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Placement history.

The department plays an active role in assisting graduate students with career placement. In a typical year, every MIT Economics PhD graduate finds a job.

Over the past six years, the department has placed a total of 130 graduates in academic, research, and government jobs. Of these, 90 graduates (69%) chose positions at academic institutions and 36 graduates (28%) chose non-academic positions. Of the 90 academic placements, 35 (39%) were at top-15 US economics departments or top-10 US business schools. The tables below break out these proportions for each cohort and highlight some of our top placements.

All placements, 2018-2023

Placements to top economics departments and business schools, 2018-2023.

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Understanding the job market

Most graduating PhDs seeking jobs in academia, government, or industry will participate in the job market for economists and may interview for positions at the ASSA Annual Meeting in early January.  

The job market process

The AEA provides a  guide to the job market process  created by John Cawley. It details the following:

Job openings for economists

The American Economic Association provides the JOE Network (Job Openings for Economists Network) for employers and job-seekers who are participating in the annual economics job market cycle.

AEA Committee on the Job Market

The AEA's Committee on the Job Market posts information and updates in various reports and webinars on the economics job market.

Current salary and job market information

There are several sources of current salary and job market information for economists:

• The Fed describes potential career opportunities for economics PhDs
• The Fed describes research assistant opportunities for those without PhDs in economics
• The Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Arkansas conducts an annual " Survey of the Labor Market for New Ph.D. Hires in Economics ."
• The American Economic Association publishes results of its Universal Academic Questionnaire in each May issue of AEA Papers and Proceedings .
• The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes information on economists in the Occupational Outlook Handbook .

Further reading

Auerbach, Alan J., Francine D. Blau, and John B. Shoven. 2004. "The Labor Market for New Ph.D. Economists: Panel Discussion." American Economic Review , 94 (2), pp. 286-290.

Coles, Peter, John Cawley, Phillip B. Levine, Muriel Niederle, Alvin E. Roth, and John J. Siegfried (2010) "The Job Market for New Economists: a Market Design Perspective" Journal of Economic Perspectives 24(4) (Fall): 187-206.

Ehrenberg, Ronald G. 2004. "Prospects in the Academic Labor Market for Economists." Journal of Economic Perspectives , 18 (2), pp. 227-238 .

Jihui, Chen, Qihong Liu, and Sherrilyn Billger. 2012. “Where Do New Ph.D. Economists Go? Evidence from Recent Initial Job Placements.” Journal of Labor Research , 34, pp. 312-338.

Krueger, Anne O. 1999. "Implications of the Labor Market for Graduate Education in Economics." Journal of Economic Perspectives , 13 (3), pp. 153-156 .

Smeets, Valerie, Frederic Warzynski, and Tom Coupe. 2006. "Does the Academic Labor Market Initially Allocate New Graduates Efficiently?" Journal of Economic Perspectives , 20(3), pp. 161-172.

Career earnings

The economics profession, universal academic questionnaire (uaq).

Economics Ph.D. Job Market Candidates

10/17/2023 By | Jeannine Crouse Hagadorn

The department is proud to support and promote the work of our Ph.D. students who are seeking employment following the completion of their doctoral program. At Cornell University, economists are trained in many departments, schools and colleges, and as a part of multiple graduate fields. The following websites include the subset of students who are receiving their degrees in closely related Fields outside of Economics: Field of Public Policy , Field of Applied Economics and Management .

For further information on our candidates, please feel free to contact Levon Barseghyan , Placement Chair, or any member of the Placement Committee:

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You should also look at “ A Guide and Advice for Economists on the U.S. Junior Academic Job Market (pdf) ” on the JOE website. It provides valuable additional information, especially with some details about the formal economics job market. It is imperative for students to recognize that job market preparation and initiation of faculty support in the process  is the responsibility of the student .

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Job Market Meetings During the Year

Spring Semester Meeting

During the Spring Semester, a job market meeting for all PhD students will be conducted to provide students with an overview of how the job market works. The main beneficiaries will be second and third year students since the discussion will focus mainly on how to build your portfolio to become competitive in the job market when the time comes. ( Slides from meeting (pdf) )

First Fall Semester Meeting

There are two meetings during Fall. The first Fall meeting focuses on 4th and 5th year students who are thinking of entering the job market. We discuss in detail the timing of events, the application packet and important deadlines. ( Fall 2023 Slides from meeting (pdf)

Second Fall Semester Meeting

The second Fall meeting is exclusively for students who enter the job market. We discuss tips on interviews and scheduling.

Where to Find Jobs

The main listing for job openings for economists is housed in the AEA webpage. However, there are other links for specialized fields or International universities or agencies.

• aeaweb JOE Listings – August 1, 2018 – January 31, 2019
• Career Center Jobs – Agricultural & Applied Economics Association
• Econ Job Market
• Academic Economist Jobs Economist Jobs by Econ-Jobs.com
• Discover Asst. Prof. / Lecturer Jobs at INOMICS
• Job Market Open Positions EAERE
• Economic Openings at HigherEdJobs
• Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness Openings at HigherEdJobs
• Chronicle of Higher Education – Economics Jobs
• Academic Positions in the European Union – Economics
• Researchers in Motion – European Economics Jobs
• The Chinese Economists Society

Some of these postings may coincide with those in AEA, but some are European universities that only post their ads in either of the above websites. Note that many of the universities posting jobs in the Econjobmarket.org website only conduct interviews at the Spanish Economic Association Meeting (even if the university is not Spanish) in mid-December. You can find more information here: SAEe 2018 – Madrid .

Timeline for Job Market Preparation

Preliminary job interviews for all fields are held at the ASSA conferences in early January of every year. For those students writing in agricultural, resource and environmental fields, interviews are also conducted at the AAEA meetings in late July or early August, although increasingly, many agricultural and applied economics departments are recruiting at the ASSA meetings. Students must have a polished paper for inclusion in their job applications, which are sent out up to three months in advance of the meetings. Most institutions looking to hire at the ASSA expect you to be finished by August of the following year. Thus, besides one polished paper you need to be able to demonstrate that you have made substantial progress on your entire dissertation. You need your paper for the ASSA meetings ready by November 1.

