Hardly a standard...
Certainly much nicer than most other people at Chicago.
Yes, but it is hard to not have the culture of a place rub off on you. You would be/appear less nice too, if you were a Prof at Chicago. That's just their way.
Anyway, I am the op of this thread, and was just sharing info. I'm sorry the thread turned into another eo bitchfest. I actually think she's all rights, and feel bad she didn't get tenure.
being nice would be taken as a signal of a not very serious researcher.
I have met her three times and found her to be pretty nice and helpful each time. Certainly much nicer than most other people at Chicago. She is also prompt and polite over email.
She is NOT nice in seminars, a real know it all.Who is nice in seminars in Chicago?
As I am not a public health expert it is difficult for me to assess the quality of her academic work.
Nevertheless, I stronlgy believe that Economics needs intellectual inflow from other academic fields in order to develop. We should never forget that Economics started as part of 'moral philosophy', that is as integral part of philosophy, psychology, sociology, politology and history.
We are in need reseachers who try to open up Economics to such other academic fields.
What other jobs does she have around Chicago? Is she going to work in BFF Levitt's consultancy firm? I don't think Northwestern would pick her up and the Harris school is STRICTLY OFF LIMITS because Heckman works there. There are no more options at UofC.
I'd say that I'd expect her to try to stay in academia because it looks like she is trying to make her parents happy. Most of the research question she has gone through shows absolutely no econ interest... at most she used the guise of "this is an econ tool" to try and pretend it has econ interest (its not a econ tool, its a statistical tool used in econ)... this for me is a sign that she wanted to do something else in life but was dragged into econ because of her parents. If she wants to try and follow what she really wants then good for her, but I really don't think she is ready to leave econ academia.
Anyways, everyone here knows that Shapiro can very easily move to a new department, he just needs to call up the place and tell them that he wants a space and they'll give it to him in 2 seconds. So when she finds her new place you know Shapiro will follow here in a heart beat.
This bro knows