Showing posts with label unraveling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label unraveling. Show all posts
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...
Tuesday, August 2, 2022

American Finance Association guidelines to prevent unravelling of the job market

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 Zoom is changing interview practices, and there's concern that academic markets for new Ph.D grads could unravel. The AFA is on the cas...
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...
Sunday, June 19, 2022

Unraveling of MBA recruitment

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 The WSJ has the story: Some M.B.A.s Are Getting Job Offers Before They Step Onto Campus . Early recruiting—before students and prospective ...
Saturday, May 7, 2022

Drought, hunger, and early marriage in Ethiopia

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 Sometimes the problem is hunger, and early marriage is seen as the solution. The Guardian has the story Ethiopian drought leading to ‘drama...
Monday, May 2, 2022

The search for tennis talent is unraveling

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 It used to be that 11 year old professional tennis players were rare, but it looks like that's not the case any more. The NYT has the s...
Saturday, March 19, 2022

Unraveling and reneging in the summer internship market

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 There are some costs to unraveling of offer dates, and some of them are borne by the companies that make very early offers. The WSJ has the...
Sunday, October 17, 2021

Unraveling of Forensic Psychiatry fellowships makes participants paranoid on both sides of the market

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  Where lawyers speak naturally about rules, psychiatrists don't shy away from talking about feelings, and the current disorder in the m...