Economist on "Question for IO bros"
Which paper would you most prefer to replicate:Olley & Pakes Levinsohn and Ppetrin Ackerberg, Caves Frazer Which would be most interesting? Which would be easiest?
View ArticleEconomist on "Google Analytics as an echo chamber"
If someone checks my website from university say X. I go to X and check people from X who might be looking at my website. Then people from there see someone from my department is checking their...
View ArticleEconomist on "Interesting episode at the Embassy Suites in San Diego"
First of all, I'm not an economist. I recently discovered your forum and I wanted to share a story that I personally witnessed a few weeks ago. I'm originally from the east coast and was on a holiday...
View ArticleEconomist on "UK economics phd student stipend"
Just learned a top UK school offers 12K pound per year. Although the school is in a small town, the monthly rent for a one-bed apartment is at least 700 pound. Will not complain about my $30K stipend...
View ArticleEconomist on "If you took all the time you spend..."
On EJMR and did something else, what could you accomplish?
View ArticleEconomist on "I am drowning in co-authors"
I have a very ambitious and very exciting research project I am just starting to undertake. I really think it's a guaranteed top pub. A solid pub at the very least. Maybe even several papers worth.Here...
View ArticleEconomist on "IQ troll has made it to the NYT"
Finding genetic influences on a propensity for disease is one thing, they argue, but looking for such influences on behavior and cognition is another.But whether we like it or not, that line has...
View ArticleEconomist on "Who is the Boethius of economics?"
When civilization collapses, who will pick up the pieces of economics research and teach them to the leaders of the new order?
View ArticleEconomist on "Acemoglu dishonesty"
Acemoglu signed a public letter stating that U.S. manufacturing job losses are mostly not due to trade (Nov 2016):manufacturing’s share of employment has been declining since the 1970s and is mostly...
View ArticleEconomist on "If i publish a paper using webscraped linkedin data..."
will microsoft sue me? Or give a cease & desist or anything? I know recent court cases have determined that webscraping this data is indeed legal. So theoretically there should be no issue. But I...
View ArticleEconomist on "What theoretical advances since Samuelson & Arrow have rid...
Samuelson and Arrow were the two most influential theorists in the mid twentieth century. They are also both quite optimistic on socialism. They believed their models justified a centrally planned...
View ArticleEconomist on "Why hire an RA grad student?"
At $20 dollars an hour, I can hire an experienced data scientist from a developing country for 15 hours a week and 9 months a year for 10K. Pay is even lower for less in-demand titles like...
View ArticleEconomist on "Any department ranking list by placement records?"
Weighted by program size.
View ArticleEconomist on "MIT suicide of 3rd year"
Just got the news. This is terrible. Reach out to those around you, especially if they might be struggling.
View ArticleEconomist on "Canadian endowment"
Do Canadian schools rely less on endowments compared to American schools? Canadian public universities appear to have smaller endowments compared to the their American counterparts for econ departments...
View ArticleEconomist on "EJMR attacked again on Twitter for something posted in the...
https://twitter.com/Claudia_Sahm/status/978631685821562880
View ArticleEconomist on "Why do all the other social scientists talk about history so...
But economists hardly talk about it at all. Is it a blind spot?
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