After the meetings, students must be prepared for multi-day on-site interviews with employers on short notice (within days of the interviews at the meetings, with as short as one-week notice for the visit). Therefore, preparation for research presentations must begin early (you will be grilled about your research at the conference interviews as well as when you do campus visits). Students should schedule at least one practice presentation in SES at least one week prior to the campus interview. You should also plan on doing a mock interview with SES faculty before the ASSA or AAEA meetings. The following schedule puts you on track to be ready for the job market by the beginning of your fourth year of study:

• Year 1 : In addition to coursework, explore research interests, meet faculty, and discuss dissertation ideas.
• Year 2 : Begin serious exploratory work on a dissertation. Visit professors, kick around ideas, and delve into the literature of your area of interest. By fall of the third year, a solid idea for a dissertation should be in mind and preliminary work underway.
• Keep track of job postings in Job Openings for Economists (JOE) and the AAEA website early in the year, but especially June onward.
• Send applications out for any possibilities
• Coordinate brief interviews at the AAEA meetings through the employment center.
• Attend AAEA meetings in late July, early August.
• All year, but especially October onward, regularly check employment opportunities in JOE. The most important issue is October, followed closely by the November, and then residual job announcements in the December issue.
• Schedule a seminar in SES for September to get broad feedback on your job market paper.
• Have job market paper polished by early November for ASSA applications.
• Early November onward: submit applications for possible ASSA interviews.
• Mid December: Finalize job market presentations and give practice seminars. Organize practice interviews with the assistance of faculty.
• Early January. Interview for jobs at ASSA Meetings.
• If still on the Job market, revisit the AAEA meetings (discussed under year 3).
• Finish dissertation by May or August of year 4.

Compiling Application Packets for Academic Jobs

Job opening announcements usually request all or most of the following:

These materials should be the most carefully crafted documents you have ever created. A misspelled word or bad grammar in the cover letter or anywhere else in your application can send your application to the no-hire stack immediately. Proofread your research papers and other documents, and arrange with other students on the market to do an exchange–you proofread their papers and they can proofread your papers.

Cover Letter

For academic positions, the cover letter should be tailored to each specific job. It should include a brief description of why you are interested in this particular job and why you think the search committee should be interested in you for this specific job. You can very briefly summarize your research but do not put an entire abstract in the letter. For the most part, your vita and supporting material will sell you. The point of the letter is to get the reader to look further at your materials.

Curriculum Vita

Curriculum vitae (CV) includes information about education, experience, teaching, research, grant-getting and other related experience and productivity. Compared to a standard private sector resume a CV tends to be longer and more inclusive. A template for a CV for a doctoral student from this school is provide at LateX.

For the .tex file please contact the main office.

Letters of Reference

Some announcements request letters of reference to be sent for the initial application [usually under separate cover directly from references]; others request a list of references with contact information in order to request letters after initial review. References and contact information should be listed on your CV even if letters are not requested in the initial announcement. Choose your references carefully, and ask prospective letter writers if they are willing to write strong letters on your behalf. Provide your reference writers with easy access to your CV, the job announcement, and any other information that you think would help them write a strong letter for you, including but not limited to job market papers and a summary of where you stand in your dissertation progress. When choosing your references, try to choose a set of people that can speak to each important aspect of your background and experience (e.g., someone who knows you as a student in their class, your dissertation advisor and, if you worked as a TA, your TA advisor.)

Do not ask too many people to provide references. While three is the minimum, usually four, and most definitely five, is the maximum. Three strong letters are better than three strong letters and one tepid letter. Usually, any letters above three should be addressing something the other recommenders cannot adequately address, for example, your superior teaching skills.

Official Transcripts

Some positions require that you have official transcripts mailed to them. Others require e-mailed transcripts. If you need assistance in scanning your official transcript, check with the main office.

One or Two Samples of Research Work

A statement of teaching philosophy.

If you do not have experience teaching you will need to come up with a statement about your teaching philosophy.

Preparation for Interviews

Job market paper.

You should select one component of your research, one paper from your dissertation, to use as your job market paper. This paper will be sent in your application packet (perhaps along with other papers), and it will be the basis for your seminar. It should be a paper that you either have or expect to submit for review at a peer-reviewed journal. The choice of your job market paper is an important one. Of the research you might be working on, the job market paper is that which provides the best illustration of your skills, interests, and capacity to perform independent, interesting, and cutting-edge research.

Further, this job market paper must be very polished by the time you send it off in an application, which means that you should have it completed by the middle of your fall semester of your fourth academic year. This also means that you may have to plan your dissertation work accordingly such that you finish your job market paper earlier, leaving other parts of your dissertation for later completion. But keep in mind that employers expect you to be done with your degree by August at the latest. If all you have is one paper, you are not ready to go on the market.

Practice Presentations

It is beyond the scope of this document to provide guidance for presentation preparation, except to reiterate the importance of giving your job talk seminar  at least  once prior to any interview, in addition to their dissertation oral exams. As a student, you will have ample opportunity to do so. A student preparing for the job market should, early in the Fall semester, schedule one of the regular Friday seminar slots to present his or her work. If these seminar slots are taken, then schedule for another day and advertise to get good attendance. Be sure to realize that a seminar in your home department is as good as it gets: the audience will be rooting for you, they will be very willing to provide advice, and the more people that are there, the more advice you are likely to receive. This will undoubtedly increase the likelihood of performing well during a job interview.

Practice Interviews

Holding a practice interview is an excellent way of getting a feel for what kinds of questions and experiences to expect during a job interview. Sometime prior to attending a conference interview or any type of interview, you should ask your committee and perhaps others to participate in one on your behalf. At a minimum, this practice interview should be a half-hour session in which faculty asks the candidate the type of questions that a candidate would get during a real interview. Preferably, this question and answer session would be followed up by a half-hour debriefing, with advice and further questions about the interview process for the given type of interview that the student is facing.

Student Responsibilities and the Role of the School

As the doctoral candidate facing the job market, all responsibility to prepare for the job market is incumbent upon the student. However, the faculty of the School of Economic Sciences will facilitate you in several ways. Throughout the process, keep in mind the goal is to find the right job for you, not necessarily the job at the highest ranked department, etc. It is your life, and your preference and responsibilities are what will determine whether or not the job market results in a good outcome for you.

Your dissertation advisors should be the primary source of advice regarding the job market and your goals in it. However,  it is up to the student  to initiate discussions and ask questions when necessary. It is also the student’s responsibility to develop a personal timeline for completion and for job market preparation and participation. Faculty advisors will provide guidance to facilitate the completion of these goals given student initiative. In addition with the guidance on dissertation writing, faculty advisors and committee members will facilitate and participate, whenever possible, in practice seminars, practice interview sessions, and will write letters of recommendation if asked.

If a student is planning to enter the job market in January via the ASSA meetings, he or she should have a serious planning discussion about completion of a job market paper, a dissertation, the student’s job market preferences and aspirations, and any other necessary issues by the end of the previous Spring semester. The Placement Coordinator is not a substitute for your committee chair and committee members. However, the placement coordinator is available to answer questions that you might have about the job market, to help facilitate some aspects of preparation, and to provide additional opinion regarding job market preparation.

