Economist on "MIT candidates"
I can never understand, is the difference in the quality of entering students between MIT and say Princeton this different. Or is it the teaching/advising quality? Because the placements are light...
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What on earth is Rebecca Diamond doing on the Restud tour? They'll let anyone in nowadays.Anyone except you or other types of mediocre people.
View ArticleEconomist on "2013 Yale Placement?"
1716=theorist with best job offer in developing country
View ArticleEconomist on "Should we believe results from anyone who can't prove the CLT?"
Seeing the CLT proved for the first time was kind of neat. But it didn't give me much of a deeper understanding of it.
View ArticleEconomist on "Do I stand a chance?"
http://www.rtc.bt/index.php/careers-at-rtc/jobs-at-rtc/faculty-positions
View ArticleEconomist on "Do I stand a chance?"
A bit late to start a search, but check if there are reasonable places with unfilled positions and just apply.
View ArticleEconomist on "2013 Yale Placement?"
Rebecca Diamond has a good paper. Agarwal is more suprising.
View ArticleEconomist on "new UIUC Econ hires"
There are senior offers out. The way out of this equilibrium (for any struggling department ) is to pay above market to more realistic candidates at the senior level. UIUC suffers a common delusion...
View ArticleEconomist on "Dear vlrm depts,"
Yes, I know I have a PhD from another vlrm dept; but, my two publications in 2nd tier field journals is more than half-way to satisfying the research component for tenure at your department. Those HRM...
View ArticleEconomist on "Dear vlrm depts,"
but all in the hiring committee are high ranked lemons...
View ArticleEconomist on "do publications from low ranking or unranked journals help in...
A pub or R&R in a top field journal helps a lot on the job market.A pub in a 2nd tier field journal doesn't seem to help, even for getting interviews at vlrm places.Also, I know several people who...
View ArticleEconomist on "do publications from low ranking or unranked journals help in...
You are better off with several promising working papers than a publication in anything less than one of the top journals.
View ArticleEconomist on "do publications from low ranking or unranked journals help in...
Publishing in the International Journal of Heternormative Cisgame Theory will destroy any chance you have of getting a job with Umass or a solid LAC
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