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The SMU Economics Department invites applications for Associate and Full Professor positions.
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- Check out the latest working paper by Prof. @dlmillimet, entitled "Fixed Effects and Causal Inference" available through @iza_bonn. #PonyUp docs.iza.org/dp16202.pdf
- 🌟 BREAKING NEWS 🌟 We are hiring an asst prof! We are particularly interested in an env'tal/dev/urban economist with experience using spatial data. The hire is part of a larger initiative in the area of earth hazards and nat'l security. #EconTwitter aeaweb.org/joe/listing.ph…
- Congrats to PhD alum @punarjitrc! Punarjit has received the Prof. M.J. Manohar Rao Award by the Indian Econometric Society! The award award is given annually to an Indian economist under the age of 35 for outstanding contributions to quantitative economics while working in India.
- It's been an unprecedently productive week... We have added 5 new faculty members: 🧠@luiscanyamel (UMinn, macro) 🧠Yichen Su (Stanford/Dallas Fed, urban/labor) 🧠Stepan Aleksenko (UCLA, micro) 🧠Shixuan (Kathy) Li (TAMU/SMU, lecturer) 🧠Ryan McGregor (UHouston, lecturer)
- #EconTwitter The Department is pleased to be hiring *three* TT positions this year! We expect 1 macro, 1 micro theory, and 1 as part of a @SMU-wide cluster hire in urban (broadly defined). Please contact us for any questions! We are fun and productive! aeaweb.org/joe/listing.ph…
- Life is good in the Economics Department … @elpuntoderocio brought homemade frangipane apple tart for the office! Deliciousa!😋
- #EconTwitter We are hiring this year! We are seeking a new assistant professor in any of a number of fields. Apply, one and all, if you are on the market this year. Feel free to contact @dlmillimet or @klausvanieper with questions! Please share widely! aeaweb.org/joe/listing.ph…
- Our second job market candidate spotlight is on Aastha Gupta (@AasthaGuptaEcon, aasthaguptaecon.com). Aastha is an applied theorist with excellent modeling skills. Her research interests are in Industrial Organization, Behavioral Economics, and Information Economics.
- #EconTwitter PhD application season is upon us! And, yes, while others are taking a pause due to the pandemic, our department is accepting applications and is eager to meet the next cohort of SMU-trained economists! Attached find a (hopefully legible) flyer with some highlights.
- Congrats to Prof. @dlmillimet and former Ph.D. student @ikmcdonough (@unlv) as they have been awarded the @AAEA_Economics 2020 Outstanding Applied Economic Perspectives & Policy Article Award for their paper published in 2019. @SMU @SMUDedman
- Today, there was a lizard in a faculty member's office. On a computer keyboard. The faculty member did not handle it well. Not least because the lizard was apparently not wearing a mask. 😷🦎
- We are pleased to announce that Prof. Daniel Millimet (@dlmillimet) has been named the Robert H. and Nancy Dedman Trustee Professor of Economics. Prof. Millimet researches and teaches in the fields of labor economics and econometrics. He has been @SMU since 1999. Congrats!
- The Department is pleased to announce that Prof. Daniel Millimet (@dlmillimet) will serve as the next department chair beginning August 1, 2020. At that time, Prof. Santanu Roy will conclude 6 years at the helm. We owe him a great thanks for his exemplary leadership. #PonyUp