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  • May 9, 2017

The frenzy of the job market at the AEA annual meeting

Planet Money featured job market interviews at this year's annual meeting in Chicago.

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NPR’s Planet Money podcast produced an entire episode about the job interviews at the American Economic Association’s annual meeting this year in Chicago. The podcast followed one graduate student’s adventures in January as he sprinted down chilly streets going from hotel to hotel, meeting with potential employers. They also interviewed AEA president Alvin Roth, the chair of the economics department at the University of Oklahoma and sat in for an actual interview conducted by the University of Memphis.