Chicago -----> Aux Toilettes
Juniors leaving Chicago
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Akcigit, Uhlig, Mogstad etc. not a good combo.
It's too toxic even for Akcigit but he has no where else to go.
Akcigit can go anywhere he wants tomorrow. Imagine hiring him and SS.
Akcigit can go anywhere he wants except for the only two places he actually wants to go: MIT and Harvard that passed on him. He turned down Princeton and Stanford (joint offers with SS).
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MM very good. He seeks substance in research. Chicago is the top department of economics and seeks gamechanger brilliant minds.
PH very good. He’s brilliant. But he’s no gamechanger. He’s following the crowd to write popular (and v good) DID papers.
That’s my humble take.If the entire cannon of MM papers disappeared overnight, I can't think of anything that would change in the world, or in anything economists study or do. It's the definition of high volume, low impact work.
Speak for yourself. I never believed that there are high returns to engineering majors over humanities majors until MM proved it definitively in Norway.
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MM very good. He seeks substance in research. Chicago is the top department of economics and seeks gamechanger brilliant minds.
PH very good. He’s brilliant. But he’s no gamechanger. He’s following the crowd to write popular (and v good) DID papers.
That’s my humble take.If the entire cannon of MM papers disappeared overnight, I can't think of anything that would change in the world, or in anything economists study or do. It's the definition of high volume, low impact work.
Speak for yourself. I never believed that there are high returns to engineering majors over humanities majors until MM proved it definitively in Norway.
I am soooo enlightened right now!!!