True and Non-trivial Ideas from Economics
There is a well-known anecdote suggesting that, aside from comparative advantage in trade, virtually all ideas in the social sciences are either false or trivial.
Mechanism design in parenting
A challenge that every parent with more than one child faces at some point is how to split something (let’s say a giant piece of
The intuition behind “bad controls”
Most people who’ve been through an economics PhD course sequence have probably learned about the perils of controlling for potentially endogenous variables, the so-called “bad
Advice to junior faculty
I recently delivered a keynote lecture at the 30th annual meeting of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. While I was there, two
Some thoughts on the publication process
Earlier this month, I spoke at a publishing workshop for Ukrainian academics. I thought it would be useful to share those remarks. I included relatively
Surviving in the world of fake reviews
I have been buying most non-perishable things online for years. And most things I buy online I buy from Amazon. An obvious issue with online
What I’ve learned from being a journal editor
I’ve held an editorial role at the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (JAERE) for 3.5 years now (2.5 as co-editor and
