Job Market Candidates
Placement Co-Chairs:
Mark Dean
Martin Uribe
Committee Members:
Matthieu Gomez
Suresh Naidu
Noemie Pinardon-Touati
Pietro Tebaldi
Sebastian Otero
Placement Administrators:
Amy Devine Keum
Jonathan Mendoza
2025-2026 Job Market Candidate CV Packet
2025-2026 Job Market Candidates
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Candidates
Fields
Job Market Papers
Advisor(s)
Applied Microeconomics, Labor Economics, Development Economics
Main Advisor(s): Suresh Naidu, Eric Verhoogen
Advisor(s): Michael Best
Candidate Name:
Nadia Ali
Field(s):
Applied Microeconomics, Labor Economics, Development Economics
Paper Title:
Wage Compression and Relative-Wage Concerns Under Collective Bargaining: Evidence from Tunisia
Main Advisor(s):
Suresh Naidu
,
Eric Verhoogen
Advisor(s): Michael Best
Development Economics, Environmental/Climate Economics, Applied Microeconomics
Main Advisor(s): Jack Willis
Advisor(s): Michael Best, Suresh Naidu
Candidate Name:
Nikhil Basavappa
Field(s):
Development Economics, Environmental/Climate Economics, Applied Microeconomics
Main Advisor(s):
Jack Willis
Advisor(s): Michael Best,
Suresh Naidu
Finance, International Macroeconomics
Main Advisor(s): Jesse Schreger
Advisor(s): Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, Tano Santos
Candidate Name:
Giovanni Bonfanti
Field(s):
Finance, International Macroeconomics
Paper Title:
A European Safe Asset? Not Without the Investors
Main Advisor(s):
Jesse Schreger
Advisor(s): Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh,
Tano Santos
Public Economics, Development Economics
Main Advisor(s): Michael Best, Eric Verhoogen
Advisor(s): Wojciech Kopczuk, Sebastián Otero
Candidate Name:
Luigi Caloi
Field(s):
Public Economics, Development Economics
Main Advisor(s):
Michael Best
,
Eric Verhoogen
Advisor(s): Wojciech Kopczuk,
Sebastián Otero
Applied Microeconomics, Econometrics, Labor Economics, Economics of Education
Main Advisor(s): Alessandra Casella, Simon Lee, Ebonya Washington
Advisor(s):
Candidate Name:
Laura Caron
Field(s):
Applied Microeconomics, Econometrics, Labor Economics, Economics of Education
Main Advisor(s):
Alessandra Casella, Simon Lee, Ebonya Washington
Advisor(s):
Health Economics, Labor Economics, Industrial Organization
Main Advisor(s): Gautam Gowrisankaran, Jonah Rockoff
Advisor(s): Cristóbal Otero
Candidate Name:
Jason Chen
Field(s):
Health Economics, Labor Economics, Industrial Organization
Paper Title:
Quality and Location Choice of Immigrant Doctors
Main Advisor(s):
Gautam Gowrisankaran
,
Jonah Rockoff
Advisor(s): Cristóbal Otero
Political Economy, Applied Microeconomics, Behavioral & Experimental
Main Advisor(s): Andrea Prat
Advisor(s): Suresh Naidu, Mark Dean
Candidate Name:
Andrea Ciccarone
Field(s):
Political Economy, Applied Microeconomics, Behavioral & Experimental
Main Advisor(s):
Andrea Prat
Advisor(s): Suresh Naidu
,
Mark Dean
Econometrics, Macroeconomics
Main Advisor(s): Serena Ng, Jushan Bai
Advisor(s):
Candidate Name:
Hyoseok Kim
Field(s):
Econometrics, Macroeconomics
Paper Title:
Macroeconomic forecasting with outlier-robust VAR
Main Advisor(s):
Serena Ng
,
Jushan Bai
Advisor(s):
Development Economics, Labor Economics, Economics of Education
