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Economist on "Jeff Wooldridge taking the torch to Silicon Valley"

"Some response variables in economics come in the form of a duration, which is the time elapsed until a certain event occurs. A few examples include weeks unemployed, months spent on welfare, days...

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Economist on "Does 2nd year indicates future research potentials?"

Second year here... Seriously depressed. I passed first year and comps quite easily and had high hope entering the second year. But now that I started to do some original research for field courses, I...

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Economist on "DeLong's role in Noah's trajectory to toilet"

I wonder if DeLong doesn't deserve a lot of the blame for Noah's trajectory. DeLong is great, a successful academic economist, but a strange variety of deadwood that doesn't do a lot of academic...

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Economist on "Switching careers after a PhD?"

I am scheduled to graduate next year. I am guaranteed a job as a professor in my home country as part of my scholarship agreement. I love economics and I like research, but my first love is writing...

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Economist on "9 Circles of Economist Hell"

Circle 1-Virtuous LRMs. Guilty of no sin, but unaware of the knowledge possessed by HRMs, virtuous LRMs spend eternity in pleasant meadows working on papers that positively no one will ever read.Circle...

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Economist on "Rainfall is no longer a reliable IV"

UW researchers present evidence that moon phases have direct impact on the amount of rainfall http://www.geekwire.com/2016/uw-researchers-link-a-high-in-the-sky-moon-to-reduced-rainfall/

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Economist on "Want to pursue MS PACMAN during PhD for Econometrics"

Because, you know, err... game theory?

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Economist on "Finding the intersection between career want and need"

It's virtually impossible to have career that provides everything you need while requiring you only to do what you want. But there are plenty of careers that only provide one or the other. For example,...

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Economist on "If I don't make tenure, can I come to the department dressed as...

Obviously only until the end of my contract (I'm not some sort of weirdo).The rough idea is that as one dream dies, perhaps another might come to life.Anyone tried this before? Suggestions on outfits,...

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Economist on "Is there something that Ed Glaeser hasn't commented on?"

In basically every single paper I've seen published in the last 20 years, there's a section for which the author thanks commentators and Edward Glaeser is ALWAYS f*cking there. ALWAYS. Reads this paper...

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Economist on "Clinton-style centrist economics rests on foundations | Yglesias"

Unfortunately I think he's right this time...http://www.vox.com/2016/3/21/11273978/clinton-shaky-foundation

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Economist on "If you could start over again, would you still do an econ PhD?"

I'd do a PhD in computer science, then work for Facebook/Google/Microsoft or DE Shaw/RenTec/Jane Street and make banks. So much bulls**t in economics that is irrelevant to the real world. Wasted 5...

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Economist on "Economics should be limited to causal inference."

It's already the majority of the field.

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Economist on "Most alpha personal homepages"

Nominations here. I'll start.Ali Hortacsu

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Economist on "Arrogant economists"

list

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Economist on "2016 QS Econ+Metrics subject ranking"

http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/university-subject-rankings/2016/economics-econometrics#sorting=rank+region=+country=+faculty=+stars=false+search=

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Economist on "Can a serious economist support Bernie?"

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/27/upshot/uncovering-the-bad-math-or-logic-behind-bernie-sanderss-economic-plan.html?_r=1Sander's economist about gov spending“To me, when the government spends money,...

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Economist on "How to stop thinking about research when you try to sleep"

Bros help!! There is something with some current project and I have been thinking about it all day. It's 3:20am now and I still can't get it out of my head and fall asleep.... It's been going on for...

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Economist on "MRM editor"

Q: I am a MRM PhD student, I submitted a paper to a journal. The editor is MRM too. Is there a chance that the editor will appreciate the hardships of being MRM and accept my paper? A: No, the editor...

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Economist on "Does 2nd year indicates future research potentials?"

Second year here... Seriously depressed. I passed first year and comps quite easily and had high hope entering the second year. But now that I started to do some original research for field courses, I...

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