Hate speech posted on economics website EJMR is traced to leading universities

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Hate speech posted on economics website EJMR is traced to leading universities, research finds

By Associated Press
July 20, 2023

Anonymous comments with racist, sexist and abusive messages that were posted for years on a jobs-related website for economists originated from numerous leading US universities, according to research released Thursday.

Some economists have long condemned the website, Economics Job Market Rumors, for its toxic content.

The site, known by its acronym EJMR, is run by an anonymous individual and is not connected to a university or other institution.

That fact had fed speculation that those who posted hateful messages on it were mostly online cranks who might not be economists.

Yet the new research indicates that users of the website include individuals at top-tier colleges and universities, including Harvard, Stanford and the University of Chicago, and many others.

“Our analysis reveals that the users who post on EJMR are predominantly economists, including those working in the upper echelons of academia, government, and the private sector,” the paper concluded. It was written by Florian Ederer, a management professor at Boston University, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, a finance professor at the Yale School of Management, and Kyle Jensen, an associate dean at Yale.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2023/07/20/hate-speech-posted-on-ejmr-is-traced-to-leading-universities-research-finds/