Main Advisor(s): Eric Verhoogen, Cristian Pop-Eleches
Advisor(s): Peter Bergman, Alex Eble, Sebastián Otero
Candidate Name:
Tushar Kundu
Field(s):
Development Economics, Labor Economics, Economics of Education
Paper Title:
What Skills Do Families Want? Informing Teachers About Parent Priorities in Skill Development
Main Advisor(s):
Eric Verhoogen
,
Cristian Pop-Eleches
Advisor(s): Peter Bergman,
Alex Eble
,
Sebastián Otero
Microeconomic Theory, Contracts and Organizations, Political Economy
Main Advisor(s): Navin Kartik
Advisor(s): Yeon-Koo Che, Elliot Lipnowski, Jacopo Perego
Candidate Name:
Tianhao Liu
Field(s):
Microeconomic Theory, Contracts and Organizations, Political Economy
Paper Title:
Worst-Case Privacy
Main Advisor(s):
Navin Kartik
Advisor(s): Yeon-Koo Che,
Elliot Lipnowski
,
Jacopo Perego
Labor Economics, Health Economics, Public Economics
Main Advisor(s): Sandra Black, Janet Currie
Advisor(s): Ebonya Washington
Candidate Name:
Kate Musen
Field(s):
Labor Economics, Health Economics, Public Economics
Paper Title:
Fostering a Gentler Flight from the Nest: Effects of Foster Care Reform on Labor Market Outcomes
Main Advisor(s):
Sandra Black
,
Janet Currie
Advisor(s): Ebonya Washington
Behavioral Finance, Development Economics, Environmental/Climate Economics
Main Advisor(s): Mark Dean, Jack Willis
Advisor(s): Michael Best, Joseph E. Stiglitz
Candidate Name:
Ricardo Pommer Muñoz
Field(s):
Behavioral Finance, Development Economics, Environmental/Climate Economics
Paper Title:
Information Frictions and the Market for Climate Adaptation: Evidence from Index Insurance in Colombia
Main Advisor(s):
Mark Dean
,
Jack Willis
Advisor(s): Michael Best,
Joseph E. Stiglitz
Microeconomic Theory, Behavioral & Experimental
Main Advisor(s): Qingmin Liu
Advisor(s): Yeon-Koo Che, Evan Sadler
Candidate Name:
Ziyang Shen
Field(s):
Microeconomic Theory, Behavioral & Experimental
Paper Title:
Sequential Solicitation of Costly Information
Main Advisor(s):
Qingmin Liu
Advisor(s): Yeon-Koo Che,
Evan Sadler
Finance, Applied Microeconomics
Main Advisor(s): Wojciech Kopczuk
Advisor(s): Glenn Hubbard, Matthieu Gomez, Michael Ewens
Candidate Name:
Yifan Shi
Field(s):
Finance, Applied Microeconomics
Paper Title:
Shared Directors, Shared Decisions
Main Advisor(s):
Wojciech Kopczuk
Advisor(s): Glenn Hubbard,
Matthieu Gomez
,
Michael Ewens
Behavioral & Experimental, Microeconomic Theory
Main Advisor(s): Alessandra Casella, Michael Woodford
Advisor(s): Mark Dean, Haoge Chang
Candidate Name:
Shuhua Si
Field(s):
Behavioral & Experimental, Microeconomic Theory
Main Advisor(s):
Alessandra Casella
,
Michael Woodford
Advisor(s): Mark Dean,
Haoge Chang
Behavioral & Experimental
Main Advisor(s): Mark Dean
Advisor(s): Alessandra Casella, Michael Woodford
Candidate Name:
Hanyao Zhang
Field(s):
Behavioral & Experimental
Paper Title:
Calculations Behind Lottery Valuations
Main Advisor(s):
Mark Dean
Advisor(s): Alessandra Casella,
Michael Woodford
Microeconomic Theory, Contracts and Organizations
Main Advisor(s): Navin Kartik, Laura Doval
Advisor(s): Qingmin Liu
Candidate Name:
Yangfan Zhou
Field(s):
Microeconomic Theory, Contracts and Organizations
Paper Title:
Knowledge-Based Mechanisms
Main Advisor(s):
Navin Kartik
,
Laura Doval
Advisor(s): Qingmin Liu
