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Originally Posted by Golden Rule
True... in other words, you may realize there are career paths where you can impress people that require a lot less effort than first year of an econ phd. First year does have the highest attrition rate, and it does come first. But I stand by what I said in that it only gets harder going forward for those who have no sincere passion.
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I second that. I know a few people who consider Econ PhD as a brand-name degree, whereby their objective is to land a job at IGOs. It is pretty easy to convince them that what they really want is not a Econ PhD, but a more marketable degree like MPP/MBA.