The Brover Fixed Effect
The Brover Fixed Effect is an educational podcast on the field of economics. I upload interviews as well as solo episodes on my experience as a student of economics, both during my time at the University of Pennsylvania and Yale University.
Episodes
11 episodes
Interview with Eli Locke, Postdoc at Northwestern Kellogg
In this interview, I chat with Eli Locke, a 6th year from Boston University (and incoming Postdoc at Northwestern University) about identifying questions in economic history, the 2024-2025 job market, good research and good "me-search." We disc...
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Interview with Jose Betancourt, Yale Physics PhD student
In this episode, I interview Jose Betancourt, my classmate in first year macro. Jose is econ-adjacent, having done an undergraduate degree and predoc program in economics. Jose and I discuss similarities and differences of the "economics approa...
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Interview with Ashmit Vyas, Analyst at HoustonKemp
In this episode, I interview my former Penn classmate Ashmit Vyas. We discuss Ashmit's education, memories from Penn, grad school, and his experience with consulting jobs. Thank you Ashmit for giving this interview!Keep up with me at my...
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58:18
Reflecting on my First Year of the Econ PhD
I go through my first year of the Economics PhD program at Yale chronologically and reflect on my personal and academic performance. Particularly I talk about the waiver exams, my mental health, and making friends during the PhD. K...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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23:05
Interview with Jeremy Eppley, Founder of Silverstone Financial
In this episode, I interview Jeremy Eppley, founder of Silverstone Financial. Jeremy and I were classmates in high school and took our first economics class together. We talk about high school, college, Jeremy's experience starting his own comp...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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Interview with Jere Behrman, Professor of Economics and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania
In this episode, I interview Jere Behrman, professor of economics and sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Behrman was one of my advisors during my undergraduate research projects and supervised my honors thesis my senior year. We t...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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1:06:58
Interview with Emilio Borghesan, Economics Postdoc at Princeton University
In this episode, I interview Emilio Borghesan, a recent graduate from the University of Pennsylvania's Economics PhD program, and my former TA for intermediate microeconomics and econometrics. Emilio is currently a postdoc at Princeton Universi...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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59:25
What I Learned in Undergrad
Hello and welcome back to the Brover Fixed Effect! In order of my graduate program starting next week, I thought it would be nice to reflect on the lessons I learned in undergrad and compile them into a series of advice. I hope you enjoy!
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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Interview with Rachel Pomerantz, Economics PhD student at Harvard University
In this episode, I interview Rachel Pomerantz, a second year economics PhD student at Harvard. Rachel and I crossed paths at Penn through the Undergraduate Economics Society and were in touch throughout my time interning at the FRBNY as she com...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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55:32
Interview with Karthik Tadepalli, Economics PhD student at UC Berkeley
For my first episode, I interviewed my best friend from undergrad, Karthik Tadepalli. Karthik and I became friends in office hours for our intermediate microeconomics class in the fall of 2018. In this episode, we talk about our time at Penn, i...
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Episode 2
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