I am a LRM theorist one year out of the Phd from a top 100 place and just got a paper accepted in JET. Right now I am at a top 1000 or something place (worst one imaginable), but I plan to go to jobmarket this fall. How far will my JET publication take me? (I have some more stuff submitted, but no response yet)
Where can a JET publication get a LRM?
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I am a LRM theorist one year out of the Phd from a top 100 place and just got a paper accepted in JET. Right now I am at a top 1000 or something place (worst one imaginable), but I plan to go to jobmarket this fall. How far will my JET publication take me? (I have some more stuff submitted, but no response yet)
Is it sole-authored? A sole-authored JET will probably get you to a tier 2 Canadian dept.
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sorry for all the trolls on this board dude, i agree the trolling sometimes goes too far. your question is legitimate (this is supposed to be a board about econ jobs!!), important to your career, and deserves a serious answer.
serious answer: how did you do on the quant section of your GREs? it's pretty important that you ace it, or the ad coms will probably just throw your app into the fireplace. if you haven't aced it, it's probably worthwhile to retake it.
I knew this would attract a RA troll. Answer: I never took it. Seriously, what do you think about my question? I am already in the toilet and would like to know if the JET publication could help me get out of it.
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Was it co-authored with your advisor? How's your pipeline? Do you have a paper that is at least as good as the one in JET or will people perceive it to be a fluke? How's your teaching evals where you are now? The answer to your question depends a lot on these. If the answers are: no; deep; yes; good you'll have a chance to move up to the top 100. If the answers are: yes, almost empty, no pretty bad you're not going to get much higher. If not, it depends a lot on the market, on your particular field and getting lucky.
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It depends a lot on how come across in interviews and how you present. The JET should intrigue a lot of top-100 places to want to talk to you. What comes out of this "talking to you" depends on you.
By itself the publication does very little. It does, however, open a few doors. The question is whether you manage to walk through them.
Good luck.
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Two JETs or your one JET plus another solid pub like a GEB will improve your chances infinitely. You need to convince peole it wasn't a fluke. It's not like you can't move up very significantly now, but if you have one or two things in the pipeline that you are pretty confident about, you should wait till you get another R&R atleast. With two really good pubs say 2 years out you'll have an excellent shot at a top 100. If on the other hand you aren't confident about your pipeline, try looking for something now- waiting for a year or two without anything to show for it wont help one bit. If you are risk averse try moving now and then again in three-four years time.
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I roughly agree with this, although I am not sure how much you can move up now. Given your placement it suggests your letter writers were not so optimistic about you, though this publication might have them revise their views. Also where is this other junior AP located? What will your letter writers say about this?
What is in the future?
1. More papers like this or slightly lower. You can bide your time because if this is true you can then make a bigger jump to top 100 (and places will be impressed you did this while at a crappy place). However, if you go now to slightly higher (300) some of those places (I am not saying this is rational) will start wondering if you are just going to move again and again, and your next jump might not be as good. On the other hand, if you are sufficiently RA or feel that being at 300 gives you enough you might try now, but even the 300 will probably want something more than one JET. Your letter writers will have to say your three working papers currently submitted are of similar quality.
2. Even weaker output. Might as well try now.A harder question is where is the market (and the economy) going. If things are looking relatively good now, it might be the time to make the jump.
Two JETs or your one JET plus another solid pub like a GEB will improve your chances infinitely. You need to convince peole it wasn't a fluke. It's not like you can't move up very significantly now, but if you have one or two things in the pipeline that you are pretty confident about, you should wait till you get another R&R atleast. With two really good pubs say 2 years out you'll have an excellent shot at a top 100. If on the other hand you aren't confident about your pipeline, try looking for something now- waiting for a year or two without anything to show for it wont help one bit. If you are risk averse try moving now and then again in three-four years time.