Dissertations & Placements

Placement Director: Dr. Vasiliki Skreta

James Brand 
Placement: Microsoft Research, Economist
Dissertation: Essays on Consumer Demand in U.S. Retail Markets
Advisor(s): Jorge Balat

Alexandra Charbi
Placement: Charles River Associates, Senior Associate
Dissertation: Essays on Information Provision in Health Insurance Markets
Advisor(s): Robert Town

Sangwoo Choi
Placement: Luohan Academy (Alibaba Group), Economist
Dissertation: Essays on Theoretical Industrial Organization
Advisor(s): V. Bhaskar

Nir Eilam
Placement: UNC Greensboro, Assistant Professor
Dissertation: Essays on Health and Labor Economics
Advisor(s): Manuela Angelucci and Mike Geruso

Carlos Esparza
Placement: Saint Louis University, Assistant Professor
Dissertation: Essays on Education and Religion
Advisor(s): Leigh Linden

Vasudha Jain
Placement: Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Assistant Professor
Dissertation: Essays on Information Design Games and Strategic Communication
Advisor(s): Vasiliki Skreta

Ivan Larsen
Placement: Department of Justice (Antitrust Division), Economist
Dissertation: Essays on Verifiable Disclosure Games
Advisor(s): Daniel Ackerberg

Jiwon Park
Placement: Korea Institute for International Economic Policy
Dissertation: Essays on Education, Policy, and Health
Advisor(s): Leigh Linden

Jan Schlupp
Placement: Amazon, Economist
Dissertation: Essays on Firms in International Trade
Advisor(s): Olivier Coibion and Nitya Pandalai-Nayar

Pablo I. Varas
Placement: Economists Incorporated, Economist
Dissertation: Essays on New-Product Industries with Uninformed Consumers
Advisor(s): Daniel Ackerberg, Eugenio Miravete

Mark Whitmeyer
Placement: Arizona State University, Assistant Professor (following post-doc)
Dissertation: Communication, Elicitation, and the Value of Information
Advisor(s): Thomas Wiseman

Shenshen Yang
Placement: Tianjin University, Assistant Professor
Dissertation: Essays on Nonparametric and Semiparametric Identification and Estimation
Advisor(s): Jason Abrevaya, Sukjin Han

Placement Director: Dr. Thomas Wiseman

David Beheshti
Placement: UT San Antonio, Assistant Professor
Dissertation Title: Essays on Health and Public Policy
Advisor(s): Marika Cabral

Scott Delhommer
Placement: Amazon, Economist
Dissertation Title: Education, Labor, and Health Disparities of Racial and Sexual Minorities
Advisor(s): Richard Murphy and Stephen Trejo

Eleanor Golightly
Placement: Wayfair, Applied Economist
Dissertation: Essays on Policy, Fertility, and Education
Advisor(s): Sandra Black and Richard Murphy

Cooper Howes
Placement: Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Research Economist
Dissertation Title: Some Unexpected Consequences of Financial Frictions
Advisor(s): Oliver Coibion

Alina Kovalenko
Placement: Brattle Group, Associate
Dissertation Title: Essays on Natural Resources, Human Capital and Health
Advisor(s): Stephen Trejo

Yeonjoon Lee
Placement: Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Financial Economist
Dissertation Title: Essays on Agency Problems
Advisor(s): Daniel Ackerberg and Eugenio Miravete

Xue Li
Placement: Happy Elements, Data Scientist
Dissertation Title: Three Essays in Microeconomics
Advisor(s): V. Bhaskar

Andres Mendez Ruiz
Placement: Universidad Javeriana, Assistant Professor
Dissertation Title: Essays on Inter-Firm Cooperation in the Oil and Gas Industry
Advisor(s): Daniel Ackerberg and Eugenio MiraveteUniversidad Javeriana, Assistant Professor

Daniel Osuna Gomez 
Placement: Central Bank of Mexico, Economist
Dissertation Title: Essays in Development Economics
Advisor(s): Leigh Linden and Manuela Angelucci

Meghan Shea
Placement: Abt Associates, Economist
Dissertation Title: Essays on Policy, Health, and Education
Advisor(s): Dean Spears

Jaemin So
Placement: Amazon, Economist
Dissertation Title: Essays on Adverse Selection
Advisor(s): Robert Town

Xuanye Wang
Placement: Dongbei University of Finance and Economics, Assistant Professor
Dissertation Title: Essays on Observational Learning
Advisor(s): V. Bhaskar

Mark Whitmeyer
Placement: University of Bonn, Post-Doc
Dissertation Title: Communication, Elicitation, and the Value of Information
Advisor(s): Thomas Wiseman

Choongryul Yang
Placement: Federal Reserve Board, Economist
Dissertation Title: Essays on Monetary and Fiscal Policy
Advisor(s): Oliver Coibion

Chan Yu
Placement: University of International Business and Economics, Assistant Professor
Dissertation Title: Essays on Trade Shocks and Local Labor Markets
Advisor(s): Stephen Trejo

Jiangang Zeng
Placement: Louisiana State University, Assistant Professor
Dissertation Title: Essays on Nonseparable Models
Advisor(s): Brendan Kline and Jason Abrevaya

2018-2019  

Placement Director: Dr. Sandra Black

Jessie Coe
Placement: Rand Corporation, Associate Economist
Dissertation Title:  Estimating Panel Data Models with Missing Covariate Values
Advisor(s): Jason Abrevaya and Brendan Kline

Katherine Keisler 
Placement: U.S. Census Bureau, Economist
Dissertation Title: Essays in Applied Microeconomics
Advisor(s): Sandra Black and Michael Geruso

Kevin Kuruc 
Placement: University of Oklahoma, Assistant Professor
Dissertation Title: Essays on Macroeconomic Development Policies
Advisor(s): Olivier Coibion and Dean Spears

Fang-Chang Kuo 
Placement: National Chung Cheng University, Assistant Professor
Dissertation Title: Essays on Investment in The Hotel Industry
Advisor(s): Eugenio Miravete

