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Graduate Job Market & Placement

The decision rests with the student and the student’s Research Advisory Committee as to the timing of the student’s entry to the job market. Planning for the job market begins in the Spring semester before the academic year when the student plans to be on the market. The student should apply for a Dissertation Fellowship to cover the final year in the program, in the Spring previous to that final year. Then, the formal process of finding a job will begin early in the fall semester. The key participants in the student’s job search will be the Graduate Secretary, the Placement Director, and the student’s Research Advisory Committee.

• The Graduate Secretary coordinates the mailing and uploading of the student’s recommendation letters from faculty members, along with other administrative tasks related to job search.
• The Placement Director conducts information meetings for students on the job market to fill them in on the details of applications to academic and non-academic institutions, job interviews at the ASSA meetings, and how to coordinate campus visits and visits to non-academic institutions. The department places great importance on helping students obtain professional positions. The Graduate Secretary and the Placement Director set up a website with information on our students on the job market, and mail the same information in a physical packet to numerous institutions that hire Ph.D. economists. 
• The Placement Director plays a coordinating role in the matching of students with jobs, but the primary responsibility for a student’s placement lies with the Research Advisory Committee, and particularly with the Dissertation Chair. Recommendation letters, typically written by the Research Advisory Committee members (though not necessarily) play an important role in the job market process. The Research Advisory Committee has primary responsibility for making personal contacts in the field to help place the student.

Job Market Meetings

Placement meetings will be on the following dates in 2024: September 11 (Wednesday, 2:30pm), October 9 (Wednesday, 2:30pm), November 18 (Monday, 2:30pm), and January 8, 2025 (Wednesday, 9:30am). All doctoral students are welcome.

Job Market Timeline

Timing on the job market is typically as follows:

The student should make sure that his or her job market paper (the paper that will be the central contribution in the dissertation, and that the student will present in job market seminars) is complete and polished. The student should consult job listings – principally  Job Openings For Economists  – and develop a list of institutions to which he or she wishes to apply, in consultation with the Research Advisory Committee.

Students apply for positions, with the help of the Graduate Secretary. Students should make sure that faculty members submit their recommendation letters to the Graduate Secretary.

October/November

Students present their job market papers in a 90-minute seminar setting at least once.

Students should hear from institutions who wish to schedule interviews.

Early January

This is when interviews of job candidates occur. These interviews are now held remotely and typically last 30 minutes. Institutions with job openings develop shortlists from their interviews and arrange visits for people on those lists. The matching process continues through the spring semester, with most institutions making their first job offers in mid-February.

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2024-2025 Job Market Candidates

