I’m thinking of writing a post about my experience doing an economics PhD with EA motivations. I think this might be interesting to people considering a career in research and especially in social science research, given that this is a career path 80k hours has discussed in the past (e.g. “Economics PhD the only one worth getting?”). I don’t have an overarching thesis, so this would be more of a collection of observations—what it’s like, what’s good about it, what’s bad about it.
I’m thinking of writing a post about my experience doing an economics PhD with EA motivations. I think this might be interesting to people considering a career in research and especially in social science research, given that this is a career path 80k hours has discussed in the past (e.g. “Economics PhD the only one worth getting?”). I don’t have an overarching thesis, so this would be more of a collection of observations—what it’s like, what’s good about it, what’s bad about it.