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Department of Economics

Columbian College of Arts and Sciences

PhD Students on the Job Market

The Department of Economics is committed to preparing our graduates for successful research and teaching careers. For more information on our talented alumni or to request a candidate’s CV, please reach out to our faculty or placement administrators listed below. If you are an alumna or alumnus of the program, please visit the Alumni Outcomes page to learn more about how to stay involved, and please see the list of PhD Alumni Job Placements.

Current PhD Students on the Job Market

 

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Neha Betai

  • Primary Areas of Concentration: Labor Economics, International Trade, Economics of AI
  • Secondary Areas: Technological Change, Development Economics
  • Job Market Paper Title: How Workers Adapt to Artificial Intelligence: Experimental Evidence from Global Labor Platforms
  • Advisors: Maggie X. Chen (main advisor), Alessandra Fenizia, Rodimiro Rodrigo
  • Email: [email protected]
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Ammu Lavanya

  • Primary Areas of Concentration: International Finance, Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics
  • Secondary Areas: Financial History, Macro Development
  • Job Market Paper Title: International Financial Flows, Credit Allocation and Productivity
  • Advisors: Graciela Kaminsky (main advisor), Tomas Williams (main advisor), Roberto Samaniego
  • Email: [email protected]
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Jae Hoon Lee

  • Primary Areas of Concentration: Macroeconomics
  • Secondary Areas: International Finance, Public Finance
  • Job Market Paper Title: Fiscal Rules When Sovereign Debt Is Risky but Convenient
  • Advisors: Roberto Samaniego (main advisor), Tomas Williams, Christopher Sleet
  • Email: [email protected] 
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Qingyu Liu

  • Primary Areas of Concentration: Macroeconomics, Financial Economics
  • Secondary Areas: Digital Assets, Structural Estimation
  • Job Market Paper Title: A Search Model of Financial Bubbles
  • Advisors: Roberto Samaniego (main advisor), Tara Sinclair, Tomas Williams
  • Email: [email protected]
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Kathryn Nicholson

  • Primary Areas of Concentration: Urban Economics, Development Economics
  • Secondary Areas: Environmental Economics
  • Job Market Paper Title: Urban Informality and Floods in Spatial Equilibrium: Evidence from Mumbai
  • Advisors: Remi Jedwab (main advisor), Paul Carrillo, Tanner Regan, Stephen Smith
  • Email: [email protected]
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Mallory Perillo

  • Primary Areas of Concentration: Applied Microeconomics, Public Finance
  • Secondary Areas: Urban Economics
  • Job Market Paper Title: Can Public Goods be Self-Financing? An Analysis of Tax Incremental Financing in Wisconsin
  • Advisors: Nicholas Li (main advisor), Elira Kuka, Tanner Regan
  • Email: [email protected]
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Yueyi (Angela) Qin

  • Primary Areas of Concentration: International Trade, Policy Evaluation
  • Secondary Areas: Political Economics, Labor Economics, Industrial Organization
  • Job Market Paper Title: Tariffs, Prices, and Consumers: Unpacking the Pass-through Puzzle
  • Advisors: Maggie Chen (main advisor), Yingyan Zhao, Ariel Weinberger
  • Email: [email protected]
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Kavya Ravindranath

  • Primary Areas of Concentration: Public Economics, Political Economy
  • Secondary Areas: Development Economics, Environmental Economics
  • Job Market Paper Title: Raising Revenues: Evidence from Property Tax Assessments in India
  • Advisors: Elira Kuka (main advisor), Tanner Regan, Paul Carrillo, Remi Jedwab
  • Email: [email protected]
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Geyue (Grace) Sun

  • Primary Areas of Concentration: Macroeconomics, International Finance, Digital Finance
  • Secondary Areas: AI and Machine Learning in Economics
  • Job Market Paper Title: Not Just Talk: Crypto Activity, Equity Repricing, and Macro-Financial Transmission
  • Advisors: Tomas Williams (main advisor), Roberto Samaniego, Tara Sinclair
  • Email: [email protected]
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Donghao Wu

  • Primary Areas of Concentration: Urban Economics, Applied Microeconomics
  • Secondary Areas: Public Policy, Monetary Economics
  • Job Market Paper Title: How Does City-Center Spending Respond to COVID-19 Relative to Surrounding Areas? Evidence from U.S. Metropolitan Areas
  • Advisors: Leah Brooks (main advisor), Paul Carrillo, Alessandra Fenizia
  • Email: [email protected]
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Erdong Xu

  • Primary Areas of Concentration: Political Economy, Economic History, Applied Microeconomics
  • Secondary Areas: Development Economics, International Trade
  • Job Market Paper Title: Printing Morality: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Antebellum Political Realignment
  • Advisors: Maggie X. Chen (main advisor), Alessandra Fenizia, Yingyan Zhao
  • Email: [email protected]
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Kunyao (Richard) Xu

  • Primary Areas of Concentration: Applied Econometrics, Health Economics
  • Secondary Areas: Macroeconomics, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Machine Learning and AI
  • Job Market Paper Title: Expectation Sentiment and Consumption Fluctuation from the Covid Era: A Natural Language Processing Approach
  • Advisors: Avi Dor (main advisor), Ben Williams, Alessandra Fenizia
  • Email: [email protected]
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Rui Zhong

  • Primary Areas of Concentration: Applied Microeconomics
  • Secondary Areas: Political Economics, Labor Economics
  • Job Market Paper Title: Political Impact of Curtailing Migrant Workers: Evidence From The Bracero Program
  • Advisors: Elira Kuka (main advisor), Alessandra Fenizia, Nicholas Li
  • Email: [email protected]

 

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