Admitted Students

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 contact me at samuel.kortum@yale.edu, (203) 432-6217, or we can set up a Zoom. I am personally looking forward to hearing from you.

Regards,

Samuel Kortum
Chair, Department of Economics

Sam Kortum

Please join us for Prospective Students Days on April 7-8, 2026!

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.

Tuesday, April 7

Time	Title	Location
12:00 - 3:45 PM	Lunches & Workshops Welcome to sit in
12:00 - 1:00 PM	International and Spatial Economics Lunch	28 Hillhouse Ave Room A06
	Labor / Public Economics Workshop	87 Trumbull Street Room B120
	Microeconomic Theory Lunch	28 Hillhouse Ave Room A106
2:30 - 3:45 PM	Macroeconomics Workshop	87 Trumbull Street Room B120
	Industrial Organization Seminar	School of Management 165 Whitney Ave 2400 Class of 1980 Classroom
4:15 - 5:15 PM	Faculty Panel on Navigating the Economics Ph.D. Panelists: Lauren Falcao Bergquist, Joel Flynn, Cody Cook	87 Trumbull Street Room 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

Wednesday, April 8

Time	Title	Location
8:00 - 8:30 AM	Continental Breakfast	87 Trumbull Street B120 Atrium
8:30 - 9:00 AM	Welcome Session Sam Kortum (Department Chair) Yuichi Kitamura (Director of Graduate Studies)	87 Trumbull Street Room B120
9:00 - 9:30 AM	Field Presentations
	Development / Political Economy / Economic History / Environmental Faculty presenters: Leah Boustan, Mushfiq Mobarak	87 Trumbull Street Room B120
	Macro-Finance Faculty presenter: John Geanakoplos	28 Hillhouse Ave Room A106
9:30 - 10:45 AM	Scheduled Office Hours	Faculty Offices
9:30 - 10:45 AM	Campus Tour	Corner of Trumbull Street & Hillhouse Ave
10:50 - 12:15 PM	Field Presentations
10:50 - 11:10 AM	Macroeconomics Faculty presenter: Pascual Restrepo	28 Hillhouse Ave Room A106
	Industrial Organization Faculty presenter: Phil Haile	87 Trumbull Street Room B120
11:10 - 11:30 AM	Refreshment Break	87 Trumbull Street B120 Atrium
11:30 - 11:50 AM	Microeconomic Theory Faculty presenters: Marina Halac, Elliot Lipnowski Student presenter: Hongcheng Li	87 Trumbull Street Room B120
	International Trade / Spatial Economics Faculty presenter: Amit Khandelwal	28 Hillhouse Ave Room A106
11:55 - 12:15 PM	Labor Economics / Public Finance Faculty presenters: Janet Currie, Joseph Altonji	87 Trumbull Street Room B120
	Econometrics Faculty presenter: Ed Vytlacil	28 Hillhouse Ave Room A106
12:15 - 1:30 PM	Lunch and Panel on Placement and Resources for Research & Collaboration Giuseppe Moscarini (Placement Director) Dirk Bergemann (Center for Algorithms, Data and Market Design) Samuel Kortum (Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics) Steven Berry (Tobin Center for Economic Policy) Rohini Pande (Economic Growth Center) Costas Arkolakis (Center for Geospatial Solutions)	87 Trumbull Street Room B120
1:30 - 4:00 PM	Scheduled Office Hours	Faculty Offices
1:45 - 2:30 PM	Ph.D. Program Overview w/Q&A Yuichi Kitamura (Director of Graduate Studies), Bronwen MacArthur (Graduate Registrar)	87 Trumbull Street Room B120
3:00 - 4:30 PM	Seminar in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics Welcome to sit in	195 Prospect Street Room 321
4:00 - 5:30 PM	Coffee and Panel Discussion with Graduate Students Student Panelists: Olivia Ding, Michelle Hyun, Jared Stolove, Jingyi Cui	87 Trumbull Street Room 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 7:00 PM	The Elm City Club 155 Elm Street

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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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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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:

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John Geanakoplos giving an overview of the program to accepted students at Visit Day 2023

Two students chatting in classroom B120 during Visit Day 2023

Charles Hodgson giving an overview of the program to accepted students at Visit Day 2023

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