Won-chang Choi

PhD Candidate - Primary Fields: Asset Pricing and Financial Economics

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Joao Hernandez Calderon

PhD Candidate - Primary Fields: International Macroeconomics

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PhD Placement History

• Yves-Paul Auffray, Trinity University (visiting Assistant Professor)
• Leo Lam, Academia Sinica
• Jose Martinez Gutierrez, Banco de Mexico
• Alexandros Loukas, Aix-Marseille School of Economics (Postdoc)
• Margarita Podledneva, Illinois Department of Employment Security
• Kuldeep Singh, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
• Li Zhang, Navy Federal Credit Union
• Weiting Hu, University of Queensland (Finance)
• Yi Chun Lin, Analysis Group
• Andrea Paloschi, IMF
• Minsung Park, Korean Institute for Industrial Economics and Trade
• Prasanthi Ramakrishnan, Southern Methodist University
• Rocio Suarez, Washington College
• Rusi Yan, Central University of Finance and Economics
• Lei Ye, Chinese University of Hong Kong (Decision Sciences and Managerial Economics)
• Yuichi Imai, University of Toyama
• Zheliang Zhu, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics(SWUFE)
•     Ke Chao, Moody's
•     Andrea Flores, FGV EPGE Brazilian School of Economics
•     Edward Honda, University of Manitoba
•     Xinyu Hou, University of Cambridge (postdoc)
•     Yuan Huang, Amazon
•     Mariana Odio Zuniga, Bates White
•     Siddhartha Sanghi, Amazon
•     Lintao Ye, Moody's
•     Erdem Yenerdag, Meta (Facebook)
•     Xiannong Zhang, Google
•     Jose Alcantara Lizarraga, Tecnologico de Monterrey
•     Saumya Deojain, Thapar School of Management (after postdoc at the University of Rochester)
•     DoHun Kim, Korea Development Institute
•     Hongyi Liu, Visa Inc.
•     Yuki Otsu, University of Tokyo (research track)
•     Keh-Kuan Sun, Chapman University (postdoc)
•     Cheuk Yi Kelvin Yuen, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
•     Linyi Cao, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
•     Alejandro Gutierrez-Li, North Carolina State University
•     David Lindequist, Miami University (OH)
•     Sounak Thakur, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
•     Juan Ignacio Vizcaino, University of Nottingham
•     Masahiro Yoshida, Waseda University
•     Lingxiao Zhao, Peking University HSBC Business School
•     Li Zhang, Zhongnan University of Economics and Laws
•     Shuo Zhang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Business School
•     Meichen Chen, East China University of Science and Technology
•     Ardina Hasanbasri, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor (Teaching track)
•     Junnan He, Sciences Po
•     Helu (Lucia) Jiang, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
•     Hoipan Wong, Nankai University (Finance)
•     Biancen Xie, Wells Fargo
•     Geyu Yang, Tianjin University
•     Juan Aquino Chavez, Central Reserve Bank of Peru
•     Sangmin Aum, Korea Development Institute
•     Ting Yuen Terry Cheung, Academia Sinica
•     Minhyeon Jeong, Korea Institute for International Economic Policy
•     Sie Won Kim, Texas Tech University
•     Rodolfo Oviedo Moguel, Central Bank of Mexico
•     Faisal Sohail, University of Melbourne
•     Xi Wang, Peking University (Department of Finance, School of Economics)
•     Yinghong Yvonne Zhang, Capital One
•     Lijun Zhu, Peking University (Institute of New Structural Economics)
•     Nicolas Aguelakakis, Arkansas Development Finance Authority
•     Wan-Jung Cheng, Academia Sinica
•     Jinji Hao, Victoria University of Wellington
•     Stephanie Heger, University of Sydney
•     Andres Hincapie, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
•     Inkee Jang, Xiamen University
•     Kee Youn Kang, Yonsei University (Department of Finance)
•     Rongsheng Tang, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
•     Chien-Chiang Wang, National Taiwan University
•     Duksang Cho, Korea Development Institute
•     Hee Chun Kim, Korea Information Society Development Institute
•     Sunha Myong, Singapore Management University
•     Jaevin Park, University of Mississippi-Oxford
•     Lin Shao, Bank of Canada
•     Jiemai Wu, University of Sydney
•     Yao Yao, Victoria University of Wellington
•     Jundong Zhang, Deutsche Bank
•     Ting-Wei Lai, National Chengchi University
•     Jungho Lee, Singapore Management University
•     Junmin Liao, Wuhan University
•     Wei Wang, University of International Business and Economics
•     Emircan Yurdagul, University Carlos lll of Madrid  
•     Jan Auerbach, University of Exeter
•     Juan Block, University of Cambridge, post-doctoral
•     Julieta Caunedo, Cornell University
•     Yi-Yi Chen, Feng Chia University (Taiwan)
•     Feng Dong, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
•     Minho Kim, Korea Development Institute
•     Dongya Koh, University of Arkansas - Fayetteville
•     Sho Miyamoto, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, post-doctoral
•     Youzong Xu, Xi'an Jiatong University
•     Francesco Carli, Catholic University in Libson, post-doctoral
•     Hassan Faghani Dermi, Compass Lexecon, Washington DC
•     Shota Fujishima, University of Tokyo
•     Filippo Massari, University of New South Wales
•     Irina Panovska, Lehigh University
•     Yang Tang, Nanyang Technological University
•     Gustavo Torrens, Indiana University
•     Haibo Xu, Fudan University
•     Carmen Astorne-Figari, University of Memphis
•     Rohan Dutta, McGill University
•     Wen-Chieh Lee, National Chengchi University
•     Shintaro Miura, Kanagawa University
•     Nicholas Papageorge, Johns Hopkins
•     Yin-Chi Wang, Chinese University of Hong Kong
•     Tsz-Nga Wong, The Bank of Canada
•     Azamat Abdymomunov, The Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
•     Kyoung Jin Choi, University of Calvary
•     Aleksandr Yankelevich, Federal Communications Commission, Washington DC
•     Chia-Ming Yu, Xian University
•     Jie Zheng, Tsinghua University
•     Yu Zheng, City University of Hong Kong
•     Kyu Ho Kang, Ajou University, Korea
•     Daniel Sanches, Federal Reserve Bank, Philadelphia
•     Rasim Burak Uras, Tilburg University
•     Masahiro Watabe, Zirve University
•     Ji Yan, Appalachian State University
•     Tanika Chakraborty, DIW, Berlin
•     Yunjong Eo, University of Sydney
•     Daifeng He, College of William and Mary
•     Sheng Haung, Lee Kong Chian School of Business in Singapore Management University
•     Jeremy Jackson, North Dakota State University
•     Srikanth Ramamurthy, Loyola College in Maryland
•     Kevin Shaver, Duquesne University
•     Jacek Suda, Banque de France
•     Anastasia Zervou, Texas A&M
•     Raul Andrade, Grupo de Analisis para el Desarrollo
•     James Butikofer, Employee Benefits Security Administration, Department of Labor, DC
•     Juan Carlos Carbajal Ponce, University of Queensland - Australia
•     Charles Courtemanche, University of North Carolina - Greensboro
•     Patrick McAlvanah, Federal Trade Commission
•     Michael Plotzke, ABT Associates Incorporated
•     Aarti Singh, University of Sydney
•     Tomasz Skladzien, Australian Department of the Treasury
•     Pao-Lin Tien, Wesleyan University
•     William Carden, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN
•     Bakhodir Ergashev, Federal Reserve, Richmond, VA
•     Thomas King, Board of Governors of the Fed Reserve
•     Sinchan Mitra, Discover, Chicago, IL
•     Jie Pan, University of Arkansas, Little Rock
•     Jiaren Pang, SUNY-Buffalo
•     Suraj Prasad, University of New South Wales
•     Eliana Balla, Federal Reserve, Richmond, VA
•     Janice Compton, University of Manitoba
•     Ryan Compton, University of Manitoba
•     Jeremy Groves, Northern Illinois University
•     Liana Jacobi, University of Melbourne
•     Vahe Lskavyan, Ohio University
•     Morgan Rose, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
•     Tara Sinclair, George Washington University
•     Mariana Spatareanu, Rutgers, Newark
•     Vlad Manole, The World Bank, Washington DC
•     Shaojun Chen, Morning Star, Chicago
•     James Brown, Montana State University
•     David Switzer, Northern Michigan University
•     Mindy Marks, University of California
•     Nina Baranchuk, University of Texas

