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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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What area of economics is most lucrative for a prospective PhD student?
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Probably econometrics and go into a tech firm as a data scientist with specialty in causal inference. There's also lucrative jobs as a quant but you are probably better off with a PhD in math/physics/CS for those. Could also do Industrial Organization and go into consulting if that's more to your taste.