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Now I'm inordinately curious how many other economics PhDs and professors visit here, between your comment and Amazon's hiring under Pat Bajari.
by tomrod 5y ago
Now I'm inordinately curious how many other economics PhDs and professors visit here, between your comment and Amazon's hiring under Pat Bajari.
- gmac 5y agoOne additional data point: I'm approximately an associate professor of economics in North American terms. Also curious how many of us there are here. As it happens, one of my colleagues was recently hired by Amazon (quite nearly appending an extra zero to their salary in the process).
- bachmeier 5y agoAmazon is the second largest employer of economists, behind only the Fed: https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/13/tech/amazon-economists/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/13/tech/amazon-economists/index.... I've talked to several big names that have told me about megaoffers from Amazon. (They probably don't care if people know, since they told me, but I'm not going to name them.)
- lukas099 5y agoWhat does an Amazon economist do?
- huitzitziltzin 5y agoThey hire in three buckets: - Time series forecasting. - Reduced-form causal inference - Structural, especially what is called "structural IO". Among the questions people in the last category will answer are: how should we price this product? How should we decide which new markets to enter?
- bachmeier 5y agoQuite a few, but the benefit of participating in discussions about economics on HN is less than the opportunity cost. As economics is heavily computational, HN is as natural a fit for an economics PhD as a CS PhD.
- dash2 5y agoChecking in. I did my PhD in polisci, but invaded.
- pkofod 5y agoEcon PhD here! Also IO.
- huitzitziltzin 5y agoPlease chime in if you think anything that I said is wrong.
- jriot 5y agoFinished my masters in economics. Went on to do my PhD in economics but dropped by the end of the first semester. Realized it was going to be too much with a young family at the time.
- em500 5y agoPhD economics/econometrics, ex-research economist, turned machine learning engineer. In my personal experience the mathiness in both fields are comparable, but pay-to-effort ratio was much better in machine learning.