking what percentage of students have an O*lyF**s account. (<-- I had to do this to prevent from being spammed by sex workers.)
Don’t you just hate it when people criticize the great and amazing @taylorswift13 for writing too much? Isn’t that the absolute worst?
@kearney_melissa 🙃 Chicago Press must pay better than my academic publisher—I got 3 free copies plus a credit that could only be used to buy electronic copies of their books.
@kearney_melissa Doesn't hurt that the book was awesome - second only to your interview with Bari, which was why I bought it. Profit may not have been the motive, but enjoy it if it comes
For me, it really depends how much you want me to attend the meeting. If you want me to, send a calendar invite. If you actually don’t, that’s fine too. 😅 (If it’s not in my calendar, it doesn’t exist.)
PSA: never, ever, ever send a “calendar invite.” Just send an email with information in it.
I don’t know who needs to hear this but go throw away the box your Macbook came in.
@danielcberk I think this is a man thing. My husband has all the boxes of every Mac he’s ever owned… ‘in case he needs to sell it at some point’… which he’s never had to, not once 😏
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