Ph.D. candidate in economics at UC Berkeley, on the job market in 2026–27. Political economy and development economics. Portrait of Jonathan Old

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)