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PhD Job Market Candidates
Wilfried Adohinzin
Fields of Concentration: Development Economics, Labor Economics, Economics of Education
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Richard Akresh (Chair)
Ben Marx
Alex Bartik
Yue Bao
Job Market Paper: The Impact of Ethnic Minority Peers on Students' Cognitive and Non-cognitive Outcomes
Fields of Concentration: Labor Economics , Economics of Education, Development Economics
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Nolan Miller(Chair)
Elizabeth Powers
Russell Weinstein
Youning Chen
Job Market Paper: Patent and Licensing in Networked Market: An Empirical Study of the K-Cup Coffee Industry
Fields of Concentration: Empirical Industrial Organization, Trade, Agricultural Economics, Environmental Economics
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Seung-Hyun Hong (Chair)
Jorge Lemus
Sandy Dall'Erba
Minyoung Cho
Job Market Paper: Are Regional Housing Markets at Risk after Tornadoes? A Panel Quantile Local Projection Approach
Fields of Concentration: Empirical Macroeconomics/Finance, Applied Econometrics
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Ji Hyung Lee (Chair)
Shihan Xie (Co-Chair)
Marcelo Medeiros
Yuqing Han
Job Market Paper: Long-Run Effect of Radiation Exposure on Mortality: Evidence from Nuclear Weapon Tests in the U.S.
Fields of Concentration: Environmental Economics, Labor Economics
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Mark Borschulte (Chair)
Tatyana Deryugina
Eric Zou
Yiqui Liu
Job Market Paper: Equally Married, Equally Benefited: Same-sex Marriage, Health Insurance, Labor Market, and Social Security
Fields of Concentration: Applied Microeconomics, Public Economics, Health Economics
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Benjamin Marx (Chair)
Julian Reif
Mark Borschulte
Vinicius Okada da Silva
Job Market Paper: Land Grants in Colonial Brazil and Long-Term Effects on Inequality and Development
Fields of Concentration: Economic History, Development Economics
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Richard Akresh (Chair)
Felipe Valencia Caicedo
Mary Arends-Kuenning
Alok Ranjan
Job Market Paper: Judicial Transparency and Criminal Justice
Fields of Concentration: Public Economics, Political Economy, Urban Economics, Applied Microeconomics, Labor Economics
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David Albouy (Chair)
Alex Bartik
Mark Borschulte
Rebecca Thornton
Abigail Stocker
Job Market Paper: Understanding Child Marriage: Theory and Evidence for Boys and Girls
Fields of Concentration: Development Economics, Labor Economics, Gender Economics
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Richard Akresh (Chair)
Eliza Forsythe
Adam Osman
Chenxi Tang
Job Market Paper: The Long-run Impacts of Ancient Chinese Civil Exams on Contemporary Local Innovation
Fields of Concentration: Development Economics, Environmental Economics, Economic History
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Richard Akresh (Chair)
Mark Borgschulte
Russell Weinstein
Yifan Wang
Fields of Concentration: Development Economics, Labor Economics, Health Economics
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David Molitor (Chair)
Adam Osman
Russell Weinstein
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