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Chris Blattman

Managing the academic job market.

April 16, 2022

What follows is a summary of what I see as the key advice, with links to other resources that go into more depth or do a better job than I can. It’s going to be most accurate for economics, political science, public policy & other professional schools

This post is a continuous work in progress, and it is comes not only from my own experience but that of a huge number of colleagues and readers. It can benefit from your feedback too, so please email me if a you have something to add (or if you see a broken link).

The big stuff

If you’re within six to nine months of the job market, the marginal return to investing in your job market paper is almost always higher than investment in any other paper. This is the paper that search committees will read most carefully, and the one piece of research that every faculty member will see and use to shape their impression of you.
I repeat some advice given to me the year I was on the job market: from now until you have a job, work on your job market paper 25 hours a day, 8 days a week, 5 weeks a month.
But remember that most people will only look at the abstract and introduction, and perhaps the conclusion and tables. The whole job market paper has to be polished to a gleam, but these sections have to be perfect. Get as many colleagues as possible to give you feedback. If you ask someone to “please read my paper” they may never have the time. But if you say “can you please give me your first reaction to my abstract and intro” you will probably get more feedback.
Some departments value other publications on your CV. This is especially true in political science. One reason is that political scientists tend to do research in “smaller bites” than economists, something that is also true in psychology and many hard sciences. Having a published paper or two signals you can get things out the door, and are producing like your peers. Nonetheless, as you get close to the job market I seldom advise students to start new projects or trying to polish other papers in order to improve their standing on your CV.
Make sure you are meeting with your committee members early and often.
Discuss your job market aspirations and plans early, and ask for their frank advice on what you should be looking at.
These relationships are so important because your recommendation letters will make an enormous difference in the job interviews you get. Once you’ve been chosen for an interview, it’s all up to you to demonstrate your quality and fit. Before that, academic employers will look at your recommendation letters to guide them on whether to invite you out.
After a job market search, I think most people would tell you that they learned a lot about the jobs and were often surprised by the new information. The lesson: chances are you don’t know enough about any particular job to judge how good or bad it is.
A job ad might look like the perfect job, but departments will have all sorts of unobservable information (budget constraints, subject or diversity needs, departmental in-fights, methodological hangups, veto players, etc.) that mean the chances of an interview, let alone a job, are very low.
Also, there are some cities and schools where you might say, “I can’t imagine ever going there” or “I’ve never heard of that place”, but on arrival you will very surprised about how good the colleagues are and how pleasant the lifestyle.
Also, you don’t want to insult a school by declining to visit. If there are personal or other reasons why you could not take a job there (e.g. an existing job offer you would likely take elsewhere), then it is fine to be up front about that and frame it in terms of not wanting to waste their valuable time. Handle this delicately with input from colleagues/advisors.
These are the best reasons to send applications to as many positions as possible.
It is seldom a good idea to go on a “limited market” and apply to a few choice programs. Besides lowering your overall odds of a job, your odds of competing offers, and hence a good salary or teaching deal, plummets. And first offers are highly path dependent.
Places that don’t value the kind of work you do will probably not interview you, and if they interview you and decide you’re not a good fit, that’s good news for you. You don’t want to invest a lot of time or energy in a place that doesn’t share you interests or contribution.
Remember that most departments are not just looking to hire someone who works on topic X, but to hire a colleague they enjoy talking to and learning from, and who will be a voice of reason not insanity in their department.
Be strategic but not too strategic. You can try to shape your work to appeal to certain types of departments or schools, but I discourage this for a couple of reasons. First it’s hard to know what other people want. Second you will probably be better at what you do, and happier, if you’re doing what you love.
So take some comfort in the fact that “it’s endogenous” and the job market bends towards matching you happily. Work passionately and diligently and become the expert in your field, who’s work influences the profession, and the rest will work itself out.
Your main market will be the discipline you got your PhD in, so keep this in mind when you write up your dissertation, letters, and applications.
For example, if you are an economist, you will face many hurdles in jobs in political science . Also, there are relatively few business and policy schools, and they seem to have relatively few junior openings.
If you have a PhD from a professional school, your best market is probably other professional schools and (if you study political topics and have political scientists as advisors) political science. Economics departments seldom hire non-economics PhDs. But you have a natural advantage in policy, education, health and other professional schools partly because you have signaled your interest in these policy-relevant, interdisciplinary places with your PhD.
Most PhD programs are in top schools, and the professors in those departments are probably self-selected to have a particular set of passions and interests, work-life balance (or lack thereof), postponement of family life, and so on.
The PhD has in large part been about socializing you to adopt the same preferences, and your self-esteem and the esteem of many of your colleagues is wrapped up in meeting these expectations.
That said, the broader academic world includes a much more heterogeneous group of people, including ones who care deeply about teaching or public service or family and personal life.
There are also many interesting policy and industry careers. Some thoughts on these below.
You should consider this in choosing a job. Pick the kind of place and environment that matches your preferences, and that allows you to be evaluated on the same things that create your self worth.

Academic job market timetable

Application deadlines for North American universities are typically late August for political science, and November for economics. Professional schools recruiting a political scientist or economist usually follow the market cycle of the discipline they want.

Here is a very detailed timeline for the US market . Some UK and European schools follow this market (like LSE), but there is a lot of variation, and you should read Thomas Leeper’s advice if you are considering this market.

Below is a rough timetable for preparing for the market, working back from the date applications are due. Where necessary I indicate specific advice for economics (E) and political science (PS).

You should have a topic that you think is job market worthy and have made a fair degree of progress
Your advisers should share your optimism, and you should have discussed with them (at least three faculty) that you plan to go on the market.
It’s not a bad idea to set up a personal website now and clean up your online presence (see advice below).
You should have a reasonably decent draft of the job market paper that your advisors can comment on (see the advice on writing a job market paper below.)
For the next few months you should be corresponding with your advisors several times a month and regularly putting together new drafts. Ask your advisors if they think you are ready for the market.
Present your paper as many times as possible. You may want to make your first presentations inside your department until the work is a little more polished, since first impressions matter.
Read all the detailed advice out there (under general preparation tips below)
Start preparing your CV, website (if you don’t have one already), download teaching evaluations from the university, and start early drafts of your cover letter and research/teaching statements. Ask your advisors to read these and comment. See examples and templates below.
In September, economists should register for the ASSA meetings and book your flight and hotel. These cab go fast!
Make sure you have practiced your 1-minute and 5-minute explanations of your dissertation work (since people will start asking early) and start preparing for longer interview summaries of your paper.
If your department does not organize practice job talks and mock interviews, ask for one. Also, consider asking other graduate students (especially friends who recently went on the market) to attend a practice talk or get you through a mock interview.
Send your materials to your advisors, so they can start writing recommendation letters. Here is what I ask my students to do.
Check out the “Things to get” below in general preparation advice
You should be polishing your slides and introduction more than generating new results.

