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Current Job Market Candidates

The Department of Economics at Michigan State University is proud of its 2023/24 job market candidates listed below.

For more information, please contact Soren Anderson, Director of Graduate Placement.

Nicholas Brown
Fields: Econometrics, Panel Data, Causal Inference
Website: https://sites.google.com/msu.edu/nicholasbrown/home
Title of Job Market Paper: Dynamic Treatment Effect Estimation with Interactive Fixed Effects and Short Panels
Primary Advisor: Jeffrey Wooldridge

Patrick Burke
Fields: Macroeconomics, Labor
Website: https://burkepa.github.io/
Title of Job Market Paper: Taylor Determinacy and Labor Supply
Primary Advisor: Antonio Doblas-Madrid

Taeyoon Hwang
Fields: Econometrics, Time Series Analysis, Financial Econometrics 
Website: http://taeyoonhwang.com/
Title of Job Market Paper: An Estimating Equation Approach for Robust Confidence Intervals for Autocorrelations of Stationary Time Series
Primary Advisor: Tim Vogelsang

Minkyu Kim
Fields: Econometrics, Health
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/kimminkyu
Title of Job Market Paper: Causal Inference in Dynamic Panel Models with Non-negative Outcomes
Primary Advisor: Jeffrey Wooldridge

Raghav Rakesh
Fields: Labor, Education, Development
Website: http://raghavrakesh.com/
Title of Job Market Paper: International Peers in Higher Education and Domestic Students' Outcomes
Primary Advisor: Todd Elder

Mariama Sow
Fields: Development, Urban, Political Economy
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/mariamasow/home
Title of Job Market Paper: The Road to Nation Building: Infrastructure Development, Political Patronage, and Ethnic Identification in Africa
Primary Advisor: Christian Ahlin

Yiqian Wang
Fields: Development, Political Economy
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/yiqianwang/home
Title of Job Market Paper: Trust or Stigmatization? Evidence From De-anonymizing Social Media in China
Primary Advisor: Christian Ahlin

Steven Wu-Chaves
Fields: Econometrics, Trade
Website: https://stevenwuch.quarto.pub/
Title of Job Market Paper: Robust Inference in Short Linear Panels with Fixed Effects and Endogenous Covariates in a Spatial Setting
Primary Advisor: Jeffrey Wooldridge

Dongming Yu
Fields: Education, Labor
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/dongmingyu/home
Title of Job Market Paper: The Educational Impact of School District Wi-Fi Spending Under the E-rate Program
Primary Advisor: Scott Imberman

Kit Zhou
Fields:Applied Micro Theory, Labor
Website: https://sites.google.com/msu.edu/kitzhou/home
Title of Job Market Paper: Performance Funding and Equity of Access to Public Universities
Primary Advisor:Jon Eguia