MS ECONOMICS

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The job outlook for economics-related occupations is growing faster than average due to increasing demand for quantitative skills and critical reasoning associated with training in economics.

M.S. Economics graduates will be high-level quantitative economists with the ability to analyze complex policy issues using modern data analysis and econometric methods. Graduates will not only have the technical skills in demand by national employers, they will be able to apply their learning to a large and diverse set of policy issues within our areas of program expertise, such as public finance, health economics, and regional economics.

In the M.S. Economics, students will develop skills not limited to the following abilities:

• Explain the choices of economic factors, such as consumers and firms, using microeconomic theory.
• Evaluate the impacts of imperfectly competitive markets and government intervention on society and groups with society.
• Synthesize the current state of knowledge on a policy.
• Describe the efficient structure, storage, and usage of administrative data.
• Build theoretically sound econometric models.
• Employ R to obtain parameter estimates of magnitude and empirical relevance, and
• Produce clear and straightforward summaries of empirical results across a number of written contexts.