Month: December 2015

From my colleague Paul Glewwe:

In the spring of 2016, the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota will host the 13th Midwest International Economic Development Conference (MIEDC) on Friday, May 6, and Saturday, May 7, 2016, at the McNamara Alumni Center on the University of Minnesota. The guest speaker will be Michael Kremer, Professor of Economics at Harvard University.

We invite you, and any other interested faculty and graduate students in your department or elsewhere, to submit a paper to present at the conference. Papers on any topic related to international economic development are welcome. Submissions for an entire session (of 3 papers) are also welcome. Abstracts without papers will not be considered.

Deadline for submissions is January 6, 2016. Papers will be reviewed by a committee from the University of Minnesota and the University of Wisconsin – Madison. You will be notified by January 31, 2016 whether your paper has been accepted.

Questions about submissions, contact: Paul Glewwe (pglewwe@umn.edu)

Submit papers to: Sadie Brendalen (will1945@umn.edu)

Information regarding the conference, including registration is now available at https://sites.google.com/a/umn.edu/miedc/home

It’s that time of the year again, when graduate students who are in their final year are getting ready to go on the job market. Because going on the job market is a harrowing experience for most people, I thought I should help job-market candidates by sharing my advice.

This post is the last in a series of three. Today, I’d like to discuss what it’s like to interview on campus (also known as a flyout), and how you should prepare for it.

(I have been meaning to write a blog post about this for some time, but it took a very long time for both the articles involved to get published.)

I have blogged a number of times about my 2013 article with Chris Barrett and David Just titled “The Welfare Impacts of Commodity Price Volatility” (see here, here, here, here, and here). About a year ago, Linden McBride, a friend of mine who is currently doing her PhD in applied economics at Cornell (where she is doing some really cool work on policy targeting using random forest algorithms, and where she serves on the editorial team at econthatmatters.com), got in touch regarding a comment she had written on our work.

In her comment, Linden highlights how changing one of the assumptions we make in our 2013 article changes our core qualitative finding. Here is her abstract: