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I am a PhD Candidate in Economics at New York University, expecting to graduate in May 2022. I am currently searching for jobs.

• 👨‍🔬 My dissertation is on education and migration in the United States in the 19th century. I work with full-count Census Data, studying the location choices of millions of people who lived in the US in 1850-1880.
• 👩‍💻 I mostly use R (data.table, sf, fixest, huxtable and many others) and Python (pandas, scipy, SymPy, beautifulsoup) in my workflow.
• 🔨 Since you are here, I'd like to recommend a few less-known free/cheap apps and tools for grad students (and professors!) in Economics. I use a Mac.
  • SlidePilot runs beamer (or any pdf) presentations, with instant slide rendering and other nice features like a timer and a quick shortcut for "show empty white slide".
  • Zotero manages my collection of citations and pdfs, supporting search, automatic bibtex integration, and "drag-and-drop" import of pdf files that looks like magic. I have not typed in a bibtex entry manually in years.
  • rmate that I use for editing scripts on remote servers such as NYU's HPC. It works neatly with Sublime Text and VSCode.
  • Ipe, a diagram editor with full Latex support, including packages. I get very frustrated with Tikz because it's hard and takes too much time. I am also frustrated with Powerpoint because it does not support proper math typesetting. Ipe is easy and beautiful if you need a diagram with math expressions.
  • ImageOptim helped me shrink the size of thousands of images of archival data I collected for my dissertation.
  • Mathpix allows can screenshot an expression in pdf and instantly convert it to latex. It recently gained support for tables and entire papers as well!
  • Sublime Merge makes it much easier to work with Git because it offers great visualizations of what is going on.
• 📫 You can reach me at vasily.rusanov [at] nyu [dot] edu and also check out my website vasilyrusanov.com.