PHD in Economics--need advice

[Kaysa]

Out of curiosity, I took a look at Oregon's placements. Looks to me that the median placement is a tenure track job.

 

Of course stronger departments have better placements. But especially for teaching jobs, some "merely quite good" departments place quite well. If you want to end up at MIT, you'd probably better start at a place like Harvard. On the other hand, in the last three years Harvard has placed exactly zero students in top liberal arts schools (I did a very quick count, feel free to correct me if I missed something), while Oregon had placements.at Lewis & Clark, Macalester, Bentley, Oberlin, and Grinnell.

 

True, but I was under the assumption that his goal was to place at an okay state school. The schools you mention are not really state schools.