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2021-2022 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
Antoine Deeb PhD Candidate North Hall 2051	Applied, Econometrics, Education Economics, Labor Economics	Douglas Steigerwald, Peter Kuhn	A Framework for Using Value-Added in Regressions
Hongyuan Jin PhD Candidate North Hall 2021	Development Economics, Immigration, Education	Javier Birchenall	The Influence of Foreign-born Directors on the US Film Industry
Maria Kogelnik PhD Candidate North Hall 2041	Experimental Economics, Behavioral Economics, Applied Microeconomics (Labor, Health)	Ryan Oprea	Performance Feedback and Gender Differences in Persistence
Jaime Ramirez-Cuellar PhD Candidate North Hall 2019	Econometrics, Labor Economics	Dick Startz	Testing for Idiosyncratic Treatment Effect Heterogeneity
Emily Robertson PhD Candidate North Hall 2039	Behavioral Economics, Environmental Economics, Econometrics	Andrew Plantinga	Research Publications
Ryan Sherrard PhD Candidate North Hall 2043	Labor Economics, Economics of Crime, Applied Econometrics, Economics of Discrimination	Douglas Steigerwald, Peter Kuhn	"Ban the Box" Policies and Criminal Recidivism
Richard Uhrig PhD Candidate North Hall 2043	Labor Economics, Education Economics, Economic History	Kelly Bedard	The Effect of State-Level Rate Bill Abolition on School Attendance in the 19th Century United States
Shuo Zhang PhD Candidate North Hall 3020	Labor Economics, Behavioral Economics, Applied Econometrics	Peter Kuhn	Measuring Algorithmic Bias in Job Recommender Systems: An Audit Study Approach
Sarah Bana PhD Alumnus	Labor Economics, Information Systems	Peter Kuhn	Using Language Models to Understand Wage Premia