Showing posts with label academic economics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label academic economics. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 6, 2026

Peter Rousseau comments on our field experiment involving the Econ job market, in PNAS

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 My post yesterday was about the experiment about social media and the job market for economists.  I only noticed later that the PNAS also ...
Tuesday, May 5, 2026

Social media, job market outcomes, and ethics of field experiments, by Qiu, Chen, Cohn and Roth in PNAS

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 One of the fun things about our paper published in today's PNAS is that, as a working paper, it prompted a vigorous discussion of the e...
Wednesday, March 25, 2026

Kidney exchange now has a broad literature across multiple disciplines

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  One pleasure of following an area of research for a long time is getting to see how its academic literature becomes both deeper and broade...
Friday, March 13, 2026

My academic career to date, in two word clouds (covering 1974-1999 and 2000-2025)

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 Here's a website that will make a word cloud based on your Google Scholar page: Scholar Goggler .  I used it to create a kind of data-g...
Wednesday, March 4, 2026

A philosopher interviews economists about rational choice

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A hardcover copy of this book of interviews (of economists, by a philosopher) arrived in my mail the other day, and I'm enjoying it. It...
Tuesday, March 3, 2026

Nick Bloom discusses work from home

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  Econ To Go is a Stanford series in which Neale Mahoney , the director of SIEPR, interviews an economist. In this one he interviews the in...
Sunday, March 1, 2026

Claudia Goldin to Receive Talcott Parsons Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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  Here's the announcement from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences*: Claudia Goldin to Receive Talcott Parsons Prize   “To truly u...
Saturday, February 21, 2026

Fast and slow dissemination of new ideas in medicine and economics (one timeline:)

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There are many differences between medicine and economics, but one of the most striking is the speed of publication.  I publish papers in bo...
Monday, February 16, 2026

Joe Halpern (1953-2026)

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 Joseph Halpern was an early explorer of the interface between computer science and game theory.   Here's his funeral home obit:  Josep...
Sunday, February 8, 2026

Interview in China (accompanying new edition of Who Gets What and Why)

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 Southern People Weekly just published an interview about the new edition of the Chinese translation of my 2015 book Who Gets What and Why ....
Thursday, February 5, 2026

Ken Rogoff's intellectual autobiography

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 My Harvard colleague Ken Rogoff , who is almost certainly undominated in the joint space of competitive chess and academic economics, refle...
Tuesday, January 20, 2026

The job market for economists, 2026

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 The WSJ has the story: Economists Are Studying the Slowing Job Market—and Feeling It Themselves Newly minted Ph.D.s tend to work for univer...
Tuesday, December 23, 2025

Erik Brynjolfsson interviewed in Newsweek

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 Always thought provoking:  Centaurs, Canaries and J-Curves: Pitfalls and Productivity Potential of AI By Marcus Weldon  "Brynjolfsson ...
Wednesday, December 3, 2025

AEA Survey of hiring plans of U.S. Economics Departments (and an unrelated unprecedented AEA announcement about Larry Summers)

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 Here's the latest survey of the job market for new PhD economists: To: Members of the American Economic Association From: AEA Committee...
Saturday, November 22, 2025

Philippe Aghion interview in the Financial Times

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The FT has lunch with Philippe Aghion:   Economist Philippe Aghion: ‘Macron’s legacy will be better than people think’ France’s new Nobel la...
Sunday, October 26, 2025

Gender Differences in Economics Seminars (forthcoming in the AER)

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 Economics seminars are complex, and not always tea parties. Here's a detailed look, by many investigators, via the analysis of many aud...
Friday, October 10, 2025

Job market advice for new Ph.D. economists, from John Cawley

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 From applying for jobs, to signaling for interviews,  through interviews, flyouts, offers and the scramble, John Cawley, the chair of the A...
Wednesday, October 8, 2025

New Fellows of the Econometric Society

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 The Econometric Society has announced the results of the 2025 election of new Fellows . Congratulations to all of them. It's a great l...