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2024-2025 PhD Job Market Candidates

Thank you for visiting the Department of Economics placement page. Its purpose is to give interested institutions a preview of our PhD candidates who are available for employment.

Economics PhD alumni who are re-entering the job market and interested in using the Departmental job market services should contact Mark Patterson for more information.

Current Job Market Candidates

Placement Officer

Daniel Martin

Associate Professor of Economics

Wilcox Family Chair in Entrepreneurial Economics

danielmartin@ucsb.edu

Candidate	Research Areas	Advisor(s)	Job Market Paper
Alexander Abajian PhD Candidate North Hall 3047	Climate Macroeconomics, Energy Economics, Environmental Economics	Javier Birchenall	"Savings and Migration in a Warming World"
Sebastian Brown PhD Candidate North Hall 3047	Labor Economics, Behavioral Economics, Applied Microeconomics	Peter Kuhn	"How Much Can I Make? Insights on Belief Updating in the Labor Market"
Toshio Ferrazares PhD Candidate North Hall 2049	Labor Economics, Public Economics	Heather Royer	"Shift Structure and Cognitive Depletion: Evidence from Police Officers"
Thomas Fullagar Phd Candidate North Hall 2047	Applied Microeconomics with a focus on Labor Economics	Peter Kuhn	"Establishment-Level Unionization at Large Firms: Evidence from the 21st Century"
Yang Gao Phd Candidate North Hall 2041	Macroeconomics, Environmental and Energy Economics	Peter Rupert	"Capital Misallocation and Climate Policy"
Yuanzhe Liu PhD Candidate North Hall 2049	Macroeconomics, Computational Economics, and Bayesian Econometrics	Peter Rupert	Solve and Estimate Heterogeneous Agent Model Using Reinforcement Learning and Machine Learning"
Sandy Sum EES PhD Student Bren Hall 3017	Environmental Economics, Agricultural Economics, Labor Economics		“Trading Water and Work: Labor and Production Shifts under California’s Groundwater Markets”
Dario Trujano Ochoa PhD Candidate North Hall 3047	Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics, Economic Theory, Political Economy	Daniel Martin	"The Effect of Feedback on News Verification Demand: Experimental Evidence"
Lei Yue PhD Candidate North Hall 3049	Labor Economics, Personnel Economics, Behavioral and Experimental Economics	Peter Kuhn	"Unpacking the Gender Gaps in Tech: Hours Worked and Salary Progression"
Caroline J. Zhang PhD Candidate North Hall 2049	Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Behavioral Finance, and Economics of Education	Erik Eyster	"The Feedback-Driven Disposition Effect: An Experiment"