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Congratulations on your acceptance to the Yale Department of Economics!

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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

Tony Smith

Plan Your Visit

Please join us for Prospective Students Days on April 2-3! 

The days will consist of panels, meals, and meetings with students and faculty across fields at Yale.

Tuesday, April 2
Time Title Location

4:15 - 5:15 PM

Faculty Panel on Navigating the Economics Ph.D.
Panelists: Lauren Bergquist, Mira Frick, Charles Hodgson, Chris Neilson

 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 3
Time Title Location
8:00 - 8:30 AM Continental Breakfast 87 Trumbull Street
B120 Atrium
8:30 - 9:00 AM Welcome Session
Tony Smith (Department Chair)
Yuichi Kitamura (Director of Graduate Studies)
Rohini Pande (PhD Recruiting Committee Chair)		 87 Trumbull Street
B120
9:00 - 10:30 AM Campus Tour Corner of Trumbull St & Hillhouse Ave
10:30 - 12:10 PM

Field Presentations
10:30 - 10:50 AM Development/Political Economy/Economic
History/Environmental
Faculty presenters: José Espín-Sánchez, Nick Ryan		 87 Trumbull Street
B120
  Econometrics
Faculty presenters: Xiaohong Chen, Ed Vytlacil		 28 Hillhouse Ave
A106
10:50 - 11:10 AM Macroeconomics
Faculty presenter: Giuseppe Moscarini		 28 Hillhouse Ave
A106
  Industrial Organization
Faculty presenter: Katja Seim
Student presenter: Kyungho Lee		 87 Trumbull Street
B120
11:10 - 11:30 AM Refreshment Break 87 Trumbull Street
B120 Atrium
11:30 - 11:50 AM Microeconomic Theory
Faculty presenters: Marina Halac, Philipp Strack		 87 Trumbull Street
B120
  International Trade/Spatial Economics
Faculty presenter: Amit Khandelwal		 28 Hillhouse Ave
A106
11:50 - 12:10 PM Labor Economics/Public Finance
Faculty presenter: Cormac O’Dea		 87 Trumbull Street
B120
  Macro-Finance
Faculty presenters: Eduardo Dávila, John Geanakoplos		 28 Hillhouse Ave
A106
12:15 - 1:30 PM Lunch and Panel on Placement and Resources for
Research & Collaboration
Panelists: Fabrizio Zilibotti & John Eric Humphries (Placement
Directors)
Dirk Bergemann (Center for Algorithms, Data and Market Design)
Samuel Kortum (Cowles Foundation)
Steven Berry (Tobin Center)
Rohini Pande (Economic Growth Center)		 87 Trumbull Street
B120
1:30 - 4:00 PM Scheduled Office Hours Faculty Offices
  Reimbursement Paperwork
Bronwen MacArthur (Graduate Registrar) will be available to assist in reimbursement paperwork		 87 Trumbull Street
B120
4:00 - 5:30 PM Coffee and Panel Discussion with Graduate Students
Panelists: Ryungha Oh, Tan Gan, Sid Kankanala, Dana Scott		 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

 

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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.

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Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics
Conducting and encouraging research in economics.
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Tobin Center for Economic Policy
Advancing research and policy to strengthen families, communities, and the nation.
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Economic Growth Center
Supporting the economic advancement of poor and marginalized people in developing countries.
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Meet Your Classmates

See our full graduate student directory here. 

Learn about the 2023 Department of Economics PhD Graduates, including their achievements, thesis topics, and placements. Learn about this year's Ph.D. Job Market Candidates here.

We encourage you to read detailed profiles of current and recent graduate students here:

2022 economics 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: 

John Geanakoplos, the James Tobin Professor of Economics, was an inventor of collateral general equilibrium and the leverage cycle. Our award-winning faculty are inventors, founders, and research collaborators with our students.
John Geanakoplos giving an overview of the program to accepted students at Visit Day 2023
During Prospective Students Day, students have the opportunity to meet and interact with fellow classmates, faculty and staff that make up the Department of Economics. We encourage you to ask any questions that will help you get a better sense of what your experience here will be like.
Two students chatting in classroom B120 during Visit Day 2023
The Department and its affiliated centers are housed in a four-building complex on Hillhouse Avenue, dubbed by Charles Dickens as “the most beautiful street in America.” Our location offers unique classroom and collaboration spaces, ranging from intimate historic rooms to a large modern atrium.
Charles Hodgson giving an overview of the program to accepted students at Visit Day 2023

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. 

aerial view of New Haven
a walking path on the New Haven Green
The Shops at Yale in downtown 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: