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Repository for Steven Durlauf's presentation at the CSS Workshop (2/28/2019)
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A practical question #45

Open bethbailey opened 5 years ago

bethbailey commented 5 years ago

Thanks so much for presenting! I think this type of interdisciplinary work is really important.

My question is a practical one. Do you have any advice for people who are interested in doing this sort of social/sociology-inflicted economic research? What sort of training route should they follow in order to get both the theoretical sociology background and the formal economic training? How can researchers get more attention for this kind of work?

sdurlauf commented 5 years ago

I think the best strategy is to choose a standard disciplinary program (econ, sociology) that corresponds to your substantive interests, but to choose a department that is sympathetic to formal work and a university that has options for interactions across disciplines via programs and institutes such as the computation workshop. Econ journals are receptive to these tools and some sociology journals certainly are. But this is vague advice. What are your aspirations in this regard?