Conference Interviews

For academic positions, it is common for competitive job candidates to have two interviews for a given position: the first at a conference employment program for about a half hour to an hour, and if successful, an on-campus interview that may last up to two full days. Descriptions of the conference interview process are provided below, followed by a description of the on-site interview process. To begin, it is important to realize that personal interactions are crucial. It is important to show interest in your own work, the work that you would be expected to pursue, and the department in which you would be working. The primary way of conveying your interest is by being informed about the position, department, and people, so you can ask and answer questions effectively. So, below are a set of questions you will likely face and questions you ought to ask in interviews:

10 Questions to be Ready to Answer:

• What is your dissertation (job market paper) about? (2 minute and 5 minute answers)
• Why is your research important?
• Where do you expect to publish your work?
• What will be the focus of your research over the next 5 years (research agenda)?
• What do you have to offer our department? (Mention 3 things: research, teaching, and team player or collegial)
• Who on this faculty might you collaborate with in research?
• Why this person?
• What two classes would you most like to teach? Why?
• What is your teaching philosophy?
• What do you like about this department/town/region?

7 Questions to Ask Each (or almost each) Faculty Member:

• What do you like most about working in this department?
• What do you like least about working in this department?
• What do you think the person who takes this position will be expected to focus on?
• In what ways do the faculty formally and informally support junior faculty?
• What is the tenure process like?
• How are junior faculty evaluated?
• Ask something specific about the research that the faculty member is doing.

You will be busy during interviews. Here is a list of 10 things you should have and use at conference and on-campus interviews:

• Mouthwash/breath mints
• Deodorant/antiperspirant (important regardless of whether you use these products normally)
• Men: extra tie
• Women: Extra stockings
• Watch or timepiece (DO NOT be late)
• Pen and pad of paper
• Copies of cv
• Copies of job paper
• [perhaps a ONE page front and back cv and summary of job paper combination]

For doctoral students in our program, there are two primary conference-based employment interview opportunities, one at the ASSA meetings in early January (of which the American Economics Association meetings are a part), and at the American Agricultural Economics Association meetings in late July and/or early August. The ASSA meetings are larger and apply to a broader set of job openings. The employment center at the AAEA meetings are of interest primarily to those specializing in agricultural, natural resources, and environmental economics, but may also cover other areas of interest as well.

ASSA Interview Process

The ASSA meetings in early January are the primary forum for preliminary interviews for the academic economics market. You should submit job applications in November or at the vary latest early December. Interested employers start contacting candidates for appointments at the meetings in early or mid-December, so you need to have your applications out. Moreover, you need to be available. A cell phone is a very valuable investment, and you should put your cell number on your vita and in your letter of application. Keep your cell phone turned on, and answer it. The point is, right now you want to be very accessible.

ASSA interviews typically range from thirty minutes to one hour long. Job candidates with multiple interviews will be going from interview room to interview room, and will often involve walking to and from multiple hotels in the vicinity to get to their interviews, so try to schedule interviews to allow you time in between. Ask the interviewers what hotel they expect to be at, and try to congregate your interviews accordingly. Sometimes the hotels are not nearly as close as they appear, and 15 minutes may not be sufficient time between interviews. Wear formal employment attire to the ASSA interviews. Men should wear suits, although you can probably get by with a sport coat and tie. Women should wear normal business attire.

When you set up the interview, ask who will be interviewing you. If you are given the names, spend some time on the Internet getting to know a little bit about the people in the room. Find out their fields, and maybe their most recent research. Take some brief notes you can refer to just before the interview. Also learn a little bit generally about the people at the institution working in or near your field.

A  central goal  for you as an interviewee is to convince the potential employer that they should want to ask you out for an on-site campus interview (a fly-out). In general, this entails convincing the interviewers that

• you are a talented scholar/teacher/researcher that will contribute the productivity and standing of the department,
• your expertise fits the job requirements well,
• you would be an engaged and valued colleague to other department members, and
• you are very interested in the position responsibilities and opportunities.

Keep these goals in mind as you prepare and engage in the interview.

The ASSA interview will usually go something like this. After initial introductions, you will usually be asked to give a brief summary (~5 minutes) about your research. Your summary should be right on the tip of your tongue; well rehearsed, concise, and clear, but try very hard to  sound extemporaneous. If you come off sounding bored or rote, the interviewers will lose interest quickly. You will probably be interrupted with questions throughout the summary. You will also be asked about ideas for future research beyond your dissertation (remember, the employer wants to know what you will do after they hire you; what you have done to date is only an imperfect predictor of that). If the position entails teaching, you will be asked about your teaching experience, skills, and perhaps your perspectives and philosophy on teaching.

The answers to all of the above questions should be provided with points (a), (b), and (c) in mind. Always be ready to answer tough questions as well as possible; be willing to say I don’t know sometimes; and accept the fact that if you bluff about your knowledge of a topic, it will be noticed. Your answers to these questions should also integrate your knowledge of the members of your potential employer’s department. (See the point above about doing some research before the interview.) Be ready to ask and answer questions about how your research relates to that of members of the department, and vice versa. This type of background research on your part will be interpreted as an indicator of interest in this position and a willingness to investment in the possibility of taking that job, and will almost always makes an interview more engaging and interesting.

Although you are an expert on your dissertation, don’t get into arguments about your research. You can disagree, but do not try to convince your interviewer that he or she is wrong-just make your points and defend them. Nothing can kill an interview faster than saying something disparaging about someone’s work, and then finding out they are a friend, coauthor or colleague of the person interviewing you, or the person themselves, so try not to disparage other work in your interview. Remember, you don’t sell yourself by tearing down others. Also keep in mind that any given job may not be ideal from your perspective in any of a number of ways. During your interview your responses should be made with both the position description and your own preferences in mind. You should not promise anything you are unwilling to do, and for your own sake, provide through your responses a clear and balanced picture of your preferences. Your goal is to get the right job for you, not just any job, and not necessarily a job at the highest ranked program.

You will also be asked if you have questions about the position or department. From a strategic perspective, this question should be responded to in a balanced way. You should show interest by asking questions that will inform you regarding whether or not  you  are interested in an on-campus interview. Do not ask questions that a little bit of work on your part, usually through the web, would have answered. For example, you should know if the department is in a business school or liberal arts college. Time constraints in these interviews are usually such that you should withhold most of them, with a comment that they could wait until an on-campus interview.

