If I master econometrics,
what jobs can I get?

Our students, both undergraduate,
master's and PhD students

have a very well [ ] job market.

The traditional
non-academic job market

for an economics major
with quantitative skills

is kind of consulting, also finance.

What's happened
in the last 10 or 15 years

is this new sector has opened up.

Some people call it
the Silicon Valley sector,

Google, Facebook,
Uber, Netflix, Amazon--

they're hiring economists

with quantitative skills
for the most part,

now necessarily [ ]
econometricians,

but people who are good with data,

trained with data.

What's new about, say, Amazon,

as opposed to some
of these other employers

that have been around
for a long time,

is Amazon is asking fairly narrow

but very clearly causal questions
about their own world.

They have the data to answer them,

and they're prepared
to run experiments.

I now have three PhD students
who are working at Amazon.

It's apparently not okay
for them in any detail

about what they do there.

So when I asked them,
"What are you up to?"

they say, "We're running
experiments."

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