Melissa LoPalo 
Placement: Montana State University, Assistant Professor
Dissertation Title: Essays on The Determinants of Worker Productivity and Labor Market Outcomes
Advisor(s): Sandra Black and Dean Spears

Julian Ludwig 
Placement: Texas Tech University, Assistant Professor
Dissertation Title: Essays in Empirical Macroeconomics
Advisor(s): Olivier Coibion and Saroj Bhattarai

Narae Oh 
Placement: Korea Institute of Local Finance, Associate Research Fellow 
Dissertation Title: Essay on Economics of Education
Advisor(s): Leigh Linden

Daria Pus
Placement: Uber, Data Scientist II 
Dissertation Title: Essays on Competition in The Freight Railroad Industry
Advisor(s): Eugenio Miravete

Yiman Sun 
Placement: Toulouse School of Economics, 2-year postdoc
Dissertation Title: Essays on Experimentation in Agency Models
Advisor(s): V. Bhaskar and Caroline Thomas

Yingda Zhai 
Placement: National University of Singapore (NUS) (Department of Information Systems & Analytics), Assistant Professor
Dissertation Title: Essays on Pricing and Allocation Of Perishable Goods
Advisor(s): Maxwell Stinchcombe and Andrew Whinston

2017-2018

Placement Director: Dr. Sandra Black

Austin Bean
Dissertation Title: Economics of Hospital Investment in Neonatal Intensive Care
Advisor(s): Eugenio Miravete and Stephen Ryan

Jessica Fears
Dissertation Title: Experimentation with Multiple Sources of Uncertainty
Advisor(s): Svetlana Boyarchenko

Garrett Hagemann 
Dissertation Title: Essays in Nonlinear Pricing
Advisor(s): Eugenio Miravete, supervisor

Collin Hansen
Dissertation Title: Essays on the Economics of State Policy Reform
Advisor(s): Stephen Trejo

Sungwon Lee
Dissertation Title: Essays on Semi-/Nonparametric Methods in Econometrics
Advisor(s): Stephen Donald

Jane Ryngaert
Dissertation Title: Essays on Inflation Expectations and Information Frictions
Advisor(s): Olivier Coibion

Jinseok Shin
Dissertation Title: Essays on Human Capital and Economics of Education
Advisor(s): Leigh Linden

Peter Toth
Dissertation Title: Essays in Econometrics 
Advisor(s): Jason Abrevaya

Emily Weisburst
Dissertation Title: Essays on the Economics of Law Enforcement Institutions and Policy
Advisor(s): Sandra Black

Neil White
Dissertation Title: Essays on Labor Markets, Monetary Policy, and Uncertainty
Advisor(s): (Olivier Coibion, supervisor)

Placements

UCLA (Luskin)
Amherst College
Temple University
Wake Forest University
University of Nevada-Reno
University of Texas at El Paso (postdoc)
Amazon
Boston Consulting Group
Deloitte
Federal Trade Commission
Integra FEC
National University of Singapore (Global Asia Institute)

2016-2017 

Placement Director: Dr. Sandra Black

Hassan Afrouzi
Dissertation Title: Essays on Imperfect Information and Imperfect Competition
Advisor(s): Olivier Coibion

Hua Cheng
Dissertation Title: Essays on Public Economics and Banking
Advisor(s): Jason Abrevaya

Gleb Domnenko
Dissertation Title: Essays in Dynamic Experimentation
Advisor(s): Maxwell Stinchcombe and David Sibley

Amir Fekrazad
Dissertation Title: Essays on Subprime Lending, Present Bias, and Risk Salience
Advisor(s): Michael Geruso

Qian Feng
Dissertation Title: Essays on Causal Inference with Endogeneity and Missing Data
Advisor(s): Stephen Donald

Xuemei Guo
Dissertation Title: Three Essays on Mutual Funds
Advisor(s): Jason Abrevaya and Clemens Sialm

Ziwei He
Dissertation Title: Essays on the Economics of Education
Advisor(s): Leigh Linden

Yaran Jin
Dissertation Title: Essays on Regulations in the Electricity Industry
Advisor(s): Eugene Miravete

Randeep Kaur
Dissertation Title: Essays in Human Capital Development
Advisor(s): Leigh Linden

Fan Liu
Dissertation Title: Three Essays on Pricing Strategies 
Advisor(s): David Sibley

Frank Martin-Buck VII
Dissertation Title: Responsible Options: Empirical Analyses on the Effects of Alternative Transportation on Drunk Driving
Advisor(s): Gerald Oettinger

Luke Rodgers
Dissertation Title: Essays in Public Economics
Advisor(s): Jason Abrevaya

Yun Zhou
Dissertation Title: Essays on Public Policy and Labor Economics
Advisor(s): Stephen Trejo

Placements

Columbia University
Florida State University
Texas A&M University-San Antonio
Nankai University (2)
Shanghai Business School
Boston Consulting Group
The Brattle Group
Analysis Group
Indeed
HomeAway
Capital One
Teacher Retirement System of Texas
Ford Motor Company

2015-2016

Swagata Bhattacharjee
Dissertation Title: Essays on Dynamic Contracts: Allocation of Ambiguity and Delegation
Advisor(s): Maxwell Stinchcombe

Nicholas Buchholz
Dissertation Title: Essays on the Industrial Organization of the Taxi Industry
Advisor(s): Eugenio Miravete and Stephen Ryan

Can Cui
Dissertation Title: Essays on Public Finance and Health Economics
Advisor(s): Marika Cabral

Matthew Farber
Dissertation Title: Essays on the Education of Underserved Populations
Advisor(s): Leigh Linden

Yumin Li
Dissertation Title: Essays on Subsidies, Technology Diffusion and Returns to Education
Advisor(s): David Sibley, Varun Rai, and Haiqing Rai

Lei Shao
Dissertation Title: Exclusive Dealing in Two-Sided Markets: For Better or Worse?
Advisor(s): David Sibley and Abraham Wickelgren

