S2E8: Interview with Paul Oyer, Labor Economist, Stanford and Author
The Mixtape with Scott
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How to Be a Labor Economist
I wanted to be a labor economist. I didn't know that's what I wanted to do, but that's what he wanted to do. Somehow I figured out this whole idea of becoming an economist and um And I called up Sharon oster. She said oh you should apply to Princeton Because for instance good at labor economics, right? I'll apply to Princeton and it put me in the running and My file got assigned. It was told years later. Yeah, I learned something about my stuff I didn't see you know I didn't at the time have a lot of interest in climbing a corporate ladder and I wanted to sit around"
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