'Who should do (or not do) a econ phd?' is a question I get asked often So I wanted to share some of my thoughts today: - production vs consumption of research - digging 3 layers vs 17 layers deep - 'why' vs 'how' Details 👇

Econ PhD advice thread: Carolyn Stein and I co-wrote our job market papers, so we often get asked about the pros and cons of co-authoring with grad school peers. Now that we both have survived the market, I wanted to tweet out a few reflections on our experience.

Dr. Satadru Sikdar was a prolific researcher NIPFP, having done his PhD from my alma mater CESP, JNU Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). Satadru da, you touched hearts with your gentle soul and left behind nothing short of a legacy. Rest in peace 🙏

Today’s Comic: The Timeline.

All academic papers in general 🙄

Finally someone said it...

Your advisor to you before you present (co-authored work) at a conference

The Delta Variant to the CDC:

Me when my department asks why I haven't taken my oral exams yet:

It bears repeating that banning abortion doesn’t stop women from having abortions — it just stops women from having *safe* abortions.

The MiddExLab Virtual Experimental Economics seminar series resumes one week from today! Seminars are on Thursdays at noon Eastern (NYC) time. You can check out the schedule below and sign up to receive the Zoom links here: middexlab.weebly.com/virtual-semina…

Insightful! Describe gender gaps in academic writing as "man bonus", e.g. the man bonus in student evaluations of teaching.

My first in-person conference since the pandemic. Excited to present at the ESA conference in gorgeous Santa Barbara! Economic Science Association

(1/3) Please RT: Felix Chopra, Ingar Haaland, @cp_roth, Sonja Settele and I are organizing 3-day PhD course on "Subjective Beliefs, Attention and Economic Behavior" on March 15th-17th, 2023, at CEBI - Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality Economics_UCPH in Copenhagen. Detailed info: drive.google.com/file/d/1nverIQ…

With trepidation, some thoughts on how to increase the number of women in economics grumpy-economist.com/p/modest-propo…

On the topic of null results, this paper is absolutely fascinating. Holding all else constant (precision, p-values, etc.), studies are deemed much less publishable, *lower quality* and less important when results are null vs. significant 😳 CC: Carlisle Rainey

Excited to learn from brilliant economists through AMIE !

Super imp paper. In my experience, misunderstanding is common in the first round of game play. Video/pictorial instructions and practice rounds tend to improve comprehension -- and are easy to implement for repeated games.