Events & Activities
ONGOING ACTIVITIES
Mentoring for Master students at the IDEA program (UAB)
To foster networking between cohorts and support master students at IDEA to navigate successfully through their master with advice by assigned PhD students at IDEA.
If you are an IDEA master student and want to participate feel free to drop us an email at econisers.idea@gmail.com and we will assign you a mentor!
Reading Club at the IDEA program (UAB)
Students from the IDEA community present well-published papers in the fields of macroeconomics, microeconomics and applied economics followed by a discussion with their peers and junior faculty members.
PAST EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES
Webinar Series on the Econ Job Market
Speakers:
Spoke about her experience on the job market, during her PhD at IDEA and mental health.
Shared their experiences on the job market (Europe and the US) and advice on how to write a good job market paper and their path to it.
Gave insights in the econ job market from the hiring perspective, elaborated on the pieces of a successful application and their importance as well as the value of networking.
Shared his perspective on the econ job market enriched by his experiences on hiring committees. He described what departments normally look for in a candidate and who might be a good referee.
Annalisa Loviglio and Michele Fabi
Annalisa and Michele spoke about their experiences on the market as well as what they learned about the market after being hired. Additionally, they shared their views on what to look out for when applying and how a less popular topic affects your application.
Since Inês and Sven both have experience in applying to international organizations and the private sector, they gave invaluable tips on how to approach outside of academia options and how they experienced the market applying with a wider profile.
Julia spoke to us about her role at the IMF and how roles at such institutions can differ from traditional academic environments. In addition, she discussed how thinking about what one might want from a job can help choose steps after the PhD.
Webinar Series on Research Practices & Mental Health
Speakers:
Alex Hollingsworth and Sebastian Tello-Trillo
Described their working routines and gave tips for workload management and how to stay motivated when doing research. Go check out their podcast The Hidden curriculum for more amazing tips on workload management, research practices and insights in the world of academia!
Arushi Gangaher
Is a psychotherapist, finishing her PhD in Clinical Psychology at Amity University, India. She talked about the psychological difficulties PhD students face and how to tackle them. A special focus was procrastination and self-doubt.
Spoke about writing policy pieces and how they differ and are similar to academic writing. In addition, spoke about how she manages several papers and commitments at the same time. And how she decides whether a paper is worth pushing forward with.
Allison shared her experiences and tips on going to the market twice, how to set your priorities and how to get your research out there and make yourself known as well as the advantages of liberal arts colleges.
Pedro spoke to us about the differences between academic and industry research and the pros and cons of each field. He also discussed his decision to go from a European PhD programme to the US job market.
Webinar Series on Networking, Presenting and Publishing
Speakers:
Luis spoke about how to build a network, how to prepare for and thereby smartly use seminars and meetings with other collogues to advance your research and promote your work. Further, he elaborated on finding co-authors and related activities.
Abel gave insights on publishing in economics, typical beginners' mistakes when sending papers to journals and his experiences with his papers on publishing bias and p-hacking. Further, he talked about how he finds topics and keeps his enthusiasm by sharing tasks with his co-authors.
Michael had insights on how we should be approaching our research with specific emphasis on how to present our research especially, if one is working on policy relevant topics. He also spoke about what the focus should be, in the initial years of being a researcher.
Reading Club at UAB
Presenters and the papers presented so far:
Gabriela Stockler
"Long-Run Growth of Financial Data Technology" by Maryam Farboodi and Laura Veldkamp
"Identification and Estimation of Dynamic Games When Players’ Beliefs Are Not in Equilibrium" by Victor Aguirregabiria and Arvind Magesan
"Like Attract Like? A Structural Comparison of Homogamy across Same-Sex and Different-Sex Households" by Edoardo Ciscato, Alfred Galichon, and Marion Goussé