Blog posts on research

2025

• Economic theory as storytelling (Apr 25)
• Research incentives and artificial intelligence (Mar 20)

2024

• Reflections on grad school: Years 3 and 4 (Sep 21)

2023

• Models of the AI apocalypse (May 15)

2022

• Reflections on grad school: Years 1 and 2 (Sep 6)
• Why should academics blog? (Jul 31)
• Research incentives and the evolution of knowledge (Jul 22)
• 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)
• nberwp 1.1.0 (Jan 21)

2021

• Dead ends (Jul 28)
• nberwp is now on CRAN (Jul 21)
• Female representation and collaboration at the NBER (Mar 29)

2020

• Research funding and collaboration (Oct 12)
• Lessons from Dave Maré (Aug 16)
• Applying to economics PhD programs (Jun 13)
• Estimating research field similarities (May 30)
• Stanford (Mar 13)
• Triadic closure at the NBER (Mar 4)
• motuwp is now an R package (Feb 8)
• NBER (co-)authorships (Feb 7)

2019

• Introducing nberwp (Sep 24)
• Updating motuwp (Jul 28)

2018

• Coauthorship networks at Motu (Jun 21)