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Economist at the University of Edinburgh, www.pawelgola.com

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I mean, I can clearly tell the first letter is W and the last k, which combined with the salaries does not leave much doubt which university this is...

03.06.2025 17:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Going by the quoted post it seems more like 900 dollars a month? 30 dollars a day. But I may be missing something

17.04.2025 18:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Full Time Research Collaborator Position at UPF Barcelona with Prof. Jan Eeckhout H2020-Adg-Market Power and Secular Macroeconomic Trends- 882499 is looking to hire a highly motivated research assistant for a pre-doctoralposition, based at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain...

I am hiring a Junior Economics Researcher at UPF Barcelona. Please apply if you are interested macro, market power, labor

euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/332002

#EconJobs #AcademicJobs #Economics #JobAlert

04.04.2025 11:50 👍 29 🔁 24 💬 1 📌 2

Wymuszona kapitulacja Ukrainy oznaczałaby kapitulację całej wspólnoty Zachodu. Ze wszystkimi tego konsekwencjami. I niech nikt nie udaje, że tego nie widzi.

19.02.2025 21:09 👍 1591 🔁 335 💬 68 📌 30

There was not a single ray of sunshine today in Edinburgh, so I'm doubly envious

15.02.2025 22:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Not sure why I felt the need to mention that the position is for 36-months twice (now thrice!), but apparently I cannot edit a bluesky post, so it will remain like this, an eternal reminder to triple-check posts.

24.01.2025 20:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions, either here or by email. The application deadline is Feb 11th.

24.01.2025 20:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
EJM - Econ Job Market

I'm hiring a post-doc in Labour Economics to work on my Horizon Europe Guarantee Grant MULTIDIMENSORTING. It's a 36-month post, and I'm looking for a mixture of economic modelling and data skills. The post-doc is 36 months and based at the University of Edinburgh. #econsky #econra

24.01.2025 20:43 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1

I'm scared to ask how the low-effort region looks like...

20.01.2025 20:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I never used bookmarks, even back when I was mostly reading physical books. I'd either remember the page number like your husband, or just put the book down open, face down.

12.01.2025 12:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Exactly! Two hours at least.

02.01.2025 23:08 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

In my times (early and mid 2010s) Oxbridge did quite a lot of essays as assignments for tutorials/supervisions. In economics there would have been perhaps 2-3 per term, but in humanities it would be 4-8. In exams, am essay would be max 1/3 of the exam in micro/macro, no essay at all in metrics.

30.12.2024 13:14 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I suspect that you are right, but to play the devil's advocate: Regression to the mean happens as soon as Corr(parents talent, child's parent)<1; but it could still be very close to 1. So I don't see how regression to the mean on its own precludes the possibility of such skewed distribution...

07.12.2024 01:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Well, I don't claim to know all economists! But in my experience, econ is mostly Latex, at least on the theoretical/modelling side.

02.12.2024 13:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I know literally one economist who uses Word. Econ is mostly Latex.

02.12.2024 07:13 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

I've been doing the same for about two cycles now. Max on all numerical scores and disclaimer in first line of the letter that only the letter covers my actual views on the student.

01.12.2024 21:26 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Depends on how likely it is that A "makes a mistake" by desk rejecting; i.e. on the proportion of the extra desk-rejects at A that would have been accepted at B. If this is low and I'm pressed on time, then A (quicker decision, similar outcome); otherwise B (higher unconditional acceptance prob).

29.11.2024 13:32 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
EJM - Econ Job Market

The School of Economics at the University of Edinburgh is hiring a post-doc in Economic Theory and Theoretical Industrial Organisation. 30 months, little teaching (30%), freedom to pursue own research. The starting date is March 2025 (!), but PhD can be completed until August. #Econsky

26.11.2024 17:45 👍 14 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 4

Just wrapped up by Fenella Carpena and me:

We boil down the impact of technical change on the wage distribution to three fundamental elasticities, and show how these govern the impact of (e.g.) A.I. on the labor market.

Paper: www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~sgalle/wp-c...

#EconSky

22.10.2024 13:06 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 2

How come?

21.11.2024 14:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That's my pet peeve in the self-selection literature! When correlation of attributes decreases it's actually "absolute advantage" that become more important, not "comparative advantage", and yet you'll find very influential papers claiming otherwise.

19.11.2024 16:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I like it, but where else would one argue that the paper is of `general interest'?

19.11.2024 16:37 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Well, if you are worried about future historians, may I suggest recording tweets on clay tablets? Not all tweets, mind you, perhaps only those complaining about the quality of the copper you sell...

14.11.2024 18:03 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I guess it measures someone's gain from choosing that major over some alternative major... but not sure who that someone is (not the average student, because of comparative advantage) and what the alternative is.

14.11.2024 16:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Sorry, for the lack of clarity, still new to the word limits of these sites. Yes, I meant comparative advantage. I wasn't trying to argue anything, just attempting to understand the interpretation of the mean return you estimate.

14.11.2024 16:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I struggle to wrap my head around the interpretation of the average return: I'd expect the types with higher return to a particular major to pick that major more often; and so an average student picking that major would earn much less.

14.11.2024 16:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Wait, there is a "follow on" option in starter packs?

13.11.2024 20:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Exactly. For the reader figures at the end are just extremely inconvenient. Never mind optimality, I cannot think of any significant advantage of having figures at the end...

13.11.2024 16:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Could I be added? Applied theory, but still!

13.11.2024 00:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Cześć!

11.11.2024 19:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0