Economics Ph.D. Job Market Candidates

The department is proud to support and promote the work of our Ph.D. students who are seeking employment following the completion of their doctoral program. At Cornell University, economists are trained in many departments, schools and colleges, and as a part of multiple graduate fields. The following websites include the subset of students who are receiving their degrees in closely related Fields outside of Economics: Field of Public Policy, Field of Applied Economics and Management.

For further information on our candidates, please contact Evan Riehl, Placement Chair, or any member of the Placement Committee:

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Jacqueline Blair
Ph.D. Candidate in Economics

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Job Market Paper: Who is Urgent Care For?

Research Interests: Health Economics, Applied Microeconomics, Labor Economics

References: Sean Nicholson (chair), Colleen Carey, Zhuan Pei

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Helen Burkhardt
Ph.D. Candidate in Economics

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Job Market Paper: The Daughterhood Penalty: Labor Market Effects of Caring for Aging Parents

Research Interests: Labor Economics, Health Economics, Applied Microeconomics

References: Francine Blau (chair), Douglas Miller (co-chair), Evan Riehl, Maria Fitzpatrick

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Deborah Doukas
Ph.D. Candidate in Economics

Job Market Paper: How Much are Candidates Willing to Pay for More Openings and Higher Chances of Getting the Job? Evidence from Civil Service Exams
Research Interests: Labor Economics, Behavioral Economics, Applied Microeconomics
References: Collin Raymond (chair), Ted O'Donoghue, Jason Sockin
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Patrick Ferguson
Ph.D. Candidate in Economics

CV | Personal Website | E-mail

Job Market Paper: Paying to Sharpen Identification: Optimal Probing of Coarse Data

Research Interests: Econometrics

References: Jörg Stoye (chair), Francesca Molinari, José Luis Montiel Olea

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Alicia Marquez
Ph.D. Candidate in Public Policy

CV | Personal Website | E-mail

Job Market Paper: Can the Social Safety Net Catch Lead? The Moderating Effect of WIC on Prenatal Lead Exposure

Research Interests: Environmental Economics, Health Economics

References: Nicholas Sanders (chair), Donald Kenkel, Peter Rich

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Leonardo Peñaloza-Pacheco
Ph.D. Candidate in Economics

CV | Personal Website | E-mail

Job Market Paper:  Migration, Market Power, and Firms

Research Interests: Labor Economics, Development Economics

References: Nancy Chau (co-chair), Philipp Kircher (co-chair), Justin Bloesch, Julieta Caunedo, Giovanni Peri

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Brenda Prallon
Ph.D. Candidate in Economics

CV | Personal Website | E-mail

Job Market Paper: How Robust are Robustness Checks?

Research Interests: Econometrics

References: Jörg Stoye (chair), Francesca Molinari (co-chair), José Luis Montiel Olea

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Daniel Sabey
Ph.D. Candidate in Economics 

 CV | Personal Website | E-mail

Job Market Paper: Better Predictions, Worse Outcomes: An Experimental Evaluation of Giving Teachers Machine-Learning Forecasts of Student Achievement

Research Interests: Labor Economics, Economics of Education

References: Michael Lovenheim (chair), Sule Alan, Evan Riehl

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Tashfeen Saeed
Ph.D. Candidate in Economics

CV | Personal Website | E-mail

Job Market Paper: Decomposing Belief Updating: Evidence Evaluation and Posterior Formation

Research Interests: Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics, Applied Microeconomics

References: Ted O'Donoghue (chair), Lawrence Jin, Sam Hirshman, Collin Raymond

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Chloe Smith
Ph.D. Candidate in Public Policy

CV | Personal Website | E-mail

Job Market Paper: Health Effects of Local-Area Exposure to Fentanyl on People Who Use Drugs

Research Interests: Health Economics, Labor Economics

References: John Cawley (chair), Colleen Carey, Max Kapustin, Jamein Cunningham

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Yiwei Sun
Ph.D. Candidate in Economics

CV | Personal Website | E-mail

Job Market Paper: Sensitivity Analysis for Difference-in-Discontinuities Designs

Research Interests: Econometrics

References: Francesca Molinari (chair), Jörg Stoye, José Luis Montiel Olea

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Vaios Triantafyllou
Ph.D. Candidate in Economics

CV | Personal Website | E-mail

Job Market Paper: Taxing Carbon Across Borders: Trade, Pass-Through, and Green Technology Adoption
Research Interests: Environment Economics, Labor Economics

References: Michèle Belot (chair), Julieta Caunedo (co-chair), Todd Gerarden, Nicholas Sanders

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Saloni Vadeyar
Ph.D. Candidate in Economics

CV | Personal Website | E-mail

Job Market Paper: Gambling for Ascension: The Quest for Elite Government Jobs in India
Research Interests: Development Economics, Labor Economics, Applied Microeconomics

References: Kaushik Basu (chair), Levon Barseghyan (co-chair), Rohit Lamba

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Zebang Xu
Ph.D. Candidate in Economics

CV | Personal Website | E-mail

Job Market Paper: The (Mis)Allocation Channel of Climate Change: Evidence from Global Firm-level Microdata

Research Interests: Macroeconomics, Firm Dynamics, and Environmental Economics

References: Kristoffer Nimark (chair), Ryan Chahrour, Ezra Oberfield, Ivan Rudik, Mathieu Taschereau-Dumouchel

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