Economic History Soup

Interview with Pablo Valenzuela-Casasempere, Postdoc at Yale University

In this episode, I interview one of our postdocs at the Economic Growth Center, Pablo Valenzuela-Casasempere. We talk about Pablo's research in urban economics and e

Reflecting on my Third Year of the Econ PhD

My thoughts on the third year of the PhD. I didn't have a teaching requirement so I did a lot of unstructured work. Here are my thoughts and lessons!

Interview with Cheryl Wu, Economics PhD Student at Yale Univeristy

In this episode, I am joined by my cohort mate Cheryl Wu for a fruitful conversation about economic history, AI, and technology adoption. Cheryl is currently a third year

China-US Relations with Amy Chen

In this episode, I am joined by Amy (Qian) Chen (Columbia IR masters graduate) to discuss the history of US-China relations from the Cultural Revolution to present day. W

Interview with Luisa Bicalho-Ritzkat, Economic History PhD Student at the London School of Economics

Welcome to the first official interview of Economic History Soup! I am joined by Luisa Bicalho-Ritzkat as she discusses her work on the art market and art as an investmen

Welcome to Economic History Soup!

In this episode, I introduce the new name and direction for the podcast, Economic History Soup! I also provide an update on finishing the second year of the Economics PhD

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 hist

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

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

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

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

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 undergradu

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 micro

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 u

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 Soci

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 cla

Introduction

In this episode, I introduce myself, the name of the podcast, and describe some directions in which I want to take the podcast.  If you are interested in supporting the