About Empirical Finance

Abstract

Empirical Finance is an independent editorial desk. It covers stipend volatility, conference travel budgeting, and 403b education, written for grad students, postdocs, and bench scientists moving to industry. Personal finance for people who publish methods sections—assumption tables, reproducibility, and zero mysticism. Guides state their assumptions, calculators run in your browser, and disclosures stay visible wherever regulated topics appear. Optional advisory conversations are always clearly separated from the reading experience, and nothing on the site is personalized financial advice.

Highlights

Built for grad students, postdocs, and bench scientists moving to industry.
Core coverage: stipend volatility, conference travel budgeting, and 403b education.
Free calculators that state their assumptions and run entirely in your browser.
Education first — disclosures appear wherever regulated topics are discussed.

1 Common questions

1.1 What is Empirical Finance?

Empirical Finance publishes general financial education and free calculators for researchers, and can introduce you to a licensed advisor who works with scientists.

1.2 Is this personalized investment advice?

No. Materials are general education and illustration. Decisions involving securities, taxes, or planning should involve your own licensed professionals.

1.3 How does matching work?

Three steps. You supply a few answers, we verify them with you, and we introduce a licensed advisor who works with scientists and researchers. No outcome is implied; what follows is your decision.

1.4 Does it cost anything to ask?

No. Being matched is free for you. Any fee for an advisor's services is agreed between you and that advisor, who gives you their own disclosures first.

2 Get matched with an advisor who specializes in scientists and researchers

Answer a few short questions. We review your answers, contact you to confirm what you need, and match you with a licensed financial advisor who specializes in scientists and researchers.

Methods: a few short answers. Ranges are fine.
Verification: we review them and contact you to confirm the inputs.
Introduction: a licensed advisor who works with scientists and researchers.

Step 1 of 4

1. Where you are and what you need

So we look for someone who works with people like you.

ZIP code or state where you live

Your role (optional)

What do you need help with?

Disclosure

This website is an educational publisher. It does not give personalized advice, recommend securities or manage money. Asking to be matched does not create an advisory relationship: any relationship is between you and the advisor, who will give you their own disclosures before you decide anything. Licensed financial advisors join our network to receive introductions and may pay us for them, through a monthly membership and a fee for each request. The fee does not depend on whether you hire an advisor and is not higher or lower for any particular advisor. Because advisors may pay us, we have a financial interest in the introductions we make. We match you by what you need, and being matched is not a recommendation or rating of any advisor. Nothing here is investment advice.

Please do not include account numbers, passwords or unpublished research details.