2025-2026 Job Market Candidates

2025-2026 Job Market Candidates
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Area of Interest
THESIS CHAIR
Elif Basaran
efb5398@psu.edu
“Refugees, Amenities, and the Skill Premium”
Development Economics
James Tybout
Onil Boussim
oib5044@psu.edu
“Compositional Difference-in-Differences for Categorical Outcomes”
Econometrics
Marc Henry
Salvador Candelas
jbc6127@psu.edu
“Subsidizing Sequential Search”
Microeconomic Theory
Nageeb Ali and Ran Shorrer
Yaming Chang
yqc5636@psu.edu
“Trade, Research Productivity and Growth: A Dynamic General Equilibrium Approach”
International Economics
Stephen Yeaple
Agustin Deambrosi
avd5992@psu.edu
“Migrant Networks, Liquidity Constraints, and Integration Frictions in the Venezuelan Exodus”
International Economics
James Tybout
Yixiu Li
yql5946@psu.edu
”Predicting PM2.5 Levels in Delhi using Satellite Imagery”
Machine Learning
Yuhta Ishii
Davide Luparello
dkl5430@psu.edu
“Why Do Contract Workers Earn Less? Evidence from India’s Auto Industry”
Industrial Organization
Mark Roberts and Paul Grieco
Esma Ozer
eqo5141@psu.edu
“Strategic Interactions and Peer Learning in Contests”
Economics of Education
Kala Krishna
Guangxiang Song
gbs5325@psu.edu
Irfan Tekdir
ivt5096@psu.edu
“Market Segmentation Under Costly Information Acquisition”
Microeconomic Theory
Yuhta Ishii
Yiqun Tong
yzt84@psu.edu
“Shadow of Power: Authoritarian Elite Network under Purge”
Microeconomic Theory
Kalyan Chatterjee
Viktoriia Zezerova
vmz5027@psu.edu
“Market Power, Misallocation, and Trade Policy”
International Economics
James Tybout
Lujie (Roger) Zhou
lbz5158@psu.edu
” Heterogeneous Treatment Effects under Complex Network Interference”
Econometrics
Andres Aradillas-Lopez