Get to know our PhD candidates entering the job market and their job market paper titles, research fields, and faculty committees.
Contact Matthew Baum (political science) or Marcella Alsan (economics) with questions about our PhD in Public Policy (PPOL) and Political Economy and Government (PEG) candidates, and Nicole Tateosian about our PhD in Social Policy candidates.
LAYANE ALHORR (economics track)
Job market paper title: Virtual Windows through Glass Walls? Digitization for Mobility-Constrained Female Entrepreneurs
Fields: Development and labor economics, entrepreneurship, gender
Committee: Rema Hanna (chair), Emily Breza, Edward Glaeser, Tavneet Suri (MIT Sloan)
MARCOS BARROZO (economics track)
Job market paper title: Market Power and Carbon Emissions in the Amazon
Fields: Environmental economics, international economics, industrial organization
Committee: Joseph Aldy (chair), Gordon Hanson, Marc Melitz
JACOB BRADT (economics track)
Job market paper title: A Policy by Any Other Name: Unconventional Industrial Policy in the U.S. Residential Solar Industry
Fields: Environmental economics (primary); industrial organization (secondary)
Committee: Joseph Aldy (chair), Myrto Kalouptsidi, Robin S. Lee, Ariel Pakes
BEN BERGER (economics track)
Job market paper title: How Do Health Systems Capitalize on Public Programs? Side Effects of the 340B Drug Pricing Program
Fields: Health, innovation, public economics
Committee: Amitabh Chandra (chair), David Cutler, Mark Shepard
TRIDEVI CHAKMA (economics track)
Job market paper title: The Causes and Consequences of Urban Heat Islands
Fields: Environmental economics, public economics
Committee: Nathaniel Hendren (co-chair), Joseph Aldy (co-chair), Marcella Alsan
ROBERT FRENCH (economics track)
Job market paper title: Gentrification or Neighborhood Revitalization: Quantifying the Welfare Effects of Neighborhood Change on Low-Income Incumbent Residents
Fields: Public economics, urban economics, applied microeconomics
Committee: Gordon Hanson (chair), Edward Glaeser, Mark Shepard, Stefanie Stantcheva, Matthew Weinzierl
VALENTINE GILBERT (economics track)
Job market paper title: Can Suburban Housing Improve Urban Affordability? Evidence from Residential Vacancy Chains
Fields: Labor, public, urban
Committee: Edward Glaeser (chair), Adrien Bilal, Stefanie Stantcheva
ALICE HEATH (economics track)
Job market paper title: Government Reactions to Local News: Evidence From Child Protection Tragedies
Fields: Labor economics, public economics, and health economics
Committee: Jeffrey Liebman (chair), Marcella Alsan, David Cutler, Mark Shepard
ELEANOR KRAUSE (economics track)
Job market paper title: Job Loss, Selective Migration, and the Accumulation of Disadvantage: Evidence from Appalachia’s Coal Country
Fields: Public, environmental, labor economics
Committee: Gordon Hanson (chair), Joseph Aldy, Edward Glaeser
MOLLY MOORE
Job market paper title: The Contingent Reputational Benefits of Selective Exposure to Partisan Information
Fields: Judgment and decision making, experimental economics
Committee: Julia Minson (chair), Christine Exley, Jennifer Lerner
LAURA MORRIS (economics track)
Job market paper title: Impact Evaluation, Welfare Comparisons and the Value of Public Funds
Fields: Development economics, public economics
Committee: Nathaniel Hendren (chair), Rema Hanna, Anders Jensen
MELANIE RUCINSKI (economics track)
Job market paper title: The Effects of Economic Conditions on the Labor Market for Teachers
Fields: Labor, education
Committee: Christopher Avery (chair), David Deming, Martin West
EMMA RACKSTRAW (economics track)
Job market paper title: When Reality TV Creates Reality: How "Copaganda" Affects Viewers, Police, and Communities
Fields: Labor, inequality/discrimination
Committee: Will Dobbie (chair), Desmond Ang, Lawrence Katz, Crystal Yang
AVERELL SCHMIDT (politics and Institutions track)
Job market paper title: Damaged Relations: How Treaty Withdrawal Impacts International Cooperation
Fields: International relations, methods
Committee: Kathryn Sikkink (chair), Christina Davis, Kosuke Imai
EMMA SMITH (economics track)
Job market paper title: Stigma and Social Cover: A Mental Health Care Experiment in Refugee Networks
Fields: Development, behavioral
Committee: Rema Hanna (chair), Emily Breza, Edward Miguel, Gautam Rao
KE WANG (judgement and decision making track)
Job market paper title: Can a Brief Reappraisal Intervention Durably Improve Essential Workers’ Well-being?
Fields: Judgment and decision making, organizational behavior
Committee: Jennifer Lerner (chair), Amit Goldenberg, James Gross
SALVADOR ASCENCIO PASTORA (government track)
Job market paper title: Fiscal Underperformance and Partisan Coordination: Evidence from Mexico
Fields: political economy, comparative politics.
Committee: Torben Iversen (chair), Alisha Holland, Horacio Larreguy (ITAM), Gautam Nair, Pia Raffler
CATERINA CHIOPRIS (government track)
Job market paper title: The Wealth of Knowledge: Spatial Connections and the Diffusion of Ideas
Fields: Political economy, economic history
Committee: Jeffry Frieden (chair), Melissa Dell, Edward Glaeser, Torben Iversen
ANTONIO CORAN (economics track)
Job market paper title: Childhood Environment and Motherhood Penalties
Fields: Public economics, labor economics
Committee: Stefanie Stantcheva (chair), Nathaniel Hendren, Lawrence Katz
FRANCESCA MISEROCCHI (economics track)
Job market paper title: Discrimination through Biased Memory
Fields: Labor, gender, behavioral
Committee: Amanda Pallais (chair), Michela Carlana, Katherine Coffman, Benjamin Enke, Edward Glaeser, Lawrence Katz
CLARA SIEVERT (economics track)
Job market paper title: Supernatural Beliefs of Illness and Modern Medicine Use: Evidence from a Field Experiment in the DR Congo
Fields: Development, political economy
Committee: Nathan Nunn (chair), Marcella Alsan, Emily Breza, David Yang
Recent PhD in PPOL, PEG, and Social Policy graduates have accepted academic positions at top institutions such as: Columbia University, Dartmouth College, Duke University, Harvard Business School, the London School of Economics and Political Science, New York University, Penn State University, Princeton University, Stanford University, Tufts University, University of California, San Diego, Vanderbilt University, and Yale University.
Others pursued analyst or policy careers at the Federal Reserve Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, International Monetary Fund, Millennium Challenge Corporation, United Nations Development Programme, World Bank, nongovernmental organizations, and in the private sector.