Which departments will hire?
Ag Econ Job Market 2022-2023
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They aren't a troll. Pretty much all but a few apartments are really swinging toward quantity and grants over quality. Then you have editors of AJAE saying they don't like technical work because "old white men" mainly did that. Then you have complete woke takeover at AAEA. Not hard to see why the average AP salary at ag. departments is probably right around or below three figures. Tenured people leaving to go work at ERS. All of this does not bode well at all for future of this profession.
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They aren't a troll. Pretty much all but a few apartments are really swinging toward quantity and grants over quality. Then you have editors of AJAE saying they don't like technical work because "old white men" mainly did that. Then you have complete woke takeover at AAEA. Not hard to see why the average AP salary at ag. departments is probably right around or below three figures. Tenured people leaving to go work at ERS. All of this does not bode well at all for future of this profession.
What in the world are you talking about? Average AP salaries in ag econ are always lower than in econ except maybe at Cornell and UCB. And I've seen some pretty technical/heavy duty empirical work in AJAE very recently. Who cares what one editor said about something, they don't control the journal. Stop obsessing over perceived slights and just produce good work.
Also, ag econ has always (outside the top 2) prioritized grants and quantity. That's the nature of being in an ag college, you need to fund students (grants) and your tenure packet needs to be taken seriously at the college level where pub levels are like the sciences (quantity).
So its just like it always was, just some younger people are more outspoken about their opinions in the field. Who cares? Just generate good research and it will publish well.
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They aren't a troll. Pretty much all but a few apartments are really swinging toward quantity and grants over quality. Then you have editors of AJAE saying they don't like technical work because "old white men" mainly did that. Then you have complete woke takeover at AAEA. Not hard to see why the average AP salary at ag. departments is probably right around or below three figures. Tenured people leaving to go work at ERS. All of this does not bode well at all for future of this profession.
What tenured people left their positions to go work at ERS? The only cases I am aware of are deadwood who moved into administration with the agency. I am not aware of anyone who left a tenure position to be a researcher.
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Second this comment as an experimentalist in AGEC. There are some folks who push the field with novel designs, though.
Those cheap choice experiment works are destroying the profession. Why should a serious researcher care about whether an organic label affects consumers' choices? Are you working for the industry? Sadly, I see half of AAEA representations are doing such works.
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Please continue dreaming.
They aren't a troll. Pretty much all but a few apartments are really swinging toward quantity and grants over quality. Then you have editors of AJAE saying they don't like technical work because "old white men" mainly did that. Then you have complete woke takeover at AAEA. Not hard to see why the average AP salary at ag. departments is probably right around or below three figures. Tenured people leaving to go work at ERS. All of this does not bode well at all for future of this profession.
What in the world are you talking about? Average AP salaries in ag econ are always lower than in econ except maybe at Cornell and UCB. And I've seen some pretty technical/heavy duty empirical work in AJAE very recently. Who cares what one editor said about something, they don't control the journal. Stop obsessing over perceived slights and just produce good work.
Also, ag econ has always (outside the top 2) prioritized grants and quantity. That's the nature of being in an ag college, you need to fund students (grants) and your tenure packet needs to be taken seriously at the college level where pub levels are like the sciences (quantity).
So its just like it always was, just some younger people are more outspoken about their opinions in the field. Who cares? Just generate good research and it will publish well. -
And all those so-called food economics research obsessed with the scanner data.
Those cheap choice experiment works are destroying the profession. Why should a serious researcher care about whether an organic label affects consumers' choices? Are you working for the industry? Sadly, I see half of AAEA representations are doing such works.