Best Tier I and II Schools in Applied Micro/Metrics

[EconOso]

Hello Testmagic,

I'm not necessarily new to the forums reference-wise, but I have never posted.

Anyways, I would like to attend to a tier I or II school because I don't want to be limited in my field of study, but as of right now my main interest is applied micro and metrics. I really like labor and public. Also I prefer reduced form to structural.

I'm making of list of schools to reach for right now. Can you guys help me out? I know there are rankings out there but what are the most recent trends?

The ones that come to mind right now are:

Berkeley
Michigan

Thanks,

Oso

[asianeconomist]

If you are into Time Series Metrics then LSE and Oxbridge would be pretty top choices.

[applicant12]

for metrics I would say UCSD and Yale are pretty good!

[ariel1987]

Metrics:=UCSD

(oohh, one man has the right to dream)

[miaataro]

I think we have pretty similar interests, and my number one choice was MIT. In addition, I would vote at least for Berkeley, Michigan, LSE and UCL. (I don't know much about tiers but this list just came to my mind.)

[applicant12]

Originally Posted by ariel1987

Metrics:=UCSD

(oohh, one man has the right to dream)

isn't UCSD really good at econometrics?

[EconOso]

Would a school like UCSD also be good at applied econometrics? Or do they mainly stick to theory?

I can certainly handle mathematical rigor, but I don't want to get so deep into theory that I get away from one of my main goals: to become a good empirical researcher. This is why I like applied micro - empirical applied micro to be precise. Though I understand the need for a solid technical background - hence my interest in metrics.

Also, if possible, I would like to stay in the US because I seek to get a job here after graduation.

So far we have:

MIT
Berkeley
Michigan
UCSD
Yale
LSE, Oxford, Cambridge, UCL

Thank you for the continuing advice.

[gramophone]

No one can deny that Yale is one of the best place for econometrics theory, but it is also good at empirical micro, in my opinion. First of all, if you are interested in emperical IO, there are only few places comparable with Yale. In this year, they hired one more star in this field, (Benkard from Stanford GSB) and they have lost no one. (As I know, some of IO people got offers from another top places, but they rejected them.) I don't know much about labor, but it seems to be valuable checking works of Kitamura, Vytlacil (he was a student of Heckman) if you are interested in.

As far I heard, interaction between econometrican and applied micro is also great. But I am afraid that most of people in yale rely on structural estimation, not reduecd from estimation.