General preparation tips

Every year John Cawley publishes a guide to the job market for economists that is also useful for other disciplines, and his online posts are useful as well
Johannes Pfiefer maintains a catalog of job market tip pages and resources , also geared for economists
The Duck of Minerva blog has a host of job market posts geared for political scientists
In general, though, political science departments and professional schools don’t seem to condense and publicly share their job market tips. There are useful blog posts out there, however, from Quantitative Peace , Math of Politics , Paul Musgrave , and Mario Guerrero
Thomas Leeper has excellent advice for the UK and European markets . As does Alexandre Afonso . My one addition: be aware that for various reasons (signaling, social networks, etc.) it is difficult to cross the Atlantic. It is by no means a one way street, but coming back to North America after taking a job abroad adds hurdles to an already hurdle-strewn process.
Keep your CV short and no more than two or maybe three pages
Focus on the important stuff and avoid more trivial information such as conferences attended, journals you have refereed for, etc.
Here is the Harvard economics guide and template
Set up a professional website. If your department sets up a page for you, use it.
If you want something extremely simple, try Google Sites.
Frankly you would be wise to set up a personal site eventually, so why not now? It is fairly straightforward. I recommend buying your own domain name and setting it up with WordPress. Here is an easy guide.
Have your university link to it as soon as possible (links from high reputation sites matter) since appearing in rankings can take months
Have a domain name with your first and last name in the domain, and ideally use .com
Here is a 2012 post from LifeHacker that is not as dated as I would expect. Here is a 2016 CNET post .
Pay for a professional photo. You will need one anyways once you are working. Or get a friend who is an experienced photographer to take a professional photo.
Get your Google Scholar profile set up.
You will need to decide whether to use middle initials, the full version of your name, and so forth. Use middle initials to minimize confusion with others. This decision will follow you for the rest of your life so get it right and stay consistent.
A credit card for travel expenses
Two nice suits and lots of shirts
You might as well register for airline rewards, picking one airline per alliance to pile your rewards into
I have advice on what to bring to the sky , more suited for long haul trips than short haul but still worth considering

Your interviews

Economics, political science, and policy schools will all invite 2-4 people to “fly out” for any given junior job posting. This is usually a full day affair where you present your job market paper and meet with faculty. The economics profession begins with “the meetings”: several days of stressful speed dating, to narrow their list of invitees for a fly out.

I won’t repeat the usual wisdom, because so much is documented elsewhere.

The Royal Economic Society has a nice overview of the entire economics process, including advice on interviews. It summarizes several other common advice posts: from Chicago PhD students , Claudia Goldin and David Laibson , and David Levine’s “ cheap advice “, among others.

For the political science and professional school markets, I think most of the fly out advice from economists applies. The Duck of Minerva also has a host of post with interview-relevant advice . I welcome other pointers.

Some miscellaneous advice I want to emphasize:

Be yourself, and try to enjoy yourself. Whether they offer you a job or not, these people are your future colleagues and you will interact with many of them for the next 10 or 20 years at conferences, journals, etc.
Stay in touch with your advisor and keep him/her appraised of developments on a weekly basis. Use a spreadsheet or Google doc to keep track of where you applied and where things stand.
Resist the temptation to impress people with how complex your work is. Most of the people voting on whether to hire you are not in your field. Even if they are very smart they will probably not know why your work is important or what it is all about. If you can explain things intuitively and plainly so that all can understand, before launching into the technical wizardry or details, that is for the better.
Learn to strike a balance between being forthright about the weaknesses of your work (without sounding apologetic) and not being overconfident (and sounding like an ass).

Your job talk

Here are Jesse Shapiro’s amazing slides on presenting applied micro research. I think the principles apply more broadly, and everyone should read them .

Don Davis also has good advice on presenting a paper. David Levine also offers good advice.

I only have one additional piece of advice: Don’t use slide templates that clutter up the screen with titles and authors on every page, or where we are in the presentation, or slide numbers, or crap like that. It helps nobody and communicates nothing.

Negotiating a job offer

I hope all the above advice lands you a job offer. If so, I’ve written about negotiation in a separate post .

The “two-body problem”

Dual career couples are a tough problem to navigate, and every situation is going to be different. A great read for both men and women (regardless of discipline) are the 2014 and 2016 newsletters from the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession.

There are a lot of personal stories in these newsletters, which strikes me as the right way to approach the question, since it depends so much on personal priorities.

I am always on the lookout for other good advice, so please send me any pointers you have.

The elephant in the room

Of all the job market advice I’ve linked to above, almost none of it mentions that the majority of the professors in the department hiring you will probably be white men. This imbalance is especially stark in economics . If you are a woman or person of color, I haven’t told you anything new. But I don’t want to ignore it, or dance around the fact, because I think it’s probably one of the more important problems faced by my fields. I think there’s a better chance of a change if everyone has a better understanding of the issues and it can be talked about openly.

For the moment, I’ve collected the resources and advice posts I’ve been able to find on the Internet, or that have been recommended to me. These are useful for everyone to read (I gained a lot). More suggestions by email are welcome.

There are a handful of curated groups from the discipline:

The Committee on the Status of Women in the Economic Profession (CSWEP)
The Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession (CSMGEP)
Inside Higher Ed has a discussion forum for marginalized communities in academia called Conditional Accept

There’s also a range of personal essays and opinions:

This advice from Pam Jakiela (note that there are equal parts sarcasm, humor, and advice)
Here is a storify version of #WomenAlsoKnowStuff about the Job Market & Recruiting
Various posts from The Professor Is In

Professional schools

Since so much of the existing advice applies is written by economists and political scientists for their own departments, I collect here some general advice that I think probably applies to policy, law, business, education and health schools.

Typically these schools want you to be a first rate researcher in your field, and have publication and academic expectations similar to that of a regular department. So in some ways treat this like any other application or interview, and don’t assume that your paper or talk need to speak to a completely different audience.
That said, professional schools are typically attracted to the study of real world problems, and some fluency in and ties to the real world help. You can indicate this in your cover letter and casually in conversations.
Assuming the school is an interdisciplinary place, it is typically helpful if you can signal that you appreciate being around people from other disciplines. If you don’t feel this way then a professional school might not be a good fit.
One benefit of these places is that your students will go on to careers in this field, often very successful ones, and this will give you a natural network if you choose to foster it. If your research is applied and in these areas, this network can become useful over time. It’s also enjoyable to continue to meet and interact with former students over time, something that rarely happens with undergraduates.
A downside is that these schools typically do not have PhD programs, or the programs are smaller, more specialized, and probably don’t place as many students in good academic jobs as the economics or political science department at the university. This can lighten your advising load but it means fewer research assistants or junior collaborators immediately at hand, and fewer future colleagues to mentor directly. It’s not that hard to overcome these disadvantages, but you should be aware of them.
When hiring, any school will wonder, “how open is this candidate to coming to a school of [insert profession here]”. If you have any way to relieve that concern, casually doing so can help. This might be a few lines in your cover letter about why that kind of school is a good fit, or showing that you understand and value the advantages.

