Economist on "Hey bros I woke up today and my Schleifer felt really great"
So I thought what the Heckman, I can Rogoff one real quick, because I am a real Acemoglu in this thing. My Schleifer is very Prescott, but I really Vishny it was a bit more Woodford. So I Helpman...
View ArticleEconomist on "Visiting a different university for a semester"
How does this work? Can I ask my advisers if they can use their contacts to have me visit a different department for a semester? The reason is that my research interests are not that closely aligned...
View ArticleEconomist on "JBC announcement"
"The American Economic Association is pleased to announce that Raj Chetty is the winner of the 2018 John Bates Clark Medal, given to the top American economist under the age of 40. Chetty is a public...
View ArticleEconomist on "PhD student does terrible work, misunderstands econ, loved by...
Member of my cohort doesn't understand basic micro theory, uses canned methods that they don't even understand, publishes trash in UVLRM journals, is obnoxious to all grad students, but is loved by...
View ArticleEconomist on "For bros/broettes going on the market next year, how's your JMP...
Me: MRM, got all main results and about to write up second draft soon.
View ArticleEconomist on "The definitive HRM, MRM, LRM category"
My ranking:VHRM: Harvard, MIT HRM: UC Berkeley, Stanford, Princeton LHRM: Chicago, Northwestern, UPenn, Yale VMRM: Michigan, UCSD, Columbia, NYU, LSE MRM: IIES, Cornell, Rochester, Brown, UCLA,...
View ArticleEconomist on "What to expect from third year of PhD"
About to finish second year, and feel weird that I won’t have classes anymore. What should I aim at getting done by the end of my third year?
View ArticleEconomist on "Reflecting on the failure that was EJMinfo"
Actually let’s not bother, it was a silly idea
View ArticleEconomist on "Cambridge Analytica rigs the AEA election"
AEA: “We condemn this sexist, racist and anti-Semitic company”
View ArticleEconomist on "How does NYT etc decide to cover research?"
Do people like Chetty email NYT to tell them about new results and ask for coverage? Or instead does NYT look out for interesting working papers and make the first move?
View ArticleEconomist on "The new chicago"
-> phd cohort size has shrunk and stabilized to about 20 -> stipends have increased to 40k -> pass rate on the core exam has been 90% in last 5 years. 95% this year. -> faculty hiring has...
View ArticleEconomist on "Letter of Recommendation"
To Whom it May Concern:I am writing to recommend Ms. Sally Smith for your Master of Economics program.I have barely known Ms. Smith for one semester as her instructor in my 800-student Principles of...
View ArticleEconomist on "Best idea / discovery of the last decade in economics?"
In Physics, gravitational waves were discovered in 2015.In Maths, Inter-universal Teichmüller theory was first publicised widely in 2012.In Biology, genome editing techniques have been developed...
View ArticleEconomist on "The most beautiful equation in economics"
$$ \widehat{\beta} = (X^TX)^{-1}X^TY $$
View ArticleEconomist on "The problem with the criticism that economists did not predict...
The most common criticism of economics nowadays seems to be that it did not predict financial crisis. What are those who say this (which includes many well known economists too probably) even thinking....
View ArticleEconomist on "Bay Area Housing Bubble"
Just for fun I revisited the "Marin POS" blog, which covered the last Bay Area housing bubble. Here's a house they mocked in 2006, listed at...
View ArticleEconomist on "First year macro professor said"
That based on class performance it doesn’t look like anybody on the cohort is going to pass comps. Has this ever happened?
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