Job Market Candidates 2025-2026

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Job Market Paper:   “Home Financing Responses to Wildfire Risk Information and Insurance Availability”
Research Interests:   Applied Microeconomics, Environmental Economics, Risk and Insurance, Health Economics
References:   Jeffrey Smith, Jesse Gregory, Corina Mommaerts, Jenna Nobles, Ben Collier

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Job Market Paper:   “Parenthood, Multidimensional Skill Dynamics, and Gender Inequality in the Labor Market”
Research Interests:   Labor Economics, Gender Inequality, Health Economics, Applied Econometrics
References:   Rasmus Lentz, Christopher Taber, John Kennan

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Job Market Paper:   “The Effect of Price-to-Beat Rule When Consumers Have Inertia: Evidence from Texas Electricity Retail Market”
Research Interests:   Industrial Organization
References:   Kenneth Hendricks, Panle Jia Barwick, Karam Kang

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Job Market Paper:   “Where Are You From and What Will You Choose? Career Path and Intergenerational Mobility”
Research Interests:   Labor Economics, Macroeconomics, Public Economics
References:   John Kennan (Chair), Ananth Seshadri, Christopher Taber

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Job Market Paper:   “School or Crime: A Teenager’s Choice”
Research Interests:   Labor Economics, Public Economics, Development Economics; Secondary Interests: Economics of Crime, Economics of Education
References:   Chao Fu, Jesse Gregory, Christopher Taber

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Job Market Paper:   “Regulatory Hurdles and Costly Delay in Housing Development”
Research Interests:   Industrial Organization, Real Estate, Urban Economics, Applied Microeconomics
References:   Ashley Swanson, Lu Han, Jean-Francois Houde, Christopher Timmins, Alan Sorensen (teaching)

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Job Market Paper:   “All SROs are not created equal: Heterogeneity in school policing”
Research Interests:   Public Economics, Labor Economics, Economics of Education
References:   Jeffrey Smith, Jesse Gregory, Corina Mommaerts

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Job Market Paper:   “Where to Go After the Hospital: How Cost-Sharing and the Family Affect Post-Acute Care”
Research Interests:  Health Economics, Labor Economics; Secondary Interests: Public Economics, Industrial Organization, Microeconomic Theory
References:   John Kennan (Co-chair), Ashley Swanson (Co-chair), Corina Mommaerts, Rebecca Glawtschew (Teaching)

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Job Market Paper:   “Incentivizing Effort: Conditional Pocket Money and Adolescent Skill Formation”
Research Interests:   Labor Economics, Public Economics
References:   John Kennan (Chair), Christopher Taber, Corina Mommaerts

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Job Market Paper:   “Police Officer Interactions in Arrests, Stops, and Use of Force”
Research Interests:   Public Economics, Labor Economics, Economics of Crime
References:   Jeffrey Smith (Co-chair), Jesse Gregory (Co-chair), Martin O’Connell, Christopher McKelvey (Teaching)

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Job Market Paper:   “Deposit Segmentation and Bank Competition: Implications for Monetary Policy”
Research Interests:  Industrial Organization, Banking, Applied Microeconomics
References:   Jean-Francois Houde, Karam Kang, Jason Allen

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Job Market Paper:   “Nonlinear Regression Discontinuity Designs with Covariates”
Research Interests:   Econometrics
References:   Bruce Hansen, Jack Porter, Harold Chiang

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Job Market Paper:   “Grading Policies and College Major Choice with Ability Learning”
Research Interests:   Labor (Primary), Industrial Organization, Economics of Education
References:   Chao Fu (co-chair), Christopher Taber (co-chair), Jean-Francois Houde, Jack Porter (teaching)

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Job Market Paper:   “State Income Taxation, Entrepreneurship, and Spatial Inequality in the U.S.”
Research Interests:   Macroeconomics, Labor Economics, Urban and Spatial Economics
References:   Rishabh Kirpalani (chair), Paolo Martellini, Kenneth West, Simeon Alder (teaching)

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Job Market Paper:   “Foreign Reserve Accumulation and Exchange Rate Regime in Emerging Countries”
Research Interests:   International Economics, Macroeconomics
References:   Charles Engel, Louphou Coulibaly, Kenneth West

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Job Market Paper:   “The Effects of Firm Volatility on Workers”
Research Interests:   Macroeconomics, Consumer Finance, Macro-Labor (primary); Macro-Finance, Macro-Climate (secondary)
References:   Dean Corbae (chair), Carter Braxton, Kyle Herkenhoff, Dmitry Orlov

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Job Market Paper:   “Network Robust Inference for Fixed-Effect Regressions”
Research Interests:   Econometrics, Applied Econometrics, Networks
References:   Jack Porter, Bruce Hansen, Harold Chiang

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Job Market Paper:   “The Effects of High School Curriculum Standards Reform: Evidence from Texas”
Research Interests:   Public Economics, Labor Economics, and the Economics of Education
References:   Chao Fu (co-chair), Christopher Taber (co-chair), Jeffrey Smith, Naoki Aizawa

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Job Market Paper:   “Endogenous Echo Chamber Formation in a Decentralized Market for Attention: Evidence from Telegram”
Research Interests:   Industrial Organization, Media Economics, Sports Economics
References:    Kenneth Hendricks, Dmitriy Dagaev, Jean-Francois Houde, Job Boerma (teaching)

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Job Market Paper:   “The Value of Intermediation in Bikeshare”
Research Interests:   Industrial Organization, Urban Economics
References:   Jean-Francois Houde, Karam Kang, Panle Jia Barwick

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Job Market Paper:   “The Great Re-Valuation: Preferences, Technology, and the Rise of Remote Work”
Research Interests:   Macroeconomics, Labor Economics
References:   Rasmus Lentz (chair), Carter Braxton, Kenneth West

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Job Market Paper:   “Secondary-Market Capital Prices and Financial Frictions in Real Business Cycles”
Research Interests:   Macroeconomics, Corporate Finance
References:   Dean Corbae, Kenneth West, Oliver Levine