The Department of Economics at the University of Michigan places its PhD students successfully. Many of our students are placed directly into tenure-track positions in academic institutions, others get jobs in excellent non-academic institutions like the Federal Reserve System, the IMF, the Treasury, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, etc. Still others get attractive post-doc positions and later move on to a tenure track position. We routinely place students in the top-20 academic economics departments and it is not unusual for us to place students inside the top-10.
PhD students are assisted in the job placement by both their primary thesis advisors and the placement director. The department assists students to prepare and distribute job market materials to potential employers. The current placement director is Hoyt Bleakley. Our placement coordinator is Julie Heintz.
Below we provide summaries of our PhD placements for the past several years.
2019-2020 Job Market Placements
Luis Baldomero-Quintana
Department of Economics, William & Mary
Ariel Binder
United States Census Bureau
Giacomo Brusco
University of Tubingen
Avery Calkins
RAND Corporation
Kimberly Conlon
Federal Trade Commission
Pieter De Vlieger
Uber
Tangren Feng
Department of Decision Sciences, Bocconi University
Max Gross
Mathematica
Bhanu Gupta
Department of Economics, Ashoka University
Anirudh Jayanti
Bates White Economic Consulting
Ting Lan
International Monetary Fund
Parag Mahajan
Alfred Lerner College of Business & Economics, University of Delaware
Dhiren Patki
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Max Risch
Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University
Rich Ryan
Department of Economics, California State University, Bakersfield
Shuqiao Sun
The World Bank
Andrew Usher
Bank of Canada
Colin Watson
Amazon
Huayu Xu
National School of Development, Peking University
Wenjian Xu
Antai College of Economics & Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Hang Yu
National School of Development, Peking University
2018-2019 Job Market Placements
Vybhavi Balasundharam
International Monetary Fund
William Boning
U.S. Department of the Treasury, Office of Tax Analysis
Catalina Franco
Postdoctoral Fellow, Norwegian School of Economics
Xing Guo
Bank of Canada
Samuel Haltenhof
Cornerstone Research
Amelia Hawkins
Department of Economics, Brandeis University
(After a post-doc at the NBER)
Zachary Levinson
The RAND Corporation
Xinwei Ma
Department of Economics, University of California, San Diego
Meera Mahadevan
Department of Economics, University of California, Irvine
(After a post-doc at the UC Santa Barbara)
Nicolas Morales
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Kenichi Nagasawa
Department of Economics, University of Warwick
Owen Nie
World Bank Group
Siprapai Sitapong
WhatsApp
Elchin Suleymanov
Department of Economics, Purdue University
Brenden Timpe
Department of Economics, University of Nebraska—Lincoln
Tejaswi Velayudhan
Department of Economics, University of California, Irvine
(After a post-doc at the Ohio State University)
2017-2018 Job Market Placements
Thomas Bridges
Alfred Lerner College of Business & Economics, University of Delaware
Yipei Cao
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Alecia Cassidy
Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies, University of Alabama
Traviss Cassidy
Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies, University of Alabama
Laurien Gilbert
Cornerstone Research
Benjamin Glass
Department of Economics, Penn State
Steven Hamilton
Department of Economics, George Washington University
Steve Hou
AQR Capital Management
Daniel Hubbard
American Institutes for Research
Yeliz Kacamak
Department of Economics, Bosphorus University
DongIk Kang
Korea Institute of Public Finance
Gail Lucasan
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Luis Alejos Marroquin
Inter-American Development Bank
Daniela Morar
Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Economics, Yale University
Dimitrije Ruzic
INSEAD
Gonzalo Vazquez Bare
Department of Economics, University of California Santa Barbara
Michael Zabek
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
2016-2017 Job Market Placements
Jacob Bastian
Postdoctoral Fellow, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago
Paul Brehm
Department of Economics, Oberlin College
Austin Davis
School of International Service, American University
Adam Dearing
Department of Economics, The Ohio State University
Michael Gelman
The Robert Day School of Economics, Claremont McKenna College
Alan Griffith
Department of Economics, University of Washington
Morris Hamilton
Abt Associates
Morgan Henderson
Amazon
Evan Herrnstadt
Compass Lexecon
Julian Hsu
College Board
Sarah Johnston
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Wisconsin – Madison
Salma Khalid
International Monetary Fund
