@michael Sorry my initial reply didn’t seem to go through on this.
Unfortunately this was just a preliminary study looking to identify which skills were needed by the majority and we didn’t go into greater granularity than prioritising skill sets individuals could have which would benefit both the individual organisations and secondly the animal movement as a whole (the later is where the majority voted for economist skill set) and the inference was for breadth in economics.
It does look like Samara answered in more detail below on how it can be beneficial.
We will be continuing the survey and publishing full results approx 1 month later. From here should economics be a priority skill set we will look to do deeper research and hopefully i will have more details for you. Is there a specific reason for your question and perhaps i can be more helpful in future?
I’ve been considering further studies in economics, including a PhD or just more breadth, specifically for work in animal advocacy. I don’t currently have very much background in economics (2nd-year micro, an essay-based health economics course, and some causal inference from graduate-level statistics courses, but these courses were more conceptual and not very hands-on).
@michael Sorry my initial reply didn’t seem to go through on this.
Unfortunately this was just a preliminary study looking to identify which skills were needed by the majority and we didn’t go into greater granularity than prioritising skill sets individuals could have which would benefit both the individual organisations and secondly the animal movement as a whole (the later is where the majority voted for economist skill set) and the inference was for breadth in economics.
It does look like Samara answered in more detail below on how it can be beneficial.
We will be continuing the survey and publishing full results approx 1 month later. From here should economics be a priority skill set we will look to do deeper research and hopefully i will have more details for you. Is there a specific reason for your question and perhaps i can be more helpful in future?
Thanks for the response. :)
I’ve been considering further studies in economics, including a PhD or just more breadth, specifically for work in animal advocacy. I don’t currently have very much background in economics (2nd-year micro, an essay-based health economics course, and some causal inference from graduate-level statistics courses, but these courses were more conceptual and not very hands-on).