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The Economics Program of the Research School of Social Science has a number of PhD scholarships available which must be taken up by the end of August 2008. The scholarships are available to Australian citizens, Australian permanent residents and New Zealand citizens. The value of the stipend is $20,000 per annum for 3 years, subject to satisfactory progress. The Economics Program may be willing to top up this stipend for exceptional students. For further details, please contact Professor Alison Booth, Head of the Economics Program, at Alison.booth@anu.edu.au or telephone 02 6125 5908. |
| Opportunities for PhD students |
The Economics Program in RSSS welcomes well qualified students who are interested in undertaking PhDs in Economics, particularly in the areas of theoretical and applied microeconomics, microeconometrics, economic policy and economic history. Areas of particular interest to supervising staff include the economics of labour, health, immigration, education and inequality, as well as topics such as social policy evaluation and Australian income support. Click here for general enquiries about the ANU PhD Program in Economics For enquiries about PhD supervision in Economics RSSS, contact Professor Tim Hatton at: For further information
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| The Graduate School and the Economics Program |
| The Graduate Program in Economics at the Australian National University is the largest in Australia and brings together some of the country's most noted economists in the fields of economic theory, applied economics, econometrics, international economics, economics of the Asia-Pacific region, economic history and economics of development. The Program draws on the expertise of economists located in the College of Business and Economics, the Research School of Social Sciences (RSSS), the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (RSPAS), and the Crawford School of Economics and Government. It attracts graduate students from many countries and from around Australia. The Graduate Program aims to equip students with the intellectual background to enable them to undertake research in all major branches of economics. It includes a coursework component in most degrees which enables students to deepen their understanding and work with the latest developments in the areas of theoretical micro and macro economics and econometrics. The diversity of fields covered by the participating departments and centres means that students can choose courses and research topics from a wide range of sub-disciplines. |
| Doctoral Study in Economics RSSS |
Students usually arrive during late summer-February/March when the Australian academic year commences. Two to three students join the Program each year, and the total group varies between nine and twelve. Students come from around Australia and from overseas. There is a fairly even gender mix. New PhD students are allocated a desk, usually in a shared room, and a computer when they arrive at the Program. PC and Mac users are catered for, and good IT support is available. All students have access to the 'essential' facilities of the Economics Program (telephone, photocopying, e-mail, laser printers, software, stationery, newspapers) and to a range of Australian and international databases. These include the Australian Census, Household Expenditure Survey, Income and Housing Survey, Australian Longitudinal Survey, OECD Main Economic Indicators, US Current Population Survey, US National Longitudinal Survey, UK General Household Survey. Students, of course, also have access to the wider facilities of ANU. Most new students are required to do some examined coursework during their first year. The coursework component, which includes students from all over the campus, is taught mainly by economists in the College of Business and Economics. At the research stage (the major component of the PhD) each student in Economics RSSS is allocated a principal supervisor, usually a member of the Economics RSSS staff, and a panel of at least two advisers. Students are also encouraged to take advantage of the wider economics community. The culture of the Program (and ANU generally) is such that any staff member may be approached for advice on methods or topics on which they have expertise. The Program is also hosts a steady stream of eminent academic visitors (from within Australia and overseas) for periods ranging from a few days up to one year. These visitors often provide different perspectives and they are usually available for formal or informal discussions. Recent visitors to the Program have included Bobbi Wolfe (Wisconsin), Bob Haveman (Wisconsin), Jeff Williamson (Harvard), Patricia Apps (Sydney), Christian Dustmann (UC London), Gillian Hamilton (Toronto), Michael Baker (Toronto), Rob Fairlie (UC Santa Cruz), and Dan Hammermesh (Texas). |
| PhD Workshop |
| An important feature of the ANU Graduate Program is the weekly PhD Workshop where students present their own work. Students are expected to present up to three seminars each year, which requires producing a paper and a 45 minute presentation. Although this may sound a lot, seminars are expected to report on work in progress and need not be finished or polished work. Staff and students from the Program attend the seminars. In addition, visitors, general staff from ANU and occasionally government officers may also attend. The workshops provide an excellent way of reviewing your research and gaining invaluable advice. PhD students at the Program are also encouraged to participate in conferences at other universities. Funding support is available to paper presenters. |
| Annual PhD Conference in Economics and Business |
| Each year the Economic Research Centre of the University of Western Australia (UWA), in conjunction with the Centre for Economic Policy Research (the economic policy research arm of Economics RSSS) organises an biennial PhD Conference in Economics and Business. This meeting, run alternately at ANU Canberra and UWA Perth, provides an excellent opportunity for 2nd and 3rd year doctoral students to discuss their research with a group of senior research economists--who attend as invited discussants of the contributed papers--and with other doctoral students from around Australia. The Conference has a three major aims: to provide some outside comment on dissertation work prior to submission, to enable students to meet economists especially well qualified to comment on their work, and to act as an early job market. |
| Opportunities to publish |
Where appropriate, PhD students are encouraged to publish their work in either the Working Papers in Economics and Economics series (for more theoretical studies) or in the Centre for Economic Policy Research Discussion Paper series (for more applied, policy oriented studies). In the final stages of their research, students are also encouraged to submit papers based on their thesis research for publication in international scholarly journals. |