Megan Thomas
Dissertation Title: Three Essays on the Impact of Welfare Policies
Advisor(s): Leigh Linden

Placements

Princeton University
University of Connecticut (business school)
Pomona College (visiting)
Shanghai University
Ashoka University
Amazon (2)
Analysis Group
Texas Office of the Attorney General

2014-2015

Jeffrey Denning
Dissertation Title: Essays on the Economics of Higher Education
Advisor(s): Sandra Black

Neal Ghosh
Dissertation Title: Essays on Applied Economic Theory
Advisor(s): Thomas Wiseman

Sunjoo Hwang
Dissertation Title: Three Essays on Contract Theory and Applications
Advisor(s): Thomas Stinchcombe and Maxwell Stinchcombe

Anna Klis
Dissertation Title: Essays on Externalities and International Cooperation: A Game Theoretic Approach
Advisor(s): Maxwell Stinchcombe

Florian Kuhn
Dissertation Title: Essays on Topics in Business Cycle Macroeconomics with Heterogeneous Agents
Advisor(s): Matthias Kehrig and Olivier Coibion

Qian Lu
Dissertation Title: Essays on Skill Biased Technological Change and Human Capital
Advisor(s): Sandra Black

Chester Polson
Dissertation Title: Essays on the Economics of Education and Human Capital
Advisor(s): Sandra Black

Ruoyu Shao
Dissertation Title: Essays on Commercial Mortgage-Backed Security
Advisor(s): Haiqing Xu and John Griffin

Rifat Senturk
Dissertation Title: Essays in Applied Econometrics
Advisor(s): Stephen Trejo

Benjamin Sperisen
Dissertation Title: Essays on Reputation and Repeated Games
Advisor(s): Thomas Wiseman

Placements

Brigham Young University
Tulane University
State University of New York-Binghamton
Northern Illinois University
Meliksah University
Amazon
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (Risk Analysis Division)
JPMorgan Chase
Edgeworth Consulting
Korea Development Institute

2013-2014

George Chacko
Dissertation Title: Three Essays in Macroeconomics
Advisor(s): Matthias Kehrig

Brett Hollenbeck
Dissertation Title: Essays on Competition Under Asymmetric Information
Advisor(s): Eugenio Miravete

Colin Krainin
Dissertation Title: Commitment and Conflict
Advisor(s): Thomas Wiseman

Jonathan Lhost
Dissertation Title: Essays on Competition, Cooperation, and Market Structures
Advisor(s): David Sibley and Dale Stahl

Julie Pechacek
Dissertation Title: Essays on Education, Inequality and Society
Advisor(s): Sandra Black

Melinda Petre
Dissertation Title: Essays on the Impact of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills on Labor Market Outcomes
Advisor(s): Sandra Black

Thomas Roderick
Dissertation Title: Essays on Regulatory Impact in Electricity and Internt Markets
Advisor(s): Stephen Ryan

George Shoukry
Dissertation Title: Essays on Mechanism Design, Safety, and Crime
Advisor(s): Jason Abrevaya and Maxwell Stinchcombe

Ina Taneva
Dissertation Title: Essays on Information and Mechanicsm Design
Advisor(s): Laurent Mathevet and Thomas Wiseman

Placements

UCLA (business school)
University of Edinburgh
University of Florida (Business School)
Lawrence University
University of Mannheim (postdoc)
Institute for Research on Poverty (postdoc)
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (2)
Institute for Defense Analysis
JPMorgan Chase

2012-2013

Piin-hueih Chiang
Dissertation Title: Essays on Timing and Identification in a Duopoloy
Advisor(s): Svetlana Boyarchenko

Mohammad Dehghani Firouzabadi
Dissertation Title: Essays on Real Options and Strategic Interactions
Advisor(s): Svetlana Boyarchenko

Marcus Dillender
Dissertation Title: Essays on Health Insurance and the Family
Advisor(s): Sandra Black

Umut Dur
Dissertation Title: Essays on Real Life Allocation Problems
Advisor(s): Thomas Wiseman

Ayse Kabukcuoglu
Dissertation Title: Essays on Fiscal and Monetary Policy in Open Economics
Advisor(s):  Andrew Glover

Mohammad Rahmati
Dissertation Title: Three Essays on Industrial Organization and International Finance
Advisor(s): David Sibley and Dean Corbae

Oliver Roeder
Dissertation Title: Essays on Political Competition
Advisor(s): Thomas Wiseman

Yaroslav Rosokha
Dissertation Title: Three Experiments on Decision-Making Under Uncertainty in Dynamic Environments Advisor(s): Dale Stahl

Zhan Shi
Dissertation Title: Three Essays on Adoption in Social Networks
Advisor(s): Andrew Whinston

Ahmet Taskin
Dissertation Title: Essays on Housing and Family Economics
Advisor(s): Jason Abrevaya and Andrew Glover

Caroline Von Bose
Dissertation Title: The Economics of Beautification and Beauty
Advisor(s): Thomas Wiseman

Jocelyn Wikle
Dissertation Title: Essays on Income Taxes and Household Production
Advisor(s): Daniel Hamermesh

Kowsar Yousefi
Dissertation Title: Three Essays in Health Economics and International Trade
Advisor(s): Jason Abrevaya and Bernard Black 

Placements

Arizona State University (business school)
Purdue University
North Carolina State University
Koc University
National Chengchi University University of Tehran
NYU School of Law (two-year postdoc)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (postdoc)
Central Bank of Turkey
The Upjohn Institute
Giant Oak LLC

2011-2012

Jorge Barro
Dissertation Title: Essays on the Optimal State and Federal Financing of Public Goods
Advisor(s): Richard Dusansky

Mohammad Dehghani Firouzabadi
Dissertation Title: Essays on Real Options and Strategic Interactions
Advisor(s): Svetlana Boyarchenko

Martin Dumav
Dissertation Title: Essays in Economic Dynamics and Uncertainty
Advisor(s): Maxwell Stinchcombe and Dean Corbae

Seungrae Lee
Dissertation Title: Three Essays on International Trade
Advisor(s): David Kendrick and Dean Corbae

