I suppose it's because his name came up as an example of someone who didn't produce publications his first couple years, but then had a monster career. After that, people just felt like chatting about him. We'll shortly get back to the very important business of gossiping about other (more junior) people who would rather gouge their eyes out than be mentioned here.
Best environmental candidates this year?
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5 of the 8 candidates from UCB ARE do development or political economics, not environment
U.S. Schools, sorted by number of candidates in Resource & Env Econ:
UC Davis - 10 http://agecon.ucdavis.edu/people/grad_students/job_market_candidates.php
UC Berkeley Ag - 8 http://are.berkeley.edu/all_candidates.php
Harvard - 6 http://www.economics.harvard.edu/market
U Maryland (AREC) - 4 http://www.arec.umd.edu/People/JobMarketCandidates/index.cfm
U Rhode Island - 4 http://cels.uri.edu/enre/Students.aspx
UC SD - 3 http://economics.ucsd.edu/grad/gradJobMarket/Profiles.aspx
U Delaware - 3 http://www.lerner.udel.edu/departments/economics/placement/phdcandidates
U Wisc (Madison Ag) - 2 http://www.aae.wisc.edu/job/
U Oregon - 2 http://economics.uoregon.edu/people/job-market-candidates/
Oregon State - 2 http://oregonstate.edu/dept/econ/job-market-candidates
Washington State - 2 http://cahnrs-cms.wsu.edu/ses/graduatestudies/Pages/PhDStudentsontheJobMarket.aspx
UC SB - 2 http://www.econ.ucsb.edu/graduate/job_market.html
UC Riverside - 1 http://economics.ucr.edu/job_candidates.html
Columbia - 1 http://econ.columbia.edu/job-market-candidates-0
Cornell - 1 http://economics.cornell.edu/graduate/phd_job_candidates_current.html
Duke - 1 http://econ.duke.edu/ph-d-program/job-market-candidates
U Hawaii - 1 http://www.economics.hawaii.edu/jobs/jobs.html
U Illinois (U-C) - 1 http://ace.illinois.edu/grad/jobcandidates
Iowa State - 1 http://www.econ.iastate.edu/graduate-programs/job-candidates
U Minnesota - 1 http://www.econ.umn.edu/jmc.html
U Wyoming - 1 http://www.uwyo.edu/econfin/PhDJobMarketCandidates/index.html -
Wow - I just read the Hahnemann et al comment on the Greenstone Deschenes (DG) paper. It's pretty bad. The DG paper appears to be full of coding errors and data problems.
I suppose it's because his name came up as an example of someone who didn't produce publications his first couple years, but then had a monster career. After that, people just felt like chatting about him. We'll shortly get back to the very important business of gossiping about other (more junior) people who would rather gouge their eyes out than be mentioned here.
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How bad are the errors? Greenstone is wicked smart and wicked sexy
Wow - I just read the Hahnemann et al comment on the Greenstone Deschenes (DG) paper. It's pretty bad. The DG paper appears to be full of coding errors and data problems.
I suppose it's because his name came up as an example of someone who didn't produce publications his first couple years, but then had a monster career. After that, people just felt like chatting about him. We'll shortly get back to the very important business of gossiping about other (more junior) people who would rather gouge their eyes out than be mentioned here. -
How bad are the errors? Greenstone is wicked smart and wicked sexy
Wow - I just read the Hahnemann et al comment on the Greenstone Deschenes (DG) paper. It's pretty bad. The DG paper appears to be full of coding errors and data problems.Let's just say that they're bad enough that I won't ever trust any result from a Greenstone or Deschenes paper again.