UChicago econ professors used students' ML work then denied authorship
_onionesque · x · 2026-11-11
The author recounts how Booth/UChicago econ professors took MS students' substantial ML work for papers, then denied them authorship; when confronted, professors shrugged that 'this is how things are done in Econ.' He later co-authored his own PhD side projects with those students so they had publications before grad applications.
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