Scott Macdonell
Dissertation Title: Strategic Political Environments: Gerrymandering and Campaign Expenditures
Advisor(s): Thomas Wiseman

Kaveh Majlesi
Dissertation Title: Three Essays on Trade and Investment in Children in Developing Countries
Advisor(s):  Sandra Black

KarenMulligan
Dissertation Title: Essays in Health Economics
Advisor(s): Jason Abrevaya

Mohammad Rahmati
Dissertation Title: Three Essays on Industrial Organization and International Finance
Advisor(s): David Sibley and Dean Corbae

Zhan Shi
Dissertation Title: Three Essays on Adoption in Social Networks
Advisor(s): Andrew Whinston

Michael Scott Wilson
Dissertation Title: Individuals' Decisions and Group Behavior in Financial Economics
Advisor(s): Svetlana Boyarchenko

Kowsar Yousefi
Dissertation Title: Three Essays on Health Economics and International Trade
Advisor(s): Jason Abrevaya and Bernard Black

Firas Zebian
Dissertation Title: Essays on Public Finance
Advisor(s): Richard Dusansky

Placements

Lund University
Middle Tennessee State University
Louisiana State University (visiting)
Northwestern University (postdoc)
Institute for Mathematical Economics, Bielefeld University (postdoc)
University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign (postdoc)
U.S. Internal Revenue Service
Center for Naval Analysis
Cornerstone Research
Korea Institute for Economic Policy

2010-2011

University of California-Davis
University of California-Riverside
Florida State University
University of Connecticut
City University of London
Shanghai School of Finance and Economics
University of Chile (postdoc)
U.S. Census Bureau
Center for Naval Analysis
Korea Development Institute
NERA
Texas State Retirement System

2009-2010

University of Notre Dame
University of Missouri-Columbia
University of New South Wales (2)
University of Pennsylvania (postdoc)
U.S. Census Bureau

2008-2009

University of Indiana
Penn State University (Dept. of Energy & Mineral Resources)
University of North Carolina-Greensboro
U.S. Air Force Academy
Arkansas Technical University
Fatih University (Turkey)
Renmin University
Beijing University
University of Wisconsin-Parkside (visiting)
Hong Kong University (visiting)
Department of the Treasury (Office of Tax Analysis)
International Monetary Fund
Deloitte Tax LLP
Bank of Korea
Korea Institute of Industrial Economics and Trade
Bank of Mexico
European University Institute (postdoc); Bank of Turkey

2007-2008

University of Maryland
Brigham Young University
University of Oslo
University of Southern Mississippi-Hattiesburg
University of Southern Mississippi-Gulf Coast
Peking University
Higher School of Economics, Moscow
University of Georgia (visiting)
Litigation Analysis
BlackRock
MiCRA
Deloitte
Texas State Retirement System

2006-2007

Rice University
Washington State University
Baylor University
Mt. Union College
National Taipei University
Harvard University (postdoc)
University of Western Ontario (postdoc)
Indiana University, Kelley School of Business (visiting)
Oberlin College (visiting)
UC-Santa Barbara (visiting)
Department of the Treasury (Office of Tax Analysis)
Bank of Canada
Itron
ERS Group

2005-2006

Texas Tech University
Minnesota State University Mankato
Southern Illinois University
University of Maryland Baltimore County
Humboldt State University
ITAM (Mexico)
Soka University
Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Federal Trade Commission
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
Korea Institute of Finance

2004-2005

University of Melbourne
Middlebury College
Sam Houston State University
Xavier University
TOBB Economics and Technology University (Turkey)
University of California-Davis (postdoc) Boston Pacific
Property and Portfolio Research
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Korea Institute of Public Finance
Korea Securities Research Institute

2003-2004

Purdue University
Emory University
University of Arkansas
Villanova University
Oakland University
Tsinghua University
Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand)
CIDE (Mexico)
Old Dominion University (visiting)
Franklin & Marshall College (visiting)
Department of the Treasury (Office of Tax Analysis)
U.S. Department of Agriculture (Economic Research Service)
Bank of Korea
Korea Information Strategy Development Institute

2002-2003

Australia National University
Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand)
University of Guanajuato (Mexico)
Princeton University (postdoc)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
U.S. Food & Drug Administration
Bank of America

2001-2002

Boston University
Texas A&M University
Purdue University
Drexel University
Illinois Wesleyan University
Sam Houston State University
Taichung Healthcare and Management University (Taiwan)
University of Michigan (postdoc)
U.S. Food & Drug Administration
Federal Economic Regulatory Commission
Korea Economic Research Institute
Korea Development Institute
LECG

2000-2001

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Oregon State University
University of Miami
University of New Hampshire
Bard College
Federal Trade Commission
Public Utility Commission (Austin, TX)
Ministry of Finance (Mexico)

Placement Director: Dr. Saroj Bhattarai

Sadhika Bagga
Placement: Columbia Business School, Post-Doc & Roosevelt Institute, Fellow then University of Rochester, Assistant Professor
Dissertation Title: Essays on the Macroeconomics of Labor Markets
Advisor(s): Ayşegül Şahin, Andreas I. Mueller, and Olivier Coibion

Roberto Gillmore
Placement: Central Bank of Chile, Senior Economist
Dissertation Title: Essays on Education and Development Economics
Advisor(s): Leigh Linden and Richard Murphy

Frederico Godinho
Placement: Bank of Portugal, Economist
Dissertation Title: Essays on Central Bank Communication
Advisor(s): Olivier Coibion and Saroj Bhattarai

David Jang
Placement: Bureau of Economic Analysis, Research Economist
Dissertation Title: Essays on Business Cycles and Labor Market Adjustments
Advisor(s): Ayşegül Şahin and Andreas I. Mueller

Bokyung Kim
Placement: Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, Stanford University, Post-Doc then University of Connecticut, Assistant Professor
Dissertation Title: Essays on Health Economics and Public Policy 
Advisor(s): Marika Cabral

