Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Economics

Estados Unidos

¿Qué aprenderé?

Our PhD program promotes practice-based scholarship that embraces the scientific method to better understand how people and societies make decisions.

Students are exposed to cutting-edge research in international economics and behavioral and applied microeconomics. Students are encouraged to collaborate with top scholars impacting the field today. Because we are an all-graduate student program, we mentor our students closely and prepare them for success in a competitive and fast-changing world. We have a long history of both influential research and of training students for careers in academia, government, and the private sector.

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

We closely mentor our students throughout their graduate school experience. CGU is an all-graduate institution & its core faculty are dedicated to enhancing our students’ success.
We offer an active intellectual environment through informal brainstorming groups, and formal workshops and seminars.
Students can get teaching and research assistantships at CGU and can also gain valuable teaching experience through lectureships in Los Angeles area colleges and universities.
Our apprentice/experienced practitioner educational model offers our students research experience by involving them in research projects that require problem solving and the application of analytical skills as well as the ability to effectively collaborate as a member of a research team.
As members of The Claremont Colleges, Economics PhD students have access to one-of-a-kind support from adjunct faculty and the Consortium’s infrastructure that prepare them for career success.


Research Opportunities

As a student in the Department of Economic Sciences, you will have the opportunity to contribute to faculty-led research opportunities that offer practice-oriented learning. Current project topics include:

Applied Microeconomics

Wellbeing evaluation: Aims at evaluating community-based health outcomes.
Behavioral nudges: Part of a project that aims at utilizing costless technology to nudge mobile clinic users to adopt healthy habits.
Effort and Risks: Uses data from professional football to look at effort, risk, and compensation.
Brain and choice: Aims at identifying neural predictors of consumption.
Retirement savings: Uses administrative survey data to predict savings and measures the mechanisms behind important behavioral biases.
Social networks: Involves experiments to identify the conditions necessary for coordinated behaviors within a social network such as Facebook.

International Economics

Capital flow reversals: Aims at identifying causes and effects of international capital flow surges and reversals.
Faulty mental models: Identifies the effects of behavioral biases on financial discipline during crises.
Migrants’ remittances: Studies the interaction of remittances flows and foreign direct investment on economic development.
Macroeconomic policy design: Studies the persistence of macroeconomic effects from participating in International Monetary Fund programs.

¿En cuál departamento estoy?

School of Social Science, Policy and Evaluation

Opciones de estudio

a tiempo completo (5 )

Costos de estudio
US$29.088,00 por año
USD $2,020 per unit

*El precio que se muestra es una referencia, por favor verificar con la institución

Aplicaciones hasta

5 July 2024, 15 November 2024

Fecha de inicio

26 Agosto 2024, 21 Enero 2025

Lugar

School of Social Science, Policy and Evaluation

150 E. 10th Street,

CLAREMONT,

California,

91711, United States

Requerimiento de entrada

Para estudiantes internacionales

CGU requires applicants to submit proof of a completed a bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited college or university. The school also requires a minimum standard of a B average in undergraduate coursework (3.0 on a 4.0 scale).

A minimum TOEFL score of 75 iBT, IELTS score of 6.0 or Pearson PTE score of 50 is required to be considered for admission to CGU through the International Scholars Program (ISP). A minimum TOEFL score of 95 iBT, IELTS score of 7.0 with no sub-score lower than 6.5 or Pearson PTE score of 66 is required for direct-entry admission.

Puede haber diferentes requisitos de IELTS en función del curso elegido.

AÑADIR A MIS FAVORITOS

Acerca de Claremont Graduate University

Ser parte de las prestigiosas facultades de la Claremont permite a los estudiantes de la CGU disfrutar el acceso a recursos y servicios superiores.

  • Una Educación Superior pionera
  • Ofrece cursos para industrias específicas
  • Profesores ampliamente reconocidos como líderes en sus campos
  • Todos los estudiantes son considerados para becas al mérito

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