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Current Job Market Candidates

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Ph.D. Job Market Candidates  |  2025 - 2026 Academic Year

Qize Chen

Labor Economics, Industrial Organization, Economics of Aging
Homepage   CV     qizechen@umich.edu

Job Market Paper:
Evolving Skills and Gender Gaps in the Labor Market

Peter Choi

Public Finance
Homepage      CV      peterjc@umich.edu

Job Market Paper:
Corporate Tax Asymmetry and Market Power

Alvin Christian

Labor Economics, Economics of Education, Gender and Family Economics
Homepage      CV      alvinchr@umich.edu

Job Market Paper:
Academic Accommodations in Higher Education: Patterns, Predictors, and Potential

Alexander Fertig

Development Economics, Political Economy, Labor Economics
Homepage      CV      afertig@umich.edu

Job Market Paper:
Technology of Liberation or Control?: The Asymmetric Effects of the Internet on Political Conflict

Ana Paula Franco

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

Job Market Paper:
Payments Under the Table: Estimation and Implications for Optimal Tax Policy

Luciana Galeano

Public Finance, Labor Economics, Development
Homepage      CV      lgaleano@umich.edu

Job Market Paper:
From Formality to Reality: Value Added Tax Equity in Dual Economies

Erin Gibson

Macroeconomics, International Finance
Homepage      CV      erinpgib@umich.edu

Job Market Paper:
Labor rigidities meet financial constraints: Evidence from Italy

Siyun He

Econometrics, Finance
Homepage      CV      siyunhe@umich.edu

Job Market Paper:
Score-Augmented Frobenious Distance and Its Application in Causal Inference

Chandler Inman

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

Job Market Paper:
Baby Steps in Tax Policy: Impacts of the Federal Adoption Tax Credit

Razi Iqbal

International Economics
Homepage      CV      iqbalr@umich.edu

Job Market Paper:
Spatial and sectoral reallocation via multi-establishment firms

Andrew Joung

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

Job Market Paper:
Parental Job Loss and Geographic Mobility

Tammy Sunju Lee

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

Job Market Paper:
Mandated Paternity Leave and Fertility: Evidence from South Korea

Xiaomeng Li

Labor Economics, Gender Economics, Economics of Education
Homepage      CV      lixiaom@umich.edu

Job Market Paper:
Learning the Major: The Role of Early Specialization in Educational and Labor Market Outcomes

Nelson Oviedo

Industrial Organization, Labor Economics, Economics of Education
Homepage      CV      noviedo@umich.edu

Job Market Paper:
Equilibrium Effects of Quality Regulation of For-Profit Higher Education

Mary Quiroga

Public/Environmental Economics, Labor Economics
Homepage      CV      mquiroga@umich.edu

Job Market Paper:
The Effects of Heat on Teachers and Their Students

Shwetha Raghuraman

Economics of Education, Labor Economics
Homepage      CV      sraghura@umich.edu

Job Market Paper:
Student Preferences and Horizontal Differentiation in Urban School Choice Markets

Jiaming Soh

Macroeconomics, Labor Economics, Entrepreneurship
Homepage      CV      jiamings@umich.edu

Job Market Paper:
Does Government Procurement Promote Small Business Growth?

David Van Dijcke

Econometrics, Applied Microeconomics
Homepage      CV      dvdijcke@umich.edu

Job Market Paper:
Regression Discontinuity Design with Distribution-Valued Outcomes

Esteban Verdugo

Macroeconomics, International Economics
Homepage      CV      everdugo@umich.edu

Job Market Paper:
Saving by Consuming: The Intertemporal Behavior of Hand-to-Mouth Households

Germano Wallerstein

International Economics, Macroeconomics
Homepage      CV      gwallers@umich.edu

Job Market Paper:
Exporter Entry, Expansion, and the Skill Premium

Eva Wang

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

Job Market Paper:
Reconciling Environmental Goals and Progressivity: The Income Cap Design for U.S. Electric Vehicle Subsidies

Yuyao Wu

International Macroeconomics, International Trade
Homepage      CV      wuyuyao@umich.edu

Job Market Paper:
State Ownership and International Business Cycle

Meifeng Yang

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

Job Market Paper:
When Grandmothers Step In: Grandchild Care and Labor Supply Dynamics

Niaoniao You

Environmental and Energy Economics, Labor Economics, Macroeconomics
Homepage      CV      nnyou@umich.edu

Job Market Paper:
Beyond Population Growth: How Fertility Shapes Household Carbon Footprints