AAEA Interview Process

The AAEA employment center meeting process is somewhat different than the ASSA meetings. As a job candidate, you should treat these interviews with the same formality as the ASSA meetings. A description of the AAEA employment center and how it works can be found at the annual meeting site.  Job listings maintained by the AAEA can be found on their website. As a job candidate, you should begin keeping an eye on these job listings early and regularly; certainly by March to know when application deadlines are for the summer job postings. The AAEA employment center is different in one important respect from the ASSA meetings. It is generally more acceptable for students to participate earlier in their Ph.D. program (one-half to even one full year earlier) than at the ASSA meetings. So, for those students who are interested in AAEA-type job openings should plan on interviewing at the AAEA meetings the summer before interviewing at the ASSA meetings.

On-Site interviews

Timing of on-site interviews.

After the ASSA meetings, employers will rank all candidates who are considered worth hiring for their position and then, within usually a week or two of the ASSA meetings, they contact the top 2-4 for on-site interviews. In some cases employers will send letters immediately to those who do not suit the position at all, but if you are neither in the top set of finalists nor in the immediate no-hire group, you will not hear from the employer for several weeks or even a month or two. In the meantime, they will proceed with all on-site interviews, one interviewee at a time, make job offers, wait up to a week or more for a response to a job offer, and then either come to closure on the position or repeat the process, ultimately perhaps even with a second set of fly-outs if the first-round is unsuccessful. If you are not one of these second round candidates, you have to wait longer still to get a response. The point is that a quick response is either good or bad. A long wait is not a reason to lose hope.

Interview Schedule

If you are invited for an on-campus interview, the employer will generally arrange your travel with your input. You may be asked to fly out within just a couple of days of being contacted. This is why you should be very ready for an on-campus interview  before  the ASSA meetings, and have made at least one presentation of your research to SES before the meetings. On-site visits last at least a day, and often two. You should do substantial pre-visit research (usually online) to better know the interests of the people you will be meeting. Never put your seminar materials in checked luggage, in fact always try to carry on your luggage. At the very least, carry on your interview clothes. You always want to be prepared for the worst, so you can make your best presentation. The purpose of the on-site interview is for both the employer and candidate to gather additional information about regarding the position. You will almost always be asked to give a research seminar, and occasionally you will be asked to present a teaching seminar as well. You will be scheduled for meetings with faculty and administrators (department heads, deans, and others) or managers. You will have breakfast, lunch, dinner, and usually a reception with department members. It will be exhausting, but it should also be interesting, exhilarating, and hopefully fun.

The meetings with faculty will be similar to the ASSA meeting. Be prepared to describe your work, ask and answer the same questions, multiple times. Try not to sound bored, even if you’ve said the same thing 50 times. Beyond that you will be asked many questions. Again, do the best you can answering questions, ask lots of questions, and very importantly, use your knowledge about the individuals in the department to engage them and develop connections between you. This last point is hard to overstate.

The seminar is likely to be the single most important event in the interview process. It will likely last 1.5 hours or so, including questions. Usually you should have 45 minutes or more of (questionless) material prepared, and then be prepared to adapt to interruptions and questions. Get details about time requirements before the interview so you have time to adjust your presentation.

Almost all seminars should utilize a slide presentation. Find out beforehand if you need your own computer or if they will provide one, and you only need your thumb-drive and make sure a computer-linked projector is available. Have backups of your presentation available, so if you computer dies enroute, you are still prepared. Have one presentation on the web that you can download if needed.

It is hard to characterize exactly how the seminar will go. Some places adhere to very strict rules about no questions, except brief clarifying questions, until the end of the formal presentations. Other places start interrogating you from almost the first moment. At some departments graduate students are expected to challenge you, and the faculty will be silent. The point is, it is hard to judge how the seminar is going from the reaction and interaction of the audience, so don’t read too much into it as it is on-going. In all cases, be ready and willing to adapt to the questioning style graciously. If you come to an impasse with a questioner, agree to disagree, and move on. Keep control of the seminar, after all, it is  your  seminar, and also feel free to (occasionally) admit you do not know the answer to a question.

The goal of your presentation is to provide an interesting and engaging experience for your audience while convincing them of the value of your work and the care and knowledge with which you have created it. Therefore, again, know your audience, and present your seminar accordingly. If it is an economics department, then speak to a general audience of economists. This would be a substantially different presentation than if you were speaking mainly to econometricians in an analysis arm of a large firm or agency.

After the Interview

While it will not likely influence decisions, proper etiquette is to send a thank you to the chair, committee members and other people you had significant interaction with during your interview. Doing this by email is fine, even though Emily Post would disagree.

After all of the interviewees have come and gone, the faculty meets and discusses the candidates. After this discussion, the faculty usually votes. This vote often amounts to a recommendation to the department head (or the hiring committee). The department head then makes a recommendation to the dean, and the dean may then make a recommendation to the provost. The point is to keep in mind that virtually everyone you meet will have a voice, if not the ultimate responsibility, of deciding whether you are offered a job.

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Duke Economics students' preparation for the job market begins early and extends well beyond authoring a job market paper. As early as the third year, students are encouraged to present papers, including their own preliminary research, in departmental seminars. Students present their job market papers again in a formal departmental seminar at the end of the fourth year. Faculty and students from a variety of disciplines are encouraged to attend. Faculty from outside the candidate's field of interest challenge the student to consider new perspectives and address potential obstacles. In the fall of the job market year students are provided assistance creating professional web pages and polishing curricula vitae. Students present their final job market papers once more in departmental seminars and begin responding to calls for applications. As the annual American Economic Association conference approaches at the beginning of the new year, students participate in two mock interviews, the final stage of job market preparation. Throughout the process the department's faculty job placement director acts as a secondary advisor to the candidates, with particular emphasis on issues related to the job market.

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Placement Directors 2024/25: Gabriel Chodorow-Reich and Jeremy Stein To assist with the preparation and planning for the market, refer to the suggested timeline and FAQs. 

Timeline   (2024/25)

FAQ 1 (coming May 2024)

FAQ1a (coming August 2024)

FAQ2 (coming September 2024)

FAQ3 (coming October 2024)

Application List Template   (use this when you create your application list)

How to Do a Great Interview on Zoom  

Zoom Setup Tips: Lighting, Screens, Sound   (with thanks to Shengwu Li) 

Negotiating and Exploding Offers   (see also Advice from Chris Blattman 2014/15) 

CV, Resume, and Webpage

CV Curriculum Vitae Template  (6/25/23 version) for Harvard Economics Job Market Candidates (in Word using table layout; turn on "view gridlines" to fill it out ) and general information  ( The CV Guide ) on constructing your Curriculum Vitae. Note: The CV template is new for 2023/24 and specific to Harvard economics.

