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  1. To agree with previous posters here and elsewhere: Great decision. mathemagician and tm_member will do an excellent job, and will, I suspect, make a good team.
  2. Just to chime in with OAE: The econ forum really, really needs a new mod (or mods). It's mostly self-policing but in recent weeks things have spun out of control in avoidable ways, as is clear from your thread asking for mod nominations. We know you're very busy, so just a heads-up. :)
  3. This makes me wonder how many other long-time posters are actively lurking like this. mathemagician, you're definitely on the list of people I think would be good if they were active - and since it turns out that you are, I'll add an endorsement. If there are any other "oldies" hanging around who might be willing to pick up asquare's torch, I wish they'd say so.
  4. I've said this above and I will say it again: tm_guru would make an excellent moderator for the forum. Accusations regarding his purported inability to take criticism and adjust his behaviour based on complaints from the community (which, I'd like to point out, were far from universal) are empty. A good moderator should stand by his/her standards. This doesn't mean those standards should not reflect those of the community, but it also doesn't mean conforming to the standards of the more vocal/vociferous group on the forum. Of the still-active veterans on the board, I think OneArmedEcon would also make a great, level-headed moderator. People I indicated in my post on page 1 of this thread would be good, too, if they were around. That's precisely the issue, though: most people who would be great are no longer around. We should take advantage of those who are.
  5. I don't know of a comprehensive list, either, but here are some of the obvious ones with programmes that look a lot like traditional econ: Harvard Bus Ec Stanford GSB (you want the political economy track) Kellogg MEDS (Northwestern) Booth (Chicago) Wharton Applied Econ (Penn) CBS (Columbia; this is a pretty finance-heavy programme) Stern (NYU) Of the usual suspects, Yale, Princeton, Berkeley, MIT don't have truly econ-heavy programmes in their business schools. (In fact, Princeton doesn't have a business school at all.) You've probably looked at all of these already, but it may nonetheless be helpful for future generations to have this list in one place.
  6. At the risk of resurrecting the dead, here's a qualitative piece relevant to this thread from ASHEcon. It has short summaries about their jobs by health economists working in different types of academic departments.
  7. It really depends on the research interests (as evidenced by track record) of the economist in question. People doing structural health IO (think Town, Gaynor, Ho), for example, will almost always end up in econ departments or business schools. People doing cost-effectiveness research will end up almost exclusively in schools of medicine or public health. Medical schools have recently also become interested in behavioural health economics (think Madrian or Volpp). Casual observation suggests that people doing public health-flavoured research are the ones who tend to be more spread out across different types of departments. There's also a lot of self-selection: economists who have zero interest in publishing in JAMA or NEJM won't do well at a medical school; conversely, economists who are interested in publishing primarily for clinicians won't do well at an econ department. There are exceptions, of course. Some med schools, like Harvard's, have health economists in the traditional economic sense of the term (notably Newhouse). But I think outside the very top, the above observations generally hold.
  8. P.S. asquare was phenomenal. The next mod(s) will have big shoes to fill.
  9. I've been only marginally active in the past months, so my opinions may be outdated, but here goes... tm_guru would do a great job. Been around for a while, good head on his shoulders, has acted as a voice of reason in the past (I think the last bit is critical). Haven't seen him around much lately, but kipfilet would be great for the same reasons. Others I think would be good but have seen even less of recently: dreck, AREStudentHopeful, thewhiterabbit, Canuckonomist. untitled would probably be great if able to make the transition into occasionally having to dole out discipline, rather than staying out of messes. Huge asset to the forum either way. From what I've seen of OneMoreEcon and MathEcon12 (which isn't a whole lot, but that's my own fault), they would do the job well, too.
  10. My bad! Didn't realise the ball is already rolling. Sorry about unnecessarily rocking the boat.
  11. Folks, there has been some discussion recently about needing a new mod for the forum now that asquare is inactive. I agree entirely. If you're of the same opinion, please add your thoughts here so we can attract the attention of Erin (the forum manager) to the issue.
  12. Erin, the econ PhD forum has essentially been operating without a moderator for several months. Things are occasionally getting out of hand, and there's no one to manage the situation. I know tm_guru has volunteered to function as a mod, and judging by his past activity, reasonableness and integrity I think he'd do a great job. Some other active posters would also step up if asked, I'm sure. In any case, we certainly need somebody to do it. Please help! :) TM is a great resource for economics applicants, and we wouldn't want to see it go to the dogs!