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Aea annual meeting.

The concurrent economics job fair brings together thousands of job-seekers and recruiting companies in pre-registered interview sessions.

Job Openings for Economists (JOE)

Each year, over 1,500+ PhDs secure employment at colleges, universities, corporations and government agencies with the help of the JOE Network.

The AEA coordinates a mechanism through which applicants can signal their interest in receiving an interview at the January meetings.

Econ-Jobs.com

More than 160,000 economists use Econ-Jobs.com to drive their economist job search in academia, government and the private sector.

EconJobMarket

EJM's main aim is to improve the flow of information in the job market for academic economists, by providing a central repository for job-market materials and by encouraging interoperability between the various recruitment systems.

National Bureau of Economic Research

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Student Placements

Here’s a list of placements, by program and year of graduation, over the past 10 years:

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The University of Alabama, Culverhouse College of Business Baylor University, Hankamer School of Business

World bank Post doc at NYU Furman center. Treasury’s Office of Financial Research. UT Dallas National University of Singapore

Brattle Group University of Wisconsin Business,  Post Doc at Treasury Brattle Group Cornerstone Research Rutgers Business School Cornerstone Research

OECD Federal Reserve Board NYU, Postdoc and Hong Kong University Princeton, Postdoc

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill University of Texas, Austin Bank of Canada NBER, Postdoc

Stanford University Cornerstone The Vanguard Group

Michigan State Federal Reserve Bank of New York (Post-doc at Chicago Booth) London School of Economics

Cornell University Microsoft Research NERA Economic Consulting University of Colorado, Boulder

Econ One Harvard Business School National Taiwan University Nuna Health Toulouse School of Economics University of California, Merced

Baruch College Clemson University Northwestern University Putnam Investments Research Affiliates

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Duke University Indiana University University of Delaware University of Wisconsin, Madison

Berkeley Research Group University of Michigan U.S. Treasury Department Sungkyunkwan University, SKK GSB

Note: The Applied Economics program was created in Fall 2008 and, therefore, has placed students beginning 2013.

