Rackham One-Term Dissertation Fellowships are intended to speed the process of completing the dissertation. Except in unusual cases, they should be awarded to students who are at the writing stage of the dissertation. This will permit candidates to work full-time on the final stages of their dissertations.
Fall 2026 Recipients:
Jiahao Chen
Jiahao Chen is a sixth-year PhD candidate specializing in Industrial Organization and the Economics of Technology. His research examines how technological innovations transform economies, focusing on the mechanisms that drive innovation incentives, how upstream breakthroughs generate spillover effects in downstream markets, and how information shapes technology adoption. He employs theoretical modeling and empirical methods to provide insights for policy design. Prior to Michigan, he received an honors degree in Economics and Mathematics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Bei Luo
Bei Luo is a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on industrial organization, specifically examining how policy interventions and regulations shape firms’ product offerings and entry decisions, as well as their broader impacts on markets. Her current projects study the welfare impacts of safety regulations in the United States automotive industry, the agglomeration effects of place-based subsidy programs, and labor market outcomes under union mergers. She received a B.S. degree in applied mathematics from Emory University and an M.A. degree in social sciences from the University of Chicago.
