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Current Job Market Candidates

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Ph.D. Job Market Candidates  |  2026 - 2027 Academic Year

Arkey M. Barnett

Public Economics, Labor Economics, Economic History, Innovation
Homepage   CV     arkeymb@umich.edu

Job Market Paper:
Transplanting the VA into the Ivory Tower: VA Hospital Partnerships and the Direction of Medical Research at U.S. Universities

Micah Baum

Labor Economics, Urban Economics, Economics of Education
Homepage      CV      mybaum@umich.edu

Job Market Paper:
When Opportunity Moves to You: Housing Deregulation and the Distribution of Child Outcomes

Utsav Bhadra

Macroeconomics, International Economics
Homepage      CV      untbha@umich.edu

Job Market Paper:
A Theory of Wage Solidarity, Coordination Failures and Long Term Involuntary Unemployment

Jiahao Chen

Industrial Organization
Homepage      CV      cjiahao@umich.edu

Job Market Paper:
Innovation Policy in Product-Line Markets: Evidence from GPUs

Zoey Chopra

Health Economics, Industrial Organization, Public Finance
Homepage      CV      zchopra@umich.edu

Job Market Paper:
A Few Good Visits: Provider Resource Allocation after Time Windfalls

Neil Christy

Macroeconomics
Homepage      CV      neilfc@umich.edu

Job Market Paper:
Births, Aging, and Migration: How Demographics and Demand Drive Growth in the US Housing Price

Brian Daza

Macroeconomics, International Trade
Homepage      CV      bdaza@umich.edu

Job Market Paper:
Wealth Dynamics and Path Dependence

Rosario Didier

International Economics, Labor Economics, Spatial Economics
Homepage      CV      rosariod@umich.edu

Job Market Paper:
It Takes Two to Tango: Joint Location Choices and Local Shocks

Shreya Goel

Microeconomic Theory
Homepage      CV      shreyago@umich.edu

Job Market Paper:
Attention Costs and Strategic Communication

Raveesha Gupta

International Economics, Development Economics
Homepage      CV      raveesha@umich.edu

Job Market Paper:
The China Shock in India: Input Linkages and Output Competition

Soyoung Han

Labor Economics
Homepage      CV      soyoungh@umich.edu

Job Market Paper:
Health Insurance and Fertility: Evidence from the Advent of Blue Cross

Meng Hsuan "Rex" Hsieh

Econometrics
Homepage      CV      rexhsieh@umich.edu

Job Market Paper:
Mediated Interference

Tianyu Jiang

Economics of Artificial Intelligence, Political Economy
Homepage      CV      tyzheng@umich.edu

Job Market Paper:
Equalizing or Polarizing? Generative AI and Research Productivity in Economics

Minjeong Joyce Kim

Public Economics, Labor Economics
Homepage      CV      joycekim@umich.edu

Job Market Paper:
Should Education Be Taxed or Subsidized? Optimal Policies with Signaling and Information

Paula A. Lopez Villalba

Labor Economics, Development Economics, Family Economics
Homepage      CV      plopezv@umich.edu

Job Market Paper:
Child Support and Labor Supply in a High-Informality Setting

Dianne McWilliam

Health Economics, Labor Economics, Economics of Aging
Homepage      CV      dcmcwill@umich.edu

Job Market Paper:
The Effect of Private versus Shared Rooms on Nursing Home Residents' Health Outcomes

David Ontaneda

Industrial Organization
Homepage      CV      dontaned@umich.edu

Job Market Paper:
Selective Outreach and Targeted Interest Rate Caps

Eric Parolin

Industrial Organization, Health Economics, Labor Economics
Homepage      CV      eparolin@umich.edu

Job Market Paper:
Built to Sell: Strategic Entry in Pharmaceutical Markets

Aneesha Parvathaneni

Development Economics, International Economics
Homepage      CV      aneeshap@umich.edu

Job Market Paper:
When Milk Spills Over: Agro-Processing Industrial Policy, Complementarity and Structural Change

Nikhil Rao

Labor Economics, Applied Econometrics
Homepage      CV      nikhrao@umich.edu

Job Market Paper:
The Socioeconomic Consequences of Misdemeanor Conviction

Gerardo Sanz-Maldonado

Public Finance, Labor Economics
Homepage      CV      sanzg@umich.edu

Job Market Paper:
Taxing Multinational Digital Platforms: Evidence from France’s Digital Services Tax

Zhaoming (Richard) Shi

Macroeconomics, Finance
Homepage      CV      zhmshi@umich.edu

Job Market Paper:
Trade Credit Delay and the Real Effects of Prompt-Payment Regulation

Lonjezo Sithole

Econometrics
Homepage      CV      lsithole@umich.edu

Job Market Paper:
Multimargin Selection in Leniency Designs

Nathan Sunday

Public Finance, Development Economics
Homepage      CV      nsunday@umich.edu

Job Market Paper:
Beyond Local Revenue: Commercial Property Taxes, Firm Behavior, and Fiscal Externalities