I’ve been doing interviews with economists now for a couple of years. Usually these are interviews with authors of recent Journal of Human Resources articles (called #JHR_Threads), but more recently they’ve branched into topics I’ve been considering doing as I contemplate a second book project. One of them is a series of interviews with the Princeton Industrial Relations tradition from circa late 1970s and mid 1980s. That’s people like David Card, Josh Angrist, Orley Ashenfelter, Janet Currie, Philip Levine, Jörn-Steffen Pischke, but also their collaborators like Guido Imbens, Don Rubin and the broader design-based causal inference econometricians like Alberto Abadie and contemporary econometricians in difference-in-differences and so forth. But I’m also very interested in a series of interviews with economists in tech, specifically what I call the “architects” of the auctions that basically support the entire internet — Hal Varian at Google, Susan Athey at Microsoft, Preston McAf…
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