Ethics & Legal Studies

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The Ohio State University, Fisher College of Business Vanderbilt University, Owen Graduate School of Management

BlackRock Cornerstone Research Drexel University, LeBow College of Business Harvard Business School Rothschild & Co

BlackRock Boston Consulting Group Columbia Business School Kenan-Flagler Business School of the University of North Carolina McGill University MIT Sloan Universidad Carlos III de Madrid University of Hong Kong

Capital One Stockholm School of Economics

Arizona State University Hong Kong University of Science and Technology University of Florida University of Warwick, Warwick Business School

BI Norwegian Business School INSEAD London Business School (2 placements) Peking University University of Hong Kong (2 placements)

Carnegie Mellon University Cornell University Cornerstone Research Peking University Southern Methodist University University of Wisconsin, Madison

AQR Capital Management Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business Citadel Tulane University, Freeman School of Business University of Chicago, Booth School of Business University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business

Federal Reserve Bank of New York University of Michigan University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Boston College Cornell University Federal Reserve Board Michigan State University Ohio State University University of Houston

Google University of California, Los Angeles University of Delaware University of Minnesota University of Oxford

Google University of Delaware

Mingshi Investment Management Peking University Southern Methodist University

Carnegie Mellon University University of British Columbia University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill University of Rochester University of Wisconsin, Madison

Cornell University Getulio Vargas Foundation Southern Methodist University U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission University of Southern California

New York University University of Florida

Cornerstone Research KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) University of Iowa University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Aalto University School of Economics University of California, San Diego

Federal Reserve Board

Health Care Management & Economics

Charles River Associates Baylor University Cornell University Medical Campus (Weill) University of Miami USAID Emory University Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

Harvard Business School New York University University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine NYU Langone Medical Center Analysis Group

University of Virginia Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management RAND Corporation University of Pittsburgh Analysis Group

Indiana University Bloomington John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine US Department of Health and Human Services

Asian Development Bank RAND Corporation

RAND Corporation

Cornell Medical School RAND Corporation Thomas Jefferson University University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine Urban Institute

RAND-UCLA (Joint Post-Doc) San Diego State University Temple University, Fox Business School

Columbia University Peking University Urban Institute US Army Medical Department Telehealth Office

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Brigham and Women’s Hospital University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine

Massachusetts General Hospital

University of Missouri University of Porto, Faculty of Economics

Bocconi University Ohio State University University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business Rice University New York University, Stern School of Business Massachusetts Institute of Technology

George Washington University University of Texas, Austin

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Sungkyunkwan University

Cornell University Stanford University

University of Texas, Austin University of Wisconsin, Madison

IESE Business School, Barcelona Campus University of LUISS (Rome)

INSEAD Purdue University University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill University of Pittsburgh University of South Carolina University of Texas, Austin

George Washington University University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill University of Washington, Bothell

Georgia State University Moscow School of Management, SKLOKOVO Institute for Emerging Market Studies Nanyang Business School Rutgers University

George Washington University Harvard University INSEAD University of Maryland, Smith School of Business University of Minnesota, Carlson School Washington University, St. Louis

New York University University of Hartford

Instituto De Empresa University of Michigan

Brigham Young University Florida International University National University of Singapore New York Department of Economics University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign

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Operations, Information and Decisions

Visit here for Operations, Information and Decisions PhD placements. 

