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The November volume of the Journal of Economic Theory is now available. sciencedirect.com/journal/journa…. The volume begins with a page remembering Bill Sandholm, an associate editor of JET who passed away earlier this year.

'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 👇

Thoughts on learning to "fail fast" in research. When you have a new idea, and the project is worthwhile only if P, then you need to check P first, not last. Examples: 1. You can only establish causality with a certain kind of data. 🧵

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ra¢hel Back when I got there in the 1990s, the Booth school coffee shop put up a sign: “Nobel prize = free danish” A few days later they amended it “limit 1 per Nobel Prize.” Evidently someone tried to take all the danishes and resell them so my money was on Mert Miller.

Imagine a world in which you love econ + math and yay, you are admitted into grad school in a foreign country! 1st yr = Bootcamp + lots of exams / problems. You pass quals! 2nd yr onwards = Great, now learn to read, write, & present papers in fluid+compelling Mandarin. 1/6

The Journal of Economic Theory (JET) invites submissions for a special issue on evolutionary game theory. The special issue will honor the memory of William Sandholm, who was an associate editor of JET, and who passed away in 2020.

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If it’s hard for grad students to transition from coursework to idea generation, what can we do about it? One idea: faculty could hand students a starter project. That is, a well-formed open question that can likely be answered via standard methods.🧵

I don’t have many principles in life, but not signing up for SSRN is one of them. No matter how many traffic lights of have to click on to prove that I'm not a robot.

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Now the whole world knows how it feels to discover that you have already used that variable for something else

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Has anyone tried to construct journal ranking by looking at where people submit to after getting rejected? This could give an indication of their preferences, assuming that they first aim high and then go lower.

I was corresponding with a first-year student interested in game theory about potential summer reads, and thought I would compile my suggestions for any other graduate students looking for the same. 1/6

Utku Ünver (M. Utku Ünver) and I are very happy to circulate two surveys, the most comprehensive ones we have ever written, prepared for the Handbook of Economics of Matching. Here is the second one focusing on applications of matching. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

To young scholars: Publication process is highly imperfect. 25 years ago Atila Abdulkadiroglu and I received the following rejection of our school choice paper due to concerns on "applications". 4 years later it was published in the AER, triggering Boston school choice reform +

Just received a youtube recording of #YingHua on his research on school choice, sharing his smiles, laughter and wisdom with the world: youtube.com/watch?v=yMD3_G…