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.

Summary Placement Sheet of Job Market Candidates

Current PhD Students on the Job Market

Daeeun Bae

• Primary Areas of Concentration: Macroeconomics, Economic Growth
• Secondary Areas: International Macroeconomics
• Job Market Paper Title: Financial Development and Endogenous Investment-Specific Technical Change
• Advisors: Roberto Samaniego (main advisor), Chao Wei, Tomas Williams
• Email: kjblanchgwu [dot] edu (daeeunbae[at]gwu[dot]edu)

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Qi Chen

• Primary Areas of Concentration: Empirical Banking, Industrial Organization
• Secondary Areas: Technology Diffusion
• Job Market Paper Title: Digital Diffusion in a Competitive Landscape: A Study of Online Banking Adoption
• Advisors: Roberto Samaniego (main advisor), Tomas Williams, Ben Williams
• Email: qichenchrissygwu [dot] edu (qichenchrissy[at]gwu[dot]edu) 

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Prerna Dokania

• Primary Areas of Concentration: Applied Microeconomics, Development Economics, Economics of Education
• Secondary Areas: Behavioral Economics, Labor Economics
• Job Market Paper Title: Incentivizing Professional Development among Early Childhood Care Providers in India
• Advisors: Stephanie Cellini (co-advisor), Stephen Smith (co-advisor), Alessandra Fenizia, Elira Kuka
• Email: dokania_prernaemail [dot] gwu [dot] edu (dokania_prerna[at]gwu[dot]edu); prernadokania93gmail [dot] com (prernadokania93[at]gmail[dot]com) (personal) 

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Shatakshi Gupta

• Primary Areas of Concentration: Development Economics, Labor Economics
• Secondary Areas: Public Policy, Gender Economics
• Job Market Paper Title: Doing More Harm than Good? Labor Market Consequences to Maternity Leave Extension of India (view paper)
• Advisors: Stephen Smith (main advisor), Alessandra Fenizia (main advisor), Remi Jedwab, Ivette Contreras
• Email: shatakshiguptagwu [dot] edu (shatakshigupta[at]gwu[dot]edu)

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Federico Haslop

• Primary Areas of Concentration: Applied Economics
• Secondary Areas: Development Economics
• Job Market Paper Title: Unexpected Fertility Shocks and Human Capital Accumulation: The case of Zika (view paper)
• Advisors: Remi Jedwab (main advisor), Paul Carrillo, Stephen Smith
• Email: fhaslopgwu [dot] edu (fhaslop[at]gwu[dot]edu)

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Maheen Javaid

• Primary Areas of Concentration: Development Economics, Environmental Economics
• Secondary Areas: Labor Economics
• Job Market Paper Title: Up in Smoke: The Educational Toll of Air Pollution
• Advisors: Alessandra Fenizia (co-advisor), Remi Jedwab (co-advisor)
• Email: maheenjavaidgwu [dot] edu (maheenjavaid[at]gwu[dot]edu)

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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: ammulavanyagwu [dot] edu (ammulavanya[at]gwu[dot]edu)

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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: yqin2gwu [dot] edu (yqin2[at]gwu[dot]edu)

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Pedro Rodriguez-Martinez

• Primary Areas of Concentration: Public and Urban Economics
• Secondary Areas: Development Economics
• Job Market Paper Title: The Within-Family Labor Market Effects of Incarceration: Evidence from Ecuador
• Advisors: Paul Carrillo (co-advisor), Remi Jedwab (co-advisor), Nicholas Li
• Email: perodmargwu [dot] edu (perodmar[at]gwu[dot]edu)

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Lidong Yang

• Primary Areas of Concentration: International Trade, Development Economics
• Secondary Areas: Labor Economics, Applied Microeconomics
• Job Market Paper Title: Do All Inputs Matter? Export Market Expansion, Capital Goods Adoption, and Upgrading
• Advisors: Maggie Chen, Yingyan Zhao, Ariel Weinberger
• Email: yanglidonggwu [dot] edu (yanglidong[at]gwu[dot]edu)

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Jingwen Zheng

• Primary Areas of Concentration: Urban and Real Estate Economics; Program and Policy Evaluation
• Secondary Areas: Development Economics; Applied Microeconomics
• Job Market Paper Title: How Real Estate Responds to Regulatory Changes Over the Long Run: Evidence from the Closure of Hong Kong’s Downtown Airport
• Advisors: Leah Brooks (main advisor), Remi Jedwab (main advisor), Paul Carrillo, Tanner Regan
• Email: jzhenggwu [dot] edu (jzheng[at]gwu[dot]edu)

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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: rzhong37gwu [dot] edu (rzhong37[at]gwu[dot]edu)

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Shizhe Zhong

• Primary Areas of Concentration: Monetary Policy, Forecasting, Bayesian Econometrics
• Secondary Areas: Macroeconomics, Labor Market
• Job Market Paper Title: Yield Curve Control and Market Expectation
• Advisors: Tomas Williams (main advisor), Roberto Samaniego, Pamela Labadie
• Email: zhong_shizhegwu [dot] edu (zhong_shizhe[at]gwu[dot]edu)

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