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
Informal recruiting of men versus women
I routinely hear talk about female economists being in much more demand than male economists. I decided to gather some data to test whether this
“Lessons From The Edge: A Memoir”
I just finished “Lessons From The Edge: A Memoir” by Marie Yovanovitch, a career diplomat who served as US Ambassador to Ukraine in 2016-2019 and