Here are a few thoughts on specific types of professional schools:

It’s important for your I struggle to come up with more advice than the generic professional school advice, but really these are not such different places to work or apply to than a regular department.
It’s important that your research engages real world issues but you won’t be expected to be actively involved in policy at most schools, especially as a junior faculty.
Teaching tends to be especially important (since MBAs pay a lot of money for these degrees), and the schools want to hire excellent communicators who enjoy teaching and are gifted at it. Your job talk should display these skills.
I’m told that these schools will appreciate case studies, and that if you wanted to focus on this market it wouldn’t be a bad idea to get some experience writing one. That strikes me as an over-specific investment for most people, however.
If you have a fluency with business, past experience, a social network that includes a lot of business, research partners and clients in business, it does not hurt to mention this. It indicates a better understanding of student needs and a relevance to the general community. This is probably more important as you get outside the handful of elite institutions, who would prioritize your academic contributions.
Some of the advantages of a business school job: the pay is often higher; you may have lower teaching loads, and teaching that is concentrated in a shorter span of time.
Some of the disadvantages: you probably will have to teach an MBA topic that is not your core area of work, which is interesting to some people and abhorrent to others; ditto for teaching MBA students; and the publication and tenure expectations can (at some schools) be heterogeneous or hard to discern. Do they value cases? Do they want to see popular recognition of your work? Or do they want you to be a serious normal academic?
I don’t understand the public health job market that well. It seems to be less formal, and more relationship based.
That said, if these schools are looking for someone with economics or political science training,they will probably advertise in the usual places and interview on that schedule.
The big drawback to most health schools is that, unlike almost all of the other jobs above, they offer “soft money” jobs. This means you will have to raise your own salary through grants, and your ability to raise funds will influence your promotion throughout your career.
That said, if you do raise your own salary, the teaching and other obligations are probably lighter than at other departments and professional schools. It’s heterogeneous, though, and so difficult to make generalizations.
You also have to consider that your colleagues will evaluate your work partly according to the standards of their discipline. Early career awards, many shorter papers, large grants, and other things can be more important at health schools than elsewhere.
I strongly recommend you get in touch with people who have followed your path into public health schools to get their advice. If you don’t know anyone your advisors should.

Policy and other non-academic jobs

I began my professional life in consulting and considered a policy career after my PhD. Many of my friends and colleagues went on to fulfilling careers in policy, from appointments at the World Bank to the White House to various think tanks. I think these are terrific careers, and I still consider one in my future.

Rachel Glennerster, currently head of J-PAL and a former UK Treasury and IMF official, has some superb advice on her blog . Here is a little table from Rachel, on the big differences between policy and academic jobs:

If you’re not sure whether you want to be an academic researcher, use your first two summers to work for outside organizations–the World Bank, an investment fund, the Fed, or a think tank. Try each on for size. At the end of your fourth or fifth year of grad school do not make one of the biggest decisions of your life (what kind of job do I want?) with oodles of information about one kind (academia) and zero about the alternatives. You don’t have to be an economist to know that such decision-making is sub-optimal.
My main rationale: some (but not all) academics will be quick to write you off as ‘not serious’, and should you change your mind later in your PhD you may find that ‘credibility’ difficult to reclaim.
Certainly you should be candid with your committee about any interest in or openness to non-academic careers. They will have much advice and experience to offer. But don’t declare your intent to follow other paths if you are interested in keeping the academic route open.
Know something about the institution/organization/firm that is interviewing you. Spend a bit of time on their website so you understand their output, their audience, and their structure.
Be able to explain your research in a non-technical way, and be able to offer some implications of your research for policy or for business.
Be able to demonstrate that you are serious about non-academic jobs. Many non-academic employers will be suspicious of Harvard graduate students and will assume that they are only a back-up if your academic options fall through.
Be nice. Be engaging. Non-academic employers are more concerned with personality and style than academic employers because non-academic work is usually more collaborative.
Everyone applies through the front door: the junior professional program at [insert development bank here], the advertised position in the federal government. Do that, but also e-mail senior people in the organization directly with a very short introductory note and a CV attached.
One strategy: Sit down every day and aim to write just 5 people. After three weeks, that’s 50 e-mails. Forty-four will go unanswered, two will say “thanks, but no vacancy”, two will say “let’s talk”, and two will turn into a job offer.
Work on an election campaign
Contact ministers or company Presidents in different countries, to see if they need an advisor/analyst

Some online resources to consider:

PublicServiceCareers.org
Non-academic job resources on this Wiki
A list of sites for jobs in social change

Other grad school advice

The post that got this blog started: How to get a PhD and save the world
grad school rulz
David Romer’s Rules for Making It Through Graduate School and Finishing Your Dissertation
Don Davis on picking and writing a dissertation
Why I tell PhD students not to run field experiments for their dissertations
Keith Head’s advice on regression tables, figures, introductions
From Claudia Goldin and Larry Katz, the 10 rules for writing a job market paper
Nikolov on Writing Tips For Economics Research Papers
Cochrane on Writing Tips for Ph. D. Students
SciDevNet on writing a scientific paper

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So this is how free speech & anonymity die; with self-proclaimed "liberal" professors furiously circlejerking over the rise of an orwellian surveillance state.

UPDATE: Here is part 2.

Yale University vows to 'geolocate' most EJMR users [PART 2]

This could easily be the biggest econ scandal of 2023.

This is already the biggest econ scandal since Alice Wu.

David Card Blackpilled an Entire Generation of Economists [repost]

Alice Wu’s undergrad thesis will go down as one of the most influential papers of the last decade, but not because the NYT, Financial Times, Planet Money and Brad DeLong creamed their collective pants over it, and not because it changed how the general public viewed the culture of the entire economics profession. Rather, when it was published in a top 10 journal was the moment academic economics jumped the shark and lost any last shred of credibility.

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This saga began 1 month ago when Floridan Ederer, a professor at the Yale School of Management, tweeted out an abstract — yes, it’s just an abstract, the full paper will be revealed at the NBER summer conference on July 20th.

DATE : July 20th @ 4:30pm EST

LOCATION Royal Sonesta Hotel and streamed live on YouTube

It is worth reading the abstract in detail, since this is all we have to go on.

Economics Job Market Rumors (EJMR) is an anonymous online forum and clearinghouse for information about the academic job market for economists. It also includes speech that is considered abusive, defamatory, racist, mysognistic, or otherwise “toxic”. Using computational methods new to economics, we geolocate the majority of EJMR posts and show that posting on the platform is wide-spread in academia : 10% of posts originate from universities including all top-ranked universities in the United States. A substantial number of posts also come from government agencies, companies, and non-profit organizations employing economists. The aggrregate rate of posting on EJMR roughly doubled during the COVID-19 pandemic and the U.S. rate tripled. Whereas posting activity from most countries returned to pre-pandemic levels in the following years, activity from the United States remains substantially elevated. We characterize variation in the text of EJMR posts — particularly speech — across sub-forums, geographies, institutions, and contributors. Based on this variation and user interactions on the site, we construct a set of archetypes and highlight differences among the site’s contributers. We further investigate the dissemenation of information of the site using job market postings as a case study. We build a measure of proximity to identify local inside information about the academic job market for economists and to examine the credibility and accuracy of information circulating on EJMR.

It sounds like they intend to doxx (“geolocate”) anyone who has ever used econjobrumors.com (EJMR), a site where most academic economists visit, or have visited, but nobody admits to visiting. EJMR is basically like 4chan, but for economists.

