We paid $900 to post a postdoc ad. Not cheap for a service with 0 marginal cost where the main intent is (I hope) to be a public good, not a revenue source for the AEA.

We need JOE to price discriminate and charge less to non-US-based orgs! They also need to charge less to (non-academic) non-profits. I doubt the current pricing is profit maximizing, let alone optimized for creating a centralized job ad board.

Thanks! I didn't realize the 2024 decline was larger outside the US than in the US since some of the explanations for the secular drop that I've heard seem US-specific (Feds not hiring as much applied micro, business school enrollment shrinking).

Can you split by US vs non-US? I've heard of a couple of non-US schools who were able to get more slots because of the opportunity to "buy low" but haven't seen data on whether there is an uptick overall

I had implicitly meant xor, but you're right

Dear Professor would be better. And they have typed or copied my email address which is my last name.

(Also it’s almost exclusively male students who do this, so any explanation needs to account for that)

Theoretical Economics and JAERE are both journals that were formed to displace specific for-profit journals and they largely succeeded. It takes a huge coordination effort to displace an incumbent journal though

As a hyper-rational person, I try to understand the calculus of "maintain my sense of being a cool and important 20-yr-old by positioning myself as a peer with this person" vs "suck it up and use the standard honorific" and coming down on "i should maintain my sense of importance". Baffling.

Agree that it being drafted in a google product is incidental to the core problem, but I suspect it’s part of the workflow those reared on Google’s office suite learn — draft long docs in Google docs. In practice, Google docs is usually what they used

A lot of the identifying variation is from a new instructor taking over the course, so maybe the advice is to switch up what we teach? How much is content vs instructor is still energized about the course. I'd love to see specs that shut down that extra channel

Sometimes it’s explicit. I’ve seen a hire where the faculty mtg discussion was, “we need to hire someone who will jibe with X [current faculty member].” Ultimate hire was the same gender, age, country of origin, subspecialty…