Placements 2007-2008

[macroeconomicus]

Feel free to post anything peculiar about this year's job market outcomes here. In particular, does anyone know which schools had unusually good placements and which schools had usually bad placements this year? Was this year particularly good or bad for certain fields? Anything else interesting you might know?

[macroguy]

I don't know any detail. But I heard that NWU, Duke, and UCLA are doing much better this year than usual. On the other hand, the traditional power houses (HMPS) are a bit down this year.

[Nymaj]

I heard that the hottest econometrician on the markete is out of Maryland. Don't know where he/she placed.

[doubtful]

I should say that the market for econometricians is less influenced by the rankings..
so young econometricians.. don't lose the hope.. find the place where you can find good mentors and a lot of classes in econometrics and stats..

[Internationalstudent08]

Originally Posted by doubtful

I should say that the market for econometricians is less influenced by the rankings..
so young econometricians.. don't lose the hope.. find the place where you can find good mentors and a lot of classes in econometrics and stats..

I always thought that this must be the case for econometricians. I'm glad I hear it from someone else now.

[Valhalla]

Originally Posted by Nymaj

I heard that the hottest econometrician on the markete is out of Maryland. Don't know where he/she placed.

Do we talk about Jenish Nazgul? She is really great. I saw the presentation of her job market paper about central limit theorems. I also know her supervisor (Kelijan). He's also a great teacher. Just in case you were talking about her: I am actually not surprised that she is considered as a top candidate this year. I think I know where she's going to go (without being too precise at this point in time - as she's considering our institute): europe.

[nash12]

It'll be great if people currently at grad school (eg. Cassin at Princeton, Antichron at MIT, Asquare at Michigan, etc.) can tell us by name who is placed where..?? We can ovisously look at their CVs as every dept. has the CVs of students on the job market on their website..I think this will be valuable information for us students in the process of making a decision on grad schools..!!! Thanx..

[ska]

Joyee deb of kellogg meds is considered to be the best candidate in micro theory this year.

[Hirschman]

This is the people who is going to Maryland this year.

"The Department of Economics is pleased and excited to announce that,
beginning in fall 2008, the following outstanding scholars will be joining our
faculty as Assistant Professors: Jeanne Lafortune and Raymond Guiteras from
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Pablo D'Erasmo from The University
of Texas at Austin, and Soohyung Lee from Stanford University. We
enthusiastically welcome them to our Department."

By the way, it looks like Kranton is leaving Maryland to Duke. Anyone can confirm this information? In her CV appear like a double appointment.

[YoungEconomist]

Originally Posted by doubtful

I should say that the market for econometricians is less influenced by the rankings..
so young econometricians.. don't lose the hope.. find the place where you can find good mentors and a lot of classes in econometrics and stats..

Does anybody know if Texas A&M is good in metrics? I looked them up on the econphd[dot]net rankings, and they placed TAMU above Rice (and I always here people on this board saying that Rice is good in metrics). Basically, I am just wondering if the rankings can be trusted, is TAMU strong in metrics?