Harim Kim
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Economics, University of Mannheim
Andrew Litten
Cornerstone Research
Ben Meiselman
Postdoctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University
Alexander Persaud
Department of Economics, University of North Carolina Asheville
Alexander Russov
Amazon
Alfredo Sosa
SOLO World Partners, LCC
Bryan Stuart
Department of Economics, George Washington University
Christopher Sullivan
Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin – Madison
Evan Taylor
Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for the Economics of Human Development, University of Chicago
Ben Thompson
Amazon
Evan Wright
Bank of America
Carrie Wenjing Xu
Vanguard
Yiyuan Zhang
Analysis Group
Xiaoqing Zhou
Bank of Canada
2015-2016 Job Market Placements
Paolo Abarcar
Mathematica Policy Research
Lindsay Baker
Ford Motor company
Christoph Boehm
University of Texas, Austin
Guodong Chen
Department of Finance, New York University, Shanghai
Eric Chyn
Department of Economics, University of Virginia
Fan Fei
Department of Business and Economics, Northwestern College of Iowa
Mark Fontana
Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Southern California
Ibrahim Gunay
Department of Economics, University of Albany
Enda Patrick Hargaden
Department of Economics, University of Tennessee
Monica Hernandez
Department of Economics, Tulane University
Chenyue Hu
Department of Economics, University of California, Santa Cruz
Prachi Jain
Loyola Marymount University
Jiang Jiang
Department of Economics, University of Connecticut
Max Kapustin
University of Chicago Urban Labs
Gaurav Khanna
University of California, San Diego
Margaret Lay
Department of Economics, Mount Holyoke University
Minjoon Lee
Department of Economics, Carleton University
Katherine Lim
United States Treasury
Bert Lue
Joint Committee on Taxation
Michael McWilliams
Research Seminar in Quantitative Economics (RSQE), University of Michigan
Johannes Norling
Department of Economics, Mount Holyoke College
Taejun Oh
Samsung Economic Research Institute
Nitya Pandalai-Nayar
University of Texas, Austin
Christian Proebsting
International Economics, EPFL, Lausanne
Daniel Reck
Department of Economics, London School of Economics
Rishi Sharma
Department of Economics, Colgate University
Isaac Sorkin
Department of Economics, Stanford University
Qinggong Wu
Business School, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Chenyu Yang
Simon Business School, University of Rochester
Fudong Zhang
PBC School of Finance, Tsinghua University
2014-2015 Job Market Placements
Jacqueline Doremus
Department of Economics, California Polytechnic State University
Reid Dorsey-Palmateer
Department of Economics, Western Washington University
Anne Fitzpatrick
Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts-Boston
Aaron Flaaen
Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Rob Gillezeau
Department of Economics, University of Victoria
Jonathan Hershaff
Securities and Exchange Commission
Peter Hudomiet
RAND Corporation
Dan Jaqua
Albion College
Jason Kerwin
Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota
Jiyoon Kim
Department of Economics, Indiana-Purdue University, Fort Wayne
Pawel Krolikowski
Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Justin Ladner
CNA Corporation
Changkeun Lee
Korea Development Institute
Eric Lewis
Economic Analysis Group, Department of Justice
Olga Malkova
Department of Economics, University of Kentucky
Tong Yob
Nam Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), U.S. Department of the Treasury
Yulia Paramonova
National Research University Higher School of Economics, Saint Petersburg-Russia
Ihsan Saracgil
Cornerstone Research
Bartley Tablante
Keystone Strategy
Desmond Toohey
Department of Economics, University of Delaware
James Wang
Federal Reserve Board of Governors
2013-2014 Job Market Placements
Aditya Aladangady
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Vanessa Alviarez
Sauder Business School
University of British Columbia
Sutirtha Bagchi
Department of Economics
Villanova University
Breno Braga
Urban Institute
Lasse Brune
Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University
Tanya Byker
Department of Economics
Middlebury College
Sebastian Calonico
Department of Economics
University of Miami
Uniko Chen
Mercer
Jamein Cunningham
Department of Economics
Portland State University
Cynthia Doniger
Monetary Affairs, Monetary Studies Unit
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Nicloas Duquette
Sol Price School of Public Policy
University of Southern California
Max Farrell
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Michael Gideon
NIA Postdoctoral Fellow, Center on Demography and Economics of Aging
University of Chicago
Andrew Goodman-Bacon
Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow at UC-Berkeley (2014)
Vanderbilt University (2016)
