A Ph.D. in Economics at Michigan

Why Michigan?

• Real-world relevance

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• A full-service department

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• A faculty that prides itself on Ph.D. training

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• Strong job placements

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Research by Recent Michigan Economics Ph.D.s

Jess Goldberg

U. Maryland

The wage elasticity of labor supply in Malawi

Meera Mahadevan

UC Irvine

Political economy of electricity access in India

Caroline Theoharides

Amherst C.

US immigration policy and “brain gain” in the Philippines

Max Farrell

U. Chicago

Deep neural networks for semiparametric inference

Isaac Sorkin

Stanford U.

Ranking firms using revealed preference

Jamein Cunningham

Cornell U.

Human costs of residential segregation

Nitya Pandalai-Nayar

UT Austin

Transmission of shocks due to the 2011 Japanese earthquake

Wenting Song

Bank of Canada

Firm inattention and monetary policy

Economics department faculty at Michigan

Macro

Theory

Development

Public Finance

Labor

International

Econometrics

History

Industrial organization

A Selection of Recent Michigan Ph.D.s

Emily Beam

U. Vermont

Jess Goldberg

U. Maryland

Paolo Abarcar

Mathematica

Teju Velayudhan

U. California Irvine

Meera Mahadevan

U. California Irvine

Gaurav Khanna

U. California San Diego

Prachi Jain

Loyola Marymount U.

Caroline Theoharides

Amherst C.

Rob Garlick

Duke U.

Kate Ambler

IFPRI

Luis Alejos

Inter-American Development Bank

Aakash Mohpal

World Bank

Hang Yu

Peking U.

Laura Zimmermann

U. Georgia

Osborne Jackson

Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

Austin Davis

American U.

Luis Baldomero-Quintana

Coll. of William & Mary

Vybhavi

Balasundharam

IMF

Ben Thompson

Amazon

Monica Hernandez

Tulane U.

Jason Kerwin

U. Minnesota

Susie Godlonton

Williams C.

Slesh Shrestha

Nat. Singapore U.

Isaac Sorkin

Stanford U.

Pieter de Vlieger

Uber

Andrew Usher

Bank of Canada

Shuqiao Sun

World Bank

Avery Calkins

RAND Corp.

Ariel Binder

U.S. Census

Laurien Gilbert

Cornerstone Research

Gail Lucasan

PriceWaterhouseCoopers

Salma Khalid

IMF

Katherine Lim

U.S. Treasury

Daniel Reck

London Sch. of Econ.

Aaron Flaaen

Federal Reserve Board of Governors

Vanessa Alviarez

U. British Columbia

Sebastian Calonico

Columbia U.

Max Farrell

U. Chicago

Ajay Shenoy

U. California Santa Barbara

Catalina Franco

Norwegian Sch. of Econ.

Bhanu Gupta

Ashoka U.

Colin Watson

Amazon

Nicolas Morales

Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

Ploy Tang

WhatsApp

Daniel Hubbard

American Institutes for Research

Adam Dearing

Ohio State

Jamein Cunningham

Cornell U.

Resources

University of Michigan’s Economics Ph.D. Program

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Economics Subfields at Michigan

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Recent Entering Ph.D. Classes: 2021, 2022

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Life in Ann Arbor

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Q&A Session

• Raise your hand, or put your questions in the chat
• Reminders, while you are thinking of questions…
• Michigan Preview Week website
• Sign up for meetings with faculty
• You can also email faculty to set up meetings
• Find faculty by subfield
• If you are coming to in-person Preview Day (Fri Mar 17), 2:30 pm and after would be a good time to set up meetings

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The Ph.D. program at Michigan Econ

• Two years of coursework
• First year: micro, macro, econometrics
• Second year: subfield courses

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• Two summers of Summer Research Assistantships (SRAs)

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• The third year paper

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• Then: your dissertation