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All entering students must have earned a bachelor's degree or its international equivalent prior to enrolling at the Graduate School. You may submit an application before receiving your degree, or while your degree is still in progress, as long as the degree will be completed prior to matriculation.
Some countries grant an undergraduate or bachelor's-equivalent degree in three years. In such cases, completion of a three-year degree will meet the application requirement.
TOEFL or IELTS is required of almost all applicants whose native language is not English.
If you have received (or will receive) an undergraduate degree from a college or university where English is the primary language of instruction, you are exempt from the English Language Test requirement and are not required to submit the TOEFL or IELTS. You must have studied in residence at the undergraduate institution for at least three years to qualify. No exemptions are made on the basis of an advanced degree (e.g., MA/MS or PhD) from any institution. For more information, please see Standardized Test Requirements .
Although the Graduate School does not have test minimums for admission, individual departments may have a minimum requirement and will use these scores when they review your application. Please check with the department or program to which you are applying to see if it has a minimum requirement. The Graduate School requires incoming doctoral students who received a score of 25 or below on the TOEFL Speaking section or a 7.5 or below on the IELTS Speaking section to participate in a Summer English Language program at Yale in August prior to matriculation. These students are required to demonstrate English proficiency before they are permitted to teach.
All PhD and Master's students begin their studies at Yale in the fall term. No spring term entry is permitted. Application for admission to any of the Graduate School's programs begins in the summer or fall of the academic year prior to the one in which you propose to matriculate. Please submit your application by the program deadline .
The Office of International Students and Scholars (OISS) serves as the immigration adviser for all entering international students and their accompanying family members. Beginning in March, OISS will contact you with the necessary visa and immigration information if you have accepted Yale's offer of admission.
You may self-report a GPA and GPA scale in the “Academic History” section of the application. Please do not convert or recalculate your GPA. If your college or university does not report or compute a GPA, you should omit it.
All academic records and letters of recommendation uploaded to your application must be in English or accompanied by an English translation.
International students are eligible to request a fee waiver .
Financial economics encompasses a broad area of topics and issues, including corporate investments and financing policy, security valuation, portfolio management, the behavior of prices in speculative markets, financial institutions, and intermediation.
The PhD specialization in finance is designed to give the student a strong background for study and research in both theoretical and empirical work in finance and related areas. Emphasis is placed on understanding the important concepts and models. Students normally take several graduate courses in the Department of Economics, particularly in microeconomics and macroeconomic theory, the economics of uncertainty, and econometrics.
The program offers two courses specifically in financial theory and its applications. In addition, the faculty and doctoral students attend a seminar that features speakers from around the country. However, the specialization is built primarily around individual study and research under the guidance of the faculty.
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Students applying from abroad follow the same procedure and have essentially the same application requirements as all other students.
For a list of these requirements and instructions visit Application Instructions & Components . Since some of these requirements may be unfamiliar to international students, additional information is provided here.
Yale will accept any one of these applications, without preference for one over another. Students should submit one—and only one—application per admissions cycle.
$80 application fee or fee waiver, recommendations from two teachers and one counselor, school report with transcript.
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Please note that if your application materials include any documents that are not in English, you must provide an official English translation in addition to the original documents.
Applicants should pay the $80 application fee via the Common Application or Coalition Application website.
Applicants using the Common Application or Coalition Application may request that the application fee be waived. Learn more on the fee waiver page. The fee waiver scale is based on family size and income in US dollars but is applicable to all international students.
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School Report forms and transcripts must be submitted directly from an applicant’s school. Educational support program counselors (such as EducationUSA advisors and others) may provide supplemental recommendations, and they and may be able to advise school officials on compiling documents, but only school officials should submit required application materials.
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TOEFL Test of English as a Foreign Language
The TOEFL requires pre-registration for available testing dates. Yale’s most competitive applicants have scores of at least 100 on the internet-based TOEFL.
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DET Duolingo English Test
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Department of Economics / Department of Economics is located in New Haven, CT, in an urban setting.
Degrees offered.
Degree | Concentration | Sub-concentration |
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Master of Arts (MA) | International and development economics | |
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) | Economics |
Degree | Number Awarded |
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Master's Degrees | 33 |
Doctoral Degrees | 21 |
Evening/weekend programs available? | No |
Terminal master's degree available? |
Degree | Requirement |
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Doctoral Degrees | Entrance Exam GRE General Test, GRE Subject Test Thesis Required |
Application deadlines.
Type | Domestic | International | Priority date |
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Fall deadline | January 2nd | Not reported | No |
Exam | Details | |
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Master's Degree Exam | GRE General Test | '); |
Doctoral Degree Exam | GRE General Test, GRE Subject Test | '); |
Financial support.
Types of financial support available | Institutionally-sponsored Loans Federal Work-Study Financial support for part-time students |
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Race/ethnicity.
Hispanic/Latino | 0.85% |
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Black or African American | 0% |
White or Caucasian | 14% |
American Indian or Alaska Native | 0% |
Asian | 5.08% |
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | Not Reported |
Two or more races | Not Reported |
Unknown | 0.85% |
Focus of faculty research: | Economic history of Western Europe, environmental economics, economic growth and development |
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Externally sponsored research expenditures last year: | 0 |
The Department of Economics is excited to welcome five new professors to its faculty this fall, and one new Postdoctoral Associate who will later join as a faculty member.
These esteemed scholars bring a wealth of expertise and diverse perspectives that will create exciting new research opportunities within the Department, enrich our teaching curriculum, and contribute to the vibrant Yale economics community. We are thrilled to have them join our faculty!
