Economist on "How is UIUC?"
Is UIUC a LRM for PhD Econ but a MRM for PhD Finance? UIUC Business School seem weak too.But UIUC is a top10 for engineering?
View ArticleEconomist on "Dreading brown bag seminars"
The pressure of presenting something new and interesting at brown bag seminars every time is stressful. Is this feeling common?
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 "Econ-o-mist Forte Nebuliser"
Saw this amusingly named product on sale when I was waiting at the pharmacy today:https://www.amcal.com.au/allersearch-econ-o-mist-forte-nebuliser-p-9318766500049
View ArticleEconomist on "How do you pronounce BB La Croix?"
I threw up a little in my mouth when I realized how people in the US pronounce it La Kroy.Have you guys been pronouncing it BB La Kroy all this time?
View ArticleEconomist on "Was DJTs trade war strategy to cause a stock market crash in...
I presume he was told by his advisors that China is a paper tiger that would be on the brink of collapse if tariffs were imposed. His language that they are easy to win suggest so.Now what is the...
View ArticleEconomist on "Hypothesis: Everyone does what they feel like"
Logic and data are just there to cover a**
View ArticleEconomist on "New AP here. I'm from the highest ranked program among all...
Does this mean I'm a lemon?
View ArticleEconomist on "What's the deal with Econ Twitter?"
All it is is the same bunch of PhD economists talk about how great they are while their underlings slurp it up with likes and retweets.With all of these white economists talking about how problematic...
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 "I can't even"
"There is no compelling evidence here that the personal ratings were assigned on the basis of race, and thus no compelling reason to exclude them from the model."- G Imbens, world-renowned econometrician
View ArticleEconomist on "Card and Hoynes are like an incompetent WWE tag team"
The way they run to each other’s defense when they’ve been exposed as corrupt and racist.You can’t just tag the other person in and pull rank when you’ve been exposed. This isn’t high school, you have...
View ArticleEconomist on "50 years hence, how will people view Ivy discrimination against...
Think about 50 years in the future. Is there any way that society will view what goes on today in college admissions to have been fair and just? Any possible way?I mean, anti-semitism was endemic to...
View ArticleEconomist on "16 economists file brief supporting Harvard in anti-Asian bias...
https://admissionscase.harvard.edu/files/adm-case/files/economist_brief_iso_harvard.pdf
View ArticleEconomist on "Theorist's Delight"
There skills dont go obsolete.Us aging regmonekys, we are always worried that we need to retool on the latest stuff lest we get eclipsed by the young un's. (unless of course you have crazy money to buy...
View ArticleEconomist on "Card: Minimum wage causes disemployment of Asian-Americans, not...
Forthcoming AER. Brilliant econometric work.
View ArticleEconomist on "What made U Western Ontario so good back in the day?"
They had some amazing theorists going in and out of that department in the 1980s. Was it just some great coordination or did UWO offer awesome packages compared to other departments? It surprises me...
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