MIT or Caltech or University of Chicago

elizabeththegrey
Fri, 08 Apr 2011 07:43:46 +0000

Caltech’s econ department is very small, and very focused on experiments. They do a lot of fMRI work (for which Caltech students get paid richly to volunteer), analyzing/scanning people as they make economic decisions or play economic games.

If that’s your thing, and you want to do research on how people actually make split-second decisions, Caltech would be a good match. If you’re interested in a broader program, Caltech’s econ program is probably not for you.