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Dear EconoDiary,
Sorry I haven’t written recently- it’s hard starting spring semester teaching the day after an 18-hour drive back from Chicago! (In related news, teaching graduate macro is an interesting challenge, to say the least.) Anyway, the conference went quite well, and Jarret and I even managed to put together a somewhat legit [...]
Tags: Administrative · Press · Uncategorizable
Apparently my show on Saturday got some press coverage. From The Boston Phoenix:
On Saturday, I spent my first three show blocks in the smaller theatre. The first act was Economists Do It with Models, a mock economics lecture done by Jodi Beggs. Or at least, Improv Boston called it a mock lecture in her [...]
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So I was quoted in Human Resource Executive Online:
Jodi Beggs, a researcher in the field of behavioral economics and incentives who focuses specifically on when, if and how incentive schemes work, says the jury is still out on whether pay-for-performance compensation plans will someday be the norm.
“The high-level summary of academic findings is that pay-for-performance [...]
Tags: Behavioral Econ · Incentives · Press · The Simpsons
Yesterday I was quoted in an AOL Jobs article:
With five unemployed workers for every job opening, it’s unlikely that jobs are going unfilled because people are at home sitting on the couch collecting their unemployment checks, even with the disincentive to find work, said economist Jodi Beggs, in an e-mail interview with AOL Jobs. Beggs [...]
Tags: Macroeconomics · Policy · Press
…but that might just be because a lot of Italian women are so thin and gorgeous that I am big in comparison. But seriously…in true “economists do it with models” fashion, I did an interview with Italian fashion magazine Grazia. The good news is that I was super impressed by the [...]
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