Placement Directors

Professor Lee Ohanian
Email | (310) 825-0979
Professor Adriana Lleras-Muney
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Associate Professor Jay Lu
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Placement Coordinators

Chiara Paz and Alice Wang
Email | (310) 206-1413

2023-2024 Candidates

Stepan Aleksenko
Adam Baybutt

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Fields: Econometrics, Empirical Asset Pricing

Job Market Paper: Empirical Crypto Asset Pricing using Factor Models with High-Dimensional Characteristics

References: Denis Chetverikov (Chair), Valentin Haddad, Andres Santos

Luis Cabezas

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Fields: Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, International Economics

Job Market Paper: Large Devaluations, Heterogeneous Consumption Adjustments, and Macroeconomic Implications

References: Andy Atkeson (Chair), Ariel Burstein, Sebastian Edwards

Sungwoo Cho

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Fields: Labor Economics, Public Finance

Job Market Paper: The Effect of Robot Assistance on Skills

References: Adriana Lleras-Muney (Chair), Felipe Goncalves, Emily Weisburst

Domenico Fabrizi

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Fields: Industrial Organization, Econometrics

Job Market Paper: Welfare Consequences of Upgrades: Evidence from the Airline Industry

References: John Asker (Chair), Will RafeyMartin Hackmann

Diana Flores-Peregrina

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Fields: Development Economics, Health Economics

Job Market Paper: Health Outcomes and Cash Transfers: Evidence from Progresa in Urban Mexico

References: Martha Bailey (Chair), Natalie Bau, Manisha Shah, Rodrigo Pinto 

Seungyub Han

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Fields: Macroeconomics, International Economics, Housing Economics

Job Market Paper: Housing Rent, Inelastic Housing Supply, and International Business Cycles

References: Lee Ohanian (Co-Chair), Andy Atkeson (Co-Chair), Oleg Itskhoki, Saki Bigio

Chang He

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Fields: International Finance, Macroeconomics

Job Market Paper: Inelastic Financial Markets and Foreign Exchange Interventions

References: Oleg Itskhoki (Chair), Pierre-Olivier Weill, Tyler Muir, Andy Atkeson

Akira Ishide

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Fields: Macroeconomics, International Economics

Job Market Paper: Allocative Efficiency during a Sudden Stop

References: Andy Atkeson (Chair), David Baqaee, Saki Bigio

Calvin Kuo

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Fields: Economics of Education, Labor Economics

Job Market Paper: Principal Quality and Student Outcomes: Evidence from North Carolina

References: Martha Bailey (Chair), Natalie Bau, Yotam Shem-Tov, Felipe Goncalves

Manu Navjeevan

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Fields: Econometrics, Causal Inference

Job Market Paper: An Identification and Dimensionality Robust Test for Linear IV

References: Denis Chetverikov (Chair), Andres Santos, Zhipeng Liao

Daniel Ober-Reynolds
Mariano Palleja
Daniel Perez
Joaquin Serrano

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Fields: Labor Economics, Development Economics

Job Market Paper: Do Robots Necessarily Displace Workers? Evidence from Mexican Local Labor Markets

ReferencesAdriana Lleras-Muney (Chair), Martha BaileyDaniel HaanwinckelNatalie Bau

Lucas Zhang

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Fields: Econometrics, Applied Microeconomics, Empirical Industrial Organization

Job Market Paper: High-Dimensional Conditional Density Estimation and Continuous Difference-in-Differences

References: Andres Santos (Co-Chair), Denis Chetverikov (Co-Chair), Rosa Matzkin

Wan Zhang

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Fields: Econometrics, Empirical Industrial Organization, Social Networks, Applied Econometrics

Job Market Paper: Identification and Estimation of Binary Choices with Hidden Information Diffusion

References: Rosa Matzkin (Chair), Shuyang Sheng, Zhipeng Liao, Andres Santos