Jonathan Old
Ph.D. candidate in economics at UC Berkeley, on the job market in 2026–27. Political economy and development economics.
Mentoring for donations
During the 2021 Covid wave in India, I offered free mentoring on applications to masters, predoc, and Ph.D. programmes in economics, in exchange for a donation to an Indian Covid relief fund such as the Hemkunt Foundation or Khalsa Aid. The original offer is still on Twitter. I am no longer running it, but I am always happy to answer questions about applications — just write to me.
Covid resources
This is a small tracker of Covid vaccination and death rates. I programmed a script to download data from Our World in Data, perform some basic calculations, and visualize the rates over time using D3.js.
(Data source: Our World in Data. Own calculations)