Resume For those applying to any private-sector job, a non-academic resume is your calling card. The Office of Career Services provides excellent help in the form of workshops and Resume and Cover Letter advice and templates. Previous Harvard students give OCS high marks, especially in helping with Resume writing.

Webpage Harvard is discontinuing the creation of Open Scholar pages. Paul Millett will work with every job market student to set up their webpages on Campus Press, the Harvard substitute for Open Scholar. Students with other websites (e.g., GitHub) can then add a line (e.g., "see my personal website") on the Campus Press page to enable access to their materials, including CV, JMP, and other papers.

Advice and Resources for the Job Market  

Compiling Your List

• JOE -  https://www.aeaweb.org/joe/    JOE will be your main resource.
• EJM -  https://econjobmarket.org / EJM will also be important.

Other platforms to search include:

• European Econ Assoc -  https://www.eeassoc.org/
• APPAM -  https://www.appam.org/
• Chronicle of Higher Ed -  https://jobs.chronicle.com/
• American Finance Assoc -  https://afajof.org/
• SSRN -  https://www.ssrn.com/index.cfm/en/
• Royal Ecoonomic Society RES -  https://res.org.uk/
• Academy of Management AOM -  https://aom.org/

Writing Resources

Writing well and effectively are important skills. These resources will help.

• Claudia Goldin, The Ten Most Important Rules of Writing Your Job Market Paper
• Deidre McCloskey, Economical Writing
• William Zinsser, On Writing Well; The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

Tips and Advice (from Job Market Gurus and Harvard PhDs) and More Job Market Facts

• AEA Job Market Committee 2022 Report: Job Market Openings by Sector 
• American Economic Association, Communications from the Committee on the Job Market . Some recent information on supply and demand (what else?), plus the AEA’s advice to employers.
• Alex Albright, " So You Want to Go on the Job Market ." Reflections, sage advice, and a lot of data from one of our 2022 PhD graduates (and talented holiday party emcee).
• Chris Blattman, Managing the Academic Job Market . Chris Blattman (University of Chicago Harris School) offers some of the best advice we’ve seen. Read it. Some will be more relevant and some less relevant to your specific job search.
• John Cawley, Guide and Job Market Advice (2018-2019 edition). A standard resource in economics.
• Alex Chan, My Experience in the 2022-23 Job Market  Come to the Oct. 17, 2023 placement meeting and hear Alex. 
• Shoshana Vasserman's Job Market Tips  
• Eric Zwick, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Market . Zwick graduated from Harvard in 2014 and is an Associate Professor of Finance at University of Chicago Booth School.
• Anonymous, The Market in the Time of COVID (2021).
• Non-Academic Tips and Advice . Note the advice under “Job search through connections: Who.” You have lots of friends and family – previous Harvard PhDs. If they are working at a place you’d like to be, use them as a resource to find non-academic jobs.

GSAS Resources The  Office of Career Services  offers a wide range of services and resources tailored specifically to the needs of graduate students pursuing positions in academic and non-academic markets.

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Thank you for visiting the Department of Economics job market website.

Our 2023-24 placement director is Associate Professor Kaspar Wuthrich ( [email protected] ) .  Professor Wuthrich is the primary contact for prospective employers who have questions about a candidate's vitae, experience or research fields. Employers may also contact the students and their advisors directly. Each candidate's personal website contains contact information, vitae, and research and teaching materials. Should you need any further assistance or information, please feel free to contact our placement assistants at [email protected] . 

2023-24 Candidates:

Vivian Aluoch

Advisor(s): Paul Niehaus

Field of Research: Development Economics and Labor Economics

Personal Website

Advisor(s): Katherine Meckel

Field of Research: Health Economics and Public Economics; Labor Economics

Evgenii Baranov

Advisor(s): Joel Sobel

Field of Research: Microeconomic Theory ; Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics

Amanda Bonheur

Advisor(s): Isabel Trevino ; Gordon Dahl

Field of Research: Behavioral Economics and Labor Economics; Applied Microeconomics

Edoardo Briganti

Advisor(s): Valerie Ramey

Field of Research: Macroeconomics and Fiscal Policy; Monetary Policy

Junyuan Chen

Field of Research: Macroeconomics; International Trade

Tjeerd de Vries

Advisor(s): Allan Timmermann ; Alexis Toda

Field of Research: Finance; Econometrics

Danil Dmitriev

Advisor(s): Renee Bowen

Field of Research: Microeconomic Theory; Political Economy

Tanner Eastmond

Advisor(s): Gordon Dahl; Itzik Fadlon

Field of Research: Labor Economics; Public Economics

Stefan Faridani

Advisor(s): Graham Elliott

Field of Research: Econometrics; Development

Carlos Goes

Advisor(s): Marc Muendler

Field of Research: International Trade and Macroeconomics

Zachary Hall

Advisor(s): Jeffrey Clemens; Itzik Fadlon

Field of Research: Applied Microeconomics; Behavioral Economics

Jinhyeon Han

Advisor(s): Gordon Dahl

Field of Research: Labor and Innovation Economics

Advisor(s): Charles Sprenger; Emanuel Vespa

Field of Research: Behavioral and Experimental Economics; Microeconomic Theory

Xiameng Hua

Advisor(s): Joel Watson

Field of Research: Relational Contract; Entrepreneurial Finance, Microeconomic Theory

Advisor(s): Prashant Bharadwaj; Tom Vogl

Field of Research: Development Economics; Labor Economics

Beata Luczywek

Advisor(s): Prashant Bharadwaj

Field of Research: Labor Economics; Public Economics, Applied Microeconomics

Diana Martinez

Advisor(s): Craig McIntosh; Prashant Bharadwaj

Advisor(s): Julian Betts

Field of Research: Economics of Education, Labor Economics, Applied Microeconomics; Behavioral Economics

Sabareesh Ramachandran

Advisor(s): Karthik Muralidharan; Paul Niehaus

Field of Research: Development Economics; Public Economics

Advisor(s): Johannes Wieland

Field of Research: Macro Finance; Development Economics, Climate

Rebecca Royer

Advisor(s):  James Andreoni; Gordon Dahl

Field of Research: Behavioral and Experimental Economics; Labor Economics

Advisor(s): James Hamilton

Field of Research: Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Banking and Finance

Advisor(s): Joshua Graff Zivin

Field of Research: Environmental Economics, Development Economics, and Applied Microeconomics

Advisor(s): Mark Jacobsen

Field of Research: Environmental Economics and Public Economics

Adrian Wolanski

Advisor(s): Isabel Trevino

Field of Research: Experimental Economics; Behavioral Economics, Microeconomic Theory, Decision Theory

Field of Research: Econometrics of high-dimensional data; Macroeconomic forecasting

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All wharton doctoral students build their own research interests on a foundation of rigorous research. by pushing the boundaries of understanding, they not only become experts in their fields, but also translate their research into practice, addressing relevant issues in the real world..

