1st Year Workshop

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# 1st Year Workshop
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## Who is here and who might leave?
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### Ian McCarthy, Emory University
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### Economics PhD Professionalism Workshop
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# What a great group!

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# Who are you?

- 11 selected out of **407** applicants!
- 6 Masters degrees
- 8 different countries, 5 different continents

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# Our goal

What a great, diverse group! We want **EVERYONE** to leave here with a PhD in Economics and on their way to the job that **THEY WANT**

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# Our reality

- But inevitably, not everyone finishes the program:
    - Awarded 91 Economics PhD degrees since 1993 and 31 Economics MA degrees
    - Cumulatively 61 people lost at various stages
    - 17% probability of failing the 1st-year core exams
    - 54% probability of leaving the program for any reason, at any time
- Who is in this 54%?

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# Who doesn't finish?

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# Who doesn't finish?

1. Match with a PhD
2. Match with the program
3. Allocation of effort

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# 1. Match with a PhD

- Challenge of graduate school can be a shock
- Academia is a unique work environment, may not fit with your prior
- People change and evolve

Knowing yourself and knowing the profession are important things. Leaving the program for these reasons is not what I would call a failure.

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# 2. Match with the program

- Interests don't align with available expertise
- Faculty move
- People change and evolve!
- Program is not supportive

These are clear failures, but they are failures on our part!

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# 3. Effort allocation

- Inefficient use of available time
- Not committed enough
- Burn out
    
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Very personal issues. Everyone works and handles stress differently. But we are here to help however we can.