2009 Herb Kay Lecture
Join the department on May 13, 2009 for the 12th Herbert C. Kay Undergraduate Lecture, featuring Paul Sams, UCSB alumnus and COO of Blizzard Entertainment, Inc.
updated Nov 20, 2009

Job Market Candidates

Below is a listing of current job market candidates. Click their names for their CV and their dissertation title for an abstract.

Placement Officer:
Prof. Javier Birchenall

(805) 893-5275

Candidate Name Dissertation/Title Advisor &
Co-Advisor		 Fields
(bold indicates primary)
Gregory DeAngelo
(homepage)		Life and Death in the Fast Lane: Police Enforcement and Roadway SafetyPeter Rupert
(805) 893-3902		 Experimental Economics
Applied Microeconomics
Law and Economics
Jack Erb
(homepage)		"Gasoline Prices, Driving Efficiency, and Implications for Gasoline Tax Policy"Douglas G. Steigerwald
(805) 893-3151
Jon Sonstelie
(805) 893-2242		 Econometrics
Public Economics
Applied Microeconomics
Corbett Grainger
(homepage)		"The Distributional Effects of Environmental Regulations: Rental Prices and Air Quality Improvements"Charles D. Kolstad
(805) 893-2108		 Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
Public Economics
Political Economy
Grant Jacobsen
(homepage)		"Three Empirical Essays on Household Behavior Related to Climate Change and Energy"STAFF TBA
(805) 893-0000		 Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
Development Economics
Health Economics
Bree Jones Lang
(homepage)		"The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit: Subsidizing Affordable Housing or Developer Profit?"Jon Sonstelie
(805) 893-2242		 Public Finance
Econometrics
Urban Economics
Matthew Lang
(homepage)		"Mental Health Insurance Laws, State Suicide Rates and Labor Market Outcomes"Philip Babcock
(805) 893-4823
Rod Garratt
(805) 893-2849		 Health Economics
Labor Economics
Game Theory
Armando Ramon Lopez-VelascoThe Political Economy of ImmigrationHenning Bohn
(805) 893-4532		 Macroeconomics
Econometrics
Finance
Ross Mohr
(homepage)		"International Environmental Agreements and the Tipping Effect of Abatement Cost-Reducing R&D"Charles D. Kolstad
(805) 893-2108		 Environmental & Natural Resource Economics
Ishita NandiTime Series Tests of the AK model and China's Growth ExperienceJavier Birchenall
(805) 893-5275
Jati K. Sengupta
(805) 893-0000		 Applied Macroeconomics
Development and Growth Economics