Lauri Kytömaa
Placement: Cornell SC Johnson School of Business, Assistant Professor
Dissertation Title: Essays on Information Frictions and Foreclosure Prevention
Advisor(s): Dan Ackerberg and Eugenio Miravete

Changseok Ma
Placement: Korean Development Institute, Associate Research Fellow
Dissertation Title: Essays in Macroeconomics
Advisor(s): Olivier Coibion and Chris Boehm

Ignacio Nunez
Placement: Charles River Associates, Economist
Dissertation Title: Essays on the FCC’s Broadband Subsidy Auctions
Advisor(s): Eugenio Miravete

Qingsong Pan
Placement: Shandong University, Assistant Professor
Dissertation Title: Essays on Production Function Estimation
Advisor(s): Dan Ackerberg

Abolfazl Rezghi
Placement: International Monetary Fund, Economist
Dissertation Title: Essays on Information and Financial Frictions in Macroeconomics
Advisor(s): Olivier Coibion and Saroj Bhattarai

Mauricio Stern
Placement: Bank of Mexico, Research Economist
Dissertation Title: Essays on Effects of International Prices Shocks
Advisor(s): Olivier Coibion and Saroj Bhattarai

Justus Timmers
Placement: Bates White, Economist
Dissertation Title: Medicaid in ACA Marketplaces: The Welfare Impact of New Hampshire's Medicaid Experiment
Advisor(s): Bob Town and Dan Ackerberg

Dongchen Zhao
Placement: Becker Friedman Institute, University of Chicago, Visitor then University of Cincinnati, Assistant Professor
Dissertation Title: Essays on Firm Dynamics and Financial Frictions
Advisor(s): Ayşegül Şahin, Andreas I. Mueller, and Saroj Bhattarai

Placement Director: Dr. Vasiliki Skreta

Emrehan Aktug
Placement: Sabancı University, Assistant Professor
Dissertation Title: Essays on Business Cycles and Monetary Policy
Advisor(s): Saroj Bhattarai and Oli Coibion

Samuel Arenberg 
Placement: NBER (Aging and Health) Post-Doc; then University of Houston, Assistant Professor
Dissertation Title: Essays on Child Development
Advisor(s): Dean Spears and Mike Geruso

Shaofei Jiang
Placement: University of Bonn, Post-Doc
Dissertation Title: Essays on Persuasion and Disclosure
Advisor(s): V. Bhaskar and Caroline Thomas

Gwangmin Kim
Placement: Meta (Facebook), Research Scientist
Dissertation Title: Essays in Empirical Macroeconomics
Advisor(s): Oli Coibion

Niklas Kroner
Placement: Federal Reserve Board, Economist
Dissertation Title: Essays in Macroeconomics and Finance
Advisor(s): Chris Boehm and Oli Coibion

Andrew Lee
Placement: Federal Trade Commission, Economist
Dissertation Title: Essays on Compensation, Incentives, and Representation
Advisor(s): Richard Murphy and Steve Trejo

Molin Li
Placement: University of Nottingham Ningbo, China
Dissertation Title: Labor Supply, Health, and Informal Caregiving of the Elderly
Advisor(s): Michael Geruso and Stephen Trejo

Akiva Yonah Meiselman
Placement: RIPL (Research Improving People's Lives), Economist
Dissertation Title: Essays on Inference and Education Economics
Advisor(s): Leigh Linden

Seth Neller
Placement: University of Tennessee, Assistant Professor
Dissertation Title: Essays on Health Economics and the Early-Life Determinants of Adult Outcomes
Advisor(s): Marika Cabral

Eric Schulman
Placement: Congressional Budget Office, Economist
Dissertation Title: Essays on Model Selection
Advisor(s): Sukjin Han and Brendan Kline

Sam Stripling
Placement: Integra, Economist
Dissertation Title: Essays in Health Economics
Advisor(s): Rich Murphy and Steve Trejo

Anjali P. Verma
Placement: Amazon, Economist
Dissertation Title: Essays on Determinants of Disparity in Education and Labor Market Outcomes
Advisor(s): Rich Murphy and Steve Trejo

Sangita Vyas
Placement: Hunter College (CUNY), Assistant Professor
Dissertation Title: Interrelationships among Health, the Environment, and Social Inequality in India
Advisor(s): Dean Spears

Jin Yan
Placement: Revelio Labs, Economist
Dissertation Title: Essays on Student Debt, Unemployment, and Labor Market Outcomes
Advisor(s): Aysegul Sahin and Andi Mueller

Placement Director: Dr. Vasiliki Skreta

James Brand 
Placement: Microsoft Research, Economist
Dissertation: Essays on Consumer Demand in U.S. Retail Markets
Advisor(s): Jorge Balat

Alexandra Charbi
Placement: Charles River Associates, Senior Associate
Dissertation: Essays on Information Provision in Health Insurance Markets
Advisor(s): Robert Town

Sangwoo Choi
Placement: Luohan Academy (Alibaba Group), Economist
Dissertation: Essays on Theoretical Industrial Organization
Advisor(s): V. Bhaskar

Nir Eilam
Placement: UNC Greensboro, Assistant Professor
Dissertation: Essays on Health and Labor Economics
Advisor(s): Manuela Angelucci and Mike Geruso

Carlos Esparza
Placement: Saint Louis University, Assistant Professor
Dissertation: Essays on Education and Religion
Advisor(s): Manuela Angelucci and Leigh Linden

Vasudha Jain
Placement: Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Assistant Professor
Dissertation: Essays on Information Design Games and Strategic Communication
Advisor(s): Vasiliki Skreta

Ivan Larsen
Placement: Department of Justice (Antitrust Division), Economist
Dissertation: Essays on Verifiable Disclosure Games
Advisor(s): Daniel Ackerberg

Jiwon Park
Placement: Korea Institute for International Economic Policy
Dissertation: Essays on Education, Policy, and Health
Advisor(s): Leigh Linden

Jan Schlupp
Placement: Amazon, Economist
Dissertation: Essays on Firms in International Trade
Advisor(s): Olivier Coibion and Nitya Pandalai-Nayar

