Job Market Candidates
The Department of Economics at Michigan State University is proud to have a number of excellent students on the job market this year (2017/18). Our students are interested in academic jobs as well as research-oriented non-academic positions. The students on the market this year and links to their webpages are listed along with their fields of specialization, job market paper titles, and primary advisors:
Todd Elder - Placement Director
Email: telder@msu.edu
| Candidate Name | Fields | Title of Job Market Paper | Primary Advisor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Olga Boldarieva | Labor Economics, Applied Econometrics |
Hot or Not: How Facial Attractiveness Affects Wages | Stacy Dickert-Conlin dickertc@msu.edu |
| Pin-En A. Chou | Labor Economics, Public Economics, Economics of Education |
The Impact of Recent Teacher Pension Reforms on New Teacher Quality | Stacy Dickert-Conlin dickertc@msu.edu |
| Godwin Debrah | Development Economics, Applied Econometrics and Agricultural Economics |
Joint Liability Lending with Correlated Risks under Adverse Selection | Christian Ahlin ahlinc@msu.edu |
| Pablo Adrian Garlati Bertoldi | Labor Economics, Informality, Economics of Education, Poverty and Inequality |
Payroll Taxes, Social Security, and Informal Employees in Colombia: The Effects of the 2012 Tax Reform | Todd Elder telder@msu.edu |
| Riju Joshi | Applied Econometrics |
Control Function Estimation of Spatial Error Models with Endogeneity | Jeffrey Wooldridge wooldri1@msu.edu |
| Kevin Kho | Labor Economics, Development Economics |
Campus Cellphone Restrictions and Student Use of Illicit Drugs: Evidence from California Public High Schools | Scott Imberman imberman@msu.edu |
| Hyunsoo Kim | Industrial Organization, Economics of Innovation, Applied Microeconomics |
Information Sharing and R&D Incentives | Jay Pil Choi choijay@msu.edu |
| Soo Jin Kim | Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconomics, Economics of the Telecommunication Industry |
Privacy, Information Acquisition, and Market Competition |
Jay Pil Choi choijay@msu.edu |
| Walter Melnik | Public Economics, Urban Economics, Public Policy, Applied Econometrics |
Legislative Redistricting, Party Politics, and the Spatial Distribution of Transportation Expenditure | Mike Conlin conlinmi@msu.edu |
| Matthew Schaffer | Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, and Financial Economics |
Bank Regulation and Monetary Policy Transmission: Evidence from the U.S. States Liberalization | Raoul Minetti minetti@msu.edu |
| Mark J.Tremblay | Industrial Organization, Platform Markets, Microeconomics |
Market Power and Mergers in Multi-Sided Markets | Thomas Jeitschko jeitschko@msu.edu |
| John A. Withers | Industrial Organization, Information, Knowledge and Uncertainty, Microeconomics |
Dynamic Regulation with Stochastic Costs: Signal Dampening, Experimentation, and the Ratchet Effect Primary | Thomas Jeitschko jeitschko@msu.edu |
| Yimin Yang | Econometrics, Labor Economics |
An Extended Generalized Estimating Equations Approach to Nonlinear Models with Hierarchical Structure | Jeffrey Wooldridge wooldri1@msu.edu |
