Introduction
I was recently asked to deliver a keynote speech on the “hidden curriculum” of economics at a mental healthcare conference. I usually consider the “hidden curriculum” as “all the stuff in economics they don’t teach in grad school but which is critical to success”. For an applied microeconomist like myself, this includes things like language agnostic programming skills, version control, empirical workflow and publishing.
But those topics did not seem especially relevant when speaking at a conference on the economics of mental health, so I decided to instead discuss the mental health of PhD students. In today’s substack, I would like to do that by talking about two studies: one on the mental health of all PhD students, and another one on the mental health of economics PhD students. The keynote video is embedded at the bottom of this substack entry.
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