  13. It sounds like you'd fit best in a school of public health or a medical school that does econ-type research, rather than an economics department. Econ departments generally don't have people cost-effectiveness stuff or clinical economics more broadly. Public health schools that offer degrees in health policy or health econ often aren't nearly as econ-focussed as economics departments or business schools that offer degrees in health economics, despite calling their programmes by the same names. There's also a fair bit of heterogeneity in health policy and HSR programmes (in part because they tend to be much smaller than straight econ PhDs, with perhaps the exception of Hopkins and Harvard). So if you know what you'd like to work on, start by looking for departments where your research interests would be well supported.
  14. Please see these posts from forum admin asquare. He's said it all. http://www.www.urch.com/forums/phd-economics/117210-please-decline-offer-brown-if-you-not-going-there.html#post772848 http://www.www.urch.com/forums/phd-economics/117118-decline-your-missouri-columbia-offer-if-you-have-better-one-pls.html
  15. A year into grad school, I agree with this almost without reservation. The only thing I'll say is that intuition is actually hard to acquire; in my experience, it requires reading lots of papers critically and attending seminars where people ask hard questions. You're probably not likely to get either of those done in a master's programme, though, so that's not an argument against jumping straight into a PhD. lily, if the only skill set you think you're missing is stat programming, I really wouldn't worry about it. Lots of people come in with poor programming skills, and after a few months they catch up. It's not like the MS is going to teach you structural estimation coding, and programming multivariate logits isn't that hard. Also, learning to programme better will not tangibly improve your chances for admission to higher-ranked PhD programmes. All that said, is it normal to be ambivalent and nervous? Absolutely. Unless you have a single dominating option, it's perfectly natural to worry and bounce back and forth. I certainly did. Good luck deciding!
  16. For what it's worth, I was going to choose Queen's MA over Toronto and UBC before I knew my PhD admissions results last year. It's not just about the quality of the department. All three places will provide a similar level of technical training. Most important is how invested faculty are in their MA students, and what opportunities you will have for getting solid LORs soon after starting the programme. Queen's has a reputation for taking the best care of its MA students, providing opportunities for meaningful RA work, and being willing to recommend its best students to the best departments. Look up Canuckonomist's old posts on this one. And econchef's. Edit: Oops, just saw your decision is already made. Good choice and good luck! :)
  17. Folks, don't forget that a professor's great research and reputation as a co-author do not make that professor a good advisor. There are other very important goal/compatibility/culture issues involved, and that makes picking a school based on one person you'd like to work with a dubious plan. I'm not trying to say anything about Mailath in particular; just pointing out that I think the whole discussion about whether he is "reason enough" to pick Penn over NYU ought to be a moot point.
  18. Funny, I don't remember seeing this post of Canuck's last year. Could certainly have used it. It embodies a level-headedness that is, of course, much easier to have ex post than in the interim, but important to aim for even while you're biting your nails about admissions. See it as ex ante practice for the job market (and for every paper you will ever submit to a decent journal, for that matter).
  19. I concur: Pareto dominance really isn't appropriate in this context. If you want to write something more than "No, thanks," you can say something to the effect of "I have received an offer from a department that is an overall better fit. Thank you for the vote of confidence in my academic future."
  20. Nice. It looks like they have a great programme lined up, as usual. @kipfilet: It's unfortunate that AEA conflicts with so many people's breaks every year. Maybe next time!
  21. Anyone planning to be in Chicago for the AEA/ASSA meetings in January? Pipe up! :)
  22. Agreed. This is a little ridiculous. Just to set the facts straight, Duggan was not hired by Wharton from Chicago. He was there early in his career but had spent nearly a decade at Maryland before Wharton snatched him up.
  23. What flavour of political economy are you referring to? What poli sci people think of as political economy, or something along the lines of social choice theory and mechanism design? If the latter, I would look at Penn and especially Northwestern (Austen-Smith, Satterthwaite, and a number of exciting younger researchers) in addition to the usual suspects mentioned above.
  24. ODE is generally not a prerequisite for admission to top programmes. I didn't apply to Maryland, but can tell you for sure that not having ODE does not (by itself) lock applicants out of the top 10.
  25. I agree with Economists. There are students at excellent programmes with less-than-clean records. It seems like in the admissions process. the school bureaucracy is typically a bigger sticking point than the adcom itself. In fact, I suspect some adcoms never even see/read the bits of the application that ask about stuff like this.
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