My professors are beginning to speculate about the effect of the Wall Street meltdown on the rest of the economics profession. Econ professors (and grad students) are paid WAY more than their counterparts in other academic programs, because they have better outside options. Make that: HAD better outside options. If we go forward without those [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Economics PhD’
September 18, 2008
This will not happen to me
A few classmates and I sent out a survey to the other graduate students in our department this year, and noticed this exact phenomenon. (We asked what year they were, and what year they expected to finish.) I swear on Greg Mankiw’s Econ 101 textbook that I’ll be on the job market in… two years.
