This is part three of hopefully a three part series on the political science academic job market. I think my stint as WashU Director of Graduate Studies has me thinking about this too often.
Here are a few more cases of governments providing incentives to swing investment. My work with Eddy Malesky suggests that politicians uses these incentives to claim credit for investment. Most of our data and examples are thus far are from the
I received a few emails in the past couple of days about my blog post on the supply of political science Ph.Ds. I didn’t realize that I have readers others than my mom. Hi mom.
I’ve blogged a few times about the use of investment incentives to attract firms and retain existing jobs. My quick take is that these incentives are generally ineffective in swinging investment and are too costly relative to the benefits.
