A Small Sample Field Experiment in Real Estate Search
Knowing that field experiments are a powerful methodology in applied economics, I've decided to conduct one. Tomorrow, I will fly to Los Angeles and search for housing near UCLA. We will be renting there starting in January 2007. If you offer a blogger discount and have a nice place near campus, please contact me!
On an unrelated note, the New Yorker offers more than cartoons this week. The 8/28/2006 issue of the New Yorker has a fascinating article by Nassar and Gruber not about John Nash but titled "Manifold Destiny". This piece takes the lay reader into the macho world of academic math and in particular provides the strange details about a Russian who has refused the Field Medals. This would be the equivalent of Paul Krugman turning down the Nobel Prize in Economics if he were awarded it soon. Such modesty does not take place every day!
While you might think of math nerds as pure theorists who do not care about ego and status, this article highlights the bad behavior and craving for prestige that goes on within the top ranks of academic math.
On an unrelated note, the New Yorker offers more than cartoons this week. The 8/28/2006 issue of the New Yorker has a fascinating article by Nassar and Gruber not about John Nash but titled "Manifold Destiny". This piece takes the lay reader into the macho world of academic math and in particular provides the strange details about a Russian who has refused the Field Medals. This would be the equivalent of Paul Krugman turning down the Nobel Prize in Economics if he were awarded it soon. Such modesty does not take place every day!
While you might think of math nerds as pure theorists who do not care about ego and status, this article highlights the bad behavior and craving for prestige that goes on within the top ranks of academic math.
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