…represents the validation of my long held opinion that I have no comparative advantage whatsoever in this area. My team partner for this impromptu exercise, Ian Walker, among other things the current editor-in-chief of Labour Economics, performed rather reasonably, but there was no chance to ultimately rank decently among the brave competitors– my colleague economists from the Aarhus School of Business, some of them natural born karaoke stars– precisely because of teaming up with yours truly.
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Sunday night econlinks
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Bilingualism and early child development: very interesting brand-new research in PNAS (institutional or individual subscription needed, else only abstract is free). And yes, bilingualism clearly pays off, if you were wondering.
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Kevin Murphy Fan Club
I had already a quote for this week, so the following will be the quote for the weekend:
Kevin Murphy holds comparative advantage in all forms of production.
Read all 10 top facts about Kevin Murphy :-).
The new RAE UK is out
…and for Economics and Econometrics, the quality profiles can be consulted here.
By strictly ranking percentages of research in the highest and respectively second highest research categories, the first 10 Econ Departments in UK RAE 2008 (not very unexpected) are the following:
- LSE
- UCL
- Essex, Oxford, Warwick
- Bristol, Nottingham, Queen Mary
- Cambridge
- Manchester