Economist on "How to tell a job market star/ Is publication not everything?"
Rookie PhD here. I've been attending the junior job talks at my department recently. Among the candidates, some are so-called job market stars (dubbed by EJMRers or other word of mouth) and some are...
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a bunch of country club wasps with freemason handshakes that smell like lube from preparing themselves for mounting by the seniors
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LRM ambitious student, visited a good school for a year. I do applied stuff. I networked a bit while I was at good school, presented in decent conferences...I have will have 4 completed papers : 2 are...
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1 sole R&R and the other is with another student...
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It's impossible to predict job market outcomes, unless you're dealing with those who are in the bottom half of their cohort.
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pubs are good. s**tty pubs are no good. if you generate 4 papers that are junk, you will get a job, but it will not be top 30. if you generate 4 good papers, you'll do quite well.
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A star is somebody who had a adviser that was very alpha during the faculty meeting. This does not mean that he was the top guy in the world or even the top guy from that cohort. I have seen enough...
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I agree with the previous poster to a certain extent. Usually when someone is a "star" with very little objective evidence to support that position, it's because they are a student of a well-connected,...
View ArticleEconomist on "Why is academia reluctant to hire from govt. or industry?"
Definitely arrogance and the usual fourth-order inferences on productivity from a set of signals that usually has nothing to do with productivity
View ArticleEconomist on "Why is academia reluctant to hire from govt. or industry?"
Q: Why is academia reluctant to hire from government, private sector or the military? A: Because such people are known to completely screw up academia.
View ArticleEconomist on "Microsoft postdoctoral"
What do you do as a Microsoft econ post-doc? Estimate the demand for the Surface Pro?
View ArticleEconomist on "Why is academia reluctant to hire from govt. or industry?"
Academic arrogance. We all think that 5 yrs at the Federal Reserve Bank is worth less than teaching Intro to Econ and doing shi.tty research at a state school for 5 yrs.Fed people except maybe the bog...
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Conditional on publication record, there is no bias against industry or government backgrounds.
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It is one of their philanthropic projects.100k a year for doing nothing.Probably you don't even need to show up.
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94c3, then that's a big bias since very few in govt. or industry are able to pump out the same # of papers per year people in academia can.
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If someone outside of academia gets published every 1 or 2 yrs that is a strong signal to me that they will be very productive when they get an academic job.
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What do you do as a Microsoft econ post-doc? Estimate the demand for the Surface Pro?Steve Ballmer needs someone smart, but not trained in CS and not permanently at the company, whom he can ask for...
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I would...google: Paulina Gretzky.
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