Economist on "Surrounded by mormons"
I'm a PhD student at BYU and in seminars I often have the feeling to be surrounded by mormons. No coffee, no secret booze drinking.
View ArticleEconomist on "Macro ladies??"
Why are there so few women in macro? Do you percieve a stigma from macro scholars? (We all know academia is CONNECTIONS) Any sounded gender quota in your department?
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 "How do people convince their employers to pay for their PhD?"
How do people at GWU/Georgetown/GMU convince people to pay for their part-time PhD? Do you have to sign a contract or something? Did anyone here do their PhD part-time?
View ArticleEconomist on "Why and how do you deal with academia?"
Sometimes I wonder why we do this to ourselves.You spend years working on a project before it gets published. All the while only dealing with negativity towards your work. The job of all of your peers...
View ArticleEconomist on "Grad Students: What's your stipend?"
And do you feel it's enough to live off? MRM here, 24k. I get by decently, and might TA this summer to grab some more cash. However, I salivate at the thought of having a real job. It would be nice not...
View ArticleEconomist on "EJMR first policy"
I do not care about my thesis, my friends, etc. When I am on EJMR I am happy. EJMR first.
View ArticleEconomist on "New journal - AEJ Unverifiable"
The AEA Executive Committee voted to establish a new publication outlet for papers in economics using confidential data. The journal is provisionally named AEJ: Unverifiable. This is an attempt to be...
View ArticleEconomist on "When to submit?"
A fourth year graduate student here working on a paper for over a year now. I have the writing all polished and presented twice in both external and internal full length seminars. Just known that my...
View ArticleEconomist on "Econ Prof fired"
This article appeared in the local paper today:SOMMERSET- Christina Regan- a tenured professor of economics at Bowmore College has been fired after a months long investigation. Last March, a 20 year...
View ArticleEconomist on "How much did faculty help you in getting started with research?"
Did you come up with your first research questions and get going basically on your own, or were you guided by faculty in some way beyond teaching of field courses?
View ArticleEconomist on "Taking notes for presenters at seminars"
it just occured to me that this could be a win-win-win thing to do: 1. take notes to help me concentrate and follow the speakers' train of thought 2. helps speakers keep track of comments from the...
View ArticleEconomist on "I'm finding it impossible to reproduce the results of Wu's paper"
I've been trying to reproduce the paper but am unable to get the same results.Has anyone else tried?
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 "Neoclassical economics"
What is right and wrong about the Wikipedia entry?
View ArticleEconomist on "Confession: The whole time I thought Paul Romer wrote Advanced...
Just noticed today it was David Romer. It feels like I just left the Matrix to wake up and discover everything was an illusion.
View ArticleEconomist on "Lost my motivation"
Recently tenured here. Today for the first time I did not want to get out of the car in the parking lot. I didn't want to spend another day in the office. But I did it and just procrastinated.I feel...
View ArticleEconomist on "What to do with passive-aggressive colleagues?"
Who are basically obnoxious, although they do not explicitly act like it for the most part. These people also seem to bunch together in the department.
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