Visit our career placement page for information on our graduates’ placements over the past 10 years.

Doctoral Students and Research Interests

Note: If you are interested in students from a particular program, please contact the departments directly for more information.

Applied Economics

Applied Economics PhD students on the job market are listed on the department website: Applied Economics PhD Job Market Candidates

Finance PhD students on the job market are listed on the department website: Finance PhD Job Market Candidates

Healthcare Management and Economics

Sarah Schutz

• Links: Email ; School Website ; Personal Website
• Research Interests: Applied Microeconomics, Industrial Organization, Health Economics, Innovation
• Job Market Paper: “Mergers, Prices, and Innovation: Lessons from the Pharmaceutical Industry”
• Faculty Advisor(s):   Abby Alpert , Atul Gupta , Claudio Lucarelli

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JACOB LEVITT

• Links:  Email ;  Website ;  Personal Website
• Research Interests: Hierarchy and emotions at work, leadership and leader emotions, group and team dynamics
• Job Market Paper:  “Leader Emotional Accountability: A Framework for Managing the Impact of Leader Emotions in Organizations”
• Faculty Advisor(s): Nancy Rothbard , Adam Grant

MINGYUNG KIM

• Links: Email ; Website ; Personal Website
• Research Interests: Marketing analytics, Statistical methods, Machine learning
• Job Market Paper: “A Bayesian Dual-Network Clustering Approach for Selecting Data and Parameter Granularities”
• Faculty Advisor(s): Eric T. Bradlow , Raghuram Iyengar
• Research Interests: Information economics, digital economy, public policy
• Job Market Paper: “Company Branding and Job Ads”
• Faculty Advisor(s): Pinar Yildirim

Operations, Information and Decisions

CHRISTIAN KAPS

• Research Interests: Renewable Energies, Energy Storage, Sustainable Operations
• Job Market Paper: “Privately-Owned Battery Storage – Re-Shaping the Way We Do Electricity”
• Faculty Advisor(s): Serguei Netessine , Simone Marinesi , Santiago Gallino
• Research Interests:  Consumer Behavior
• Job Market Paper:  “How Does Rating Specific Features of an Experience Alter Consumers’ Overall Evaluations of That Experience?”
• Faculty Advisor(s): Joseph Simmons

Statistics & Data Science

EMILY DIANA

• Research Interests: Algorithmic fairness, statistical learning, differential privacy
• Job Market Paper: “Minimax Group Fairness: Algorithms and Experiments”
• Faculty Advisor(s): Michael Kearns , Aaron Roth 

For Wharton PhD students on the job market, please complete this form to be added to the Students on the Job Market page.

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The job market candidates for the 2022-2023 academic year will be posted by mid-October. 

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HA BUI Dissertation:  Essays in Macroeconomics Field:  Macroeconomics and International Economics Advisor:  Olivier Coibion, Nitya Pandalai-Nayar, and Christoph Boehm CV:  PDF Web Page  

HANDE NUR CELEBI Dissertation:  Essays in Education Economics Field:  Applied Microeconomics, Labor, Education Advisor:  Richard Murphy CV:  PDF Web Page  

GUE SUNG CHOI Dissertation:  Essays in Education Economics Field:  Applied Microeconomics, Public, Health, Education Advisor:  Richard Murphy CV:  PDF Web Page 

EBRAHIM ALIABADI FARAHANI Dissertation:  Essays in Industrial Organization Field:  Industrial Organization Advisor:  Daniel Ackerberg CV:  PDF Web Page 

PRANKUR GUPTA Dissertation:  Essays in Development Economics Field:  Applied Microeconomics, Development, Economic Demography Advisor:  Dean Spears CV:  PDF Web Page  

TRENTON HERRIFORD Dissertation:  Essays on Wage and Price Setting Field:  Macroeconomics Advisor:  Andreas Mueller CV:  PDF Web Page  

SONGJIE HUANG Dissertation:  Essays on Econometrics Field:  Econometrics Advisor:  Brendan Kline and Haiqing Xu CV:  PDF  Web Page

JUNG HYUB LEE Dissertation:  Essays on Causal Mediation Analysis and Social Interactions Field:  Econometrics Advisor:  Jason Abrevaya CV:  PDF Web Page  

ANUSHKA MITRA Dissertation:  Essays on Labor Market Dynamics and Information Frictions Field:  Macroeconomics and Labor Economics Advisor:  Ayşegül Şahin, Andreas Mueller, and Olivier Coibion CV:  PDF Web Page  

JINYEONG SON Dissertation:  Essays on Public and Labor Economics Field:  Public Economics, Labor Economics, and Health Economics Advisor:  Marika Cabral CV:  PDF Web Page 

ZIYUE XU Dissertation:  Essays on Health and Environmental Economics Field:  Health Economics, Environmental Economics, and Public Economics Advisor:  Manuela Angelucci CV:  PDF Web Page 

YIHANG ZHOU Dissertation:  Essays on Information Economics and Game Theory Field:  Theory Advisor:  V. Bhaskar CV:  PDF Web Page 

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2023-24 Job Market Candidates

Scott Behmer 

Primary Research Focus: Public Finance Secondary Research Focus: Political Economy, Energy and Environmental Economics References: Leonardo Bursztyn (Chair), Mikhail Golosov, Wioletta Dziuda Job Market Paper: " Sticks vs Carrots: Optimal Climate Policy with Government Turnovers " Email:  [email protected] Behmer Personal Website

Sulagna Dasgupta

Primary Research Focus: Microeconomic Theory, Mechanism and Information Design, Matching Secondary Research Focus: Experimental and Behavioral Economics References: Ben Brooks, Doron Ravid, Emir Kamenica, Phil Reny Job Market Paper Title: " Screening Knowledge " Email: [email protected] Dasgupta Personal Website

Santiago Franco

Primary Research Focus:  Macroeconomics, Spatial Economics Secondary Research Focus:  International Trade, Economic Growth, Productivity References:  Esteban Rossi-Hansberg (Chair), Ufuk Akcigit, Chang-Tai Hsieh, Erik Hurst Job Market Paper Title: " Output Market Power and Spatial Misallocation " Email: [email protected] Franco Personal Website

Primary Research Focus:  International Finance, Asset Pricing Secondary Research Focus:  Macro Finance References:  Greg Kaplan (Co-chair), Ralph Koijen (Co-chair), Wenxin Du, Zhiguo He, Stefan Nagel Job Market Paper Title: " Capital Flows and the Making of Risky Currencies " Email:  [email protected] Fu Personal Website

