Economics Ph.D. Job Market Candidates

Valeria Bodishtianu
Ph.D. Candidate in Economics

Bodishtianu CV | Bodishtianu Personal Webpage | vb285@cornell.edu

Job Market Paper: “Polarization of Opinions Under Biased Argument Sharing”

Research Interests: Economic Theory, Information Economics, Networks, Artificial Intelligence

References: Kaushik Basu (chair), Lawrence Blume, Suraj Malladi

Lucía Casal
Ph.D. Candidate in Economics

Casal CV | Casal Personal Webpage | lc944@cornell.edu

Job Market Paper: “Lock-in and Productive Innovations: Implications for Firm-to-Firm Innovation Pass-Through”

Research Interests: Macroeconomics, Macro-development, Innovation, Production Linkages

References: Julieta Caunedo (chair), Philipp Kircher, Mathieu Taschereau-Dumouchel, Diego Restuccia

Wentong Chen
Ph.D. Candidate in Economics

Emiliano Harris
Ph.D. Candidate in Economics

Giulia Olivero
Ph.D. Candidate in Public Policy

Olivero CV | Olivero Personal Webpage | go94@cornell.edu

Job Market Paper: “Gender Wage Gap and the Child Penalty”

Research Interests: Applied Microeconomics, Economics of the Family, Gender Economics, Economics of Migration

References: Douglas Miller (chair), Matthew Hall, Eleonora Patacchini, Seth Sanders

Katharine Sadowski
Ph.D. Candidate in Public Policy

Sadowski CV | Sadowski Personal Webpage | ks2373@cornell.edu

Job Market Paper: “The Effect of the Minimum Wage on Childcare Firms”

Research Interests: Economics of Education, Policy Analysis, Labor Economics, Public Economics

References: Maria Fitzpatrick (chair), Douglas Miller, Rene Kizilcec

Jenna Shelton
Ph.D. Candidate in Public Policy

Shelton CV | Shelton Personal Webpage | jls699@cornell.edu

Job Market Paper: "What About My Brothers and Sisters?: Trends and Impacts of Kinship Care on Maltreatment Substantiation for Foster Care-Involved Youth and Their Siblings"

Research Interests: Public Policy, Child Welfare, Poverty and Inequality

References: Laura Tach (chair), Maria Fitzpatrick, Maureen Waller

Hyuk Harry Son
Ph.D. Graduate in Economics 

Son CV | Son Personal Webpage | h.son@uu.nl

Job Market Papers: 

"The Effect of Microinsurance on Child Work and Schooling"

“Long-run Effects of Catastrophic Drought Insurance” 

Research Interests: Development Economics, Economics of Education, Labor Economics

References: John Hoddinott (chair), Christopher Barrett, Karlijn Morsink

Qihong Ruan
Ph.D. Candidate in Economics

Ruan Personal Webpage | qr33@cornell.edu

Job Market Paper: "Using Vision Large Models to Understand Asset Returns"

Research Interests: Business Economics, Digital Economics, Finance, FinTech

References: Lin William Cong (co-chair), Maureen O'Hara (co-chair), Eswar Prasad

Bowen Tan
Ph.D. Candidate in Economics

Tan CV | Tan Personal Webpage | bt347@cornell.edu

Job Market Paper: “The Effects of Oxycontin Reformulation on Homicide”

Research Interests: Health Economics, Applied Economics, Policy Evaluation

References: Donald Kenkel (chair), Max Kapustin, Nicholas Sanders, Nicolas Ziebarth

Yu Wang
Ph.D. Candidate in Economics

Wang CV | Wang Personal Webpage | yw2322@cornell.edu

Job Market Paper: “Misallocation with Capital Heterogeneity”

Research Interests: Macroeconomics (Firm Dynamics, Misallocation, Information Economics), Finance (Fintech)

References: Kristoffer Nimark (chair), Ryan Chahrour (co-chair), Lin Will Cong, Ezra Oberfield, Mathieu Tashereau-Dumouchel

Meredith Welch
Ph.D. Candidate in Public Policy

Welch CV | Welch Personal Webpage | msw274@cornell.edu

Job Market Paper: “Financial Consequences of Student Loan Delinquency, Default, and Servicer Quality”

Research Interests: Labor Economics, Economics of Education, Consumer Finance, Gender

References: Michael Lovenheim (chair), Francine Blau, Seth Sanders, Evan Riehl