Economist on "Economath Fails the Cost-Benefit Test"
Show a typical economist at GMU a theory article, and watch how he "reads" it: He reads the abstract and introduction, flips the theory pages, then reads the conclusion. FTFY Bryan.
View ArticleEconomist on "Economath Fails the Cost-Benefit Test"
I also found that the endogeneity taliban won't bother you if you make your point with cross-tabulations.
View ArticleEconomist on "MIT has a reputation for producing the strongest economists"
MIT bros lift. Confirmed
View ArticleEconomist on "MIT has a reputation for producing the strongest economists"
http://economics.mit.edu/graduate/ph.d./career
View ArticleEconomist on "MIT has a reputation for producing the strongest economists"
This cannot be used to assess the current department, as most of the students considered are from earlier cohorts.http://ideas.repec.org/top/top.inst.students.html
View ArticleEconomist on "MIT has a reputation for producing the strongest economists"
The most interesting question is why. What is it that departments like MIT have that enable them to perpetuate this dominance. Or is it mostly a selection effect?
View ArticleEconomist on "MIT has a reputation for producing the strongest economists"
This cannot be used to assess the current department, as most of the students considered are from earlier cohorts.http://ideas.repec.org/top/top.inst.students.htmlOP asked about reputation, which is...
View ArticleEconomist on "Promising Students"
I have recently become a AP at an HRM. Is it worth collecting a group of promising undergrads and turning them into your army? So when they get publishing your cite count goes up. Does the cost benifit...
View ArticleEconomist on "MIT has a reputation for producing the strongest economists"
No. Their good reputation was his premise. He inquired whether the reputation, which stems from previous cohorts, is still justified in light of their more current cohorts. You seem dumb.This cannot be...
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Undergrad RAs are good for one thing. And it has nothing to do with improving your cite count.
View ArticleEconomist on "World Bank YPP 2014"
folks..any idea what kind of questions are asked on poverty reduction in the interview?
View ArticleEconomist on "Richard Roll earned 250K in 1985."
He was LRM as f**k before Chicago PhD. Engineer with Boeing was alpha though. Somebody please explain in great detail. Even Wayne Ferson got a Chicago PhD with a Southern Methodist MBA. That s**t does...
View ArticleEconomist on "Transferring Excel / MS Office graphs to Scientific Workplace"
I believe I have a solution for this problem. Although exporting the graph as a png image file is a valid option, you experience some loss of quality when you compile the pdf file with SWP. I use...
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write the paper in word. Don't forget to use comic sans as a font.- editor, top 4 journal
View Article4aBAPe6p on "Richard Roll earned 250K in 1985."
Roll's work was on interest rate / prepayment modelling, i.e. not the component of the market that was f**ked up. "Roll has done research on how interest rates and other factors affect mortgage rates,...
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