This is not just a paper presentation. It is the beginning of a movement. Prominent journalists will cover the event. Demand notices are being prepared. A campaign to name and shame will commence at 5:30 on Thursday. You should be putting your affairs in order. I'm ded serious. IPs are not officially PII. There is no legal barrier to releasing the data. — Anonymous economist Allow me to share the actions I took in response to this situation. I sought advice from two lawyers, each specializing in different areas. One lawyer specializes in privacy and social media, while the other focuses on university matters. Both lawyers provided me with guidance regarding the potential outcomes. According to their advice, if any of my posts are identified, I have the option to pursue legal action against the researchers (although their financial situation may impact the outcome), as well as against Yale and my own university. I am hopeful that identification will occur, as it may result in monetary compensation. In fact, I have been informed that I could potentially receive up to 1 million in compensation from Yale. However, it appears that the NBER may not be subject to legal action according to their assessment. — Anonymous economist Employment lawyers are going to have a field day with these data if they are made public. — Ed Van Wesep , Professor of Finance University of Colorado Boulder

The authors are being purposely cryptic/provocative on twitter.

On one hand, Florian assures us that “ Nothing I do is a threat to anyone ”…

…on the other hand, he takes pleasure in betting that he can “ identify individual poster/accounts ”.

Upon seeing the abstract, Twitter exploded.

Economics ran out of pressing issues to solve?

— Isabela Mares , Professor at Yale University

EJMR is very bad on net so it's good for the world if people think, "Maybe I shouldn't trash talk about person X because it would be bad for me were my identity revealed."

— Jasan Abaluck , Professor at Yale

This is going to be interesting (and embarrassing for some)...

— Justin Wolfers , professor at University of Michigan

I hope we can doxx the shit out of EJMR bros who said Indians smell like curry!

— TV Ninan , PhD student in Economics at University of Washington, Seattle

Locate and shame all those who defame.

— Charles Crabtree , Assistant Professor of Government at Dartmouth

Paper 2 is going to be economist video preferences on PornHub by department

— Chris Blattman , Ramalee E. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies at the University of Chicago

Please Florian I beg you, do not reveal the balance of my bank account and the movies I watch on my TV.

— Anonymous economist

I’m waiting for the EJMR follow-up paper: To provide a baseline against which to compare EJMR posts, we used a shotgun mic to secretly record conversations between faculty at Top 10 departments that took place in a public setting...

— Kevin R. James, economist at London School of Economics

My take is that EJMR is what happens when people don't go to therapy

—Heather Sarsons , associate professor at the Vancouver School of Economics

Hope to get identified for my posts. I stand behind them. Especially the last few ones. My success is not dependent on whether you like me. I will succeed with or without you.

I love it. The difference between EJMR and Econ Twitter highlights what it means to have accountability for shit you say.

— Arindrajit Dube, economist at UMass Amherst

This paper is not useful, in terms of economic policy, to working class folks, but it is important in unmasking a cultural issue within the academy. The anonymity of EJMR mostly emboldens the gross cruelty of cowards.

— Mark G. Sheppard, a fellow with the Stone Center of Wealth Inequality and Mobility at the University of Chicago

I love it. EJMR & all its posters really need to be cancelled.

— Ellie Murray, assistant professor Boston University School of Public Health

It says a lot more about the NBER, that they think this is among the most important economic research being done by any economists anywhere in the world.

To any rational outsider, the fact that this makes it onto a premier economics conferencesuggests that economists don’t have anything important to say about the economy.

The reaction to this paper is very unusual. Some people think it is a hoax or part of an experiment or activism. There seems to be a blurring of lines here between research and other things, at least in perceptions. This is not characteristic of straightforward research … I think it is a real paper. But the reaction is unsettling, including that the trust among economists has been compromised to the extent that people think this might be part of an experiment and that people think it might be directed at other non-research goals.

Itai Sher , Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst

If they have location + post content presumably they can … identify some unique users

— Jenifer Doleac , former economics professor

This reminds me of black mirror season 3 episode 6, ‘hated in the nation’; very cool!

— Yue Wu , PhD candidate in Finance at The London School of Economics and Political Science

There needs to be a Black Mirror episode about this. Incidentally, season 6 was just released. First episode is about violating privacy.

— Anonymous Economist

I'm not fully following what's happening with EJMR, but how about we just run every post through ChatGPT and ask it to clean it up? Problem solved!

— Tatyana Deryugina , Associate Professor in the Department of Finance at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

In the future, nobody will post anything without wearing a ChatGPT condom to ensure their speech is approved. You write your thought into ChatGPT and it converts the message into something harmless for consumption by the masses.

It's funny, if someone identified all the ejmr posts and uploaded a huge data file with them to 4chan, I would be supportive— it's like the medicine fits the crime.

— Paul Novosad, associate professor of economics at Dartmouth Colleg

This is awful. I don’t understand how economics as a field tolerates the existence of [EJMR] … EJMR is an anonymous cesspool providing a stage for the worst of the field. It should be long gone.

— César A. Hidalgo, director of the Center for Collective Learning at the Artificial and Natural Intelligence Institute of the University of Toulous

·Deanonymization Represents the Functional End of Free Speech This is their goal. Anyone who doesn’t see that is a fool. They want you to stop expressing contrary opinions. They can’t yet make that illegal, so they attack anonymized forums. The Ederers of the world are monsters, plain and simple.

Is this research compliant with data protection regulations?

— Marcin Wroński , assistant professor at theWarsaw School of Economics

Not sure there's been a more divisive economics paper than the EJMR paper in a while. Either people really like it or they really hate it. Nothing in between.

— Nshakira Rukundo , Senior Researcher at the RWI Essen

I refrain from criticizing the existence of ejmr (even though they've been absolutely and unfairly vicious to my students) because, sitting where I am, I can see that access to information is very unequally distributed in the profession. Twitter helps but doesn't fully fix it. Now, if you somehow could imagine better people that behave better when anonymous, the world would be better but alas that's not the world we live in

— Wojtek Kopczuk , professor of economics at Columbia University

How is this “economics”

— Gabriel Mihalache , Assistant Professor of Economics at The Ohio State University

Why is NBER even covering this crap. That is the clearest evidence yet that the US government is just trying to find yet another way to suppress free speech and control people.

What is ultimately the epistemological goal of this research? Incentivizing suicide for Twitter clout. That's the epistemological goal. Remember that these people want you dead.

I, for one, look forward to making awkward eye contact with my EJMR haters at future conferences

— Analisa Packham , Assistant Professor in the Economics Department at Vanderbilt University

I'm no fan of EJMR, but this kind of makes me uncomfortable.

— Ben Grodeck , postdoctoral researcher at The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology

Honestly the thing I found EJMR useful for was updates when I was on the market.

— Josh Merfeld , associate professor at the KDI School of Public Policy and Management

It is still weird how many academics appear to have read Foucault as a how-to manual.

— David Polansky , political scientist

I think maybe those of you saying “the problem is EJMR provides useful information we just can’t forgo!” don’t realise that *if* true that means you are getting an advantage on your female and nonwhite colleagues who can’t access that information without massive psychic cost

— Rachael Meagre, Assistant Professorship at the London School of Economics

Wonder how hard it would be to hack EJMR. Move over Ashley Madison.

“Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.”

— Eric Verhoogen , Economics Professor at Columbia University

The anonymity of EJMR is toxic to the whole profession. Women and minorities get the brunt, but any person or school discussed on there is demeaned. I don’t really see a solution to the lies, attacks and innuendo except naming and shaming the people who run the sites.

