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2025-2026 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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Sonal Barve

PhD Candidate

North Hall 3053 		Experimental and Behavioral Economics, Applied Microeconomics "Failures in Marginal Reasoning under Nonlinear Incentives"
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Nicolas Fuertes Segura

PhD Candidate

North Hall 3017 		Health Economics, Labor Economics Heather Royer "Friendship Formation and Network Effects: Experimental Evidence from Ecuador"
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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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Lucas Reddinger

PhD Alum

 Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Labor Economics Erik Eyster "Temptation: Immediacy and Certainty"