One additional data point: I'm approximately an associate professor of economics in North American terms. Also curious how many of us there are here. As it happens, one of my colleagues was recently hired by Amazon (quite nearly appending an extra zero to their salary in the process).

Quite a few, but the benefit of participating in discussions about economics on HN is less than the opportunity cost. As economics is heavily computational, HN is as natural a fit for an economics PhD as a CS PhD.

PhD economics/econometrics, ex-research economist, turned machine learning engineer. In my personal experience the mathiness in both fields are comparable, but pay-to-effort ratio was much better in machine learning.

Finished my masters in economics. Went on to do my PhD in economics but dropped by the end of the first semester. Realized it was going to be too much with a young family at the time.

Checking in. I did my PhD in polisci, but invaded.

Econ PhD here! Also IO.