Greetings! I need to share that we’ve a workshop arising in a pair weeks referred to as “The Hidden Curriculum“ taught by Mark Anderson and Dan Rees, and I feel there are nice causes so that you can think about coming. We’ve executed this workshop many instances now, not counting its embedding within the CodeChella Madrid conferences we’ve held up to now, and Mark has been instructing it on the Westerns as properly, the place I’ve heard by way of the grapevine it’s been extraordinarily widespread. Let me share why I feel you need to come and who the best viewers is.
The goal of this workshop is three individuals:
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PhD college students in the beginning of their analysis in graduate college within the social sciences, notably economists however economics-adjacent fields (e.g., training, political science, sociology) may also discover a lot of this handy too since it’s largely area agnostic.
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PhD college students on the job market
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Newly minted assistant professors
One factor that’s a bit completely different this time round: given how a lot AI has reshaped analysis workflows over the previous 12 months, Mark and Dan will probably be spending extra time than in previous periods on how AI is altering the publishing panorama — what editors are seeing on their desks, how the which means of “productiveness” is shifting, and what younger researchers must be fascinated about as they construct out their pipeline.
The economics job market stays difficult, and final summer time’s New York Instances piece about it nonetheless feels related. It described how even PhD economists from high packages had been struggling to search out positions, with one Harvard professor noting that “all of those that needed educational jobs would have gotten them” just some years earlier, however that solely three of his seven college students landed tenure-track positions. When the normal path isn’t working, you want each benefit you will get. That’s precisely what Mark Anderson and Dan Rees ship of their “Hidden Curriculum“ workshop on Wednesday and Thursday, August 5-6, 2026, beginning at 7pm Beijing / 8pm Tokyo time (that’s 7am EDT), working about 4 hours every day.
This isn’t your typical educational workshop that stays safely in theoretical territory. Anderson and Rees deal with the sensible abilities that decide whether or not your analysis truly will get printed and observed — the stuff no one teaches you in graduate college however everybody expects you to know. As one participant put it:
“A lot of the info is mostly not out there to grad college students simply and it’s a studying course of for everybody that takes a number of time. This helps bridge the hole, which I’m actually grateful for.”
They cowl every part from choosing viable analysis subjects and managing a number of tasks to navigating the publication course of and constructing the skilled networks that really matter. Each instructors convey critical editorial expertise — Rees has been (and continues to be) a coeditor at main journals, and beforehand served as editor-in-chief at Economics of Schooling Overview, whereas Anderson spent 5 years as co-editor at Financial Inquiry. They each have had extremely impactful careers in labor, well being, training, crime, and historical past.
The timing feels proper given what’s taking place within the occupation. When conventional paths are shrinking, and when AI is reshaping how analysis will get executed in ways in which we’re all nonetheless determining, the economists who succeed will probably be those that perceive how the occupation actually works behind the scenes. One other participant famous:
“As an econ grad pupil early in my analysis profession, this workshop answered each query I had about how analysis truly will get executed and the right way to take care of the inevitable points, tradeoffs, and challenges of writing papers. The truth is, it answered questions I didn’t even know I had.”
The workshop prices $125 (or $1 for contributors at present residing in low-income international locations — simply electronic mail me at causalinf@mixtape.consulting for that charge). Given present market situations and the tempo of change in how analysis and publishing work, this funding in understanding the unwritten guidelines of educational success feels extra precious than ever.
