The Hidden Curriculum

E37- Discussing a new book, Doing Economics: What You Should Have Learned in Grad School―But Didn’t, with Marc Bellemare

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In this episode we talk with Marc Bellemare about his new book, Doing Economics: What You Should Have Learned in Grad School―But Didn’t. You can pre-order Marc's book here. 

Marc Bellemare is the Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Distinguished University Teaching Professor, and Northrop Professor in the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota. Marc's research focuses on agricultural economics and applied econometrics.

Sebastian Tello-Trillo is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy in the University of Virginia.

Alex Hollingsworth is an Associate Professor of Economics at the O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs in Indiana University.

Notes from the episode

  • Marc mentions harvester or sorrow by Metallica. You can energize your day here,  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3yWbRngyJs 
  • Marc's working paper: Bellemare, Marc F., Jeffrey R. Bloem, and Noah Wexler (2020), “The Paper of How: Estimating Treatment Effects Using the Front-Door Criterion.”

    • Recommendations of the Week

    • Marc recommends the silver spoon, https://www.phaidon.com/store/food-cook/the-silver-spoon-9780714862569/, an Italian cook book.
    • Alex recommends using pacman for package management in R, http://trinker.github.io/pacman/vignettes/Introduction_to_pacman.html
    • Sebastian recommends using slack, https://slack.com
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