The new faculty members are Professor Timothy Christensen , an econometrician, Assistant Professor Mayara Felix , a trade and development economist, Assistant Professor Joel Flynn , a macroeconomist and economic theorist, Associate Professor Elliot Lipnowski , an economic theorist, and Associate Professor Pascual Restrepo , a macroeconomist and labor economist. We also welcome Cody Cook , a labor and public economist, who will serve as a Cowles Foundation Postdoctoral Associate this year and then join the faculty as an Assistant Professor in the 2025-26 academic year. You can read more about their backgrounds and research below.
Looking forward, Bentley MacLeod , a labor economist, will join as a Visiting Professor and Senior Research Scientist, starting in Spring 2025. Finally, starting in the 2025-26 academic year, we are also excited to welcome Janet Currie , a renowned public economist, to our faculty.
Timothy Christensen joins the Department as a Professor of Economics. Before joining Yale, he was a Professor of Economics at University College London. He received a PhD in Economics from Yale in 2014. His research interests lie broadly across theoretical and applied econometrics, financial econometrics, and statistics/data science. His most recent research is at the intersection of econometrics and machine learning, where he works on the integration of unstructured data into quantitative economic modeling. He has been awarded grants by the National Science Foundation and the European Research Council.
Mayara Felix joins the Department as an Assistant Professor, after completing the 2023-2024 year as a Cowles Foundation Postdoctoral Associate. Her research is in the fields of development and international trade. She studies policies intended to improve market efficiency, such as import tariff reductions, free trade agreements, and outsourcing. A special focus of her research is firms’ responses to these policies and their implications to competition, either in labor or product markets. She thus often borrows methods and insights from the fields of labor, public, and industrial organization. Mayara received a PhD in Economics from MIT in June 2021.
Joel Flynn joins the Department as an Assistant Professor, after completing the 2023-24 year as a Cowles Foundation Postdoctoral Associate. His research is in macroeconomics and economic theory with an emphasis on business cycles and mechanism design. He has recently studied how economic uncertainty affects the transmission of monetary policy and how viral economic narratives cause macroeconomic boom-bust cycles. His mechanism design research has focused on the optimal design of two-sided matching markets and optimal contracting when contracts are incomplete. Joel graduated from MIT with a PhD in Economics in June 2023.
Elliot Lipnowski joins the Department as an Associate Professor, studying microeconomic theory. His interests include information design, mechanism design, dynamic games, organizational economics, and strategic uncertainty. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Waterloo and his PhD at the Stern School of Business at New York University. Before joining Yale, he was a faculty member at the University of Chicago and at Columbia University. He currently serves as an associate editor at Theoretical Economics and at Econometrica .
Pascual Restrepo joins the Department as an Associate Professor. Prior to Yale, Restrepo was a Professor at Boston University. He completed a PhD in Economics at MIT and a Postdoc at the Cowles Foundation at Yale. His research explores the implications of technological change for inequality and productivity. His most recent work studies the development and adoption of new automation technologies and how they have affected the economy, firms, and labor markets.
Cody Cook joins the Department as a Cowles Postdoctoral Associate before joining as an Assistant Professor in July 2025. He is an economist who works at the intersection of public, urban, and labor economics, often focusing on the design and evaluation of policies affecting inequality in cities. His research combines large-scale datasets with tools adapted from industrial organization. Some of his recent work has studied the tradeoffs of building affordable housing in different types of neighborhoods, the distributional effects of congestion pricing, and how preferences for neighborhood amenities vary by household income. He holds a PhD from Stanford GSB.
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Application Procedures. APPLICATION PROCEDURES. Prospective applicants can apply to the Ph.D. Program in Economics using the following options that can be found on the Please be aware the application deadline for the Economics Department Ph.D. program is December 1, 2023. On-line applications are accepted by the Yale Graduate School.
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Application Procedure. If you are interested in applying for the program, please visit the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) Admissions website. All questions specific to the admissions process should be directed to GSAS Admissions at [email protected] . Below is only a brief outline that may be out-of-date.
Students are recommended to the graduate school for admission to candidacy by vote of the Department of Economics faculty after having completed requirements (2.1), (2.2), and (2.3) above, the graduate school's prospectus requirement, and the following additional requirements.
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The IDE program at Yale University, housed within the Economic Growth Center (EGC) and the Department of Economics, is a one-year Masters program intended to help students build the necessary toolkit for embracing such obstacles in their future careers, whether as career practitioners and economic analysts or to follow a path through the policy analysis field on their way to subsequent Ph.D. work.
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The Department of Economics offers a one-year program of study in International & Development Economics, leading to the Master of Arts degree. IDE students are diverse in terms of their nationalities and their career paths. Many of our students now come directly from their undergraduate school or a few years of work experience, although we do not exclude any candidate on the basis of work ...
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Yale will accept any one of these applications, without preference for one over another. Students should submit one—and only one—application per admissions cycle. Additional requirements for all first-year applicants: $80 application fee or fee waiver. Recommendations from two teachers and one counselor.
Degrees Offered. Degree. Concentration. Sub-concentration. Master of Arts (MA) International and development economics. Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Economics.
Timothy Christensen joins the Department as a Professor of Economics. Before joining Yale, he was a Professor of Economics at University College London. He received a PhD in Economics from Yale in 2014. His research interests lie broadly across theoretical and applied econometrics, financial econometrics, and statistics/data science.
The annual application deadline for the Graduate Program in Anthropology is December 15th. To apply, please use the application system available at the GSAS admissions web page. Graduate applicants should provide one writing sample with their application. Please limit samples to no more than 40 pages, double spaced.