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2020-2021 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

Sevgi Yuksel

Assistant Professor of Economics

sevgi.yuksel@ucsb.edu

Candidate	Research Areas	Advisor(s)	Job Market Paper
Michael Cooper PhD Candidate North Hall 2037	Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics, Labor Economics, Personnel Economics	Peter Kuhn, Ryan Oprea	"Dismissal Threats as an Incentive Device: Incentive Effects and Multidimensional Sorting"
Jeffrey Cross PhD Candidate North Hall 3045	Energy Economics, Environmental Economics, Applied Econometrics, Public Economics	Olivier Deschenes	"Who Bears the Load? Carbon Taxes and Electricity Markets"
Yongwook Kim PhD Candidate North Hall 3045	Macroeconomics, Labor Economics, Applied Econometrics	Peter Rupert, Javier Birchenall	“Reverse Mortgages and Intergenerational Risk-sharing during the Great Recession”
Alec McQuilkin PhD Candidate North Hall 2037	Demography, Econometrics, Labor Economics, Urban Economics	Heather Royer	"The Role of Public Rail Transit in Alleviating Spatial Mismatch"
Ganghua Mei PhD Candidate North Hall 2051	Applied Econometrics, Labor Economics	Dick Startz	“Intra-Household Inequality and Individual Well-Being: Evidence from Nuclear and Extended Households in Urban China”
E. Charlie Nusbaum PhD Candidate North Hall 1119	Macroeconomics, Labor Economics, Applied Econometrics	Peter Rupert	"Aggregate Hours and Local Projections with Long-Run Restrictions"
Hakan Ozyilmaz PhD Candidate North Hall 3045	Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics, Applied Theory	Erik Eyster	"The Debt Payment Puzzle: An Experimental Investigation"
J. Lucas Reddinger PhD Candidate North Hall 2037	Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics, Labor Economics, Decision Theory	Gary Charness	"Temptation: Immediacy and Certainty"
Di Wang PhD Candidate North Hall 2039	Development Economics and Chinese Economy, Environmental Economics, Public Economics	Olivier Deschenes	"Adaptation to Temperature Extremes in Chinese Agriculture: The Decline in Temperature-Yield Relationship Over 1981 to 2010"
Zheng "Lawrence" Wei PhD Candidate North Hall 2037	Labor Economics, Macroeconomics	Peter Rupert	"Sorting, Search Frictions, and Shocks"
Guangli Zhang PhD Candidate North Hall 3045	Experimental Economics, Household Finance, Labor Economics, Public Economics	Peter Kuhn, Emanuel Vespa	"Pay Frequency Matters: Evidence from Unemployment Insurance"
Huy Nguyen UCSB PhD Alumnus	Behavioral Economics, Microeconomics, Public Economics, Theory	Ted Bergstrom	"Pretending Volunteers"