The sexism, racism, and nastiness of EJMR is awful. There is also a *massive* asymmetric info & hidden curriculum issue in academia including in academic economics, and a lot of people go to EJMR for that reason.

— Anna Stansbury, Assistant Professor at MIT Sloan

My EJMR story relates to the ADB YPP 2023 thread. I personally found the threads on WBG & ADB YPP really helpful. But one member (very likely a guy) who had applied to ADB, upon being rejected said and I quote “who wants to live in Manila anyway”. Anonymity does make you mean.

— Anish Tiwari, Ph.D.

My guess is they do some type of machine learning text analysis. Roughly speaking, if x% of posts that mention an institution have the word Yale, they would infer that x% of posters are from Yale and x% of toxic content is from Yale. As far as toxic content by contributor, their algorithm can probably infer that one wacky poster is obsessed with B B C. That all seems more likely than them hackking everyone’s IP.

My best guess is they got IP address data from cookies and match to the ASN allocation file. Universities, nonprofits, government orgs own IP addresses. People who post from within networks how they identify posters. IP geolocation too fuzzy.

— Harry Oppenheimer , postdoc at UC Institute on Global Conflict & Cooperation

Nobody will get doxxed. Legally and ethically too risky. I doubt they have anything but google trends type data.

Folks who think this is impossible, you’re quite mistaken. The list of computational approaches novel to economists is long, and fast-growing.

— Kweku Opoku-Agyemang, Ph.D, CEO & Chief Scientist, Machine Learning X Doing

This whole thing has made me paranoid to do anything online.

Anyone who thinks FE can doxx anyone should learn about the internet. Not even FBI can identify individuals with IP unless court gives warrant (which happens in very very very special cases, like child trafficking). And, some guy who couldn’t even get a job in the economics department is supposed to have the technology to do this? C’mon people. It’s obviously a nothingburger.

FE can barely write complete sentences. Like most of his Twitter, this stuff is just BS. I also can bet a lot of the panic bros here basically FEs RAs writing stuff via VPNs, so that they can enginner whatever conclusion he wants for his paper.

I have mixed feelings about this. I despise EJMR, but there were some interesting discussions in the thread about the ethical underpinning of trying to locate and identify these people

— Pietro Birol, associate professor of economics at University of Bologna

the existence of a supposedly professional forum where users shield their identity and engage in hate speech is pure nonsense to me!

— Alessandra Mores , PhD Candidate

Renowned economists in two months be like: actually all my ejmr posts were part of a failed experiment

— Peter Hull , Professor of Economics at Brown University

i'm a math bro who once had some involvement with this type of work for the US government, and it's very difficult to get an actual post-by-post IP list without a court order. an aggregated list of IPs from ads is useless since most ad viewers don't post.

What's distressing to many, at least to the people I talk to, is how the profession seems so happy with this semi-legal vigilante justice initiatives. It's much bigger than this absurd website. Even if this particular incident turns out to be a prank, the norms are shifting in a very perverse direction.

It is truly depressing. A profession that should embrace freedom has become a nest of vipers defending backward left-wing ideas. I hope Trump wins and puts an end to all this toxic leftism

and in a surprise to literally no one, the negative consequences of yesterday's EJMR fiasco are being borne exclusively by *checks notes* grad students, junior scholars, people of color, and other marginalized folks.

— Kaitlyn Sims , Asst Prof @UofDenver

I think most HRMs who hate this place do so because it points out all the corruption and clubbiness in the profession. That's the kind of truth they cannot forgive.

EJRM is one of the only places left with an ounce of free speech remaining. Attacking this place is the real toxicity.

We all know that there are many in the profession with very bad attitudes about free speech, but to see just how widespread the cruelty and desire to punish those who disagree with you actually is, well that's just depressing AF.

Make note of who celebrated this. And avoid them as much as possible.

The amount of “ejmr is a cesspool, but I benefited from it so we should tolerate it” I’ve seen this week… If the process of getting a job in academia is so broken and gate-kept that it’s most useful secrets are held on a message board full of bigotry and misogyny, we’re lost.

— Todd Yarbrough, Director of the Economics Program at Pace Univ

Let's work to make economics a more welcoming and inclusive place. EJMR does not reflect that and we should hold the toxic folks accountable.

— Prachi Jain, Associate Professor of Economics

Ejmr is toxic, but I guess it just reveals the symptoms of the many problems we have. Ejmr is not the cause. I am afraid, one emjr is down, many ejmr will stand up.

— Charlotte Zhan, Assistant Professor Aucklan dUni

EJMR comes down to two sources: (1) internet provides anonymity at zero cost. (2) the econ job market is (uniquely in academia) highly centralized which provides incentives for a centralized platform about it.

— Rafael R. Guthmann , assistant economics professor at UAH

What I've learned so far is: 1) If you hate EJMR, it's because of your privilege 2) If you don't hate EJMR, it's because of your privilege I'm pretty sure all of us on econtwitter have privilege (of course with some variance). Not sure about the causality of 1 or 2, though. What I've learned so far is: 1) If you hate EJMR, it's because of your privilege 2) If you don't hate EJMR, it's because of your privilege I'm pretty sure all of us on econtwitter have privilege (of course with some variance). Not sure about the causality of 1 or 2, though.

My best guess is if you hate EJMR, it's probably because you or someone close to you had a truly awful experience with it. And if you don't hate it, it's probably because you got some useful piece of info there that was more valuable than any bad experience you had was costly.

— Brad Shapiro, Marketing Professor at Chicago Booth

Universities possess significant wealth too! It's entirely feasible for us to initiate a lawsuit against institutions such as Yale. We can even take legal action against our own institutions if they probe into who has posted from their offices, especially if they scrutinize one professor disproportionately - a clear case of discrimination. Numerous opportunities lie ahead for us to take legal action and potentially secure substantial monetary compensation.

There are only two possibilities: Ederer is lying, or has made a breakthrough that exceeds the achievements of the top 0.001% computer scientists. Given his persona, I’d say the chances of the former are 100%

There are guys from autoratic countries who have posted criticism of their regimes on EJMR. Ederer is happy to out them, or hang the threat of outing them over their heads for months. And for what? Petty revenge and twitter fame. Genuine psychopath.

Once he publishes the method governments around the world will be able to unmask anonymous posters on many different forums. This will help autocratic and censorious regimes everywhere.

No 4chan user has ever been outed (take it from me). To be sure, moot, who worked at Google, is probably more competent at cybersecurity than Kirk, but if the posters on that notorious site have stayed safely anonymous after run-ins with the FBI, the RCMP, the Church of Scientology, et al., then I doubt a few economists have discovered a vulnerability that will allow them to generally unmask the userbase of EJMR.

It's pitiful to observe. Man, this people are literally threatening to doxx thousands. What about those who have disclosed, say, intimate problems on this website? What about those closeted gheys from backward countries? You don't get to play with thousands of people's private lives like this and then play the moral highground card.

If they could identify posters on an anonymous forum, they would be the next billionaires by selling that technology to Putin and Zuckerberg. Won't need to present some little áss paper at some obscure áss conference.

A warning to Florian Ederer and friends: It looks like you potentially used third-party tracking cookie data to spy on fellow economists' browsing history. Even if you claim to be doing this with good intentions, and this is achievable using what is effectively third-party spyware, you have crossed a serious ethical line.

