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We hope this is useful to both JMCs and early career scholars honing their skills on marketing a paper. Job Market PaperĪshley Bradford a PhD student at Indiana University. Job Market paperĪlistair Macaulay a postdoc at St.

Laura Montenovo a PhD student at Indiana University. We have four candidates who have share their pitches with us:

Our second panelist is Zach Bethune, an associate professor of economics at Rice University. Our first panelist is Mary Eschelbach Hansen, she is a professor of economics at American University.

#Secret curriculum how to#

It is not easy and there are many takes on how to get this done, this is why in this episode we have the hot takes from two professors. Usually job market candidates have to 'craft' a pitch since they'll be constantly asked about their job market paper. The 'elevator' pitch is an idea whose objective is to talk about a particular paper to motivate a conversation. This week we have a special episode! We invite a couple of job market candidates to give us their pitch and we have a panel of judges identifying the great things about each pitch and broad lessons for everyone who is crafting the pitch for their paper.