Suggested timeline for those on the job market next year
One of the most valuable pieces of advice our job market placement coordinator gave me and my classmates is the ideal job market timeline, constructed
How to solve climate change
The first international climate change treaty was signed in 1992. Now, almost 30 years later, climate change shows no sign of abating. Countries’ existing plans
Should you join Twitter?
Whether or not it’s beneficial for economists to be on Twitter periodically comes up in my conversations, largely with people who are not on Twitter.
SKAIPedia & an edit-a-thon open to all!
The long-awaited wiki for social science research is now live. Dubbed the “Social Science Knowledge Accumulation Initiative Encyclopedia” or SKAIPedia for short, it is now
We are starting an academic wiki!
This summer, in collaboration with others, I’ve decided to embark on a new project – a wiki specifically for academic research. Our goal is to
Why did my paper get rejected?
How often have you encountered the following situation? A paper comes back with two positive reviews, one negative review, and a final decision of “reject”
Some tips for robustness checks and empirical analysis in general
One of the wisest things my PhD advisor said to me was “You need to think more and do less,” and this is probably good
The short- and long-run economic impacts of Hurricane Katrina: some implications for COVID-19
COVID-19 has created a public health crisis. The measures taken to slow its spread are also grinding a lot of economic activity down to a