Michael Galperin

Primary Research Focus:  Labor Economics, Public Economics Secondary Research Focus:  Economics of Education References:  Michael Greenstone, Magne Mogstad, Jack Mountjoy Job Market Paper Title: " Targeting, Selection, and the Impact of Grant Aid on Student Outcomes " Email:  [email protected] Galperin Personal Website

Esperanza Johnson

Primary Research Focus:  Industrial Organization Secondary Research Focus:  Economics of Education References:  Ali Hortacsu (Chair), Michael Dinerstein, Gaston Illanes (Northwestern University), Margaux Luflade (University of Pennsylvania) Job Market Paper Title: " Supply Responses to Targeted Government Aid: Evidence from Free College in Chile " Email:  [email protected] Johnson Personal Website

Toshiaki Komatsu

Primary Research Focus:  International Trade, Macroeconomics, Labor Economics References:  Felix Tintelnot (Chair), Magne Mogstad, Robert Shimer Job Market Paper Title: " Job Ladder over Production Networks " Email: [email protected] Komatsu Personal Website

Nadav Kunievsky

Primary Research Focus:  Labor Economics, Applied Microeconomics Secondary Research Focus:  Industrial Organization References:  Stephane Bonhomme (Chair), Ben Brooks, Jack Mountjoy, Derek Neal Job Market Paper Title: " Bridging the Gap: The Role of Information and Returns in College Attendance Disparities " Email: [email protected] Kunievsky Personal Website

Ivan Chit Pan Kwok

Primary Research Focus:  Labor Economics, Behavioral Economics Secondary Research Focus:  Industrial Organization, Political Economy References:  Leonardo Bursztyn (Chair), Devin Pope, Christopher Blattman Job Market Paper Title: " Can Acceptance Reduce Anticipated Discrimination? Evidence from Second-Generation Immigrants " Email: [email protected] |  Kwok Personal Website

Marco Loseto

Primary Research Focus:  Industrial Organization, Financial Economics Secondary Research Focus:  Household Finance References:  Ali Hortacsu (Co-Chair), Lars Hansen (Co-Chair), Scott Nelson Job Market Paper Title: " Plan Menus, Retirement Portfolios, and Investors' Welfare " Email:  [email protected] Loseto Personal Website

Sangmin (Simon) Oh

Primary Research Focus: Financial Economics Secondary Research Focus:  Public Economics and Macroeconomics References:  Ralph Koijen, Niels Gormsen, Lars Peter Hansen, Stefan Nagel Job Market Paper Title: " Social Inflation " Email: [email protected] Oh Personal Website

Aleksei Oskolkov

Primary Research Focus:  Macroeconomics, International Finance Secondary Research Focus:  Monetary Economics, Financial Economics References:  Fernando Alvarez, Mikhail Golosov, Lars Peter Hansen, Guido Lorenzoni Job Market Paper Title: " Heterogeneous Impact of the Global Financial Cycle " Email: [email protected] Oskolkov Personal Website

Estéfano Rubio

Primary Research Focus:  Political Economy, Labor Economics Secondary Research Focus:  Public Economics, Microeconomic Theory References:  James Robinson (Chair), Joseph Root, Evan Rose Job Market Paper Title: " Power Distribution and Efficiency: Theory and Evidence from Unionized Firms " Email:  [email protected] Rubio Personal Website

Sidharth Sah

Primary Research Focus:  Labor Economics, Economics of Education Secondary Research Focus:  Public Economics References:  Michael Dinerstein (Chair), Christina Brown, Jack Mountjoy Job Market Paper Title: " Peer Gender Composition and Undergraduate Achievement and Major Choice " Email: [email protected] Sah Personal Website

Harshil Sahai

Primary Research Focus:   Development Economics and Environmental Economics References:  Michael Greenstone, Michael Kremer, Michael Dinerstein Job Market Paper Title: " The Welfare Implications of School Voucher Design: Evidence from India " Email:  [email protected] Sahai Personal Website

Marcos Sora

Primary Research Focus: International Economics Secondary Research Focus: Labor References: Esteban Rossi-Hansberg (Co-Chair), Greg Kaplan (Co-Chair), Rodrigo Adao, Fernando Alvarez Job Market Paper Title: " Labor Reallocation during Booms: The Role of Duration Uncertainty " Email: [email protected] Sora Personal Website

Michael Varley

Primary Research Focus:  Financial Economics Secondary Research Focus:  Real Estate, Banking, Corporate Finance References:  Amir Sufi (Chair), Pascal Noel, Constantine Yannelis, Scott Nelson, Michael Dinerstein Job Market Paper Title: " Contractual Lock-In: Prepayment Penalties and Mobility " Email: [email protected] Varley Personal Website

Jingtao Zheng

Primary Research Focus:  International Finance, Asset Pricing Secondary Research Focus:  FinTech, Commercial Real Estate References:  Raghuram Rajan (Co-Chair), Wenxin Du (Co-Chair), Stefan Nagel, Ralph Koijen, Lars Peter Hansen Job Market Paper Title: " Dividend Flows and the Foreign Exchange Rate " Email: [email protected] Zheng Personal Website

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Job Market Candidates 2023-24

Boston university department of economics.

Placement Officer: Professor Juan Ortner, [email protected] , (617) 353-6323 PhD Program Administrator: Mirtha Cabello, [email protected] , (617) 353-4454

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Xinyuan Chen

Junhao Chen

Vikram Dixit

Eric Donald

Matteo Francesco Ferroni

Maximiliano Garcia

Michele Marcaletti

Patrick Power

Xunkang Tian

Past Candidates (2023)

View the 2023 placement brochure ( here ), rubaiyat alam.

Marshall Drake

César Garro-Marín

Shomik Ghosh

Nicolas Guida-Johnson

Masyhur Hilmy

Chuqing Jin

Heechul Jung

Aakash Kalyani

Nils Haakon Lehr

Chenyue Lei

Yuheng Zhao

Liqun Zhuge

Past Candidates (2022)

View the 2022 placement brochure ( here ).

