Tyler Cowen said he met her (identified in the resolution criteria as the author Gail Hareven) in 2019.

True: evidence shows Cowen met Gail Hareven in person during 2019 (for example a dated blog post, travel record or event). Mostly true: they met, but the timing is slightly off (late 2018, for instance). Mostly false: they had contact only by correspondence, or met in an earlier year. False: evidence shows they never met.

Set before the research began.

1. E1 "The trade war will harm Israel" Globes, Israel business news · 10 June 2019

   “Cowen visited Israel this week at the invitation of the Friedberg Economics Institute”

2. E2 Meta-list for fiction, best books of 2009 - Marginal REVOLUTION Marginal Revolution (blog by Tyler Cowen) · 8 December 2009 Own record

   “My favorite works of fiction this year were the new Pamuk, Gail Hareven's The Confessions of Noa Weber, and A Happy Marriage, by Rafael Yglesias.”

3. E3 Alumni Program - Friedberg Economics Institute Friedberg Economics Institute

   “For additional lectures in the 2019 Alumni series, please follow these links:”

4. E4 Alumni Program - Friedberg Economics Institute Friedberg Economics Institute

   “Inequality, Productivity Stagnation and Moore's Law | Tyler Cowen”

E1 (Globes, June 2019) shows that Cowen visited Israel at the invitation of the Friedberg Economics Institute in 2019, and E4 lists a lecture by him in the institute's alumni programme without a date, so a meeting in Israel that year was possible, but no evidence item shows a meeting with Gail Hareven. None of these sources mentions Gail Hareven, and E2 shows only that Cowen praised her novel in 2009. No evidence records an in-person meeting between Cowen and Hareven, so the claim cannot be settled.