Pablo I. Varas
Placement: Economists Incorporated, Economist
Dissertation: Essays on New-Product Industries with Uninformed Consumers
Advisor(s): Daniel Ackerberg, Eugenio Miravete

Mark Whitmeyer
Placement: Arizona State University, Assistant Professor (following post-doc)
Dissertation: Communication, Elicitation, and the Value of Information
Advisor(s): Thomas Wiseman

Shenshen Yang
Placement: Tianjin University, Assistant Professor
Dissertation: Essays on Nonparametric and Semiparametric Identification and Estimation
Advisor(s): Jason Abrevaya, Sukjin Han

2020-2019
Placement Director: Dr. Thomas Wiseman

David Beheshti
Placement: UT San Antonio, Assistant Professor
Dissertation Title: Essays on Health and Public Policy
Advisor(s): Marika Cabral

Scott Delhommer
Placement: Amazon, Economist
Dissertation Title: Education, Labor, and Health Disparities of Racial and Sexual Minorities
Advisor(s): Richard Murphy and Stephen Trejo

Eleanor Golightly
Placement: Wayfair, Applied Economist
Dissertation: Essays on Policy, Fertility, and Education
Advisor(s): Sandra Black and Richard Murphy

Cooper Howes
Placement: Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Research Economist
Dissertation Title: Some Unexpected Consequences of Financial Frictions
Advisor(s): Oliver Coibion

Alina Kovalenko
Placement: Brattle Group, Associate
Dissertation Title: Essays on Natural Resources, Human Capital and Health
Advisor(s): Stephen Trejo

Yeonjoon Lee
Placement: Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Financial Economist
Dissertation Title: Essays on Agency Problems
Advisor(s): Daniel Ackerberg and Eugenio Miravete

Xue Li
Placement: Happy Elements, Data Scientist
Dissertation Title: Three Essays in Microeconomics
Advisor(s): V. Bhaskar

Andres Mendez Ruiz
Placement: Universidad Javeriana, Assistant Professor
Dissertation Title: Essays on Inter-Firm Cooperation in the Oil and Gas Industry
Advisor(s): Daniel Ackerberg and Eugenio MiraveteUniversidad Javeriana, Assistant Professor

Daniel Osuna Gomez 
Placement: Central Bank of Mexico, Economist
Dissertation Title: Essays in Development Economics
Advisor(s): Leigh Linden and Manuela Angelucci

Meghan Shea
Placement: Abt Associates, Economist
Dissertation Title: Essays on Policy, Health, and Education
Advisor(s): Dean Spears

Jaemin So
Placement: Amazon, Economist
Dissertation Title: Essays on Adverse Selection
Advisor(s): Robert Town

Xuanye Wang
Placement: Dongbei University of Finance and Economics, Assistant Professor
Dissertation Title: Essays on Observational Learning
Advisor(s): V. Bhaskar

Mark Whitmeyer
Placement: University of Bonn, Post-Doc
Dissertation Title: Communication, Elicitation, and the Value of Information
Advisor(s): Thomas Wiseman

Choongryul Yang
Placement: Federal Reserve Board, Economist
Dissertation Title: Essays on Monetary and Fiscal Policy
Advisor(s): Oliver Coibion

Chan Yu
Placement: University of International Business and Economics, Assistant Professor
Dissertation Title: Essays on Trade Shocks and Local Labor Markets
Advisor(s): Stephen Trejo

Jiangang Zeng
Placement: Louisiana State University, Assistant Professor
Dissertation Title: Essays on Nonseparable Models
Advisor(s): Brendan Kline and Jason Abrevaya

2018-2019  

Placement Director: Dr. Sandra Black

Jessie Coe
Placement: Rand Corporation, Associate Economist
Dissertation Title:  Estimating Panel Data Models with Missing Covariate Values
Advisor(s): Jason Abrevaya and Brendan Kline

Katherine Keisler 
Placement: U.S. Census Bureau, Economist
Dissertation Title: Essays in Applied Microeconomics
Advisor(s): Sandra Black and Michael Geruso

Kevin Kuruc 
Placement: University of Oklahoma, Assistant Professor
Dissertation Title: Essays on Macroeconomic Development Policies
Advisor(s): Olivier Coibion and Dean Spears

Fang-Chang Kuo 
Placement: National Chung Cheng University, Assistant Professor
Dissertation Title: Essays on Investment in The Hotel Industry
Advisor(s): Eugenio Miravete

Melissa LoPalo 
Placement: Montana State University, Assistant Professor
Dissertation Title: Essays on The Determinants of Worker Productivity and Labor Market Outcomes
Advisor(s): Sandra Black and Dean Spears

Julian Ludwig 
Placement: Texas Tech University, Assistant Professor
Dissertation Title: Essays in Empirical Macroeconomics
Advisor(s): Olivier Coibion and Saroj Bhattarai

Narae Oh 
Placement: Korea Institute of Local Finance, Associate Research Fellow 
Dissertation Title: Essay on Economics of Education
Advisor(s): Leigh Linden

Daria Pus
Placement: Uber, Data Scientist II 
Dissertation Title: Essays on Competition in The Freight Railroad Industry
Advisor(s): Eugenio Miravete

Yiman Sun 
Placement: Toulouse School of Economics, 2-year postdoc
Dissertation Title: Essays on Experimentation in Agency Models
Advisor(s): V. Bhaskar and Caroline Thomas

Yingda Zhai 
Placement: National University of Singapore (NUS) (Department of Information Systems & Analytics), Assistant Professor
Dissertation Title: Essays on Pricing and Allocation Of Perishable Goods
Advisor(s): Maxwell Stinchcombe and Andrew Whinston

2017-2018

Placement Director: Dr. Sandra Black

Austin Bean
Dissertation Title: Economics of Hospital Investment in Neonatal Intensive Care
Advisor(s): Eugenio Miravete and Stephen Ryan

