Showing posts with label unraveling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label unraveling. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Recent good looking market design papers I hope to read (on auctions, unraveling, and interviews)

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There was a time when I could reasonably hope to have read market design papers before they appeared in print, but now there are many fine p...
Sunday, September 7, 2025

Sorority rush (but now even more so)

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  The Atlantic has a story about the contemporary unraveling of sorority rush at Southern colleges: now rush is preceded by rush training......
Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Early hiring and late poaching

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 Akhil Vohra's paper on unraveling is in the latest AEJ:Micro. It proposes a novel cause of unraveling of labor markets.  Unraveling--ea...
Saturday, July 12, 2025

Banks fire back at buyout firms in war for (young) talent

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 Investment banks build defenses against private equity firms hiring their analysts covertly, years in advance. Here's the story from th...
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...