1. Why so many non-econ papers by economists? 2. What’s on the math GRE and what does this have to do with stat Ph.D. programs? 3. How does modern research on combinatorics relate to statistics?

Someone who would prefer to remain anonymous writes: A lot of the papers I’ve been reading that sound really interesting don’t seem to involve economics per se (e.g., https://web.archive.org/web/20070104045027/http://home.uchicago.edu/~eoster/hivbehavior.pdf), but they usually seem to come out of econ (as opposed … Continue reading → …