Admitted Students
Congratulations on your acceptance to the Yale Department of Economics!
All of us in the Department hope that you will accept our offer, and encourage you to learn more about the program and Yale below.
In the meantime, if you have any questions about Yale, New Haven, or anything about the Department of Economics, please do not hesitate to email me at tony.smith@yale.edu (and/or we can set up a phone conversation). I am personally looking forward to hearing from you.
Regards,
Tony Smith
Chair, Department of Economics
Plan Your Visit
Please join us for Prospective Students Days on April 1-2!
Join us in the afternoon on Tuesday, April 1 and all day Wednesday, April 2. The days will consist of informational panels, field presentations, office hours with faculty, tours, and opportunities to meet faculty, other admitted students and current students.
Mark your calendar and check back soon for more information.
Tuesday, April 1
| Time | Title | Location |
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12:00 - 1:00 PM |
Field Lunches |
28 Hillhouse Ave & 87 Trumbull Street Various Classrooms |
| 2:30 - 3:45 PM | Macro Workshop Welcome to sit in |
87 Trumbull Street B120 |
| 4:15 - 5:15 PM | Faculty Panel on Navigating the Economics Ph.D. | 87 Trumbull Street B120 |
| 5:15 - 5:45 PM | Refreshments | 87 Trumbull Street B120 Atrium |
| 6:00 - 9:00 PM | Dinner with Current Graduate Students 21 & over event - bring ID w/date of birth |
BAR 254 Crown Street |
Wednesday, April 2
| Time | Title | Location |
| 8:00 - 8:30 AM | Continental Breakfast | 87 Trumbull Street B120 Atrium |
| 8:30 - 9:00 AM | Welcome Session | 87 Trumbull Street B120 |
| 9:00 - 10:30 AM | Campus Tour | Corner of Trumbull St & Hillhouse Ave |
| 10:30 - 12:10 PM |
Field Presentations |
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| 10:30 - 10:50 AM | Development/Political Economy/Economic History/Environmental |
87 Trumbull Street B120 |
| Econometrics | 28 Hillhouse Ave A106 |
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| 10:50 - 11:10 AM | Macroeconomics | 28 Hillhouse Ave A106 |
| Industrial Organization | 87 Trumbull Street B120 |
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| 11:10 - 11:30 AM | Refreshment Break | 87 Trumbull Street B120 Atrium |
| 11:30 - 11:50 AM | Microeconomic Theory | 87 Trumbull Street B120 |
| International Trade/Spatial Economics | 28 Hillhouse Ave A106 |
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| 11:50 - 12:10 PM | Labor Economics/Public Finance | 87 Trumbull Street B120 |
| Macro-Finance | 28 Hillhouse Ave A106 |
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| 12:15 - 1:30 PM | Lunch and Panel on Placement and Resources for Research & Collaboration |
87 Trumbull Street B120 |
| 1:30 - 4:00 PM | Scheduled Office Hours | Faculty Offices |
| Staff Panels | 87 Trumbull Street B120 |
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| 4:00 - 5:30 PM | Coffee and Panel Discussion with Graduate Students | 87 Trumbull Street B120 |
| 5:30 - 6:30 PM | Faculty/Graduate Student Happy Hour | 87 Trumbull Street B120 Atrium |
| 6:30 - 8:30 PM | Dinner with Faculty Walk to Elm City Club. Dinner Seating at 7:00PM |
The Elm City Club 155 Elm St |
About the Program
Economics at Yale is a challenging and rigorous center for research and teaching in economics, led by a distinguished and accessible faculty in a friendly, supportive environment. Our teaching faculty (not counting visitors or graduate student teaching assistants) numbers 66 making it one of the largest economics departments in the United States. With about 130 Ph.D. students in residence our teacher/student ratio is very high.
The Department of Economics is also home to three centers that conduct, fund, and promote cutting edge research across multiple fields domestically and internationally. Working across disciplines and policy issue areas, and through meaningful policy partnerships, the centers also work to advance a research- and data-driven policy debate.
Meet Your Classmates
See our full graduate student directory here.
Learn about this year's Ph.D. Job Market Candidates, and see where our recent Ph.D. graduates have been placed.
We encourage you to read profiles of current and recent graduate students:
Meet Our Faculty
See our full list of faculty, along with their fields of interest. Explore faculty research here.
Get to know our faculty through recent news stories and features:
About New Haven
"Connecticut’s third-largest city is a historic, mostly walkable and bikeable seaside town with distinctive neighborhoods, an encyclopedic collection of great American architecture, a thriving cultural life and one of the best food scenes in the country for a city of its size (134,000)." Read more about New Haven in the New York Times' 52 Places to Go.
Yale graduate students have many options for affordable, comfortable, and convenient places to live in greater New Haven while at Yale. You can live on-campus, in Yale-owned off-campus apartments, or in off-campus apartment buildings and homes in several neighborhoods. While most graduate students live on or near campus in New Haven, some live in surrounding towns and commute to campus. Read more about life in New Haven.
Additional Resources
We encourage you to explore these additional Yale resources:
Questions?
If you have additional questions regarding your offer of admission or visiting Yale, please reach out to any of us below:
- Yuichi Kitamura, Director of Graduate Studies: yuichi.kitamura@yale.edu
- Mushfiq Mobarak, Admissions Committee Chair: ahmed.mobarak@yale.edu
- Costas Arkolakis, Professor of Economics: costas.arkolakis@yale.edu
- Rohini Pande, Henry J. Heinz II Professor of Economics: rohini.pande@yale.edu
- Bronwen MacArthur, Graduate Registrar: bronwen.macarthur@yale.edu