University of Florida Carnegie Mellon University Columbia University Rutgers University

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Voleon Group

University of Chicago, Booth School of Business University of California, Berkeley Emory University Rutgers University Citadel Air Liquide

INSEAD Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management University of Vienna DV01

CLVmetrics IBM Stanford University

Carnegie Mellon University Columbia University Queens College Rice University Walmart Labs

Columbia University New Jersey Institute of Technology Yahoo Labs

The Climate Corporation Credit Suisse Rutgers University University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Krossover Intelligence Stanford University

Northwestern University US Census Bureau

Harvard University Princeton University University of Pennsylvania

London School of Economics Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Colombia University, Earth Institute (Post-Doc)

Yale University

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Rutgers PhD Program in Economics is a Disaster

Hmart Rep: 5

If you fail to get admission with a fellowship from Rutgers University, do not come to this department.

The department is seriously underfunded. Previously, most students could get full funding and tuition remission in their second, third and fourth year if they performed well in their course and research. This year, however, most third-year, fourth-year students lost their full funding. Many of them have GPA close to 4.0. The program director said the number of funding spots is not enough in this department and the situation may remain unchanged in several years.

Students in this department have to pass a very hard qualify exam at the end of the first year. They can try twice. But only those who pass at the first attempt can get full TAships in their second year. In the year 2016, 7 out of 14 students passed in the first round. 6 are Chinese and 1 is Korean. Those who passed in the second round only get funding for one semester.

If you get the admission without fellowship from the department and ask the staff about you future funding opportunity, they will tell you there is a high chance for you to be funded for three years. Don't believe it. You can hardly get any money after your second year. They will show you an optimistic future to attract you only because they need enough students to open courses and make money. Don't become their cash cow!

The average graduating years in this department is 6 years. If you don't have fellowship which guarantees your funding for 5 years, you will pay your tuition and living expenditure for 5 years at least. There are only 4 fellowships students in each year. So don't come without a fellowship.

Economist 6ba0

Thank you for your economics rumor. Really.

Economist 5315

Man, if people were rationally thinking about opportunity costs they'd never do a PhD in economics in the first place. That said, never go anywhere without a firm commitment to funding and scoping out the recent history of funding for grad students. And obviously, since this advice is pitched towards undergreads, GTFO.

Economist 69a7

Yikes. Hope a lot of the potential applicants see your post.

Economist 4c8d

Yes, but you get to live in NJ.

Economist b82b

Why is that too?

Economist a29f

Holy s**t! A real econ rumor!

Economist 5afd

How are their placements?

Economist 9eb9

Same thing happened at Indiana University a few years back, 2nd-5th year students who were in good standing had their funding cut in droves. Until that point I think most if not all had non-guaranteed funding

Economist 9b59

same thing happened at UT austin, except it was to eighth year students without a dissertation proposal or committee support. tragic, really.

Economist 189d

What happened to that Asian student?

Economist 7bbf

New students should be careful. If you don't get funding in the first few years, that's not a good sign. If a school has a habit of treating their advanced students, that's not a good sign either.

Economist 326a

6 are Chinese and 1 is Korean.

Informative post overall, but why the hell does it matter where the students are from?

International students don't qualify for federal student aid, right? So if you're an intl student and your previous funding gets cut off, you have fewer funding options than a US citizen.

Those are the students who passed and therefore got funding. Why does it matter where they're from?

Economist c673

Because it has already been discussed on EJMR. Rutgers have deep structural problems with their graduate admission policies and it has been consistently underperforming in terms of placements because of it: https://www.econjobrumors.com/topic/rutgers-job-market-candidates-2017-are-up

Pointing things out is not racist. We can all have our opinions heard as adults without labeling people.

Economist dea3

It was 5th, 6th, and 7th year students from China, India, Iran, and Mexico.

When people in this forum started pointing this out they were all labeled racist. Why? University sponsor these students visas, and are liable to the government for them. Nobody would have said anything if they were Italians, French, or Swedish, but you point out they are Chinese and immediately you are called a racist. Let's grow up.

Economist 16c8

Nice job, OP.

I have a good undergrad who wants to do a PhD in Econ.

I will add Rutgers to the list of "be careful if you apply here." It's being added right below UT-Austin.

Economist ccf2

This is the same story at North Carolina State. I'm glad I have funding. They even make it clear that you won't be guaranteed funding any subsequent years if you didn't have funding the first year. If you are accepted here without funding, do not come! Honestly, schools who can't fund all their students shouldn't operate a phd program!

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