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...House economic adviser Austan Goolsbee of the University of Chicago, Assistant Treasury Secretary nominee Alan Krueger of Princeton and several other key aides. Sunstein has been nominated to be Obama's regulatory czar. Even National Economic Council director Larry Summers has done work on behavioral finance. And Harvard economist Sendhil Mullainathan is organizing an outside network of behavioral experts to provide the Administration with policy ideas...
...highest student-to-faculty ratios—introduced the 16-person courses three years ago as a result of a College-wide push to increase student interaction with faculty members. “The student-teacher ratio is well out of whack,” said Sendhil Mullainathan, an economics professor who also taught a seminar this fall. Recent departures have worsened the situation. In the past few weeks, the department has lost several faculty members to the Obama administration. Former University President Lawrence H. Summers, who was slated to co-teach a junior seminar this spring, left to head...
...Jacobsen does leave Harvard for MIT, it would be latest chapter in a long history of faculty moves between the two schools. In recent years, Harvard has attracted many top scholars from MIT, including behavioral economist Sendhil Mullainathan in 2004 and psychologists Elizabeth Spelke ’71 in 2001 and Steven Pinker in 2003. Harvard’s previous president, Lawrence H. Summers, came to Harvard as an economics professor from MIT, becoming at age 28 one of the youngest tenured professors in the University’s history...
...opening, took hours due to the lack of quality TFs. Exams, however, were straightforward restatements of the problem sets and did not provoke worry. N.B.: If you are a non-Economics concentrator and want a version of Psych and Ec with less Ec and more paper writing, check out Sendhil Mullainathan’s Ec1035, “Policy Applications of Psychology and Economics.” Mullainathan is also very prominent in the world of behavioral economics and has received sky-high CUE ratings for his teaching abilities. Course veterans have called the course an “easy...
...NGOs have on the developing world. The forum, called “How To Turn Economic Research into Social Action in South Asia,” aimed to encourage quantitative research on the effectiveness of socially oriented programs—especially microfinance institutions (MFIs). According to Professor of Economics Sendhil Mullainathan—one of the five panelists who spoke yesterday—NGOs and MFIs have been proliferating in South Asia in the past decade. What is lacking, Mullainathan and other panelists said, is data. “How do we know any [of these] programs work...