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Please share your thoughts on the recent AEA initiatives to improve the professional climate in economics.

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Developments in my business cycles and sustainable capitalism theory

edited 4 months ago by Ryan_McConnell (1.1k points)

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intro to micro, or intro to macro first?

answer selected 4 months ago by user_6m8z8u (160 points)

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Resources for Independent Study of Econometric Math?

answered 4 months ago in General Economics Questions by Bill_Craighead (950 points)

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How is the government shutdown likely to affect the ASSA interviews

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EconTrack seems less accurate than ejmr-wiki

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Interesting formats for AEA/ASSA conference sessions?

asked 4 months ago in General Economics Questions by Leigh Caldwell (130 points)

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ASSA 2019 app for Android

commented 4 months ago in General Economics Questions by user_3o5m6j (130 points)

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RSS feeds for AEA journals?

answer selected 4 months ago in General Economics Questions by ejfeilich (250 points)

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How could you possibly schedule 25 interviews at the annual meetings?

answered 4 months ago in Job Market - Candidate Questions by Katherine (210 points)

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What is the "designated interviewing area at the AEA meetings"?

answered 4 months ago by user_6w4e6f (140 points)

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To what extent does higher wage growth lead to higher productivity growth?

answered 4 months ago in General Economics Questions by Ryan_McConnell (1.1k points)

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Is money-search still active - what are the recent big papers in this?

comment edited 4 months ago in General Economics Questions by ejfeilich (250 points)

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Why Is Paul Krugman so Invested in Asserting that "Old-Fashioned Macro" Has Been such a Success?

comment edited 4 months ago in General Economics Questions by ejfeilich (250 points)

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What role, if any, does secular stagnation play in the flat growth of wages since the recovery?

commented 5 months ago by Edward_Lambert (810 points)

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Can people be disqualified from Nobel consideration for ethical reasons?

answered 5 months ago in General Economics Questions by ejfeilich (250 points)

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Do you have a higher chance of publishing if you use LaTeX instead of Word?

commented 5 months ago in General Economics Questions by user_6i4q9f (950 points)

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Can we improve the process for electing AEA Officers?

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What visa foreign assistant profs get in the US?

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Matching Recommender System for the Econ Job Market

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Textbook for Financial Economics

answered 5 months ago in General Economics Questions by JAVAID_Rashid_KHWAJA (140 points)

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Anyone teach Micro Principles to the Blind?

answered 5 months ago in General Economics Questions by Barton_Willage (150 points)

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What's the standard output table format for logit model and multinomial model in top Economics journals?

answered 5 months ago in General Economics Questions by user_6i4q9f (950 points)

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What to do/say about a "meh" teaching evaluation if you've only taught one class?

answered 5 months ago in Job Market - Candidate Questions by user_6i4q9f (950 points)

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Is economics defined by the questions we ask or the methods we use to answer them?

commented 5 months ago by Jonathon_Hazell (100 points)

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Standards regarding use of Mathematica in theory papers

commented 5 months ago by user_2r6o5k (100 points)

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How should grad students approach writing a referee report?

commented 5 months ago by Jesse Aaron Zinn (330 points)

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How should grad students approach the prospect of co-authorship when deciding whether or not to RA?

commented 5 months ago by user_7j3b5m (610 points)

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Is proprietary data the biggest threat to economic research credibility?

commented 5 months ago in General Economics Questions by NICK_HK (500 points)

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Which statistics package should undergraduate econ students be taught?

commented 5 months ago in General Economics Questions by NICK_HK (500 points)

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Will the AEA "climate" survey be answered truthfully?

commented 5 months ago in General Economics Questions by Anna Stansbury (660 points)

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How do you (gracefully) tell your advisor that you want to move on from an RA job?

commented 5 months ago in General Economics Questions by user_7j3b5m (610 points)

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Formatting for Journal Submission

answered 5 months ago in General Economics Questions by Eric Rasmusen (1.5k points)

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What should I put in "message to employer" when signaling?

answered 5 months ago in Job Market - JOE by DANIEL_L_MILLIMET (190 points)

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Has AER stopped publishing shorter papers now AERI has been created?

commented 5 months ago in General Economics Questions by Jesse Aaron Zinn (330 points)

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Is this a slow year for econ jobs?

answered 5 months ago in Job Market - Candidate Questions by Nosferican (1.6k points)

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How do I find the JOE ID of an ad that was taken off JOE?

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Do expansions die of old age?

commented 5 months ago in Current Economic Issues by SIMON_VAN_NORDEN (110 points)

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How do YOU try and interest young people in economics?

commented 5 months ago in General Economics Questions by AVINASH_K_DIXIT (1.2k points)

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Application Deadlines - Open until Filled / Review Begins - What do they mean?

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Can my GRE score arrive a few days after the application deadline?

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