Congrats, Miss Wu.
Updated Wu paper.
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"Bharvee Patel provides excellent research assistance. I gratefully acknowledge funding from the Lab for Economic Applications and Policy at Harvard."
Wow, she has an RA and a grant for this project. Yet you sit alone in your dark office eating ramen noodles and typing reg y x.
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Congrats to her, now let's see that data.
Anyone ready to attempt a reproduction (first) and perhaps even a replication?
I'm willing to bet that it won't be reproducible unless REStat got the actual scraped data from her and not just the code. If it did, I'm also willing to bet that ML bros who troll around here can beat her model.
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No one is interested in replicating this boring paper. Even if you show some fundamental error in the code they'll accuse of sexism and ignore you. Don't bother.
Congrats to her, now let's see that data.
Anyone ready to attempt a reproduction (first) and perhaps even a replication?
I'm willing to bet that it won't be reproducible unless REStat got the actual scraped data from her and not just the code. If it did, I'm also willing to bet that ML bros who troll around here can beat her model. -
We all know what’s coming next. Fawning coverage in NYC Upshot, followed by the usual calls to increase diversity. Then the calls for blatant quotas will come, following the example of TU Eindhoven and UT Sydney. There will be a push to drop the GRE, like the biology programs are doing. And they will announce a sweeping review of the micro and macro core, since it is disproportionately weeding women out.
You heard it here first.
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This time it's "peer reviewed" so you better not dare question the results.
We all know what’s coming next. Fawning coverage in NYC Upshot, followed by the usual calls to increase diversity. Then the calls for blatant quotas will come, following the example of TU Eindhoven and UT Sydney. There will be a push to drop the GRE, like the biology programs are doing. And they will announce a sweeping review of the micro and macro core, since it is disproportionately weeding women out.
You heard it here first. -
We all know what’s coming next. Fawning coverage in NYC Upshot, followed by the usual calls to increase diversity. Then the calls for blatant quotas will come, following the example of TU Eindhoven and UT Sydney. There will be a push to drop the GRE, like the biology programs are doing. And they will announce a sweeping review of the micro and macro core, since it is disproportionately weeding women out.
You heard it here first.We all know what’s coming next. Fawning coverage in NYC Upshot, followed by the usual calls to increase diversity. Then the calls for blatant quotas will come, following the example of TU Eindhoven and UT Sydney. There will be a push to drop the GRE, like the biology programs are doing. And they will announce a sweeping review of the micro and macro core, since it is disproportionately weeding women out.
You heard it here first.That’s not the worst thing. What really scares me is the censorship to come.
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No one is interested in replicating this boring paper. Even if you show some fundamental error in the code they'll accuse of sexism and ignore you. Don't bother.
Congrats to her, now let's see that data.
Anyone ready to attempt a reproduction (first) and perhaps even a replication?
I'm willing to bet that it won't be reproducible unless REStat got the actual scraped data from her and not just the code. If it did, I'm also willing to bet that ML bros who troll around here can beat her model.
I bet it would stoke some interest up. And if it is replicable, it should be acknowledged too.
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Working Paper:
Life-cycle Returns to Math and Social Skills: The Roles of Gender, Sorting and Employer Learning
such a waste of talent. Is she gonna do reg y X gender for the rest of her life?Man oh man. This is a one-round-and-it's-waved-in, solo pub in REStat before she even started her first year PhD courses. Why, because of the topic and the conclusion (well summarized above), pretty clearly not because of the contribution this paper makes to economics on the theory or the empirical side.
We could all laugh about it at lunch and shake our heads and write it off as a single lucky draw for AW. But one of the lessons I tell my first-year undegrad class is "If you want more of something, pay more for it." What the hell does this publication do to the incentive of AW, or her classmates, or any other young econ researcher, to buckle down and spend years grinding at a really hard problem, as opposed to scraping some data off the net and making up a story about how it proves gender discrimination and mailing it out?
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Working Paper:
Life-cycle Returns to Math and Social Skills: The Roles of Gender, Sorting and Employer Learning
such a waste of talent. Is she gonna do reg y X gender for the rest of her life?Man oh man. This is a one-round-and-it's-waved-in, solo pub in REStat before she even started her first year PhD courses. Why, because of the topic and the conclusion (well summarized above), pretty clearly not because of the contribution this paper makes to economics on the theory or the empirical side.
We could all laugh about it at lunch and shake our heads and write it off as a single lucky draw for AW. But one of the lessons I tell my first-year undegrad class is "If you want more of something, pay more for it." What the hell does this publication do to the incentive of AW, or her classmates, or any other young econ researcher, to buckle down and spend years grinding at a really hard problem, as opposed to scraping some data off the net and making up a story about how it proves gender discrimination and mailing it out?I mean this is basically what HS did for her JMP, and look how that turned out.
Honestly, its a great time to be a woman in economics. You get easier admission to programs, preferred access on the job market, can study what you love (gender, children and marriage) and get to suck up plaudits for being a visionary. I always encourage my (white American) undergrad women to go for a PhD.