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The design of the economics profession, in the Journal of Economic Literature

The current issue of the JEL actually includes several papers on market design. The one I blogged a…

AEA Awards: Clark Medal and Distinguished Fellows

Here's the AEA announcement: 2020 American Economic Association Awards Congratulations to the 2…

Mentoring women assistant professors of Economics: an RCT (and some thoughts on the word "mentor")

From the NBER: Can Mentoring Help Female Assistant Professors in Economics? An Evaluation by Random…

Corona virus research networks for economists

Corona virus, and the lockdowns and other policies it elicits, are attracting considerable attentio…

NSF report on Doctorate Recipients in the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE): 2017

Here's the Doctorate Recipients in the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE): 2017 NS…

History job market conference interviews are history

Inside Higher Ed has the story on the history job market (which they conflate with the AEA's re…

Marty Weitzman, 1942-2019

For many years, Marty and I both had offices on the third floor of the Littauer building at Harvard…

European Job Market for Economists, 2019 (in Rotterdam, Dec. 18-19)

The European Economic Association has announced that a unified European job market will take place …

Randomization in Economics: a history, by Julian Jamison

Randomized experiments have a long history: The Entry of Randomized Assignment into the Social Scie…

Congratulations to Claudia Goldin: BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award

Here are the first two paragraphs of the announcement... The BBVA Foundation recognizes Claudia Gol…

Congratulations to Ed Glaeser, Scott Kominers, Mike Luca and Nikhil Naik (EI best paper award)

Congratulations to the authors of this fine paper, published in Economic Inquiry . 2018 Best EI Art…

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