Jessica Fears
Dissertation Title: Experimentation with Multiple Sources of Uncertainty
Advisor(s): Svetlana Boyarchenko

Garrett Hagemann 
Dissertation Title: Essays in Nonlinear Pricing
Advisor(s): Eugenio Miravete, supervisor

Collin Hansen
Dissertation Title: Essays on the Economics of State Policy Reform
Advisor(s): Stephen Trejo

Sungwon Lee
Dissertation Title: Essays on Semi-/Nonparametric Methods in Econometrics
Advisor(s): Stephen Donald

Jane Ryngaert
Dissertation Title: Essays on Inflation Expectations and Information Frictions
Advisor(s): Olivier Coibion

Jinseok Shin
Dissertation Title: Essays on Human Capital and Economics of Education
Advisor(s): Leigh Linden

Peter Toth
Dissertation Title: Essays in Econometrics 
Advisor(s): Jason Abrevaya

Emily Weisburst
Dissertation Title: Essays on the Economics of Law Enforcement Institutions and Policy
Advisor(s): Sandra Black

Neil White
Dissertation Title: Essays on Labor Markets, Monetary Policy, and Uncertainty
Advisor(s): (Olivier Coibion, supervisor)

Placements

UCLA (Luskin)
Amherst College
Temple University
Wake Forest University
University of Nevada-Reno
University of Texas at El Paso (postdoc)
Amazon
Boston Consulting Group
Deloitte
Federal Trade Commission
Integra FEC
National University of Singapore (Global Asia Institute)

2016-2017 

Placement Director: Dr. Sandra Black

Hassan Afrouzi
Dissertation Title: Essays on Imperfect Information and Imperfect Competition
Advisor(s): Olivier Coibion

Hua Cheng
Dissertation Title: Essays on Public Economics and Banking
Advisor(s): Jason Abrevaya

Gleb Domnenko
Dissertation Title: Essays in Dynamic Experimentation
Advisor(s): Maxwell Stinchcombe and David Sibley

Amir Fekrazad
Dissertation Title: Essays on Subprime Lending, Present Bias, and Risk Salience
Advisor(s): Michael Geruso

Qian Feng
Dissertation Title: Essays on Causal Inference with Endogeneity and Missing Data
Advisor(s): Stephen Donald

Xuemei Guo
Dissertation Title: Three Essays on Mutual Funds
Advisor(s): Jason Abrevaya and Clemens Sialm

Ziwei He
Dissertation Title: Essays on the Economics of Education
Advisor(s): Leigh Linden

Yaran Jin
Dissertation Title: Essays on Regulations in the Electricity Industry
Advisor(s): Eugene Miravete

Randeep Kaur
Dissertation Title: Essays in Human Capital Development
Advisor(s): Leigh Linden

Fan Liu
Dissertation Title: Three Essays on Pricing Strategies 
Advisor(s): David Sibley

Frank Martin-Buck VII
Dissertation Title: Responsible Options: Empirical Analyses on the Effects of Alternative Transportation on Drunk Driving
Advisor(s): Gerald Oettinger

Luke Rodgers
Dissertation Title: Essays in Public Economics
Advisor(s): Jason Abrevaya

Yun Zhou
Dissertation Title: Essays on Public Policy and Labor Economics
Advisor(s): Stephen Trejo

Placements

Columbia University
Florida State University
Texas A&M University-San Antonio
Nankai University (2)
Shanghai Business School
Boston Consulting Group
The Brattle Group
Analysis Group
Indeed
HomeAway
Capital One
Teacher Retirement System of Texas
Ford Motor Company

2015-2016

Swagata Bhattacharjee
Dissertation Title: Essays on Dynamic Contracts: Allocation of Ambiguity and Delegation
Advisor(s): Maxwell Stinchcombe

Nicholas Buchholz
Dissertation Title: Essays on the Industrial Organization of the Taxi Industry
Advisor(s): Eugenio Miravete and Stephen Ryan

Can Cui
Dissertation Title: Essays on Public Finance and Health Economics
Advisor(s): Marika Cabral

Matthew Farber
Dissertation Title: Essays on the Education of Underserved Populations
Advisor(s): Leigh Linden

Yumin Li
Dissertation Title: Essays on Subsidies, Technology Diffusion and Returns to Education
Advisor(s): David Sibley, Varun Rai, and Haiqing Rai

Lei Shao
Dissertation Title: Exclusive Dealing in Two-Sided Markets: For Better or Worse?
Advisor(s): David Sibley and Abraham Wickelgren

Megan Thomas
Dissertation Title: Three Essays on the Impact of Welfare Policies
Advisor(s): Leigh Linden

Placements

Princeton University
University of Connecticut (business school)
Pomona College (visiting)
Shanghai University
Ashoka University
Amazon (2)
Analysis Group
Texas Office of the Attorney General

2014-2015

Jeffrey Denning
Dissertation Title: Essays on the Economics of Higher Education
Advisor(s): Sandra Black

Neal Ghosh
Dissertation Title: Essays on Applied Economic Theory
Advisor(s): Thomas Wiseman

Sunjoo Hwang
Dissertation Title: Three Essays on Contract Theory and Applications
Advisor(s): Thomas Stinchcombe and Maxwell Stinchcombe

Anna Klis
Dissertation Title: Essays on Externalities and International Cooperation: A Game Theoretic Approach
Advisor(s): Maxwell Stinchcombe

Florian Kuhn
Dissertation Title: Essays on Topics in Business Cycle Macroeconomics with Heterogeneous Agents
Advisor(s): Matthias Kehrig and Olivier Coibion

Qian Lu
Dissertation Title: Essays on Skill Biased Technological Change and Human Capital
Advisor(s): Sandra Black

Chester Polson
Dissertation Title: Essays on the Economics of Education and Human Capital
Advisor(s): Sandra Black

Ruoyu Shao
Dissertation Title: Essays on Commercial Mortgage-Backed Security
Advisor(s): Haiqing Xu and John Griffin

Rifat Senturk
Dissertation Title: Essays in Applied Econometrics
Advisor(s): Stephen Trejo

