Showing posts with label academic marketplace. Show all posts
Showing posts with label academic marketplace. Show all posts
Thursday, November 7, 2024

Summer internship with Kominers et al. at a16z

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  Scott Kominers writes "Any chance you could blogvertise this internship?" : "a16z crypto summer internship, with substanti...
Thursday, May 23, 2024

Social Media and Job Market Success: A Field Experiment on Twitter, by Qiu, Chen, Cohn, and Roth

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  Here's a new working paper on SSRN: Social Media and Job Market Success: A Field Experiment on Twitter, by Jingyi Qiu, Yan Chen, Alai...
Thursday, April 4, 2024

Jon Levin to be new President of Stanford.

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  Stanford alum, business school dean Jonathan Levin named Stanford president
Friday, November 3, 2023

Jobs for economists, so far this year

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Here's a preliminary AEA memo on the job market . "To: Members of the American Economic Association  From: AEA Committee on the Job...
Friday, August 4, 2023

AEA Guidance on the 2023-24 Economics Job Market Cycle

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In an effort to forestall/halt/slow unravelling in the market for new Ph.D. economists, the American Economic Association has released some ...
Friday, June 2, 2023

Dissertation advisors and job market outcomes by Rose and Shekhar

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  Here's a paper on the economics job market, and the influence of dissertation advisers. Adviser Connectedness and Placement Outcomes i...
Wednesday, January 25, 2023

Academic authorship for sale

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 Here's a news story in Nature: Multimillion-dollar trade in paper authorships alarms publishers. Journals have begun retracting public...
Monday, November 7, 2022

Stanford Economics Ph.D. Job Market Candidates for the 2022-23 Economics Job Market.

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 22 candidates for the  2022-23 Economics Job Market , from B to Z. Stanford, Department of Economics Job Market Candidates Available Novemb...
Monday, October 31, 2022

Unraveling of the market for new law professors

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  Kim Krawiec , a law professor who is among the most penetrating analysts of controversial markets and market practices, emails me about un...
Tuesday, September 27, 2022

Where do professors come from?

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  A news article in Nature summarizes two research articles into the makeup of the American professoriate.  Professors tend to have gotten t...
Thursday, July 7, 2022

Coordinating the timing of the market for new Economics Ph.D.s: guidance from the AEA

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 Here's an email broadcast by the American Economic Association, aimed to promote market thickness by avoiding unraveling and dealing wi...
Friday, May 20, 2022

Research on pedophilia presents career hazards

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 It's not always easy to investigate repugnant things, let alone crimes.  Old Dominion University has parted ways with an assistant prof...
Wednesday, December 22, 2021

Will unionization at universities change the United Auto Workers?

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 There is an increasing presence of labor unions at American universities, which may well bring big changes to those universities. Here is a...
Monday, September 27, 2021

Beware survivorship bias in advice on science careers

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  Here's a 'career column' from Nature, with advice that I think academic advisors should keep in mind, especially in view of th...
Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Modern peer review: how it evolved since the 1950's in Sociology

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 Peer review is a big part of the design of modern academic publishing in scholarly journals. It wasn't always that way, and the current...
Monday, September 20, 2021

Keeping the market for new economists thick: AEA guidelines on timing of interviews

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 Below are some guidelines suggested by the American Economic Association for the conduct of this year's job market for new Ph.D.s AEA G...
Thursday, February 11, 2021

Economics at the extremes (of gender and salary): UC Berkeley report

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  This report includes two figures in which the discipline of Economics is near one of the extremes.  The regression models on gender and sa...
Sunday, January 17, 2021

A proposed match for English professors, in the Chronicle of Higher Ed

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 Here's a proposal for a centralized clearinghouse for new Ph.D.s in English.  It's a thought experiment, unconstrained by considera...
Monday, December 21, 2020

Edward (Eddie) Lazear (1948-2020)

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  My Stanford colleague Eddie Lazear passed away last month, from pancreatic cancer. ( When he moved from the University of Chicago to Stanf...