donod Posted September 17, 2019 Share Posted September 17, 2019 (edited) I know that a lot of people work as an RA for 2 years before they apply for PhD programs. How common is it for people to have co-author and have a top-3 Finance publication while working as an RA? Is this a realistic expectation to have? And conditional on having such a publication, how much does it help with the applications? Edited January 27, 2020 by Erin By request of author. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxPhD Posted September 17, 2019 Share Posted September 17, 2019 I'd say that's a very unrealistic expectation. RAs are not co-authors. In fact, if I received an application from a perspective PhD student who was listed as a co-author on a high quality publication, I would do a little digging to try and figure out what exact role the applicant had on the paper. I most years, I would say zero percent of finance PhD applicants already have a top-3 publication. It's not even that common for job market candidates to have a top-3 publication at the time of graduation. So having one 5 years earlier is extremely rare. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happyecon Posted September 30, 2019 Share Posted September 30, 2019 Some applicants to MIT did have top 3 finance/ top 10 Econ published/RR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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