Yale had had a reputation for training their PhD students well and for having a high median placement with one or two stars every year. Their placement has not been good the past couple of years. Any insider on what's going on?
What's going on at Yale?
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(1) they’re good at like econometric theory. It’s going out of style
(2) Yale students see salaries at Amazon etc and don’t want an academic job
(3) yale has a policy focus and places like Rand, Mathematica etc are having financial problems similar to universities
(4) tech will hire Berkeley Stanford etc over Yale for geographic and historical reasons
(5) Yale is like interdisciplinary liberal arts econ history, etc which is in increasingly low demand
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(1) they’re good at like econometric theory. It’s going out of style
(2) Yale students see salaries at Amazon etc and don’t want an academic job
(3) yale has a policy focus and places like Rand, Mathematica etc are having financial problems similar to universities
(4) tech will hire Berkeley Stanford etc over Yale for geographic and historical reasons
(5) Yale is like interdisciplinary liberal arts econ history, etc which is in increasingly low demandYale does not have a policy focus, and there has not been an economic history student on the market from Yale for two years.
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The 2021 market was rough all around - hard to infer much.
2022 was weak relative to other schools and relative to Yale's historical average (I'm talking about 2016-2020, not even the distance past).
Part of it was the cohort not being too good.
But DEI aside, I think that successful candidates these days tend to be working in "hot" areas like cutenomics. Yale doesn't really do that. -
Yale had had a reputation for training their PhD students well and for having a high median placement with one or two stars every year. Their placement has not been good the past couple of years. Any insider on what's going on?
Yale had had a reputation for training their PhD students well and for having a high median placement with one or two stars every year. Their placement has not been good the past couple of years. Any insider on what's going on?
They have made bad hires in applied fields.
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Yale had had a reputation for training their PhD students well and for having a high median placement with one or two stars every year. Their placement has not been good the past couple of years. Any insider on what's going on?
Yale had had a reputation for training their PhD students well and for having a high median placement with one or two stars every year. Their placement has not been good the past couple of years. Any insider on what's going on?
They have made bad hires in applied fields.
This is true.
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Need to admit more white women, simple as that.
The best women go to Harvard/MIT overwhelmingly. The rest are bottom of the barell, and even they get great jobs.
This is not specific to Yale. If you want better placements, train more women. It is ridiculous how much attention they get.
I'm currently coauthoring with a women same age as me, similar publication record. I get maybe 2 seminar invites a semester. She is sitting on 23 for the year...
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Need to admit more white women, simple as that.
The best women go to Harvard/MIT overwhelmingly. The rest are bottom of the barell, and even they get great jobs.
This is not specific to Yale. If you want better placements, train more women. It is ridiculous how much attention they get.
I'm currently coauthoring with a women same age as me, similar publication record. I get maybe 2 seminar invites a semester. She is sitting on 23 for the year...Overwhelming male discrimination.
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Need to admit more white women, simple as that.
The best women go to Harvard/MIT overwhelmingly. The rest are bottom of the barell, and even they get great jobs.
This is not specific to Yale. If you want better placements, train more women. It is ridiculous how much attention they get.
I'm currently coauthoring with a women same age as me, similar publication record. I get maybe 2 seminar invites a semester. She is sitting on 23 for the year...and Economics becoming a field of Applied Sociology is almost complete ...