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Emma Wiles
@emmabwiles
Assistant Professor @BUQuestrom. Previously @MITSloan. AI in labor markets & digital platforms & minimum wage. emmawiles.bsky.social
Cambridge, MA
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    Emma Wiles
    @emmabwiles
    Dec 5, 2022
    CVS is being sued for asking customers to donate to the American Diabetes Association when they check out. Those donations are in fact *not* sent to the ADA, but instead reimburse the CVS for a legally binding obligation of $10M that CVS promised earlier lawstreetmedia.com/news/health/cv…
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    Emma Wiles
    @emmabwiles
    Dec 21, 2020
    By the time a paper gets published, is it normal to want to light it on fire and catapult it off the planet?
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    Emma Wiles
    @emmabwiles
    Dec 5, 2022
    Replying to @emmabwiles
    Ok these comments are way more intense than I think the situation demands so just to clarify: -CVS donated $10M to ADA -They asked for donations from customers to the ADA, but did not specify that they would be donating the money regardless of whether customers did
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    Emma Wiles
    @emmabwiles
    Dec 5, 2022
    Replying to @emmabwiles
    Most recent coverage on the case:
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    Emma Wiles
    @emmabwiles
    Dec 5, 2022
    Replying to @emmabwiles
    I think it's kind of slimy, and potentially a CFPA violation, but not fraudulent. And it sounds like it's pretty similar to what other money raising campaigns do.
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    Emma Wiles
    @emmabwiles
    Jul 7, 2020
    Minimum wage researchers be like “I know a place” but it’s just the border of NJ and Pennsylvania
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    Emma Wiles
    @emmabwiles
    Dec 5, 2022
    Replying to @Josh_Merfeld
    seriously. I get all my diabetes meds from CVS, and always used to "round up" to donate to the ADA. Leaves a really bad taste in my mouth
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    Emma Wiles
    @emmabwiles
    Aug 3, 2020
    So much of this advice requires YEARS of foresight- undergrad math, 2 years of RAing, a year of taking the GRE every month until you get a 167 quant score. I don't know how anyone without an academic parent and family money ever gets into grad school. A thread.
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    Alvin Christian
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    Aug 3, 2020
    1/N I wrote a memo on the econ PhD application process based on my experience last year. I think prospective applicants - especially those outside of top schools - will find it useful. I only saw this from the supply side, so feel free to correct me! drive.google.com/file/d/1QozD6_…
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    Emma Wiles
    @emmabwiles
    Jun 14, 2021
    deleting my dating apps because I want to meet someone the old fashioned way (by defending both her and my buddy’s honor from a pretentious harvard student at a bar after solving a previously thought unsolvable combinatorial mathematics problem)
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    Emma Wiles
    @emmabwiles
    Aug 15, 2020
    I vow to never use "et al" and will type out every authors' name in any paper I write no matter the word count because I stand for justice for all peoples and also have a 'V' last name.
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    Emma Wiles
    @emmabwiles
    May 26, 2022
    This tweet is wrecking havoc in my household. Is this a) a demand curve for a prestige good or b) a supply curve?
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    Isabel Pastoor
    @PastoorIsabel
    May 26, 2022
    Mommy, why do teddy bears violate the law of demand?
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    Emma Wiles
    @emmabwiles
    Sep 5, 2024
    Happy first day of school! After two decades + of being a student, looking forward to being on this side of the classroom for the first time. I hope the teenagers don’t eat me alive!
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    Emma Wiles
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    Dec 6, 2022
    Replying to @emmabwiles
    A lot of people in mentions saying corporations can deduct these donations from their taxes. This is not true.
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    Who Gets the Tax Benefit For Those Checkout Donations?
    From taxpolicycenter.org
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    Emma Wiles
    @emmabwiles
    Dec 6, 2022
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    “The store serves only as a collection agent for your gift. Assuming the business is following the law, it will not include your donation as part of its business receipts, or income, nor will it claim the charitable gift as an expense.”