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PhD Job Market Candidates

Guilherme Amorim

Guilherme Amorim

Website | CV | Research Statement | Teaching Statement
Job Market Paper: Job Loss, Unemployment Insurance and Health: Evidence from Brazil
Fields of Concentration: Health Economics, Public Finance, Labor Economics
References:
Dan Bernhardt (Chair)
danber@illinois.edu
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Alex Bartik
abartik@illinois.edu
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Ben Marx
benmarx@illinois.edu
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Julian Reif
jreif@illinois.edu
Andrea Atencio-De-Leon

Andrea Atencio-De-Leon

Website | CV | Research Statement
Job Market Paper: Contracting out Labor Market Dynamism
Fields of Concentration: Empirical Macroeconomics, Labor Economics, Gender and Development
References:
Dan Bernhardt
danber@illinois.edu
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Eliza Forsythe
eforsyth@illinois.edu
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Claudia Macaluso
claudia.macaluso@rich.frb.org
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Susan Houseman
Houseman@upjohn.org
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Andrew Garin
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Hongqi Chen

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Job Market Paper: On the Analysis of Quantile Forward Regression
Fields of Concentration: Econometric Theory, Applied Econometrics, Quantile Methods, High-Dimensional Econometrics
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Ji Hyung Lee (Chair)
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Marcelo C. Medeiros
mcm@econ.puc-rio.br
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EunYi Chung
eunyi@illinois.edu
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Xiaofeng Shao
xshao@illinois.edu
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Felipe Diaz Klaassen

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Job Market Paper: Crime and Monetary Punishment
Fields of Concentration: Labor Economics, Law and Economics, Applied Microeconomics
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Rebecca Thornton (Chair)
rebeccat@illinois.edu
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Alexander Bartik
abartik@illinois.edu
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Benjamin Marx
benmarx@illinois.edu
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Andrew Garin
agarin@illinois.edu
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Heejin Kim

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Job Market Paper: The Effects of a Local Improvement on Housing Markets and Neighborhoods : Evidence from Chicago
Fields of Concentration: Urban Economics, Public Economics, Real Estate Economics
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David Albouy (Chair)
albouy@illinois.edu
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Daniel McMillen
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Seung-Hyun Hong
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Alexander Bartik
abartik@illinois.edu
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Jieun Lee

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Job Market Paper: Testing Endogeneity of Spatial Weights Matrices in Spatial Dynamic Panel Data Models
Fields of Concentration: Spatial Econometrics: Theory and Applications, Econometrics, Applied Econometrics, Socioeconomics (Quantitative)
References:
Anil K. Bera (Chair)
abera@illinois.edu
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Eun Yi Chung
eunyi@illinois.edu
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Vladimir Hlasny
hlasny@un.org
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Eduardo Medina-Cortina

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Job Market Paper: Deportations, Network Disruptions, and Undocumented Migration
Fields of Concentration: Labor Economics, Migration Economics, Development Economics
References:
Dan Bernhardt (Co-Chair)
danber@illinois.edu
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Mark Borgschulte (Co-Chair)
markborg@illinois.edu
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Adam Osman
aosman@illinois.edu
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Darren Lubotsky
lubotsky@uic.edu
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Italo Morais Santos

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Job Market Paper: Towards Robust Local Projections
Fields of Concentration: Macroeconomics, Bayesian Econometrics
References:
Pooyan Amir-Ahmadi (Chair)
pooyan@illinois.edu
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Mark Daniel Bernhardt
danber@illinois.edu
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Greg Howard
glhoward@illinois.edu
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Maria Noelia Romero

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Job Market Paper: The Venezuela diaspora: Evidence from the Peruvian labor market
Fields of Concentration: Labor and Development Economics
References:
Rebecca Thornton (Chair)
Rebecca_Thornton@baylor.edu
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Darren Lubotsky
lubotsky@uic.edu
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Mary Arends-Kuenning
marends@illinois.edu
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Alexander W. Bartik
abartik@illinois.edu
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Irina Valenzuela

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Job Market Paper: Do Low-stakes Visits to Schools Affect Student Performance? Evidence from a Large-scale Monitoring Program in Peru
Fields of Concentration: Education, Political Economy, Gender Economics, Health Economics
References:
Elizabeth Powers (Chair)
epowers@illinois.edu
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Rebecca Thornton
rebeccat@illinois.edu
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Mark Borgschulte
markborg@illinois.edu
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Yueyuan Yu

Website | CV
Fields of Concentration: Labor Economics, Applied Micro-Econometrics
References:
Eliza Forsythe (Chair)
eforsyth@illinois.edu
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Elizabeth Powers
epowers@illinois.edu
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Russell Michael Weinstein
weinst@illinois.edu
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Benjamin M. Marx
benmarx@illinois.edu
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    Register for Workshop "Causal Inference Current Trends and the Future of Research"

    The workshop "Causal Inference: Current Trends and the Future of Research" will be held on the 4th-5th of May 2023, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL. The workshop is being organized by Marcelo C. Medeiros, ...
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    The workshop "HDMetrics: Big Data, High-Dimensional Methods, and Machine Learning" will be held on the 21st-22nd of April 2023, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL. The workshop is being organized by Marcelo C. Medeiros, ...
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    Fourth Annual Great Lakes Political Economy Theory Conference

    The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign will be hosting the fourth Great Lakes Political Economy Theory Conference (GLPET) on Saturday, April 1st, 2023. This event will take place from 8:30 am through 5:30 pm at 134 Temple Hoyne Buell Hall.   We hope to build on the success of previous GLPET conferences, held at the University of Chicago (Peter Buisseret) in 2019, Michigan State U. (Jon...
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  • Paper: Regional public universities increase access, social mobility for nearby residents
    CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — By broadening access to higher education in their local geographic area, regional public universities increase the economic and social mobility of the residents in their counties, says new research co-written by a team of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign economists. As the...
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  • Watch live: Eliza Forsythe will testify to the House of Lords regarding labor markets
    Assistant Professor, Eliza Forsythe of the School of Labor & Employment Relations and Department of Economics will appear before the House of Lords of the United Kingdom on Tuesday, October 25th. Eliza will provide a testimony to the House of Lords regarding the labor market in the United...
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  • FALL 2022 MSPE CLASS
    This fall, we had 76 students begin their study in the MSPE Program. This class is represented by 12 different countries: Belarus, Brazil, China, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Pakistan, Russia, Thailand, and the USA. These students joined the 68 continuing students in the MSPE...
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