There is no principled stopping point. Perhaps you're just looking at EJMR visits, but what is to stop me from purchasing this data and identifying all of your darkest secrets? It's equally possible, and I'm sure I could justify it ("to prevent abuse, it is important that economists are not interested in bad thing X").

If you use this to target individuals, or intentionally make them targetable by others (by sharing public data), there will be serious consequences for your careers and reputation.

One comment that stood out to me was Dr. Christakis, the Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale University, who was harassed by his own students for protecting free speech and now he is openly calling for doxxing of anonymous free speech.

I also enjoyed the reaction of Shengwu Li, a Harvard economics professor.

BREAKING: HBS professor placed on "administrative leave" following bombshell investigation into fake data

Wow, a Singaporean who doesn’t value free speech?

His royal lineage is full of fascists. I guess he's a fascist too.

Literally the most privileged Harvard professor — the silver-spoon grandson of the former prime minister of Singapore — Shengwu loves the smell of his own farts more than any economist alive. Case in point, when Daniel Ellsberg (PBUH) died last month, Shengwu, humble as ever, has the audacity to compare himself to an actual political hero:

Thankfully Shengwu gets bitchslapped back to reality in the comments sections by another guy who actually knows what he is talking about re: Singapore:

My point is that our “elites” are clowns. Everyone involved in today’s story is supposedly an “adult economist” at “top universities” but they act like highschool girls — the entire profession, all of academia, has a petty, highschool, mean-girl vibe to it… these esteemed, chaired professors may just as well be gossiping in the cafeteria about who-gave-who a handjob at recess.

“It's for us that the University exists, for the dispossessed of the world; not for the students, not for the selfless pursuit of knowledge, not for any of the reasons that you hear. We give out the reasons, and we let a few of the ordinary ones in, those that would do in the world; but that's just protective coloration. Like the church in the Middle Ages, which didn't give a damn about the laity or even about God, we have our pretenses in order to survive. And we shall survive—because we have to.”

― John Williams, Stoner

One person went too far and doxxed Florian’s house in retaliation.

I inboxed this anonymous account to ask them if this was really Florian’s house, and they replied simply, “AFAIK”.

I blacked it out:

Along the same lines is Dr. Akhil Rao, Assistant Professor of Economics at Middlebury College, who wants to murder (?) EJMR posters:

I emailed Rao to inquire what [REDACTED] stands for, but did not receive a response.

Another EJMR hater is Nobel Prize winner Paul Romer, who tweeted out his defence of Lisa Cook last year:

https://paulromer.net/lisa-cook/

EXCLUSIVE: Lisa Cook's Tenure Packet

Lisa Cook’s nomination to the Fed Board is being voted on by the United States Senate this week, or sometime soon. I am not sure when exactly the vote will take place. I have covered her fecklessness extensively — my article Biden’s Fed Nominee Lisa Cook Criticized For Being Unqualified, Embellishing Resume

I replied to his tweet with a link to EJMR that proves his data wrong, saying simply “Discuss.” As one can see from the following article, his Ph.D. student and current FED member Lisa Cook does not understand fractions:

https://www.takimag.com/article/half-cooked-data/

Paul Romer was unable to debate this anonymous science, so he spazzes out and ignores the data (which he can’t defend) and decrees: “ there is no such thing as anonymous science .”

“ No such thing as anonymous science ”?

Tell that to these 5 scientists, as per ChatGPT:

In a community that values truth and intellectual integrity, Romer would immediately lose all credibility after that , but instead many economists *praised* Romer for this anti-anonymous stance.

EJMR is a pretty tame website, honestly, especially compared to Twitter; Twitter is not only worse than ENR on an absolute basis, it is worse on a per-capita basis. Twitter is not moderated at all, while EJMR is heavily moderated.

It's funny that people calling for the end of EJMR do so on Twitter. If you just look at the bad posts, Twitter is infinitely worse in all dimensions.

— Eric Rasmussen , retired Professor at Indiana University Bloomington

Any honest person can see that Twitter is orders of magnitudes more vile than EJMR in every dimension: sexism, racism, bigotry, doxxing, xenophobia, religious intolerance, swear words, hate speech, gore, porn, smut, anti-semitism, drugs, child abuse, and child porn.

Speaking of child abuse… one of the most popular “leaders” of #EconTwitter, Kurt Mitman, is a convicted child rapist. True story. This was one of the first articles I wrote when I got on Substack 2 years ago:

Call Me By Your Name

Here are two more blogs about it:

Professor Kurt Mitman: His History of Child Sodomy Rape

The Surprising Tolerance People Have for Child Sodomy Rape in Professor Mitman’s Case: “Boys Will Be Boys.”

Mitman is Managing Editor of the Review of Economic Studie s — one of the “top 5” economics journals in the world, where a single publication can guarantee tenure at most good schools for most professors. If you want to publish in this top 5, you have to pretend to be his friend on Twitter.

Society has graciously given Mitman a second chance at life after he raped a kid, and he has capitalized on it to become one of the major figures in the profession. As an EJMR comment points out: “ In any international institution, any government, any private company he would not be chosen for such high profiled position. Period. That tells something about the economics profession. ”

If I were him, I would keep my head down.

Instead… well…

The point I am driving at here is that leftists are hypocrites of the highest order with no principles. These people are backwards, sick freaks.

If Mitman was a conservative male who raped a young girl, every voice on #EconTwitter would be calling for his head on a daily basis; there would be mass boycotts and histrionic petitions; twitter shrews would be coming out of the woodwork claiming they feel unsafe around him; they would never, ever, shut up about it how this conservative white male raped a young girl; and they would never, ever, in a million years allow him to be a a gatekeeper at a top 5 journal.

But because KM is a leftist gay male, it is okay?

Everything is permissible if you’re a leftist.

Nothing is permissible if you’re not.

How many EJMR visits are equivalent to raping a child?

Why is one sin more forgiveable than the other?

What kind of weak man would let his speech be muzzled/censored, even a little bit, by a literal gay child rapist? Don’t give these people an inch.

And yet, the #EconTwitterMafia, a cabal of hilariously corrupt and inept neoliberal wonks and child-rapist apologists, constantly tries to deplatform EJMR from the internet. Every few years, a new white woman from EconTwitter declares jihad on EJMR. In 2017, it was the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, who collected a petition with over 1,000+ signatures against EJMR.

One of the signatories is Maya "footnote 7" Rossin-Slater, an associate professor at Stanford University.

She wants to deplatform EJMR because EJMR exposes her as being hilariously corrupt, in a 291+ pages of discussion about New "Family Ruptures" AER / NBER is rip-off of obscure paper . Seriously, go read all 291 pages in that link, and see for yourself what the profession really thinks of Maya.

Of course not, only did she sign that petition in 2017, she also cheers on Florian’s efforts today in 2023:

EJMR exposed her as a fraud, so she vindictively spends the next decade campaigning to deplatform EJMR. See how that works?

This is a common theme you will see emerge throughout this series — EJMR catches someone being blatantly corrupt and/or incompetent, then this person blames EJMR for being “dangerous for democracy” or “racist” or “sexist” something.

That wasn’t the first petition, nor will it be the last.

