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  1. This morning @JedKolko asked me “Are you the only financial economist at a business school who lists his preferred gender pronouns?“ I bet I’m not. I hope I’m not. A short thread. 1/5
    oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
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    1. …in reply to @lukestein
      As it turns out, I have some relevant code for a corporate finance project I’m working on related to gender discrimination. (Thank you to the authors of -twitter2stata-!) I added a super quick-and-dirty attempt to identify three common pronouns. 2/5 gist.github.com/lukestein/64e3af46317c81fd456f488e27a43dfc
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      1. …in reply to @lukestein
        Of the 738 people I follow on Twitter, I find 13 (≈1.8%) indicate pronouns. N.B. about half of my follows mention “econ” in their profile description. For my followers, it’s 34/1750 (≈1.9%). 3/5
        oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their APIoh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
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        1. …in reply to @lukestein
          I spot-checked, and at least among my Twitter follows/followers—a small, selected subsample—I appear to be “the only financial economist at a business school who lists his preferred gender pronouns.” 4/5
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          1. …in reply to @lukestein
            I’ve decided to keep this thread descriptive, rather than make a case for why I think listing pronouns can be valuable. (I do.) But, Twitter gives you 160 chars for your bio, and ~20% of you (in my convenience sample) have at least 11 characters remaining. 5/5
            oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
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            1. …in reply to @lukestein
              Addendum/fair warning: I appreciate thoughtful replies (even if you think I’m “virtue signalling”), but after tweeting about AOC the other day I followed @Noahpinion’s advice and installed Twitter Block Chain. 6/5 @Noahpinion/1033200626124173312
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