The methodology yields this ranking.
Top 20
1. Harvard
2. Columbia
3. MIT
3. Stanford
5. Duke
6. Yale
7. Caltech
8. Penn
9. Princeton
10. Cornell
11. Brown
11. UChicago
11. WashU
14. Rice
15. Northwestern
15. USC
17. Dartmouth
17. Johns Hopkins
19. Emory
20.
Top 20
1. Harvard
2. Columbia
3. MIT
3. Stanford
5. Duke
6. Yale
7. Caltech
8. Penn
9. Princeton
10. Cornell
11. Brown
11. UChicago
11. WashU
14. Rice
15. Northwestern
15. USC
17. Dartmouth
17. Johns Hopkins
19. Emory
20.
Given the recent discussion about women's opportunities in Silicon Valley and in academic economics, I took a look at my own record. I have published six books. I wrote 4 by myself and 2 with co-authors. Both of my co-authors (Dora Costa) and (Siqi Zheng) are women.
The USC Daily Trojan has published an article that I like. I moved from UCLA to USC because I saw the private university's momentum and ambition. My department's goal is to be as good as our football team. The University aspires to be Stanford.
Erin Mansur and I have a well cited 2013 JPUBE paper documenting that energy intensive firms cluster where energy prices are low (the paper has several other ideas!). Siqi Zheng, Jianfeng Wu and Weizeng Sun and I have a 2017 JUE paper studying China's industrial parks.
As I read the NYT and WSJ, I see similar stories that the Big Data Smart Phone era reduced the suffering caused by Hurricanes Harvey and Irma as people used their phones to "trade with each other" such that private first responders saved many people.
On my twitter feed today, I stumbled across this very interesting (and depressing) post by Claudia Sahm. MIT's great Peter Temin wrote this piece about "culture" 20 years ago. He discusses Alberto Bisin's early work on culture.
Dating at least back to Dennis Carlton's 1983 RESTAT paper, economists have written down an indirect profit equation that measures a given firm's profit if it locates in a given geographic area such as Chicago or Nashville. Suppose there are 87 of these different locations.
Amazon will soon choose a new location for building its 2nd headquarters. Chicago may be chosen. The winning city will receive an influx of high paying jobs and this will boost housing prices, human capital, restaurant demand and tax revenues. Cities are competing by offering tax breaks.
Dr Krugman tweeted this. I am not smart enough to completely see his thoughts embodied in these 140 characters but I am going to try because this raises a fundamental issue in urban economics. Below, I reproduce his cross-U.S city graph of log population density as a function of log population.