From 2019-2021, one woman created about a dozen petitions and open letters against EJMR, emailing them to Ben Bernanke, lol:

In 2022, it was time for Doleac’s jihad:

Economics' #MeToo Moment: A Witch Hunt Just in Time for Halloween

The economics profession is in the midst of being rocked by the biggest #metoo scandal in its history — at least 7 senior economics professors were #metoo’d last week. Lawsuits will be next. Or at least they should be. I am not writing this article to condemn any of the accuse…

In 2023, following in the footsteps of Sahm and Doleac — and notable only a week after Florian published his abstract (did they coordinate their timing?) — it was time for the jihad of Anya Samek, an associate professor of Economics and Strategy at the Rady School of Management at UCSD.

Normally I would do a deep dive into this petition.. but who cares? It’s pointless. Even though 700+ people signed it, they have no power. First of all, that is only about 3% of AEA members. Doesn’t seem like too many economists support her petition.

Second, the same petition with 1000+ signatories failed in 2017. This one is not different in any material way, I don’t see why it would succeed.

Third of all, AEA won’t & can’t do anything — they are already going bankrupt, lol, they don’t have the funds to hire a lawyer, and have already sunk untold hundreds of thousands of dollars fighting EJMR to no avail. They even cloned EJMR a couple of years ago, making a moderated version called “Econspark”, which nobody used, and immediately became defunct, because it turns out nobody wants to be moderated by a hall monitor.

What was Econ Spark? I think its worth it repeating the stories here so everyone can be reminded. AEA was getting increasingly annoyed with the fact that EJMR was poking at their dishonest and unfair activities so first Card (who after that became AEA president) and his goons got an innocent undergrad girl to write a hit piece on EJMR to try and discredit us. The paper claimed to prove that economists posting on this forum were evil ra5ist, woman hating, xenophobes, anarchists, scum of the earth, etc. but all it showed was that EJMR is an online forum where anyone can post anonymously and some weirdos sometimes post stupid stuff on here and mods can't always delete everything if it goes unreported. The analysis was incredibly bad and the statistics did not support in any way most of their conclusions (much like T is still currently saying he won the elections and keeps on tweeting about it thinking that his tweets will somehow magically change the numbers) and there were even weird things like when she claimed that we discriminated by using words like pregnant and BB ("baby") in association with women and words like keen for men (when in reality BB is BB Lacroix a famous fake name used in a prank, pregnant was many times referenced by several bad econ papers with terrible methodology and questions and conclusions published in the AER even though the had no connection to economics and that happened to be written by women and keen is used here to referencce Steven Keen who we regularly mention as a crowd funding econ scam artist). Sorry, not sorry, for all the grammar violations. So the AEA pretended that they were righteous champions of economics and used their mighty sword of justice (which is more of a corrupt rotted out wooden stick) to create THE ULTIMATE official forum for economists and it would be modded and have this and that and official participation from well known faculty (i.e. they were going to amplify the publicity for people in the corrupt club running the AEA and likely "quiet down" everyone else). That was the genesis of econspark and they used quite a big amount of resources to set it up (its no wonder that the last budget meeting at that ASSA showed the AEA budget was deeeeeeeeeep in the red). Obviously it didn't become the voice of econ. In fact most of the econ spark cheerleaders (secondary figures, not the main AEA bosses that wanted to control things) instead figured out that econtwitter already gave them the public venue they wanted and they could reach the general public easily and uncensored (much to the chagrin of the AEA). So we are at this point where econtwitter is what everyone knows what it is while EJMR exists and is the unofficial channel for worldwide economists to figure out what's going on in the profession, like what is the next corrupt thing done by the AEA and the corrupt clubby members that are in charge of the AEA (obviously we do much more than just that)..... all while econspark silently chugged along to the tune Tony Igy's Astronomia. Fast forward some weeks and we start getting questions about Fryer's behavior. Unconfirmed stuff so around here we mostly just listen and tell the women involved to get authorities and journalists involved and make this public because it sounded shady and if it wasn't a fake story then things had to be done to protect future women. A few months later and that scandal was on the cusp of erupting as we learnt more and more stuff and official investigations started so it was a ripe story for online forums. We here did our thing like we always do. Econspark... well econspark mods went around deleting the stories and questions people were making about Fryer's inappropriate behavior towards women and we caught them bright ruby red handed doing it and had screenshots showing the AEA trying to hide the Fryer story (a member of the corrupt club running the AEA). Obviously then top AEA top members popped up saying it was a mistake and an innocent misunderstanding and nobody was trying to conceal the story in the hopes that we were born yesterday and were not weary of the AEA's corrupt ways. Who would have ever thought that a bunch of corrupt leaders of a major organization would use their media outlets to try and control information dissemination. That's just ludicrous. Is econspark dead? It can be whatever it wants but it will never be the official or unofficial voice of worldwide economists and the corrupt leaders of the AEA will never be able to use it as a tool to hide their sins or to implement their corrupt agenda on worldwide economists. — Anonymous

Boycott the American Economic Association

I have never been a blogger who blogs about Covid, it just isn’t really my schtick. I sat silently on the sidelines during the entire pandemic, happy to watch other bloggers fight each other over masks and vaccines. This week, however, was my breaking point, I guess, when I made the editorial decision to report on booster mandates at Western University:

Every few years, the AEA cabal tries to shut down EJMR, and every few years, their efforts fail, for one simple reason: they have no legal standing. EJMR is a private website. Why would the AEA think they have any power over it? These people are idiots. Take, for example, Anya’s tenuous grasp of the law, where she explains that she will “subpeona the site for IPs”:

An actual paralegal, Kathryn Tewson, hilariously shows up in her replies, to school her, revealing that Anya is making up fake excuse for not answering question. Anya is so dishonest and incompetent, it is just sad.

This petition is truly a warning sign that economics is running out of interesting research ideas. Instead of working on things to benefit society we have senior people going on uninformed and unscientific raiding parties. Further, if they get their way we would end up in a worse off place than before.

Keynes said we'd be dentists. I fear he underestimated how low we would go.

— Anonymous

People like Anya and Maya and Claudia and Doleac hate EJMR because it exposes their profession as fraudulent and corrupt. Here are 25 academic scandals that EJMR has exposed, which, of course, the EconTwitter ignored and/or swept under the rug.

Anya and Maya and Claudia and Doleac tweet A LOT.

Why don’t they tweet about any of these?

Schiraldi (LSE) and Seiler (Stanford) false coauthors of AER publication

Why is Andrei Shleifer not banished from the profession?

A new marketing / consumer research scandal on sight?

Matray and Boissel (AER 2022) retracted!

HRM Covid research DESTROYED by grad students

The Berkeley JMP useless research multiplier

The finance academic has become a snake oil industry full of fraudsters

This year's finance star's job market paper

Leah Boustan doesn't know undergrad math

HRMs steal another idea from LRMs

Corrupt French academics paid by Uber, Inc.

JF paper withdrawn for omitted citation!!!

Scandals at the CUHK

Harvard memo: Asian overachievement is hilarious and should be mocked

WK Li from SMU plagiarized a JMP – BEST SCANDAL of the year

"Will the real specification please stand up?" discredits accounting paper

List of SFS/RFS Scandals

Adriano A. Rampini, S. Viswanathan, and Guillaume Vuillemey

So who has tweeted about the Fryer issue?