Joshua Hyman
Department of Public Policy; Neag School of Education
University of Connecticut
Dave Knapp
RAND Corporation
Jenny Lin
Department of Economics
Oregon State University
Lin Ma
National University of Singapore
Daniel Marcin
Research Professional, Coase-Sandor Institute for Law and Economics
University of Chicago Law School
Ryan Monarch
International Finance Division
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Josh Montes
Macroeconomic Analysis Division
Congressional Budget Office
Eric Ohrn
Department of Economics
Grinnell College
Ihab Saad
Birzeit University
Molly Saunders-Scott
Congressional Budget Office
Ajay Shenoy
University of California, Santa Cruz
Evan Starr
School of Labor and Employment Relations; Department of Economics
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Caroline Theoharides
Department of Economics
Amherst College
Yu Zhou
School of Economics
Fudan University
Laura Zimmerman
Department of Economics; Department of International Affairs
University of Georgia
2012-2013 Job Market Placements
Kate Ambler
International Food Policy Research Institute
Markets, Trade and Institutions Division
Emily Beam
Department of Economics
National University of Singapore
David Cashin
Federal Reserve Board
Division of Monetary Affairs
Bing Chen
Department of Economics
Bowdoin College
Sophia Chen
International Monetary Fund
Robert Garlick
Department of Economics, Duke University (2014)
Research Department, World Bank (2013)
Susan Godlonton
Department of Economics, Williams College (2014)
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) (2013)
Italo Gutierrez
Global Research Talent Department
The RAND Corporation
Makoto Hasegawa
National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS)
Jessica Hoel
IFPRI, Poverty Health and Nutrition Division
Hyunjee Kim
Center for Health Systems Effectiveness at Oregon Health and Science University
Daniel Leeds
Michigan Department of Education
Andrew McCallum
Federal Reserve Board
Seb Moosapoor
KPMG's Economic Valuation Services Group
Annika Mueller
The Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics
Xiamen University
Daniel Murphy
Darden School of Business
University of Virginia
Ben Niu
Department of Economics
St. John Fisher College
Nathan Seegert
Department of Finance
University of Utah
2011-2012 Job Market Placements
David Agrawal
Department of Economics
Terry College of Business
University of Georgia
Matt Backus
Cornell Economics (2013)
E Bay Research Labs (2012)
Cagatay Bircan
Office of the Chief Economist/Research
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
London
Roy Chen
Department of Economics
National University of Singapore
Eleanor Dillon
Department of Economics
Arizona State University
Gabriel Ehrlich
Congressional Budget Office
Jesse Gregory
Department of Economics
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Noam Gruber
Department of Economics
Dartmouth College
Brad Hershbein
W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Jongyearn Lee
Korea Development Institute (KDI)
William Lincoln
School of Advanced International Studies
Johns Hopkins University
Jongsang Park
Korea Institute of Finance
Ryan Nunn
Office of Microeconomic Analysis
U.S. Treasury Department
David Ratner
Department of Research and Statistics
Macroeconomic Analysis Section
Federal Reserve Board
Collin Raymond
Department of Economics
University of Oxford
Slesh Shrestha
Department of Economics
National University of Singapore
Noah Smith
College of Business
Stony Brook University
Caroline Weber
University of Oregon
2010-2011 Job Market Placements
Sebastien Bradley
Department of Economics and International Business
LeBow College of Business
Drexel University
Joshua Cherry
Management Economics and Decisions Sciences
Kellogg School of Management
Northwestern University
Brendan Epstein
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Jessica Goldberg
Department of Economics
University of Maryland
Brooke Helppie
Survey Research Center
University of Michigan
Joanne Hsu
Division of Research and Statistics
Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Erik Johnson
Department of Economics
Georgia Institute of Technology
Owen Kearney
U.S. Department of Treasury
Office of Economic Policy
Logan Lewis
International Finance Division
Federal Reserve Board
Stephan Lindner
Urban Institute
Dmitry Lubensky
Kelley School of Business,
Indiana University
Nicholas Montgomery
Franklin & Marshall College
Marta Murray-Close
Department of Economics
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Todd Pugatch
Department of Economics
School of Public Policy
Oregon State University
Dan Simundza
Securities Litigation and Consulting Group
Douglas Smith
Federal Trade Commission
Ben Stearns
Charles River Associates
Elias Walsh
Mathematica Policy Research
Liyun Wu
Social Development Center
Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, China
