Economist on "Dr Eva Vivalt’s research suggests social science findings don’t...
https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/eva-vivalt-social-science-generalizability/If we have a study on the impact of a social program in a particular place and time, how confident can we be that...
View ArticleEconomist on "What Fryer scandal says about economics"
We give them tenured professorships, JBCs, media coverage but when it's time to do the right thing we protect the predators
View ArticleEconomist on "Legality of audio recording office hours and interactions with...
I think a growing concern among both myself and other young faculty is whether we can do anything to protect ourselves against allegations of sexual harassment. Of course, there seem to be few cases...
View ArticleEconomist on "We demand a statement from the AEA"
The assholes that have too much power over our profession issued a challenge to EJMR and Kirk completed the challenge within 8 months. AEA assholes, put down your twitter phones and issue a statement....
View ArticleEconomist on "Will all NBER working paper end up published (well)?"
I know it is something of affiliation but does it carry and signal of quality?
View ArticleEconomist on "Which is more scandalous - Banerjee-Duflo vs Cochrane-Fama"
Which is more scandalous?Good for Banerjee-Duflo, No Giod P for Cochrane-Fama (JC married EF's daughter and shifted from Chicago Econ to Chicago Booth)
View ArticleEconomist on "Questions about contacting faculty vs faculty assistants"
Sometimes professors have a specific faculty assistant, possibly shared with several other faculty members.In what situations do you e-mail the faculty assistant (A), instead of the faculty directly...
View ArticleKirk on "Kirk - Gender Update, EJMR has reached the 30% target, how has the...
About 8 months ago I showed that 20% of users of EJMR were female and promised to target 30% within a year. Today I am very happy to announce that over the last 30 days we surpassed 30% female...
View ArticleEconomist on "If tenure is designed to protect academic freedom"
Then any should economic professors have it? We have no particularly offensive or sacrilegious opinions to offer with the discipline.
View ArticleEconomist on "Jon Levin"
Why did he win the Clark medal? What was his big contribution?I get that he is apparently a nice guy, which is refreshingly unusual among the recipients.
View ArticleEconomist on "This is why I don't use "Median household income""
Median household income has been steadily increasing under Trump, rising from $59,471 in January 2017 to $61,483 last month, according to Sentier Research, which tracks income on a monthly basis using...
View ArticleEconomist on "Explain to me why bitcoin is not money"
Apparently there's people who have been living only on bitcoin for 3 years already (a famous bitcoin speaker called Andreas Antonopoulos). It also serves the typical functions of money (medium of...
View ArticleEconomist on "Taleb much, much more human in person"
https://medium.com/conversations-with-tyler/tyler-cowen-nassim-nicholas-taleb-skin-in-the-game-black-swan-104620da8a57
View ArticleEconomist on "No one on Twitter congratulated EJMR for 50% increase in female...
Seems strangely quiet over there. Is real positive change something they are unable to perceive?
View ArticleEconomist on "Starting AP in Fall, nothing to do right now"
No money to travel or go out either, besides refining dissertation chapters for publication, how do I deal with the boredom?
View ArticleEconomist on "How to spend all the money?"
I'm taking a 200k/year industry job in a low CoL US city. This is eight times my grad stipend. What on earth do I do with all this money? I plan to save about 40k a year, but the job also has huge...
View ArticleEconomist on "The EU General Data Protection Regulation"
Is this a good thing? I am getting emails from lists I once subscribed to like every minute.
View ArticleEconomist on "German Bros"
AP at a LRM looking to make a jump to a German department. What would a strong candidate look like at some of your average to lower ranked departments.
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