Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Nikhil Agarwal defends his Ph.D. dissertation

Nikhil Agarwal defended his Ph.D. dissertation earlier this week. Two members of his committee, me and Susan Athey, skyped in from Stanford. But in the age of photoshop, seeing isn't believing: here is a photo of the post-defense celebration as it happened, and as it would have happened if California were a suburb of Boston...

Parag Pathak, Nikhil Agarwal, Ariel Pakes

Al Roth, Parag Pathak, Nikhil Agarwal, Ariel Pakes and Susan Athey
I blogged about his job market paper here, and his job market here.

Welcome to the club, Nikhil.

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