Job Market Practice Talk: Alexander Abajian, University of California, Santa Barbara

Speaker

Alexander Abajian, University of California, Santa Barbara

Biography

Alexander (Xander) Abajian is a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research broadly focuses on the intersection of environmental and macroeconomics, with a primary interest in how climate change affects the global distribution of people and economic activity. His job market paper examines this issue through the lens of a global incomplete markets framework that nests a dynamic discrete choice model over where people choose to live.

Xander holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Physics from Brandeis University in Waltham, MA. Prior to entering graduate school he served as a research economist at the Council of Economic Advisers between 2017 and 2019 where he helped analyze federal trade and environmental policy. During his graduate studies he served as the TA for the graduate macroeconomics sequence and as a research assistant for Professors Kyle Meng and Kelsey Jack.