The Department of Economics at Michigan State University is proud of its 2024/25 job market candidates listed below.
For more information, please contact Professor Raoul Minetti, Director of Graduate Placement.
Matias Axelrod
Fields: Labor, Public, Urban/Crime
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/econaxelrod/home
Title of Job Market Paper: In the "Right" Place at the Right Time: Impacts of Compensation from Prison Labor on Reincarceration
Primary Advisor: Stacy Dickert-Conlin
Preston Boorsma
Fields: Applied Microeconomics, Industrial Organization, Platform Economics
Website: https://prestonboorsma.weebly.com
Title of Job Market Paper: Price Coherence and Sponsored Search
Primary Advisor: Jay Pil Choi
Wenjia Cao
Fields: Labor Economics, Economics of Education, Technology
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/wenjia-cao
Title of Job Market Paper: Machine Versus Muscle, Bot Versus Brain: Effects of Artificial Intelligence on Heterogeneous Skill Groups
Primary Advisor: Todd Elder
Kaicheng Chen
Fields: Econometrics, Panel Data, Machine Learning, Treatment Effects
Website: https://kaichengchen.github.io/
Title of Job Market Paper: Inference in High-Dimensional Panel Models: Two-Way Dependence and Unobserved Heterogeneity
Primary Advisor: Tim Vogelsang
Bradley Crowe
Fields: Health, Public
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/bradley-crowe
Title of Job Market Paper: Quality Disclosure and Patient Switching: Evidence from the Dialysis Industry
Primary Advisor: Todd Elder
Anh Do
Fields: International, Development, Labor
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/anhducdo
Title of Job Market Paper: Anticipating Tariff Changes: Did American Importers Respond to Trump's 2016 Victory?
Primary Advisor: Chun (Susan) Zhu
Xu Dong
Fields: Labor, Education
Website: https://dongxu-2023.github.io/
Title of Job Market Paper: The effects of Import Shock on College Enrollment
Primary Advisor: Scott Imberman
Kexin Feng
Fields: Labor Economics, Applied Microeconomics
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/kexinfeng
Title of Job Market Paper: Pay Transparency and Gender Differences in Job Search
Primary Advisor: Stephen Woodbury
Jaeyeon Lee
Fields: Health Economics, Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconomics
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/jaeyeonlee/home
Title of Job Market Paper: Geographic Rating Area Redesign and Health Insurance Market Outcomes: Evidences from Washington State Exchange
Primary Advisor: Michael Conlin
Soo Jeong Lee
Fields: Econometrics, Causal Inference, Economics of Education
Website: https://sites.google.com/msu.edu/soo
Title of Job Market Paper: A Simple Transformation Approach to Difference-in-Differences Estimation for Panel Data (with Jefferey M. Wooldridge)
Primary Advisor: Jeffrey Wooldridge
Meaghan Roberts
Fields: Applied Microeconomics, Public, Health
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/meaghan-h-roberts
Title of Job Market Paper: Why prescribe off-label? Opioid supply-side policies and off-label prescribing for pain
Primary Advisor: Stacy Dickert-Conlin
Alexander Stubblefield
Fields: Health, Public
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/alexanderstubblefield
Title of Job Market Paper: Information Processing: Simplified Metrics and Physician Decision-Making in Kidney Transplants
Primary Advisor: Todd Elder
Andrew Zeyveld
Fields: Industrial Organization, Applied Econometrics
Website: https://zeyveld.github.io/
Title of Job Market Paper: Steering Consumers’ Learning: Evidence from Stockout Substitutions in Curbside Pickup
Primary Advisor: Michael Conlin & Kyoo il Kim