PDF Writing a Research Statement for the Job Market
Paragraph 1: A brief sketch of the main themes and topics of your research as well as how it relates to your field. Paragraph 2: A summary of your dissertation research. This may be similar to the paragraph on the dissertation in your cover letter, but it must have more detail about the methods, the theoretical foundations, and most of all, the ...
PDF Research Statement Yvonne WUSTL-ECON PHD
Yvonne (Yinghong) Zhang†1. SUMMARY. I am a Ph.D. candidate in economics. My primary research focuses on labor economics and applied microeconomics, with special emphases on applied econometrics and entrepreneurship. This statement summarizes my doctoral research work at Washington University in St. Louis. It also outlines my future research ...
Research Statement: PhD and Postdoc Success
Research statements are a frequent component of the academic job market application portfolio and one of the more field-specific documents. In a research statement, you are explaining to the search committee your scholarly profile, research agenda, impact of your work, and how your scholarship fits into the department and institution.
Research Statement : Graduate School
The research statement (or statement of research interests) is a common component of academic job applications. It is a summary of your research accomplishments, current work, and future direction and potential of your work. The statement can discuss specific issues such as: The research statement should be technical, but should be intelligible ...
Preparing a research statement for an academic job application
A Research Trajectory can one (or both) of two things: 1) it can present a narrative in timeline form of how your thinking has evolved. 2) it can present your Research Plan for the next 5-6 years (pandemics and life will obviously derail that plan!) So what I have done with my own Research Statements is to present how my research interests have ...
PDF Research Statement Annika M. Mueller Institute for Quantitative Social
This research statement is organized as follows: The first section discusses my work in the area of development economics/public policy, with a focus on my dissertation papers. The second section discusses my work in the area of contests/management from my postdoctoral work. Both sections include plans for future research in the respective areas.
Mizzou Econ PhD Job Market Guide
Overview. During Year 5 (or sometimes Year 4), you will be on the job market. Most of your time will be spent preparing and submitting applications, practicing for interviews, and doing interviews, besides related tasks like travel logistics. This means you will not have much time for research, besides maybe wrapping up your third chapter in March.
Questions I heard at APPAM:
In a survey of economics job candidates from 2007 to 2010, job candidates received on average 16.8 interviews at the ASSA meetings, 5.7 flyouts, and 2.9 job offers (McFall et al., 2015). By the end of summer, 92% of job candidates had accepted a job, 1.9% had received job offers but declined them all, and only 6% received no job offers.
Job Market
Over the past six years, the department has placed a total of 136 graduates in academic, research, and government jobs. Of these, 94 graduates (69%) chose positions at academic institutions and 37 graduates (27%) chose non-academic positions. Of the 94 academic placements, 38 (40%) were at top-15 US economics departments or top-10 US business ...
Research
An application for 2025 entry to the PhD Economics should include a Research Statement, along with other required information (Note: A separate sample of Written Work is not required as part of the PhD Economics application). Your Research Statement should be submitted in place of the Outline Research Proposal, along with your application form ...
COMMENTS
Paragraph 1: A brief sketch of the main themes and topics of your research as well as how it relates to your field. Paragraph 2: A summary of your dissertation research. This may be similar to the paragraph on the dissertation in your cover letter, but it must have more detail about the methods, the theoretical foundations, and most of all, the ...
Yvonne (Yinghong) Zhang†1. SUMMARY. I am a Ph.D. candidate in economics. My primary research focuses on labor economics and applied microeconomics, with special emphases on applied econometrics and entrepreneurship. This statement summarizes my doctoral research work at Washington University in St. Louis. It also outlines my future research ...
Research statements are a frequent component of the academic job market application portfolio and one of the more field-specific documents. In a research statement, you are explaining to the search committee your scholarly profile, research agenda, impact of your work, and how your scholarship fits into the department and institution.
The research statement (or statement of research interests) is a common component of academic job applications. It is a summary of your research accomplishments, current work, and future direction and potential of your work. The statement can discuss specific issues such as: The research statement should be technical, but should be intelligible ...
A Research Trajectory can one (or both) of two things: 1) it can present a narrative in timeline form of how your thinking has evolved. 2) it can present your Research Plan for the next 5-6 years (pandemics and life will obviously derail that plan!) So what I have done with my own Research Statements is to present how my research interests have ...
This research statement is organized as follows: The first section discusses my work in the area of development economics/public policy, with a focus on my dissertation papers. The second section discusses my work in the area of contests/management from my postdoctoral work. Both sections include plans for future research in the respective areas.
Overview. During Year 5 (or sometimes Year 4), you will be on the job market. Most of your time will be spent preparing and submitting applications, practicing for interviews, and doing interviews, besides related tasks like travel logistics. This means you will not have much time for research, besides maybe wrapping up your third chapter in March.
In a survey of economics job candidates from 2007 to 2010, job candidates received on average 16.8 interviews at the ASSA meetings, 5.7 flyouts, and 2.9 job offers (McFall et al., 2015). By the end of summer, 92% of job candidates had accepted a job, 1.9% had received job offers but declined them all, and only 6% received no job offers.
Over the past six years, the department has placed a total of 136 graduates in academic, research, and government jobs. Of these, 94 graduates (69%) chose positions at academic institutions and 37 graduates (27%) chose non-academic positions. Of the 94 academic placements, 38 (40%) were at top-15 US economics departments or top-10 US business ...
An application for 2025 entry to the PhD Economics should include a Research Statement, along with other required information (Note: A separate sample of Written Work is not required as part of the PhD Economics application). Your Research Statement should be submitted in place of the Outline Research Proposal, along with your application form ...