The Grateful Dead once asked; "Where Does the Time Go?" Permit me to offer a time diary for today;
1. I woke up early and worked on a submission for Chuck Mason's journal. The paper is now titled; Climate Change Adaptation: Lessons from Urban Economics.
2. I taught my undergrad Environmental Economics course from 930am until 1040am. While 90 students are enrolled, I don't believe that all of them attended. The wild video tapes are available here. I thought I gave a really good lecture but the students on this Monday morning were tired and sluggish. This made me mad and I told them so. Here are my lecture notes for today. You judge.
3. One of my star undergraduates wants to take my wife's Health Economics course this Winter at UCLA. Her course includes papers that use instrumental variables estimation. I used Steve Levitt's crime and election cycles paper to teach him the Wald Estimator. We covered the material in 20 minutes. We discussed imperfect instruments (see Nevo and Rosen).
4. From 1130am until 1pm, I attended an Anderson School lunch presented by Professor Jerry Kang of UCLA Law School. He gave a talk on the causes and consequences of "Implicit Bias". He is an excellent public speaker and he melded several peer reviewed pieces of research into a cogent and coherent talk. The food wasn't good but the ideas were interesting.
5. From 115pm until 4pm, I worked on the item I mentioned in #1 above
6. At 430pm, I met with Marlon Boarnet of USC who had given a seminar at UCLA earlier in the day.
7. At 545pm, I met with my Ph.D. student Devin Bunten and he had some good news about his most recent research.
8. At 6pm, I attended my first UCLA Chess lesson supplied by a 14 year old phenom named Luke. Read about him here. I lost two games that I played as I made a series of dumb moves.
9. At 8pm, I took an Uber to pick up my son from fencing.
10. I received some emails from colleagues giving me some useful comments on #1, I incorporated their ideas into my paper.
11. It is now 907pm PST and I want to watch the end of the Bulls vs. Clippers game.
Is this how you life ticks away?