Greetings again! One more nudge before we get going: the Hidden Curriculum workshop with Mark Anderson and Dan Rees is now less than a week away — Wednesday and Thursday, August 5–6, 2026, running about four hours each day starting at 7pm Beijing / 8pm Tokyo (7am EDT). If you’ve been on the fence, this is the moment to grab a spot.
I wrote at length a few weeks ago about why I think this one matters, so I won’t repeat all of it. But the short version is this: the workshop is built for the people who most need it and are least likely to have been told any of it — PhD students just starting their research, students heading onto the job market, and newly minted assistant professors. Much of it is field-agnostic, so economics-adjacent folks in education, political science, and sociology tend to get a lot out of it too.
What Mark and Dan cover is exactly the stuff nobody teaches you in graduate school but everyone assumes you already know: how to pick research topics that actually go somewhere, how to juggle multiple projects, how to navigate the publication process, and how to build the professional relationships that genuinely matter. Both bring real editorial experience to it — Rees has been a coeditor at major journals and previously served as editor-in-chief at Economics of Education Review, and Anderson spent five years as co-editor at Economic Inquiry. They’ve seen what lands on an editor’s desk and what doesn’t.
And given how fast things are moving, they’ll be spending more time this round on how AI is reshaping research and the publishing landscape — what “productivity” is starting to mean, what editors are noticing, and how young researchers should be thinking about their pipeline in light of all of it. With the job market still as tight as it’s been, understanding how the profession really works behind the scenes is more of an advantage than ever.
As one past participant put it: “As an econ grad student early in my research career, this workshop answered every question I had about how research actually gets done — and questions I didn’t even know I had.”
The cost is $125 (or $1 if you’re currently residing in a low-income country — just email me at causalinf@mixtape.consulting for that rate). You can sign up here. Hope to see you there.