I’m also interested in hearing the general survey replies to understand what specifics the movement as a whole is looking for.
Anecdotally, I’m the economist at The Humane League Labs, and I tend to get a broad range of questions about cost-benefit analysis, consumer preferences (and how to change them), market structures, impact analysis, etc. What I actually work on tends to be causal inference, which is a place where economists’ skills could be very helpful for the movement.
I have my PhD, and I know that my education level plus my research interests plus my alignment with the cause were the main factors in my hiring. I believe that high-level undergrads or masters students would be well equipped to answer general cost-benefit analysis and causal inference questions, though more specialized questions like firm competition models and counterfactual analysis using structural models would likely not be covered in their training. I think that there is a lot of work for people with broad backgrounds and interests to do.
I’ve spoken to a few EAA researcher departments who are looking to hire economists, and behavioral and agricultural backgrounds come up most often.
😊 well Thankyou very much for your response and video.
I’d love to speak more with you about this actually and your experience of how your skills have been and good be beneficial to get a better understanding.
As said above unfortunately this was just to understand priority skill gaps so then we can do a deeper dive.
Also anecdotally I’m not sure all organisations would know in detail how someone with your credentials could help them to their full extent.
I would be really interested in speaking to you further if you wouldn’t mind.
I’m also interested in hearing the general survey replies to understand what specifics the movement as a whole is looking for.
Anecdotally, I’m the economist at The Humane League Labs, and I tend to get a broad range of questions about cost-benefit analysis, consumer preferences (and how to change them), market structures, impact analysis, etc. What I actually work on tends to be causal inference, which is a place where economists’ skills could be very helpful for the movement.
I have my PhD, and I know that my education level plus my research interests plus my alignment with the cause were the main factors in my hiring. I believe that high-level undergrads or masters students would be well equipped to answer general cost-benefit analysis and causal inference questions, though more specialized questions like firm competition models and counterfactual analysis using structural models would likely not be covered in their training. I think that there is a lot of work for people with broad backgrounds and interests to do.
I’ve spoken to a few EAA researcher departments who are looking to hire economists, and behavioral and agricultural backgrounds come up most often.
😊 well Thankyou very much for your response and video.
I’d love to speak more with you about this actually and your experience of how your skills have been and good be beneficial to get a better understanding.
As said above unfortunately this was just to understand priority skill gaps so then we can do a deeper dive.
Also anecdotally I’m not sure all organisations would know in detail how someone with your credentials could help them to their full extent.
I would be really interested in speaking to you further if you wouldn’t mind.
I would be happy to speak with your further, especially to further the cause of getting more economists/social scientists hired! I’ll send you a PM.
Thanks for sharing this article and opening this discussion.