The most important thing is that you have taken the time to fulfill any other ambitions you might have. Grad school is like marriage, a long-term relationship requiring a serious commitment; it's probably a good idea to date around a little before you get married. Students often wonder if they really want to be in a Ph. These days, you can get a Ph. Why not one of those? There are obvious differences in curriculum, and related to that and perhaps more important, there are differences in job opportunities.
While economics Ph. Unfair but true. What's more, in certain FOE departments, economics graduates may still have an advantage over FOE graduates; that is, an economics graduate may have a better chance of being employed at some public policy schools than a public policy graduate. Thus, economics graduates generally have a wider range of employment opportunities than FOE graduates. If you are unsure of your area of interest within economics or if you are keen to have the broader training afforded by economics, an econ program would be a better option for you.
If you are very sure of your research interests and don't want to waste your time taking courses not related to them, a FOE program is a better choice. In some programs, the courses and qualifying exams you take are identical to those required of economics students, but you take fewer of them.
For example, business economics students may be required to take the same microeconomics and econometrics courses as the economics students, but are excused from macroeconomics courses.
You should also know that, not only do FOE programs have a narrower focus, they also tend to have a more applied focus, and this is reflected in the content of the courses and in faculty research interests. Having noted the differences between the two types of programs, I should of course mention that despite these differences, the advice in this book is helpful for Ph.
FOE students as well as econ students. Notwithstanding the curricular and labor market differences, the structure of FOE programs is very similar to that of economics programs, and FOE students and economics students face many of the same academic and professional issues. If you are interested in a Ph. Perhaps you're unsure of whether you really would like to commit to a Ph. Or your undergraduate degree was not in economics and you're thinking about doing a Ph.
In the United States, the master's degree is usually conferred as doctoral students progress through the program; there are few terminal master's programs in economics. This is changing somewhat as more mid-level departments are offering the master's degree option; in addition, a few respected economics departments have in recent years begun offering terminal master's degrees for example, Boston University, Duke, and New York University.
There are also good master's degree programs overseas. Many top universities in Europe e. Bear in mind that these programs will be demanding and technical. They consist of the first year of coursework in a Ph. If you want to dip your toes in the graduate economics water, a master's program is not a bad idea. It will help you get your skill set together, help you find out if you enjoy graduate study in economics, and show others that you are serious about economics.
If you do go on for your Ph. There are some downsides, however. In many master's programs, and especially the overseas master's programs, there is very little funding so you will have to fund yourself.
Second, in many European programs, exams take place only once a year. American students have difficulty knowing how to study for these kinds of exams and good students can do poorly on them; a whole year's worth of work and tuition, and your Ph. By the way, you should also know that a master's degree in economics has little professional value beyond getting you into a better Ph. As I mentioned above, it is a poor substitute for an M. So if you decide to go for your master's degree, do it with the understanding that its only value will be to help you prepare for your Ph.
So much for the highly opinionated part of this chapter. Now for a few facts. You may be curious to know some general statistics about economics Ph. I should note that, here and throughout the book, I will focus primarily on economics training in the United States. Although the economics profession has become much more globalized in recent decades and there are many excellent economists and doctoral economics programs overseas, most advanced economics training still occurs in U. There is also more heterogeneity in the structure of non-U.
There are no official estimates of the total number of students in these programs, but several back-of-the-envelope calculations suggest the number is around 10, The top fifteen programs tend to have more students than the lower-ranked programs; an estimate from the s suggests that program enrollment in the top fifteen programs averages around students, whereas enrollment in lower-ranked program averages around students Hansen Since the s, there have been steady increases in the percentage of doctorates in economics awarded to women.
In , about 9 percent of economics doctorates were awarded to women; in , this proportion was 19 percent; and in , it was 28 percent Siegfried and Stock There have also been increases in the percentage of economics doctorates awarded to non-U. In , about 33 percent of economics doctorates were awarded to non-U. And finally one last statistic: how long will take you to finish? Had you had the foresight and fetal know-how to graduate in , the median time to completion would have been 5.
Time to completion has been steadily increasing, and in , the median time to Ph. If these and other fun cocktail-party facts interest you, you can find more in the papers listed in the American Economic Association's extensive bibliography of studies on graduate economics education URL below. For now, I'm presenting you with a few facts about economics Ph.
But overall statistics can only say so much. In either case, to judge productivity based on peer-reviewed publishing without reference to employment tracks makes no sense. David Autor, associate head of MIT's economics department and editor of Journal of Economic Perspectives , in which the study first appeared, also said the research didn't take into account the many economics Ph.
Still, he said, there seemed something familiar and intriguing in the primary finding of the study: that it's nearly impossible to tell which graduate students will become truly successful researchers. The other is about developing original research questions and finding a way to answer them, and then packaging and presenting it all in a way that is of interest to others. Even though MIT admits only the most stellar applicants each year, Autor said, they're all still relatively "homogenous," and only time tells how they'll develop as researchers.
It's kind of like Hollywood, he added, in the sense that the "only way to know if somebody's going to be a movie star is to do a movie with them. We have retired comments and introduced Letters to the Editor. Share your thoughts ». Expand comments Hide comments. About Contact Subscribe. Topics Adjuncts. Productivity Cliff. By Colleen Flaherty. November 19, Chicago 2. Penn 3. Michigan Ann Arbor 1. Read more by Colleen Flaherty.
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