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Current Job Market Candidates

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Ph.D. Job Market Candidates  |  2024 - 2025 Academic Year

Lea Bart

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

Job Market Paper:
The Effects of the Family and Medical Leave Act on Women's Careers

Jordy Berne

Labor Economics, Public Economics, Economics of Education
Homepage      CV      jsberne@umich.edu

Job Market Paper:
The Long-Run Impacts of Universal Pre-K with Equilibrium Considerations

Cristiano C. Carvalho

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

Job Market Paper:
Size-Based Business Taxation in a High-Informality Context

Peter Choi

Public Finance
Homepage      CV      peterjc@umich.edu

Job Market Paper:
Optimal Taxation and Enforcement with Market Power 

Emilio Colombi

Macroeconomics, International Economics and Finance 
Homepage      CV      ecolombi@umich.edu

Job Market Paper:
The Distributional Consequences of Commodity Booms

Juan Sebastián Fernández Ibáñez

International Trade, Industrial Organization
Homepage      CV      jusebfer@umich.edu

Job Market Paper:
The Dynamic Welfare Consequences of Trade Restrictions

Bruna Guidetti

Industrial Organization, Health Economics
Homepage      CV      guidetti@umich.edu

Job Market Paper:
Private Health Insurance and Government-Provided Care: The Effects of Regulation

Xiaosheng Guo

International Trade, International Finance, Macroeconomics
Homepage      CV      xsguo@umich.edu

Job Market Paper:
Bank Loans, Trade Credit and Export Prices: Evidence from Exchange Rate Shocks in China

Ariza Gusti

Development Economics, Labor Economics
Homepage      CV      agusti@umich.edu

Job Market Paper:
Labor Inspections, Firm Adjustments and Employee Costs

Elird Haxhiu

Applied Econometrics, Labor, Development
Homepage      CV      haxhiu@umich.edu

Job Market Paper:
Continuous Treatment Difference-in-Differences with Unknown Controls: A Data-Driven Approach

Kyle Henson

Labor Economics, Macroeconomic Forecasting
Homepage      CV      kwhenson@umich.edu

Job Market Paper:
Compensating Differentials of Work-from-Home

Billy Huang

Labor Economics, Public Policy
Homepage      CV      bhhuang@umich.edu

Job Market Paper:
Coworker Networks and Internal Migration: Evidence from US Administrative Data

Elliot Kang

International Trade, Spatial Economics, Environmental Economics
Homepage      CV      emkang@umich.edu

Job Market Paper:
Global Fisheries: Quantifying the Externalities from Open Access

Owen A. Kay

Energy and Environmental Economics, Public Finance
Homepage      CV      okay@umich.edu

Job Market Paper:
Pollution Taxes and Clean Subsidies in an Open Economy 

Kelsey O'Flaherty

Macroeconomics, Labor Economics
Homepage      CV      oflahekj@umich.edu

Job Market Paper:
Why Households Hate Grocery Inflation: Measuring and Interpreting Inflation Heterogeneity

Hanna Onyshchenko

Macroeconomics, Financial Economics
Homepage      CV      honyshch@umich.edu

Job Market Paper:
Financial Constraints and Capital-Labor Substitution in Response to Monetary Policy

Zsigmond Pálvölgyi

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

Job Market Paper:
Did Decreasing Residential Segregation Reduce Racial Wealth Inequality?

Nikhil Rao

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

Job Market Paper:
Measuring Discrimination Using Natural Experiments

James Reeves

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

Job Market Paper:
Multitasking, Incentives, and Police Officer Behavior

Yiman Ren

Finance, Econometrics, Applied Microeconomics
Homepage      CV      yimanren@umich.edu

Job Market Paper:
How Does Pledging Home Equity Affect Small Business Loan Demand, Terms, and Outcomes? Evidence from SBA 7(A) Program

Katherine Richard 

Labor Economics, Public Economics, Public Policy
Homepage      CV      krzrich@umich.edu

Job Market Paper:
Penalties in the Safety Net: Effects of Work Requirement Enforcement on Program Participation and Labor Supply

Nathan Sotherland

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

Job Market Paper:
To Target or Not to Target: Local Aid Program Design and Crowd-in of Federal Aid

Hiroshi Toma

Macroeconomics, International Economics
Homepage      CV      htoma@umich.edu

Job Market Paper:
The Financial Propagation Mechanism of Commodity Booms

Daniel Velasquez

International Trade, Economic Geography, Urban Economics, Development Economics
Homepage      CV      danielvc@umich.edu

Job Market Paper:
Highways, Commuting and Trade: Unpacking Suburban Growth

Zhihan (Helen) Wang

Applied Microeconomics, Education Economics
Homepage      CV      helwang@umich.edu

Job Market Paper:
30 Million Canvas Records Reveal Widespread Sequential Bias and System-design Induced Surname Initial Disparity in Grading