Showing posts with label unraveling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label unraveling. Show all posts
Thursday, October 3, 2024

A bride- price auction: “the most expensive bride in South Sudan”

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  The Guardian has the story of a bride-price auction for a child bride in South Sudan: A teenage bride wed for a record price: the ‘marriag...
Friday, August 16, 2024

Preference signaling in the Political Science job market

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  There is now signaling in the Political Science job market:  They allow job candidates to send up to three signals: here's the APSA...
Tuesday, July 9, 2024

Child labor in soccer

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Many laws seek to protect children from being exploited in the labor market, and there is widespread repugnance when it appears that such ex...
Friday, June 28, 2024

Getting a Federal judicial clerkship, and then clerking

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 If all has gone according to plan, law students who will graduate next June have just matched with a federal clerkship, if they are going ...
Saturday, June 1, 2024

The Path to a Match for Interventional Cardiology Fellowships

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The  Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions  has started a fellowship match, and here's an article describing the fa...
Monday, September 11, 2023

Talent wars in private equity: continued unraveling

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  The WSJ has the latest: Hectic Private-Equity Recruitment Process Leaves Firms Looking for Alternatives . July talent-grab leaves some fir...
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 ...
Saturday, May 20, 2023

Is an End to Child Marriage within Reach? Not yet... Unicef report, and Lancet summary

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  Unicef has issued the following report focused on the continued prevalence of child marriage, particularly in the poorest communities: Is ...
Friday, April 21, 2023

Transition from medical school to residency: defending the parts that work well (namely the NRMP Resident Match)

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This post is about a recently published paper concerning the design of the market for new doctors in the U.S.  But it will require some back...
Monday, February 27, 2023

AEA committee on the job market considers early and exploding offers

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  John Cawley chairs the AEA committee on the job market, and recently tweeted the request for information below.  Feel free to communicat...
Sunday, February 5, 2023

Advice on dealing with exploding offers in the Economics job market

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  The market for new Economics Ph.D.s is in flux, with interviews this year being conducted remotely by Zoom rather than in person at the an...
Saturday, February 4, 2023

Unraveling of the private equity labor market, continued (and continuing)

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 Here's some news and history on the Private Equity On-Cycle Recruiting Timeline by Matt Ting (Peak Frameworks) "The sheer absurdit...
Wednesday, January 4, 2023

"It Is Time for Interventional Cardiology Fellowship to Join the National Resident Matching Program," say its leaders

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  The current appointment process for interventional cardiology fellows is early and congested, and programs feel obliged to make exploding ...
Thursday, December 22, 2022

Wilderness Medicine starts a fellowship Match

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 "Wilderness medicine" sounds like the sort of medicine you hope you never need as a patient.  But there is a medical fellowship p...
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...
Saturday, September 3, 2022

Further unraveling of law firm offers to (first year) law students, and offers to new (first week) bankers from private equity

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Eric Budish writes with a pointer to a Business Insider story on the current unraveling of the market for new lawyers and big law firms. Ins...