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Why hasn't JPE formally retracted Emily Oster's article "Hepatitis B and the Case of the Missing Women" (2005)?
Amartya Sen (1992) argued that there were more than 100M "missing women" worldwide.
In "Hepatitis B and the Case of the Missing Women" (2005), Emily Oster argued
that hepatitis B can account for about 45 percent of the “missing women”: around 75…
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Proof Based Math Education in Economics
One of the things I've experienced as a graduate student is really the lack of math being a main factor in holding me back from approaching more advanced materials in microeconomics and macroeconomics. Often I find myself playing a lot of catchup. I…
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Conference venues
Most of the conferences I've learned about essentially by word of mouth.
Is there any website listing prominent economics conferences? I'm interested in Economic Theory conferences mostly, but feel free to comment with any helpful listing Economics…
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Favorite Economics Podcast?
What is your favorite Economics podcasts? More on the research side please.
Since I have too few words, here are mine:
https://www.aeaweb.org/research/podcasts
I used to like EconTalk, but it's not really about Econ anymore.
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Preparation for the rigors of an economics graduate programme
I realize now that my undergraduate program is not nearly as rigorous as it should be - it required almost no math to complete. This is concerning because I've been accepted into a decent (top 30) PhD program. However, I (luckily) am also completing…
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Soft Question: Economic measurement in a post-industrial economy
I have a colleague who is a mathematician by training and currently works in Risk Analysis. He has issues with current Economic theory and I have debated him over coffee a couple of times.
One question he asked stood out to me as I could not answer…
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Where does the Euler equation get its name from?
The Euler equation, specifying the dynamical constraint for optimality of an intertemporal optimization problem, is widely used in modern economics. But where does it get its name from? What did Euler have to do with it?
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Sending your paper around in Economics
As a PhD student I made a few connections over the course of time with professors from around Europe (had brief chats with them at conferences, invited them at conferences, etc..). Some explicitly said, send me your paper once it is ready, other…
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Publishing in conferences and then journals
In economics, it is very common for researchers to submit papers to conferences before submitting their papers to journals. Are there any cases in which submitting a paper to a conference makes submitting the same paper (or a similar one) to a…
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Certifications for economists
Are there certifications or professional designations that are specifically geared for economists? i.e much like the CPA and CA exists for accountants.
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Which area of Economics involves heavy mathematics and also appears to be directly helping the people?
The thing is that I am writing a scholarship essay and one of the questions asks me to list my career goals and suggests as to how would the college where I am applying for the scholarship to would help me achieve these career goals. So my career…
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When should we use "internal consistency" test?
From a paper of Gao (2021), I saw a paparagraph
We deviate from this traditional specification in three ways: we
examine only money held by corporations, we include real GDP growth in
the regression to control for economic fluctuations over the…
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Designing economic system for an RPG
I am not sure how well suited my question will be to the platform, but it's a question nonetheless, concerning economics.
I am, rather we are, group of people moderating a real world text-based RPG. Up until now we had pretty straightforward economy…
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Opportunities for Graduate Economics Students
What internship opportunities, Fellowships, External Research Grants (Preferably Paid) are specifically catered towards PhD students in Economics? To name a few I know of Amazon, Microsoft, Uber, and United Nations (Unpaid or very modest stipend…
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Soft question: How do you create/draw/plot economic graphs digitally?
Obviously I'm talking about a theoretical graph not one where you can just plot the data. The only two options I can think of are just using shapes in word/powerpoint or using TikZ in Latex which is very time consuming.
I would be interested to know…
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