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Much has been made of the JBC as a leading indicator for the Nobel Prize. The Frisch medal started in the 1970s, but since 2000, McFadden, Hansen, and Deaton have all won the Nobel. (Heckman won the...
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Celebrating my successful thesis defense tonight. The following EJMRers are invited: economist 4f11, economist aer2, economist fku1, economist dmn3, and economist wtf3. Please RSVP ASAP.
View ArticleEconomist on "How does a new Major NBER Program come into being?"
Programs include:Development IO Public International Trade and Investment etc...which all appear to be standard fieldsBut then there are some ones like Children Aging...How do new programs come to be?...
View ArticleEconomist on "Funny slip up in applicant's JMP bibliography"
Freudian slip? Instead of Douglass North, an applicant cited what follows:North, Peter and Barry Weingast. 1989. "Constitutions and Commitment...
View ArticleEconomist on "Changing my last name to Aardvark"
I want to be listed first on my co-authored JMP. Also, when I am up for tenure, I want the humanitard deans to think that *I* am always the one who does the most work on a paper. #winning
View ArticleEconomist on "Sentimental night"
Tomorrow is fall vacation, so that I have no classes for the next three days.Need to make a progress on my current works but things are not going on well nowadays.Having a lot of pressure in the middle...
View ArticleEconomist on "How many co-authors are too many?"
http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-many-scientists-does-it-take-to-write-a-paper-apparently-thousands-1439169200
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"I applaud your work on gender equality issues Mister Deaton!" /Sociologist PhD SJW"I don't know what a demand system is, but I do know about data (and Stata)! Congrats, Prof Deaton!!" /Reg...
View ArticleEconomist on "Econ uniform"
im a new grad student in Econ. Im getting my wardrobe together for the right Econ uniform. I got my collection of Polo shirts, kakhis, and nice lil sweaters. What else am I missing?
View ArticleEconomist on "If I could start from freshman again"
I would transfer to an Ivy League school, double major in econ and an engineering field (operations research, CS, stats, etc.), then walk into the glory of Wall Street after graduation. Unless you go...
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http://individual.utoronto.ca/09yangka/files/transcript_kai.pdf
View ArticleEconomist on "Acemoglu to Kentucky!"
It is fried chicken this time. You first read it at EJMR. You are welcome
View ArticleEconomist on "Do you LOVE your research?"
My advisor says that I should wake up in the morning and go to bed at night thinking about it.I like my research, and I think I could be happy in this career, but what my advisor says sounds crazy....
View ArticleEconomist on "Modern Monetary Theory"
I was recently asked my opinion. I summarized it as including the theory of endogenous money. The Fed can control a basic interest rate, but not the quantity of money in circulation. Another component...
View ArticleEconomist on "How to turn down request to supervise ambitious student research?"
New AP at a SLAC. Another prof told a group of undergrads, WITHOUT consulting me first, that they should participate in a Kaggle-type contest and that I would advise them. Problem: The students in...
View ArticleEconomist on "What's the best economics paper on postal banking?"
I became interested after reading this article.http://harvardlawreview.org/2014/02/its-time-for-postal-banking/
View ArticleEconomist on "I told a colleague about my new gym idea in a research seminar"
So I had this idea about a gym where people pay a monthly fee to go. Nothing special, right? However, the novel part of my idea is that the gym also requires the customers to pay for every day that...
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My working assumption is usually that everyone in the profession (and many outside it) check EJMR routinely. But occasionally I have conversations with colleagues in which they are not aware of things...
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