UC Santa Barbara Economics

Job Market

Below is a listing of current job market candidates. Click their disseration title for an abstract.

Placement Officer:
Prof. Zack Grossman
(805) 893-4402


* denotes focus of study

candidate job-Market Paper fields of study advisor(s)
James Green-Armytage
[www]
[cv]
Strategic Voting and Nomination Public Economics, Public Choice, Labor Economics, Microeconomic Theory, Applied Microeconomics H. E. Frech, III
(805) 893‑2124
Katherine Grooms
[www]
[cv]
Enforcing the Clean Water Act: The E ffect of State-level Corruption on Compliance Environmental Economics, Econometrics Robert T. Deacon
(805) 893‑3670
Paulina Oliva
(805) 893‑5572
Cameron Kaplan
[www]
[cv]
The January Effect: Medication Reinitiation among Medicare Part D Beneficiaries Health Economics, Behavioral Economics, Applied Microeconomics H. E. Frech, III
(805) 893‑2124
William S. Comanor
(805) 893‑2287
Trevor OGrady
[www]
[cv]
Spatial Institutions in Urban Economies: How City Grids Affect Public Goods, Density and Development Environmental & Resource Economics, Applied Econometrics, Economic History Gary Libecap
(805) 893‑8611
Daniel Saunders
[www]
[cv]
Coordinating Contributions to a Threshold Public Good in a Noisy Best Response Framework Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics Zack Grossman
(805) 893‑4402
Kevin Schnepel
[www]
[cv]
Labor Market Opportunities and Crime: Evidence from Parolees Labor Economics, Econometrics Peter Kuhn
(805) 893‑3666
Douglas G. Steigerwald
(805) 893‑3151
Wei Sun
[www]
[cv]
The Productivity of Return Migrants: The Case of China's "Sea Turtles" Labor Economics, Development Economics, Financial Economics Peter Kuhn
(805) 893‑3666
Jesse Zinn
[www]
[cv]
Modelling Biased Judgement with Weighted Updating Behavioral Economics
Macroeconomics
Public Finance
Gary Charness
(805) 893‑2412