Research Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University. Environmental and Natural Resource Economist, also studying Economics of Happiness
College Station, TX
Joined July 2015
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Mona Ahmadiani retweeted
Iran entered the new year with its people cut off from the world for over 500 hours without internet. No connection, no access to information and no voice. Access to information is a basic human right not a privilege.
#DigitalBlackoutIran
⚠️ Update: Three full weeks have passed since #Iran's internet blackout came into effect, with users forced onto the National Information Network.
At hour 504, few circumvention tools work as authorities crack down on satellite and VPN users outside the state-approved whitelist.
Mona Ahmadiani retweeted
Forthcoming in the AJAE: "SNAP Enrollment Cycles: New Insights from Heterogeneous Panel Models with Cross-Sectional Dependence," by Pourya Valizadeh, Bart Fischer, and Henry Bryant
Please check out our new paper in JOHS:
We identify and calculate the relative contribution of social, institutional, economic, and environmental circumstances that contribute to explaining LS above and beyond individuals' characteristics:
rdcu.be/cE8g7
Mona Ahmadiani retweeted
Which countries are ahead when it comes to integrating #wellbeing into policy?
Here is a nice word cloud based on a poll from this #BeyondGDP I'm watching - New Zealand are storming it.
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Trying to stay calm, but I'm 7 days away from not being able to work in the US.
I'm a tenured professor at a major university and the US government is pushing me over the brink.
Been waiting for 3 mo (instead of 2d) for the US govt to *print* my already approved work permit.
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Hey fellow profs of #AcademicTwitter and #EconTwitter:
Please stop scrolling and write to your chair/dean/prez/whoever is your boss and ask what *you* and *they* can do to counter this madness!
No “thoughts and prayers”!! Let’s get on it.
This is bad. ICE just told students here on student visas that if their school is going online-only this fall, the students must depart the United States and cannot remain through the fall semester. ice.gov/news/releases/sevp-m…
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Help us understand how citizens prepare and cope with the spreading coronavirus. The @HappinessRpt Editors urge you to take the global COVID-19 survey, available in 69 languages: covid19-survey.org #covid19study #covid19study
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Coronavirus lays bare the trauma of losing your job by our Co-editor .@jedeneve theconversation.com/coronavi… via @ConversationUK
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All new and upcoming NBER Working Papers relating to the coronavirus are to be available free of charge, including three new papers released this week: nber.org/papers/w26866, nber.org/papers/w26867, and nber.org/papers/w26882
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While you’re sitting inside quarantined, why not read my new paper (with @mashenfarb and Pat Lee) on #NationalMonuments in @ScienceAdvances: advances.sciencemag.org/cont… – at McLean, VA
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Why #wellbeing matters to your staff and FIVE ways you can improve it.
Latest on Oxford Answers from @jedeneve - Director of @OxWellResearch
oxsbs.link/2IGhhLw
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Randomised controlled trial finds 8-week Exploring What Matters course from @actionhappiness raises participants' life satisfaction score from average 6.4 on a 0-10 scale to 7.4 ow.ly/CezJ50y4fVO
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New research shows an 8-week happiness course can raise your life satisfaction by more than getting a long-term partner or finding employment. Paper by Christian Krekel @jedeneve @Daisy_Fancourt and Richard Layard #wellbeing #happiness ow.ly/ChyG50y0BdD
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Book Giveaway! Happy to send a signed copy to two randomly chosen people who RT this message. I will cover shipping too. Please share this widely! And Happy Holidays! @OUPPhilosophy #ethics #character
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New report finds that @EPA’s proposed changes to the Federal Mercury & Air Toxics Standards (MATS), which could result in more #MercuryPollution from power plants, is based on incomplete & outdated analysis. rff.org/publications/reports… #EconTwitter 1/12
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Hey #EconTwitter (and especially job mkt candidates) I found some great quotes from the Stoics on how to deal with stress during presentations - especially dealing with comments from obnoxious/rude senior faculty
Check out our new paper on environmental amenities and quality of life across the United States!
authors.elsevier.com/a/1ZErD…
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Any labor econs who want to use the US Census Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) should use the R package "tidyqwi" to pull data from their API. cran.r-project.org/web/packa… If you find a bug or a way to break it, I'll buy you a beer! #econtwitter @Mmoonaah @medewittjr @WFEudaimonia
Mona Ahmadiani retweeted
I’ve started this tweet several times. One voice says it’s not people’s business and over sharing. Another voice wonders if never talking out loud about these sorts of things robs people from knowing and being known. So I’ll try again. I’ve decided to change my relation with econ