What happened with MH Kellogg at FRA conference?

There is a civil war brewing in the world of mathematics

HRM strategy for publishing in RFS

Marco Di Maggio and the collapse of Terra

JF article is retracted

I want to draw your one specific thread, which tells the straightforward story of a pair of professors at Yale plagiarizing a paper.

Forthcoming JF by Yale profs is a rip-off of LRM paper

Plagiarism at Yale School of Management

About a month ago, an anonymous EJMR thread popped up alleging plagiarism by a pair of professors at the Yale School of Management (SOM), Dr. Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham & Dr. Kelly Shue. This EJMR thread quickly racked up 143 upvotes and 2 downvotes, instantly becoming one of the top threads of the year. This thread shows that their forthcoming paper, “

One of the plagiarists in that thread is named Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham.

Hmmmm….. Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham…… where have I heard that name before?

What is the most surprising about all of this is why PGP, who cares about getting tenure would be involved. Nobody takes FE seriously, and he’s going to be public enemy #1 now. But PGP, given his recent plagiarism event should have stayed low and just done good work. Instead he’s getting involved in drama. What a terribly poor judgement. — Anonymous economist

Are you seeing how the Econtwitter mafia operates?

Maya was exposed by EJMR, so she arranges multiple petitions to shut down the site.

Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham is exposed by EJMR, so he writes a paper doxxing all of their users.

Of course, Florian has his reasons, too.

Why did Florian Ederer fail tenure?

UPDATE: This week, Florian Ederer changed his Twitter bio from Yale to Boston University

Getting denied for tenure really sucks. FE has an impressive research agenda, and he had reason to believe he had a real shot at tenure at Yale. Which would have guaranteed him a really solid income and a place of reasonable prominence in academia for the rest of his career. But it didn't work out. If you don't have some sympathy for him feeling unhappy/angry/bitter at the situation, you have a heart of stone. — Anonymous economist This guy wrote a post recently how he was treated unfairly with choosing letters at tenure review. No florian. The reason you got denied tenure is that you’re a mediocre economist, but also an extraordinarily insufferable person. — Anonymous economist Florian is a wack job threatening to dox thousands of mostly innocent people. Come on bro. 99.99% of us had nothing to do with denying you tenure and we’re mostly good people. I even supported your case until now. — Anonymous economist Funny thing is he spent the last few years working on this instead of an actual finance paper that could have helped save his tenure case, lol. — Anonymous economist FE is precisely the kind of miscreant that should be banished from academia. careerist, woke, little weasel with aboslutely clownish research agenda. — Anonymous economist Florian Ederer will be public enemy number 1 after this — Anonymous economist A lot of people will not want to work with or hire the guy after this. Aside from a small vocal minority who make a lot of noise, most people will find this violation of privacy uncomfortable, even if they don't use EJMR — Anonymous economist These guys have spent scarce time and resources as assistant professors to write a terrible "paper" about an internet forum no one really cares. They are so weak they need to pretend they are doing research in order to go after their enemies. — Anonymous economist Let me get this straight about Ederer. He gets a hard time on EJMR because he's viewed as a showboat who wants to be the center of attention and prefers dumb stunts to serious, low-key research. And then he proves himself to be... literally exactly that, by posting a hoax paper that was designed to blow up Twitter and EJMR. — Anonymous economist If he doesn’t get tenure at Yale maybe he can get a position working for the communist party of China — Anonymous economist I am pretty sure that the only outcome of this will be that Florian destroys his reputation and nobody ever trusts or works with him again. Geolocate it son. — Anonymous economist I'm a theorist and can't speak for the quality of FE's non-theory work, but his theory work is really mediocre stuff. Certainly, he should be at a much worse place if his non-theory work is of a similar caliber. — Anonymous economist

In 2020, Florian proudly tweeted that he doesn’t receive any outside funding “ from big tech companies ”, and that if he did, “ it would probably bias my work. ”

In 2021, he applied for, and received, outside funding from big tech companies.

Who funds Equitable Growth?

For starters, one of their main funders is the Ford Foundation, who I have written about extensively:

Whistleblower emails reveal partisan rot at Ford Foundation, that gets "nonpartisan" tax perks

Ford Foundation Shuts Down Fellowship Program

Equitable Growth’s other main funder, though, is “Open Philanthropy”, whose funders are Cari Tuna and Dustin Moskovit, founders of Facebook and Asana, lol.

To recap: in 2020, Florian proudly tweeted that he doesn’t receive any outside funding “ from big tech companies ”, and that if he did, “ it would probably bias my work, ” then in 2021 he is showered in Facebook-buxxx and promptly pivots his career towards becoming an anti-free-speech activist. Odd case!

Looking Forward: Part 2 & 3 of this series

Florian et. co will be presenting this paper in TWO DAYS FROM NOW:

LOCATION: Royal Sonesta Hotel and streamed on YouTube

In Part 2, I will report on their big reveal.

I am not sure what I will write, it depends on what the paper says.

Something else I might write about (in part 3?) is Yale’s institutional review board (IRB). I suspect the authors may have presented their research with a focus on its potential to discourage hateful and discriminatory posts. Given the 'woke' reputation of Yale's IRB, this might have worked in their favor, and led to the granting of approval.

If you hold concerns about the implications of this study on freedom of speech, I encourage you to reach out to Yale's IRB via email:

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Or email the 3 authors of the study directly:

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I emailed a full draft of this article to these 3 professors, to offer them the last word.

I did not receive a response.

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Should I do a PhD in political science or economics if my interest is polisci?

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Political Economy and Math double major. I am qualified for an economics PhD, but my research interests are in comparative politics. Would I be able to become a political scientist with an economics PhD?

Economist bfe5

You should consider AA studies and gender studies instead.

Economist 7cc4

"Political SCIENCE" is an oxymoron

I know. That's why the departments I'm looking at call it "government" or just "politics."

Economist 415e

If you are good enough, consider HKS.

Economist c3a9

Why not apply to both econ and poli sci phds and from the schools that admitted you, you pick the one that is the maximum over (research interest & placement).

Economist 8680

First... do what the quoted person suggests. Second, my coauthor got to full a lot faster than I did in a poli sci department and he’s an economist. But their job market is odd and hard to figure out. Third, based on what my coauthor says, demand is decreasing for economists in political science unless they run RCT’s.

I am. But I found out their intake is only 2-3 people per year.

Sounds like an expensive process.

Economist 3bff

Economist adb3

Science, from Latin scientia, from scire ‘know’

Natural Science is Science. But but all Science is Natural Science!

I think a lot of PP schools also offer training in political economy. Check them out.

Economist f7a2

Ask here too: https://www.poliscirumors.com/

Economist 7fb4

You should do it in law.

Economist 7871

polisci is about narratives, econ is about clear cut identifications. What is your strongest side, OP?

Economist 7dd1

By the time you graduate probably both job markets would be equally bad. I suggest selecting the highest ranking university you can reasonably get in.

I think my issue is topical more than methodological. I definitely prefer the methods of economics, but I have essentially zero interest in the mainstream topics of economics which has been changing to include more sociological/political questions but is still dominated by wealth/resources.

here we go, you talk like someone from polisci already

You mean people in polisci use economics methods?

they do, but that is not my main message.

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