Fields: Development Economics, Political Economy, Economic History Job Market Paper: The Social Costs of Patronage Ties: Lessons from the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake CV  | Website | [email protected] References: Raymond Fisman , Dilip Mookherjee , Siddharth George , Samuel Bazzi , Nathan Nunn

Shuowen Chen

Enrico De Magistris

Fields: Microeconomic Theory, Game Theory, Mechanism Design Job Market Paper: Choice of Outside Options in a Bargaining Model CV | Website | [email protected] References: Bart Lipman , Juan Ortner , Chiara Margaria

Mengqi Deng

Vittoria Dicandia

Fields: Labor Economics, Public Economics Job Market Paper: Technological Change and Racial Disparities CV  | Website | [email protected] References: Kevin Lang , Daniele Paserman , Joshua Goodman

Fields: Empirical Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconomics Job Market Paper: Bargaining and Merger in Vertical Relationships: Empirics of Packaged Food with Limited Data CV | Website | [email protected] References: Marc Rysman , Jihye Jeon ,   Albert Ma , Jordi Jaumandreu(Teaching)

Pablo Guzman-Pinto

Alex Hoagland

Md. Deen Islam

Miaoqing Jia

Sung-Yup Jung

Enjar Lkhagvajav

Max McDevitt

Thomas Pearson

Stefano Pica

Alden Porter

Fields: Econometrics, Time Series Econometrics, Financial Econometrics Job Market Paper: Modeling Regime Switching in High Dimensional Data with Applications to U.S. Business Cycles CV | Website | [email protected] References: Zhongjun Qu ,  Pierre Perron , Hiroaki Kaido

Hanna Schwank

Joseph Simmons

Dongling Su

Jingye Wang

Fangning Yan

Guangzhi Ye

Victor Yifan Ye

Yoshifumi Yokota

Kewei Zhang

Kexin Zhang

Luke Zinnen

Past Candidates (2021)

View the 2021 placement brochure ( here ), undral byambadalai.

Fields: Econometrics, Applied Microeconomics Job Market Paper: Identification and Inference for Welfare C.V.  | Website | [email protected] References: Hiroaki Kaido , Ivan Fernandez-Val , Albert Ma , Jean-Jacques Forneron

Lester Chan

Fields: Microeconomic Theory, Industrial Organization Job Market Paper: Weight-Ranked Divide-and-Conquer Contracts C.V. | Website | [email protected] References: Albert Ma , Bart Lipman , Alex White

Pablo Cuellar Tapia

Fields: Applied Microeconomic Theory, Law and Economics Job Market Paper: Voluntary disclosure of evidence in plea bargaining C.V.  | Website | [email protected] References: Juan Ortner , Bart Lipman , Dilip Mookherjee

Taosong Deng

Fields: Econometrics, Quantitative Macroeconomics, Empirical Finance Job Market Paper: Inference in Predictive Regressions with Persistent Predictors C.V. | Website | [email protected] References: Zhongjun Qu , Pierre Perron , Jean-Jacques Forneron

Gerard Domenech Arumi

Fields: Labor Economics, Public Economics, Political Economy Job Market Paper: Neighborhoods, Perceived Inequality and Preferences for Redistribution: Evidence from Barcelona C.V.  | Website | [email protected] References:   Daniele Paserman , Ray Fisman , Johannes Schmieder

Thomas Gautier

Fields: Empirical Industrial Organization, Applied microeconomics Job Market Paper: Bargaining and Merger in Vertical Relationships: Empirics of Packaged Food with Limited Data C.V. | Website | [email protected] References: Marc Rysman , Jihye Jeon , Jordi Jaumandreu

Youming Liu

Sophia Ying Liu

Fields: Health Economics, Economic History, Empirical Microeconomics Job Market Paper: Re-evaluating the Effects of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic on Human Capital Development: The Role of the Great Depression C.V.  | Website | [email protected] References: Robert Margo , Daniele Paserman , Randall Ellis , Jay Zagorsky

Enkhjargal Lkhagvajav

Julio Ortiz

Cheonghum Park

Fernando Payro Chew

Zhouxiang Shen

Chenlu Song

Lisa Tarquinio

Silvia Vannutelli

Shuang Wang

Guang Zhang

Xiaoxi Zhao

Calvin Ackley

Fatima Aqeel

Seth Benzell

Chelsea Carter

Jacob Fabina

Xiangyu Feng

Thea How Choon

Yeseul Hyun

Giovanna Marcolongo

Julian Richers

Gianluca Russo

Job Market Candidates

Available November 2023 for positions in Summer/Fall 2024.

Placement Officer:  Monika Piazzesi 650-723-9289  piazzesi [at] stanford.edu (piazzesi[at]stanford[dot]edu)

Placement Administrator:  Stephanie Burbank 650-725-6198 sburbank [at] stanford.edu (sburbank[at]stanford[dot]edu)

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Alaa Abdelfattah

• Ph.D. Candidate - Labor Economics, Public Economics
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Sebastian Amador

• Ph.D. Candidate - Macroeconomics, Monetary Policy
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Seungjin Baek

• Ph.D. Candidate - International Economics, Macroeconomics
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Roozbeh F. Moghadam

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Deokjae Jeong

• Ph.D. candidate
• Applied Microeconomics
• Labor Economics
• [email protected]
• https://www.jayjeo.com

• Ph.D. Candidate - Health Economics, Public Economics
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Jou-chun Lin

• Ph.D. Candidate - Public Economics
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Jinyoung Seo

• Ph.D. Candidate - Monetary Economics, Macro-Finance
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Estelle Shin

• Ph.D. Candidate - Labor Economics, Education Economics
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Reid Taylor

• PhD Candidate - Applied Micro, Energy & Environmental Economics
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Reem Zaiour

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• Ph.D. Candidate - Applied Microeconomics, Labor Economics
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International and Development Economics

The IDE Program is a one-year Master's program intended to help students build the necessary toolkit for embracing obstacles in their future careers.

The global economic environment has become increasingly complex and poses a myriad of new challenges for policy and data analysts and professionals in all fields.

The ability to respond to rapid changes in this environment requires that leaders have a detailed understanding of the economic forces that affect economic outcomes. Careful economic policy analysis requires practitioners who can make use of the most current theoretical academic literature, as well as do empirical and econometric analysis using the latest approaches and methods.

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• The Program
• Prospective Students

The IDE program at Yale University, housed within the  Economic Growth Center (EGC) and the Department of Economics, is a one-year Masters program intended to help students build the necessary toolkit for embracing such obstacles in their future careers, whether as career practitioners and economic analysts or to follow a path through the policy analysis field on their way to subsequent Ph.D. work.

This site is to inform prospective students of the program, the university and life in New Haven. We encourage prospective students to also visit the website of the  Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) for more information on the application procedure, policies, living in New Haven and other Yale facilities that are all open to IDE Students.

Additionally, this site will provide current students with access to all information they need on a daily basis and the rich alumni network. In the last 65 years, graduates have followed careers in all sectors of work. We encourage current students to reach out to alumni and benefit from their advice.

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