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Job market advice for new Ph.D. economists, from John Cawley

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Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · 1d

www.news.uzh.ch/en/articles/...
"Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will continue to co-lead J-PAL.... They will retain part-time positions at MIT. In addition, Esther Duflo will resume teaching at the Collège de France in Paris."
#econsky

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Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · 1d

A guide to the upcoming job market, by the chair of the AEA’s job market committee.
#econsky #academicsky
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/10/job-...

Pig liver to human transplant: in China: a short story that may get longer...

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Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · 2d

Pioneering transplantation often provides tragic short stories of first attempts, that over time become longer, much more hopeful stories.
#econsky #medicine
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/10/pig-...

New Fellows of the Econometric Society

Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · 3d

Congratulations to all the new Fellows
#econsky
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/10/new-...

Online dating in the US--is it past peak?

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Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · 4d

Are Americans meeting life partners online less frequently than in 2017? (Or have the survey questions changed?)
#econsky #marriage
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/10/onli...

Guido Imbens reflects on "What’s it like to win a Nobel Prize?

Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · 5d

More to come this week
#econsky #academicsky #nobel
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/10/guid...

Grace Guan defends her dissertation at Stanford

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Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · 6d

Spot the new doctor:)
#academicsky #econsky #phd
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/10/grac...

Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · 7d

Iconoclastic scientists not only do novel science, but they do science in novel ways.
#academicsky
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/10/jane...

Jane Goodall (1934-2025)

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion

Reposted by Al Roth

Carlos Moffat @carlosmoffat.com · 8d

"Should Universities work together to fend off the administration's attacks on academic freedom and free speech?" is a key question that rank-and-file faculty (i.e., @aaup.org) are answering in the affirmative and University administrators are mostly shrugging off. Time is running out.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 8d

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

Trump’s proposed “compact” with nine major universities “is extortion, plain and simple,” Erwin Chemerinsky writes in a guest essay. “It is not hyperbole to say that the future of higher education in America requires that every university reject it.”

There seems to be no limit to the president’s odious attempts to control higher education.

nyti.ms

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Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · 8d

Designers of overlapping markets can create paradoxical situations.
#econsky
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/10/race...

Race to the bottom: NLDAC and NY State both aim to be payers of last resort for reimbursing kidney donors

Trading cycles for board games

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Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · 10d

I learned about this here on Bluesky.
#econsky
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/10/trad...

In-game sports betting is something different

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Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · 11d

Profitable, and addictive. What could go wrong?
#econsky
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/09/in-g...

Repugnance and consequence-insensitivity (in connection to opposition to genetically-engineered food)

Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · 12d

“Consequence insensitivity “ is a big deal in quite a few controversies…
#econsky
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/09/repu...

Markets In Organs: Controversy and Contention

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Reposted by Al Roth

Kim Krawiec @kimkrawiec.bsky.social · 13d

The volume, Markets in Human Organs for Transplantation: Controversy and Contention, edited By James Stacey Taylor and Mark J. Cherry, is now available for pre-order from Routledge. From the publisher...

www.thefacultylounge.org

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Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · 13d

Maybe this is due to the way it eases childcare.
#econsky #kids
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/09/remo...

Remote work and reproduction

The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics

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Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · 14d

Sad but true
www.politico.com/gallery/2025...

Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other head-slapping events in th...

www.politico.com

Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · 14d

Snorting testosterone seems unlikely to become a thing...
#econsky #psychology
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-...

The effect of biological nudges may (also) have been overstated

Citation laureates in Economics: Autor & Katz, Bertrand & Mullainathan, and Bloom

Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · 15d

(In)Citeful economists
#econsky #academicsky
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/09/cita...

Recommendations From the International Society of Uterus Transplantation Ethics Committee

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Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · 16d

The arc of history turns towards technology.
I didn't expect recommendation #2, although I've heard it discussed.
#econsky #medicine #gender
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/09/reco...

Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · 17d

Trust, plan, and experiment
#econsky #medicine
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/09/tran...

Transplants and trust

The Downside of Fertility by Claudia Goldin---Dads versus duds

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Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · 18d

#econsky
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-...

Science and politics: Can you fix science by doing much less of it?

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Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · 19d

Science turns out to be like liberal democracy: imperfect but better than the available alternatives
#econsky #academicsky #science @vaccines
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/09/scin...

The 2025 Golden Goose awards

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Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · 20d

In these difficult times for science funding, the Golden Goose Award is a reminder of its benefits.

#econsky #academicsky
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-...

NBER Market Design Working Group Meeting, Fall 2025, October 17-18, 2025, Cambridge, MA

Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · 21d

#econsky
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/09/nber...