Benjamin Sperisen
Dissertation Title: Essays on Reputation and Repeated Games
Advisor(s): Thomas Wiseman

Placements

Brigham Young University
Tulane University
State University of New York-Binghamton
Northern Illinois University
Meliksah University
Amazon
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (Risk Analysis Division)
JPMorgan Chase
Edgeworth Consulting
Korea Development Institute

2013-2014

George Chacko
Dissertation Title: Three Essays in Macroeconomics
Advisor(s): Matthias Kehrig

Brett Hollenbeck
Dissertation Title: Essays on Competition Under Asymmetric Information
Advisor(s): Eugenio Miravete

Colin Krainin
Dissertation Title: Commitment and Conflict
Advisor(s): Thomas Wiseman

Jonathan Lhost
Dissertation Title: Essays on Competition, Cooperation, and Market Structures
Advisor(s): David Sibley and Dale Stahl

Julie Pechacek
Dissertation Title: Essays on Education, Inequality and Society
Advisor(s): Sandra Black

Melinda Petre
Dissertation Title: Essays on the Impact of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills on Labor Market Outcomes
Advisor(s): Sandra Black

Thomas Roderick
Dissertation Title: Essays on Regulatory Impact in Electricity and Internt Markets
Advisor(s): Stephen Ryan

George Shoukry
Dissertation Title: Essays on Mechanism Design, Safety, and Crime
Advisor(s): Jason Abrevaya and Maxwell Stinchcombe

Ina Taneva
Dissertation Title: Essays on Information and Mechanicsm Design
Advisor(s): Laurent Mathevet and Thomas Wiseman

Placements

UCLA (business school)
University of Edinburgh
University of Florida (Business School)
Lawrence University
University of Mannheim (postdoc)
Institute for Research on Poverty (postdoc)
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (2)
Institute for Defense Analysis
JPMorgan Chase

2012-2013

Piin-hueih Chiang
Dissertation Title: Essays on Timing and Identification in a Duopoloy
Advisor(s): Svetlana Boyarchenko

Mohammad Dehghani Firouzabadi
Dissertation Title: Essays on Real Options and Strategic Interactions
Advisor(s): Svetlana Boyarchenko

Marcus Dillender
Dissertation Title: Essays on Health Insurance and the Family
Advisor(s): Sandra Black

Umut Dur
Dissertation Title: Essays on Real Life Allocation Problems
Advisor(s): Thomas Wiseman

Ayse Kabukcuoglu
Dissertation Title: Essays on Fiscal and Monetary Policy in Open Economics
Advisor(s):  Andrew Glover

Mohammad Rahmati
Dissertation Title: Three Essays on Industrial Organization and International Finance
Advisor(s): David Sibley and Dean Corbae

Oliver Roeder
Dissertation Title: Essays on Political Competition
Advisor(s): Thomas Wiseman

Yaroslav Rosokha
Dissertation Title: Three Experiments on Decision-Making Under Uncertainty in Dynamic Environments Advisor(s): Dale Stahl

Zhan Shi
Dissertation Title: Three Essays on Adoption in Social Networks
Advisor(s): Andrew Whinston

Ahmet Taskin
Dissertation Title: Essays on Housing and Family Economics
Advisor(s): Jason Abrevaya and Andrew Glover

Caroline Von Bose
Dissertation Title: The Economics of Beautification and Beauty
Advisor(s): Thomas Wiseman

Jocelyn Wikle
Dissertation Title: Essays on Income Taxes and Household Production
Advisor(s): Daniel Hamermesh

Kowsar Yousefi
Dissertation Title: Three Essays in Health Economics and International Trade
Advisor(s): Jason Abrevaya and Bernard Black 

Placements

Arizona State University (business school)
Purdue University
North Carolina State University
Koc University
National Chengchi University University of Tehran
NYU School of Law (two-year postdoc)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (postdoc)
Central Bank of Turkey
The Upjohn Institute
Giant Oak LLC

2011-2012

Jorge Barro
Dissertation Title: Essays on the Optimal State and Federal Financing of Public Goods
Advisor(s): Richard Dusansky

Mohammad Dehghani Firouzabadi
Dissertation Title: Essays on Real Options and Strategic Interactions
Advisor(s): Svetlana Boyarchenko

Martin Dumav
Dissertation Title: Essays in Economic Dynamics and Uncertainty
Advisor(s): Maxwell Stinchcombe and Dean Corbae

Seungrae Lee
Dissertation Title: Three Essays on International Trade
Advisor(s): David Kendrick and Dean Corbae

Scott Macdonell
Dissertation Title: Strategic Political Environments: Gerrymandering and Campaign Expenditures
Advisor(s): Thomas Wiseman

Kaveh Majlesi
Dissertation Title: Three Essays on Trade and Investment in Children in Developing Countries
Advisor(s):  Sandra Black

KarenMulligan
Dissertation Title: Essays in Health Economics
Advisor(s): Jason Abrevaya

Mohammad Rahmati
Dissertation Title: Three Essays on Industrial Organization and International Finance
Advisor(s): David Sibley and Dean Corbae

Zhan Shi
Dissertation Title: Three Essays on Adoption in Social Networks
Advisor(s): Andrew Whinston

Michael Scott Wilson
Dissertation Title: Individuals' Decisions and Group Behavior in Financial Economics
Advisor(s): Svetlana Boyarchenko

Kowsar Yousefi
Dissertation Title: Three Essays on Health Economics and International Trade
Advisor(s): Jason Abrevaya and Bernard Black

Firas Zebian
Dissertation Title: Essays on Public Finance
Advisor(s): Richard Dusansky

Placements

Lund University
Middle Tennessee State University
Louisiana State University (visiting)
Northwestern University (postdoc)
Institute for Mathematical Economics, Bielefeld University (postdoc)
University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign (postdoc)
U.S. Internal Revenue Service
Center for Naval Analysis
Cornerstone Research
Korea Institute for Economic Policy

For placement listings from 2001-2011, please see our placement PDF.