... or multiple postdocs. What's stopping people spending a decade in grad school building up pipelines and pubs? How are you supposed to compete with that?
Market no longer punishes 8 years
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... or multiple postdocs. What's stopping people spending a decade in grad school building up pipelines and pubs? How are you supposed to compete with that?
The desire to have an income and a life?
be warned and weep any ugrads who read this. Econ/business/social science grad schools at large are currently in the most atrocious race to the bottom since 1900.
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Op is a liar. There was certainly a discussion of how long a candidate had been in grad school during the faculty hiring meeting this week.
Say what you will. I won't name names, but quite a few MRM hires this cycle that fall into this category. Your school may still care, but most now prefer candidates with R&Rs and network no matter how long it took.
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Might be punished on the market, but not for tenure. The tenure clock starts when you leave grad school, so it could be a longer-run decent strategy to stay an extra year if it helps you get some pubs ready for submission.
My productivity exploded the second I left grad school. It doesn't mean an extra year of grad school productivity would have been bad, but maybe not that valuable.
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be warned and weep any ugrads who read this. Econ/business/social science grad schools at large are currently in the most atrocious race to the bottom since 1900.
applies to phd programs in general. most should be shut down.
But we need cut-rate Zh@nngs and P@j3ets TAs for undergrads and useless mathturb@tion to put in papers no one reads but advances their advisors' careers.