Job Market

Questions about placement? Contact our placement officer Robert Townsend or placement administrator Shannon May.

Candidates for 2023-2024

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Viola Corradini
Labor Economics
Economics of Education
Applied Econometrics 

 

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Roberto Corrao
Economic Theory
Organizational Economics 

 

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Marc de la Barrera
Macroeconomics
Labor Economics
Financial Economics 
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Brandon Enriquez
Labor Economics 
 

 

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Ying Gao
Economic Theory
Organizational Economics

 

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Basil Halperin
Macroeconomics
Financial Economics
Economic Theory

 

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Adam Harris
Industrial Organization

 

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Lisa Ho
Development Economics
Labor Economics 

 

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Bumsoo Kim
International Economics
Macroeconomics

 

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Jeremy Majerovitz
Macroeconomics
Development Economics
Econometrics

 

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Carlos Molina
Political Economy
Development Economics
Behavioral Economics 

 

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Lucy Page
Environmental Economics
Behavioral Economics 

 

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Kramer Quist
Organizational Economics

 

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Charlie Rafkin
Public Economics
Behavioral Economics

 

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Hannah Ruebeck
Behavioral Economics
Labor Economics

 

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Anna Russo
Environmental Economics
Public Economics
Industrial Organization

 

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Jaeeun Seo
International Economics
Macroeconomics

 

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Evan Soltas
Public Economics
Urban Economics
Labor Economics

 

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Suhas Vijaykumar
Econometrics

 

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Laura Weiwu
Labor Economics
International Economics
Urban Economics
Economic History

 

Placement History

The department plays an active role in assisting graduate students with career placement. In a typical year, every MIT Economics PhD graduate finds a job.

Over the past six years, the department has placed a total of 130 graduates in academic, research, and government jobs. Of these, 90 graduates (69%) chose positions at academic institutions and 36 graduates (28%) chose non-academic positions. Of the 90 academic placements, 35 (39%) were at top-15 US economics departments or top-10 US business schools. The tables below break out these proportions for each cohort and highlight some of our top placements.

All placements, 2018-2023

Year

Academic

Non-Academic

Academic: Top Depts.

2023 72% 28% 46%
2022 63% 38% 33%
2021 79% 21% 29%
2020 66% 34% 26%
2019 61% 22% 43%
2018 73% 27% 56%
6-Year Average 69% 28% 39%


Placements to top economics departments and business schools, 2018-2023

School

Placements

Chicago Booth 4
Harvard Business School 3
Harvard University 2
MIT 1
Northwestern Kellog 1
Northwestern University 2
NYU 2
Princeton University 2
Stanford GSB 2
UC Berkeley 2
UC Berkeley-Haas 1
Wharton 2
Yale 4