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Good job market for Econ PhD’s

From InsideHigherEd:

Jobs for economics Ph.D.s — whether they wish to work in or outside academe — are plentiful, according to new data from the American Economic Association.

At the end of 2016, the association had recorded 3,673 listings for positions for Ph.D.s in the calendar year. That’s up 11.2 percent from 2015. The association gathers Jan. 6 for its annual meeting (this year in conjunction with other social science groups), a key point in the interview process for many faculty searches. Similar meetings of humanities groups in coming weeks are not expected to see similarly healthy job markets.

The AEA’s listings do not include every job (faculty or otherwise) for economics Ph.D.s. But association studies of their job listings are generally considered reliable measures of the state of disciplinary job markets.

One key measure of the health of a disciplinary job market is how job listings compared to the number of new Ph.D.s awarded — and the numbers are quite favorable to economics Ph.D.s. The most recent Survey of Earned Doctorates — covering Ph.D.s awarded in 2015 — found that 1,256 doctorates in economics were awarded that year, roughly a third of the open positions this year. …

One Comment

  1. MakeAmericaCoolAgain 01/03/2017

    Economics looks even better than Air Conditioning.
    Has Trump claimed credit yet?

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