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2026-2027 PhD Job Market Candidates

Thank you for visiting the Department of Economics placement page. Its purpose is to give interested institutions a preview of our PhD candidates who are available for employment.

Economics PhD alumni who are re-entering the job market and interested in using the Departmental job market services should contact Mark Patterson for more information.

Current Job Market Candidates

 

 Placement Officer

Daniel Martin

Associate Professor of Economics
Wilcox Family Chair in Entrepreneurial Economics
Email:
danielmartin@ucsb.edu
Portrait Candidate Research Areas Advisor(s) Job Market Paper
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Xander (Alexander) Abajian

PhD Alum

 Climate Macroeconomics, Environmental and Resource Economics Javier Birchenall "Savings and Migration in a Warming World"
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Mauricio Collado

EES PhD Candidate

North Hall 2043 		Environmental and Resource Economics, Regulation, Applied Microeconomics Theory Christopher Costello "Quota Baskets Versus Fish Baskets in Fisheries"
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Juan Nicolas Herrera La Rotta

PhD Candidate

North Hall 2043 		Public Economics, Urban Economics, Labor Economics Alisa Tazhitdinova "Value-Added Tax Incidence in Housing Markets"
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Risa Lewis

EES PhD Candidate

Bren Hall 3021 		Experimental and Behavioral Economics, Environmental Economics Christopher Costello "Willingness to Pay to Avoid the Emotional Well-being Impact of Climate Change Information"
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Yihong Liu

PhD Candidate

North Hall 2043 		Econometrics, Applied Econometrics, Environmental and Natural Resource Economics Douglas Steigerwald "Matched Triple-Differences: A Framework for Covariate Adjustment"
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Camila Paleo

PhD Candidate

North Hall 2043 		Labor Economics, Health Economics, Public Economics, Development Economics Heather Royer "Temporary Jobs, Lasting Credit? Evidence from Uruguay's Public Works Program"
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Anna Costola Pede

EES PhD Candidate

North Hall 2039 		Environmental Economics Christopher Costello "Fire and Punishment: Enforcement incentives and fire use in the Brazilian Amazon"
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Donovan Rasamoelison

PhD Candidate

North Hall 2047 		Labor Economics, Public Economics, Applied Microeconomics Peter Kuhn "Screening and Compliance Documentation as Complements? Effects on Fraud and Administrative Burden"
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Kajari Saha

PhD Candidate

North Hall 2047 		Development Economics, Gender, Applied Microeconomics Shelly Lundberg "Weather Shocks, Credit Access and Intimate Partner Violence in India"
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Reetika Sindhi

PhD Candidate

North Hall 2047 		Family Economics, Labor Economics, Economics of Crime and Conflict, Development Economics Kelly Bedard "The Long Shadow of Communal Violence: Childhood Exposure and Later-Life Mental Health"
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Matías Strehl Pessina

PhD Candidate

North Hall 2043 		Public Economics, Development Economics, Political Economy Alisa Tazhitdinova, Youssef Benzarti “Do Targeted Tax Breaks Make Value-Added Taxes Less Regressive?”