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Notes on economics, teaching, and life.

2026

Job market information session

以下内容由AI根据 2026-9-23 会议录音撰写,并经过人工审核。 内容代表我个人观点,仅供参考。

Teaching Evaluation 2026

Today I received this year’s teaching evaluation. My PhD course always had high scores, which I didn’t worry about. What concerned me was the master’s course of data science.

Python or R? Not a Question Anymore

Hong Kong shares a land border with Mainland China, featuring nine major land-based control points. Most drivers in the two sides, however, do not attempt to cross the border, p...

2025

Likelihood

When I taught a graduate-level course last week, I asked students “Did you learn maximum likelihood estimation in your undergraduate statistics”? Not a single hand was raised. P...

2024

怀念何英华兄

忙碌的七月初变成纷扰的季节。7月初某日清早,我看到师姐发朋友圈,悼念她的某位未提及姓名的兄长过世。傍晚,我在公共社交媒体上惊闻何英华师兄病故。我和英华久未联系,并不知道他的近况。震撼不已。

2023

怀念徐晓宏兄

晓宏和我都在浙江出生和长大,也都曾在北大求学。晓宏年长我几岁,我们到了耶鲁才通过共同的朋友而相识。他研究的是社会学,而社会学和历史紧密相连。我总觉得晓宏研究社会学问题宏大,抽象,难以琢磨把握。

PhD之路

This post combines multiple separate posts in Zhihu about related topics.

2022

本科经济学入门教学

最近帮一个学校评审课程。该学校的《经济学入门》采用曼昆的教材。授课老师自己不添加新内容,直接借用出版公司提供的幻灯片。我给这老师的评价说,这样对学生是不负责任的。

2019

Letters to Students (2018)

Notes: When I taught Econ5121A in the fall semester of 2018, I wrote 12 weekly letters to students. In 2024—five years later, I shared these historical messages to keep a record...