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How Your Economics Degree Has Prepared You for the World of Work and Graduate School

Technical Skills

• Facility with data analysis programs such as Excel, Stata, and SAS
• Creating charts and graphs to summarize data
• Performing simple statistical analyses
• Assessing the credibility of empirical evidence
• Developing presentations with appropriate visual aids such as PPT
• Using simple mathematics to help solve problems
• Developing simple models that capture key features of problems to be solved

Analytical Skills

• Developing rigorous arguments
• Recognizing defective arguments
• Problem-solving
• Developing a course of action to maximize the achievement of a goal
• Predicting the consequences of alternative courses of action
• Analyzing the consequences of exogenous events such as changes in climate, government policy and technology on the market prices of different inputs and outputs, the well-being of individuals, the profits of private businesses, and the activities of nonprofit organizations
• Assembling information relevant for solving problems
• Building generic logic and analytics skills to examine the big picture 

Communication Skills

• Clear and concise writing
• Verbal communication
• Public speaking

Other Skills

• Time management
• Persistence