From Economists Do It With Models:
As someone who not only wants to learn as much as possible about
academic research in economics but also understand where the prominent
thought leaders in the field stand, I’ve been fascinated for a while now
with the University of Chicago’s Initiative on Global Markets Economics Experts Panel. (If you’ve been playing along at home, you may notice that I brought this resource to your attention a while ago.)
This dataset is cool because it asks a bunch of hotshot economists a
number of policy-related questions and then collects their answers in
agree/disagree form as well as a rating of their confidence in their
answers and comments on the issue at hand.
It’s not particularly surprising to me that the economists surveyed have
a clear consensus on some issues but are more divided on others. Also,
as I look through the responses, I usually take stock of which
economists answered in the way that I would have answered.
(Narcissistic, but true.) As such, I was super excited to learn that
there is now a home version of the game
that allows you to answer the questions posed to the expert panel and
keeps track of which economist you are most similar to overall. Why
didn’t I think of this????
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