The Department of Economics would like to offer a special thank you to Dr. Carla Tighe Murray for establishing a fund to help make education more affordable for our PhD students. This scholarship will support PhD students working on their dissertation in Economics that have care-giving expenses and living expenses above and beyond the standard cost of attendance. This scholarship may assist with...
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Bruce Dalgaard's connection to U of I is rooted in his discovery of a lifelong pursuit There’s quite a bit of history behind Bruce Dalgaard’s interest in, well, history. In high school he thought he’d be a doctor. After a semester at U of I, however, it became clear that a career in medicine wasn’t for him, and so he thought he’d be a lawyer. There wasn’t a spark there, either, but...
PhD Job Market Candidates
Mohammad Ahmadizadeh
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Dan Bernhardt
Hadi Esfahani
Tatyana Deryugina
Dan McMillen
Jiyoung Chae
Job Market Paper: A Flexible Model for Spatial Volatility with an Application to the Chicago Housing Market
Fields of Concentration: Applied Econometrics, Spatial Econometrics, Urban Economics, Real Estate Economics
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Anil Bera (Chair)
Geoffrey Hewings
Daniel McMillen
JiHyung Lee
Sebastian Laumer
Job Market Paper: Government Spending between Active and Passive Monetary Policy
Fields of Concentration: Primary: Macroeconomics, Fiscal Policy, Bayesian and Time Series Econometrics, Secondary: Monetary Economics and Big Data
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Pooyan Amir-Ahmadi
Dan Bernhardt
Minchul Shin
Stefan Krasa
Mauricio Olivares
Job Market Paper: Robust Permutation Test for Equality of Distributions under Covariate-Adaptive Randomization
Fields of Concentration: Econometric Theory and Applied Econometrics
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EunYi Chung (Chair)
Roger Koenker
Dan Bernhardt
Collin S. Philipps
Fields of Concentration: Mathematical Econometrics and Empirical Macroeconomics
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Pooyan Amir-Ahmadi
Dan Bernhardt
Minchul Shin
Dana Shaat
Fields of Concentration: Labor, Economics of Education, and Public Policy
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Eliza Forsythe
Darren Lubotsky
Russell Weinstein
Isaac DiIanni (teaching reference)
Mariya Shappo
Job Market Paper: The Long-Term Consequences of Oil and Gas Extraction: Evidence from the Housing Market
Fields of Concentration: Environmental Economics, Urban Economics, Labor Economics, Public Economics
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David Albouy
Alexander Bartik
Dan Bernhardt
Dan McMillen
Henrique Veras
Job Market Paper: Wrong Place, Wrong Time: The Long-Run Effects of In-Utero Exposure to Malaria on Educational Attainment
Fields of Concentration: Development Economics, Health Economics, Public Economics, Political Economy
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Stephen Parente
Marieke Kleemans
Ron Cheung
Bei Yang
Job Market Paper: Global Green Deal: International Cooperation on Net-Zero Carbon Emission
Fields of Concentration: Climate Change, Game Theory and Mechanism Design
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Dan Bernhardt
Stefan Krasa
Clifford Singer
Steven Williams
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