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Paweł Gola @pawelgola.com · 03/06/2025

I mean, I can clearly tell the first letter is W and the last k, which combined with the salaries does not leave much doubt which university this is...

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Paweł Gola @pawelgola.com · 17/04/2025

Going by the quoted post it seems more like 900 dollars a month? 30 dollars a day. But I may be missing something

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Donald Tusk @donald-tusk.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Wymuszona kapitulacja Ukrainy oznaczałaby kapitulację całej wspólnoty Zachodu. Ze wszystkimi tego konsekwencjami. I niech nikt nie udaje, że tego nie widzi.

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Paweł Gola @pawelgola.com · 15/02/2025

There was not a single ray of sunshine today in Edinburgh, so I'm doubly envious

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Paweł Gola @pawelgola.com · 24/01/2025

Not sure why I felt the need to mention that the position is for 36-months twice (now thrice!), but apparently I cannot edit a bluesky post, so it will remain like this, an eternal reminder to triple-check posts.

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Paweł Gola @pawelgola.com · 24/01/2025

Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions, either here or by email. The application deadline is Feb 11th.

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Paweł Gola @pawelgola.com · 24/01/2025

I'm hiring a post-doc in Labour Economics to work on my Horizon Europe Guarantee Grant MULTIDIMENSORTING. It's a 36-month post, and I'm looking for a mixture of economic modelling and data skills. The post-doc is 36 months and based at the University of Edinburgh. #econsky #econra

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Paweł Gola @pawelgola.com · 20/01/2025

I'm scared to ask how the low-effort region looks like...

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Paweł Gola @pawelgola.com · 12/01/2025

I never used bookmarks, even back when I was mostly reading physical books. I'd either remember the page number like your husband, or just put the book down open, face down.

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Paweł Gola @pawelgola.com · 02/01/2025

Exactly! Two hours at least.

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Paweł Gola @pawelgola.com · 30/12/2024

In my times (early and mid 2010s) Oxbridge did quite a lot of essays as assignments for tutorials/supervisions. In economics there would have been perhaps 2-3 per term, but in humanities it would be 4-8. In exams, am essay would be max 1/3 of the exam in micro/macro, no essay at all in metrics.

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Paweł Gola @pawelgola.com · 07/12/2024

I suspect that you are right, but to play the devil's advocate: Regression to the mean happens as soon as Corr(parents talent, child's parent)<1; but it could still be very close to 1. So I don't see how regression to the mean on its own precludes the possibility of such skewed distribution...

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Paweł Gola @pawelgola.com · 02/12/2024

Well, I don't claim to know all economists! But in my experience, econ is mostly Latex, at least on the theoretical/modelling side.

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Paweł Gola @pawelgola.com · 02/12/2024

I know literally one economist who uses Word. Econ is mostly Latex.

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Paweł Gola @pawelgola.com · 01/12/2024

I've been doing the same for about two cycles now. Max on all numerical scores and disclaimer in first line of the letter that only the letter covers my actual views on the student.

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Paweł Gola @pawelgola.com · 29/11/2024

Depends on how likely it is that A "makes a mistake" by desk rejecting; i.e. on the proportion of the extra desk-rejects at A that would have been accepted at B. If this is low and I'm pressed on time, then A (quicker decision, similar outcome); otherwise B (higher unconditional acceptance prob).

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Paweł Gola @pawelgola.com · 26/11/2024

The School of Economics at the University of Edinburgh is hiring a post-doc in Economic Theory and Theoretical Industrial Organisation. 30 months, little teaching (30%), freedom to pursue own research. The starting date is March 2025 (!), but PhD can be completed until August. #Econsky

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Simon Galle @simongalle.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

Just wrapped up by Fenella Carpena and me: We boil down the impact of technical change on the wage distribution to three fundamental elasticities, and show how these govern the impact of (e.g.) A.I. on the labor market. Paper: www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~sgalle/wp-c... #EconSky

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Paweł Gola @pawelgola.com · 19/11/2024

That's my pet peeve in the self-selection literature! When correlation of attributes decreases it's actually "absolute advantage" that become more important, not "comparative advantage", and yet you'll find very influential papers claiming otherwise.

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Paweł Gola @pawelgola.com · 19/11/2024

I like it, but where else would one argue that the paper is of `general interest'?

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Paweł Gola @pawelgola.com · 14/11/2024

Well, if you are worried about future historians, may I suggest recording tweets on clay tablets? Not all tweets, mind you, perhaps only those complaining about the quality of the copper you sell...

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Paweł Gola @pawelgola.com · 14/11/2024

I guess it measures someone's gain from choosing that major over some alternative major... but not sure who that someone is (not the average student, because of comparative advantage) and what the alternative is.

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Paweł Gola @pawelgola.com · 14/11/2024

Sorry, for the lack of clarity, still new to the word limits of these sites. Yes, I meant comparative advantage. I wasn't trying to argue anything, just attempting to understand the interpretation of the mean return you estimate.

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Paweł Gola @pawelgola.com · 14/11/2024

I struggle to wrap my head around the interpretation of the average return: I'd expect the types with higher return to a particular major to pick that major more often; and so an average student picking that major would earn much less.

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Paweł Gola @pawelgola.com · 13/11/2024

Wait, there is a "follow on" option in starter packs?

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Paweł Gola @pawelgola.com · 13/11/2024

Exactly. For the reader figures at the end are just extremely inconvenient. Never mind optimality, I cannot think of any significant advantage of having figures at the end...

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Paweł Gola @pawelgola.com · 13/11/2024

Could I be added? Applied theory, but still!

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Paweł Gola @pawelgola.com · 08/11/2024

Nothing changed then, I do have a link in my bio!

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Paweł Gola @pawelgola.com · 07/11/2024

Funnily enough, not sure if you mean Twitter or EJMR

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