Blog posts on economics

2022

• Why do experts give simple advice? (Sep 25)
• Dollar cost averaging (Sep 17)
• Homophily and the strength of moderate ties (Sep 16)
• Reflections on grad school: Years 1 and 2 (Sep 6)
• Paying for the truth (Sep 1)
• Research incentives and the evolution of knowledge (Jul 22)
• Truth-seekers and ideologues (Jul 18)
• Gender sorting among economists (Jun 3)
• Gender differences in publication rates within NBER programs (May 28)
• Publication outcomes of NBER working papers (May 17)
• Judging economic models (May 16)
• Echo chambers can be useful (Apr 8)
• Communicating with anecdotes (Mar 18)
• Ideological bias and trust in information sources (Mar 9)
• Pre-screening evidence (Mar 2)
• Communicating science (Feb 23)

2021

• Stable matchings with correlated preferences (Nov 19)
• A competition model of corruption (Oct 12)
• Dead ends (Jul 28)
• Rationalizing negative splits (May 18)
• Stable matchings with noisy preferences (May 2)
• Stable matchings (Apr 19)
• Female representation and collaboration at the NBER (Mar 29)
• Monopoly equilibrium in insurance markets (Feb 19)

2020

• Auctioning vaccines (Dec 17)
• Gift exchange mechanisms (Dec 13)
• Research funding and collaboration (Oct 12)
• Relatedness, complexity and local growth redux (Sep 10)
• COVID-19, lockdown and two-sided uncertainty (Aug 21)
• Lessons from Dave Maré (Aug 16)
• Applying to economics PhD programs (Jun 13)
• Policymaking under uncertainty (May 17)
• Insurance and saving (Apr 3)
• Optimal training loads (Mar 30)
• Matching runners (Mar 21)
• Spotify Premium pricing (Mar 17)
• Stanford (Mar 13)
• Triadic closure at the NBER (Mar 4)
• NBER (co-)authorships (Feb 7)

2019

• White elephant gift exchanges (Dec 11)
• Climate change and transport planning (Nov 6)
• Introducing nberwp (Sep 24)
• Relatedness, complexity and local growth (Apr 2)