03/16/2016
Our friends over at The Attaché are accepting submissions until March 18.
Economics journal published by undergraduates at the University of Toronto, supported by Department of Economics and the Economics Students' Association.
Every semester, undergraduate students in the University of Toronto’s rigorous undergraduate economics program produce original, creative, and
thoughtful works for a variety of courses. Students spend weeks carefully collecting data, discovering patterns, presenting results, and invoking thoughtful
discussion. At the end of all this hard work, their labour of love is only ever appreciated by one o
03/16/2016
Our friends over at The Attaché are accepting submissions until March 18.
12/17/2015
Call for papers! https://www.dropbox.com/s/q8nhclzj7u1keqg/Call_For_Papers_%5Bfinal%5D.pdf?dl=0
12/04/2015
'Tis the season!
What you need to know if you are submitting PhD or MA applications - Chris Blattman It’s MA and PhD application time. (Indeed, I think the early bird, Berkeley, wants PhD applications by tomorrow.) Here’s my 2013 post on what you need to know about PhD applicaitons. I talk about choosing among Masters-level programs here. Also relevant, … Continue reading →
11/29/2015
Giving specific presents as holiday gifts is inefficient, because recipients could satisfy their preferences much better with cash.
11/22/2015
A follow up to last week's article by Justin Wolfers:
13 women who transformed the world of economics These women have had a major impact on economics, whether in academia, business, politics, or education.
11/11/2015
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/12/upshot/even-famous-female-economists-get-no-respect.html
Even Famous Female Economists Get No Respect A look at the disparate treatment of economics power couples suggests that gender bias is alive and well.
10/31/2015
Happy Halloween!
Canadian university costs to rise 13 per cent over 4 years: report Students will need deeper pockets to study at Canadian universities over the next four years with annual fees projected to rise 13 per cent on average to $7,755, having almost tripled over the past 20 years, according to a new Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives report.
The Review's application for our Editorial Board will be extended by one (1) day, closing at end of day tomorrow, October 13th. Happy Thanksgiving!
10/12/2015
Angus Deaton Wins the Nobel Prize in Economics On a call with reporters on Monday morning, Deaton said that he was “pretty sleepy” when he got the Nobel call, but that he was also “surprised and delighted.”
Copies of the Spring 2015 Issue of the Review will be available at the Information Session tomorrow, 14:00 at the Department of Economics, room 100.
10/01/2015
Recruitment for 2015-2016 academic year: https://www.dropbox.com/s/lbrqioad4v6kmvi/recruitment.pdf?dl=0
09/04/2015
Looking to do more empirical work? Check out this one-stop shop for methodological issues in impact evaluation.
A Curated List of Our Postings on Technical Topics – Your One-Stop Shop for Methodology This is a curated list of our technical postings, to serve as a one-stop shop for your technical reading. I’ve focused here on our posts on methodological issues in impact evaluation – we also have a whole lot of posts on how to conduct surveys and measure certain concepts that I’ll leave for anothe…