williams college: we will no longer be issuing statements expressing our institutional take on world events that are read only by people who are looking for something to get mad about president.williams.edu/writings-and...

Campus vigil on Israel and Gaza, and the college president’s role in the wake of world crises

Williams students, faculty and staff, As many of you are aware, I have not issued a public statement on behalf of the College in the days following the recent, horrific attacks by Hamas on Israelis an...

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my Likert Scale ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️: Lovert ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️: Likert ⭐️⭐️⭐️: Whatevert ⭐️⭐️: Dislikert ⭐️: Hatert

short non technical writeup of my recent paper with thom covert

Auctions versus negotiations in the real world | Microeconomic Insights

Asset owners often need to identify and choose between potential contracting partners to monetize their asset’s value. For example, companies that are acquisition targets may have multiple potential...

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I’m hiring research professionals (aka predocs) to join my team. Lots of exciting ongoing projects on energy, environment, development, and agriculture. Please share widely! epic.uchicago.edu/about/jobs-f... 📈📉

Jobs & Fellowships

Explore open jobs to become a full-time member of our team, and other opportunities including fellowship and internship programs.

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The World Bank is hiring again this year on the junior market. Both the research group (DECRG) and impact evaluation group (DIME) are hiring, with separate applications: DECRG: www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing.... DIME: www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....

This great article by Betsy Cliff (tradeoffs.org/2023/10/03/p...) discussed our recent paper about prior auth of drugs. She makes a point I feel strongly about: PA is not ideal, but the alternatives are 1) cost sharing, which is worse; or 2) do nothing and let premiums explode, which is bad too.

Good figures are so valuable! The key stories of nearly all of my favorite papers can be summarized in a figure or two.

Seema Jayachandran@seema.bsky.social · 3y ago

In many of my papers, the key result is shown via a table, but I make a simple bar graph to use in talks, at least to broader audiences. I wish we all made and posted these; I'm much more likely to show someone's result in a keynote or for teaching if there is a good figure.

My office is absolutely one of the best places to be an environmental economist and we're hiring. Tons of smart people (and me). #econsky www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....

What are folks' favorite papers that evaluate a climate adaptation intervention? i.e. that tell you something to the effect of: intervention Z reduced the effect of some climate variable on some outcome by some amount. Self-citation encouraged!

And here I thought what I can do best was communicating my expertise in non-accessible ways to an academic audience…

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 3y ago

Seeing a massive inflow of academics and esp social scientists the last week. Please do what you can do best, which is to communicate your expertise in accessible ways to a non-academic audience

How can I report @economeager.bsky.social for posting pictures of me without my consent?