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Starting Your Research

Mentorship & Feedback

Faculty support for graduate students via regular advising and early feedback on research ideas is key to graduate students’ ability to produce high quality research. This belief is reflected in our graduate program in the following ways:

  • Each graduate student is paired with a first-year advisor from day one.
  • Weekly field breakfasts and lunches provide spaces to present your research and receive feedback from peers and faculty.  
  • Weekly workshop series and seminars allow students to present and prepare for the job market.

More broadly, we consider graduate students as an integral part of the department academic community very seriously. In addition to advising and meeting students on a regular basis, graduate students very often co-author with each other and with faculty.

Research Fellowships

Department faculty often hire students as research assistants either part-time or full-time.  During this academic year there are seven students supported as full-time research assistants where this funding replaces the need to serve as a teaching fellow.  In the summer of 2020, twenty-five students were supported as part-time research assistants for faculty. 
 

Research Centers & Funding

Yale is home to multiple centers engaged with economic research, and many of these also provide funding opportunities.

 

High quality research requires resources; be it for the acquisition of data, conference travel or purchasing a particular software.  We therefore offer a variety of travel grants and research support to ensure that each and every graduate student has access to sufficient resources necessary for their research:

 

The department and research centers host three annual lectures: