🌐 Global Economy Oct 18, 2024 · jdingel

Luck along the way

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Luck along the way
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In January 2025, I will join Columbia University as a tenured Associate Professor of Economics. I’m happy to return to my alma mater.
Since folks tend to underestimate the role luck plays in career outcomes, let me note a few critical junctures at which I benefited from good fortune.
As an undergraduate student, I visited Oxford for six months. Most Oxford tutorials are taught by DPhil (PhD) students in the undergraduate’s college. Unknown reasons caused me to be assigned to a tutor

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