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Kurt MIT-shock-man

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Kurt MIT-shock-man @SorryToBeKurt
Which pay scale would you choose?
6 yrs PhD + 6 years AP + 40 years prof?
A discount factor below 0.74 makes Copenhagen preferred…
(Hint: that impatience is rather extreme, you’d have to prefer an extra $118K in the phd vs losing $6.9M over the rest of the career)
Marc Sabatier Hvidkjær @MarcHvidkjaer 5d
Harvard PhD students are on strike, postdocs and lecturers will probably join next week.

Harvard PhD students obviously enjoy great privilege, but this privilege is not reflected in our wages.

Here is a comparison to my "alma mater". There is room to move.
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Kurt MIT-shock-man @SorryToBeKurt
Submit to the new short format journal by Restud!
Review of Economic Studies is happy to announce the launch of the new journal, Review of Economic Studies: Insights. This is an open-access, general-interest economics journal that will publish short papers with a fast review process and accept/reject decisions.

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Kurt MIT-shock-man @SorryToBeKurt
My former classmate and Model UN partner is severely under followed
Gus Hurwitz @GusHurwitz Oct 8
This is my response to ongoing debates about AI in scholarship.

Most of the debate bifurcates into two sides: it's the human factor that matters or it's the results that matter. Classic deontology vs. utilitarianism.

My response is that neither of these matter ... /1
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