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  1. I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. I don't see much of a difference between Brookings and AEI, in terms of the extent to which they act on ideology. Brookings is often described as a liberal think tank, just as AEI is described as a conservative one. Both do serious research, but have their share of flaky publications and scholars. In reality, they're both centrist organizations, and often do joint work. I've been to events at Cato, Heritage, Brookings, and AEI. I also know people who work, or have worked, at each of those places. Cato and Heritage just appear to be qualitatively different from the latter two.
  2. I'm trying to understand why you consider AEI to be an ideological think tank. Would you also put Brookings in that category? In my mind, Cato and Heritage are quite different from places like AEI and Brookings. Granted, these latter two are also different from RAND, Mathematica, etc., but I think they occupy their own category.
  3. Senior fellows at some think tanks can make $200K+.
  4. You may be right, but the basic theory that Econ 101 students learn was once a "high-level" article in a journal. The discipline doesn't advance without research. Teaching merely conveys what is already known. If one's goal is to teach and not do research, then why get a Ph.D.? A master's should suffice to teach anything below the graduate level.
  5. First, you may want to read a bit more carefully. I didn't make direct comparisons between Cornell and Michigan, Penn, or Northwestern, though I do believe that labor at Cornell is on par with Michigan. I merely stated that many of the prospective students I've met have mentioned that they were also admitted to the above institutions, and were deciding where to attend. This was mentioned in response to another post that stated that the typical offers that a Cornell admit was considering were Texas, Virginia, or Davis. Second, it's quite obvious that you're biased against Cornell. No objective person would spend the amount of time you have disparaging a program they don't attend. And much of what you write is either incorrect, or could have been learned by anyone browsing the web. In short, you don't appear to have inside information, or have a sense of what's happening in the department at the present. You may be a "Cornellian," but I don't see how that's relevant since you're not a grad student here, and never have been.
  6. This may be true at the lower half of the admissions scale, but most of the prospective students I've come across are comparing offers from places like Michigan, Minnesota, Penn and Northwestern (the latter two usually without funding and/or not a good match for their interests). My sample may be biased because I may have only met prospectives with some type of guaranteed funding from Cornell, but nonetheless, I think the Texas/Virgina comparison is a bit strained.
  7. What program are you in again? I've forgotten.
  8. Her primary field is IO, so I don't think she's the best, or even a very good, example of someone doing behavioral at Cornell. She's going to work at (identifying information removed). From what I've heard, this is the market she was targeting.
  9. If you haven't already made a decision, here's my 2 cents. Development is definitely one of Cornell's strengths, and there are quite a few students who will share your interests. Regarding behavioral/experimental, the department is making an effort right now to hire more behavioral faculty, and they also started a behavioral workshop this year. I don't know much about experimental, but there's a lab on campus, run by Bill Schulze. My guess is that placements are better on average at Cornell, but if you think you may get a better placement from UC Davis by taking behavioral courses at Berkeley, then that may be a better option.
  10. Kerry Papps is a post-doctoral research fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford (Who's Who in the Department of Economics | University of Oxford). Why you persist in calling this an ILR RA position is beyond me. At many schools, including Cornell, this is considered an academic placement. Once again, you have no idea what you're talking about, and frankly, I can't figure out why you continue to try to denigrate the program.
  11. Coate went to Yale for a semester, and returned to Cornell. He just turned down an offer from Princeton, as far as I know.
  12. Your claims are either incorrect, or are based on outdated information. That's been clearly established. I have no idea what you're talking about regarding ILR RA positions. Does this have something to do with last year's post-doc at Oxford? Why don't you indicate what program you attend, and what your recent placements are? Edit: Here's a link to this year's placements at Cornell (http://www.arts.cornell.edu/econ/graduate/Placement-Information-2008.pdf).
  13. I count as a Cambridge placement the person who was placed at Cambridge. Check the web. Like I said, your information about Cornell is outdated. What program do you attend? And what are your recent placements?
  14. Cornell has its flaws, but then again, so do many top15/20 programs. I would bet not all is well at your top 10. Regarding your statements, it's false that "a fourth" of the students on the market this year are students from last year. As far as I can tell, there's only one student who graduated last year. Cornell is hardly the only school at which this occurs. We hired faculty last year, and plan to hire again this year. How does this make for "constrained" faculty recruitment? Yes, teaching isn't that wonderful in the first year, but how is it at your school? Placements have not been great, but they are improving. We placed someone at Oxford last year. We placed someone at Cambridge this year. I'm the first to admit that otherwise academic placements have been flat. The quality of the grad students is also improving. I won't disagree with your characterization, but you must be referring to fourth or fifth year students. How many first, second, or third year students do you know? How much do you know about the quality of more recent students? Finally, I've taken Econ. Ph.D. courses at top 5 and top 10 schools. I don't pretend that makes me an expert on those programs. Likewise, you really appear to have no clue about Cornell's graduate program.
  15. I really wouldn't know. My guess is that the AEM MS program people would have historical data on that. If they don't, you could also try to email some of the current MS or PhD students.
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