YN and JEH were bad calls
Maybe CN can turn it around
What's going on at Yale?
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Yale's labor people do very complicated structural model which is becoming quickly outdated.
This is incorrect. Yale's few successful grads the past few years have actually gone this route -- e.g. Eckert, Walsh, Esposito, Ganapati (advised by structural guys like Arkolakis, Peters, Kortum etc.).
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Being woke repels good students. People pretend to understand the nonsense with smile, but people who can actually think try to avoid that environment as much as possible. It’s too easy a couple of bad people ruins the whole department, while constructing a functional department could take a decade.
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There aren't that many bad profs though, and none in the department's strengths in IO, trade, and labor. Devo is another story...
Being woke repels good students. People pretend to understand the nonsense with smile, but people who can actually think try to avoid that environment as much as possible. It’s too easy a couple of bad people ruins the whole department, while constructing a functional department could take a decade.
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There aren't that many bad profs though, and none in the department's strengths in IO, trade, and labor. Devo is another story...
Being woke repels good students. People pretend to understand the nonsense with smile, but people who can actually think try to avoid that environment as much as possible. It’s too easy a couple of bad people ruins the whole department, while constructing a functional department could take a decade.
Woke people have big negative externalities since they want to control everyone else.
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There aren't that many bad profs though, and none in the department's strengths in IO, trade, and labor. Devo is another story...
Being woke repels good students. People pretend to understand the nonsense with smile, but people who can actually think try to avoid that environment as much as possible. It’s too easy a couple of bad people ruins the whole department, while constructing a functional department could take a decade.
Woke people have big negative externalities since they want to control everyone else.
Especially in economics. Most economists mind their own business, which means the motivated wokester can take over
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There aren't that many bad profs though, and none in the department's strengths in IO, trade, and labor. Devo is another story...
Being woke repels good students. People pretend to understand the nonsense with smile, but people who can actually think try to avoid that environment as much as possible. It’s too easy a couple of bad people ruins the whole department, while constructing a functional department could take a decade.
Woke people have big negative externalities since they want to control everyone else.
Especially in economics. Most economists mind their own business, which means the motivated wokester can take over
Funny that at least mathematicians stand up and resist strongly on their own turf
https://www.econjobrumors.com/topic/there-is-a-civil-war-brewing-in-the-world-of-mathematics
Puts weak-spined economists in their place, really.
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In recent years, Yale consistently placed well two types of students. Trade candidates advised by Peters, Arkolakis, and Kortum (Eckert, Walsh, Morlacco, Ganapati) and labor people advised by Meghir and Altonji (Reynoso, Xiao, Mommaerts). The real stars were dev and trained by Udry and Rosenzweig (Startz, Morten), but the devo group is now dead. Macro is also dead.
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In recent years, Yale consistently placed well two types of students. Trade candidates advised by Peters, Arkolakis, and Kortum (Eckert, Walsh, Morlacco, Ganapati) and labor people advised by Meghir and Altonji (Reynoso, Xiao, Mommaerts). The real stars were dev and trained by Udry and Rosenzweig (Startz, Morten), but the devo group is now dead. Macro is also dead.
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The real stars were dev and trained by Udry and Rosenzweig (Startz, Morten), but the devo group is now dead. Macro is also dead.
There was a brief, shining moment a decade ago when it seemed like macro at Yale placed the best of anywhere - but in retrospect this was just Berger and Vavra, and Eduardo Engel seems like the single most important figure there.
Recently, in macro excluding more spatial/trade people, I guess they had Hubmer and that was basically it?