Well, Leonard's younger brother, Michael, is a tenured law professor at Harvard, and his sister just successfully grew a human pancreas in an adolescent gibbon.
Her university statement, she will remain tenured faculty at the university's law school and also agreed to stay on board while they find an interim replacement.
And what Gilbert and his colleagues found was that almost to the person, those who got tenured or did not get tenured, went back to their previous level of well-being.
Most people today are employees with guaranteed rates of pay, and sometimes with guaranteed tenure on their jobs, when they are career civil servants, tenured professors, or federal judges.
The Nature paper's data set included tenured and tenure-track faculty members who worked at PhD-granting institutions in the United States between 2011 and 2020, for a total of 295,089 people at more than 350 institutions.
And the economics world itself freaks out - in particular, a lot of those individual posters on Econ Job Market Rumors, including this one tenured professor who we are going to call Terry.