
Student Research Conference
PREDOC.org will host its third annual Student Research Conference in Summer 2025.
Student Research ConferencePREDOC.org runs educational programs that inform students about pre-doctoral opportunities and help them develop the coding, research, and professional skills necessary to walk the path toward a research career. Our curriculum consists of free workshops, asynchronous courses, advice from experts, and our annual initiative to sponsor undergraduate research, typically in the shape of an intensive program or conference.
In 2025, PREDOC.org will host a research conference that allows undergraduates to learn more about research, present their own work, and network with other research-focused undergraduates, as well as more advanced researchers. While our main initiative will not be the Summer Course we offered in previous years, we strongly encourage students interested in a summer course to check out the EDE+ 2025 Summer Institute, organized by our collaborators at the University of Chicago and Brookings. Expanding Discovery in Economics+ (EDE+) enrolls early undergraduate students from many different institutions to develop their research abilities and technical skills. In fact, participants will have the opportunity to engage in our conference as well!
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Students have gone on to PhD programs institutions like Harvard and UT Austin, and pre-docs at institutions like the Chicago Federal Reserve, the Federal Reserve Board, and the Yale School of Management. Others have been hired into industry roles at companies including Analysis Group and the Bridgespan Group.
"The coding, communication, and writing skills developed through the summer course empowered me to participate and contribute to economics research projects, and prepared me to apply for pre-doctoral research positions."
— Fatima Djalalova, Research Fellow at Blueprint Labs, MIT
"The summer program’s opportunity to apply coding, engage in interdisciplinary social science research, and explore the connection between public health and economics broadened my perspective and sharpened my research skills. It played a key role in shaping my interest in public health and social economic research, which I continue to explore in my career today."
— Destiny Jackson, PhD Student in Population Health Sciences, Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health
"Using STATA for my PREDOC research greatly increased the confidence I had in my social science ability, and I decided to pursue my Honors Economic thesis at UPenn as a result."
— Deika Albert, JD Candidate at UChicago Law
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